Fry-up (thing)

(British)
A large cooked breakfast (although by no means necessarily eaten during usual breakfast hours), which usually comprises a subset of the following delicious items:

• Egg (fried) - usually served sunny side up for the enlightenment of our American cousins
• Bacon (fried)
• Sausage (fried) (a.k.a. 'link sausage' in the U.S.)
• Tomato (fried)
• Fried Bread (fried)
• Bubble & Squeak (fried)
• Black pudding (fried)
• Sliced Potato (fried)
• Button mushrooms (fried)
• Baked beans (..astonishingly, not fried.. you don't bake 'em either, come to that)
• Buttered toast or bread
• Large mug of sweet tea (traditional) or coffee

To prepare this delicacy, simply gather as many of the above ingredients together as is possible and.. you guessed it.. fry them.
(Baked Beans go in a separate saucepan to heat until nearly boiling, and the toast, well.. you know).

The ingredients are properly cooked when they have absorbed approximately half their own weight of cooking oil.

A very fine and nutritious start to the day (or lunch, or post-clubbing-at-4am-in-a-motorway-service-station snack).

Anyone who makes a connection between the popularity of this dish and Britain's rather high incidence of heart disease is clearly either a Communist or a Frenchman.

I am still unsure as to the origin of the name of this meal. Please /msg me if you have information..