The Full English/Irish Breakfast

It's hard to know exactly how England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales feel about each other.  If you mention Wales to the English, they'll say "ba-a-a-a-a"--meaning Wales is rural and backwards and full of sheep.  If you ask the Irish about the English, they'll say England is like an older brother who annoys you, but they're still your brother.  I'm not sure anyone has an opinion about Northern Ireland, but Game of Thrones is being filmed there, so that's something.
 

But England and Ireland are embroiled in a war over breakfast.  When I'm home in Evanston, IL, one of my favorite things to do is call up my friend Erin to go have dinner at the Celtic Knot.  I always order a full Irish breakfast: two eggs, baked beans, bacon (ham to an American), pork sausages, mushrooms, and black and white pudding.  In case you don't know, black pudding is a sausage made of congealed, dried pig's blood and filler.  White pudding is a sausage made of oatmeal and the hard white fat found in the kidney and loins of the pig.  Yum!!   

England also has the full English breakfast, which is the same thing but without the black and white pudding. Because they're more sophisticated.

So who started it first?  Who copied the other and then just added or subtracted the black and white pudding?  They both claim it as their own, which reminds me of the numerous indigenous tribes in Tanzania that each believe all the cows in the world belong to them as a gift from God.

Once I asked and Englishman what was the difference between the English and the Irish breakfast.  He said, "they're drunk when they eat it in the morning."

An annoying older brother.