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The Irish Breakfast Roll (y Breakfast Roll Man)

The Breakfast Roll (or its non-identical twin, the Breakfast Bap) was created through the adaptation of the Full Irish Breakfast for the modern, mobile generation. Basically, most of the ingredients that make up an Irish breakfast are forced into a demi-baguette (roll) or soft bun (bap). The preparation process consisted of cutting the base of the bread half open, smearing it with butter and then inserting (as standard) sausages, bacon and blood sausage. A fried egg can be added to the whole concoction; this usually ends in tears if the egg is still liquid, and then makes a vigorous attempt to redesign the tops.

Customers are often asked about the sauce added, whether ketchup or brown sauce is the standard. Both mean danger to clothing.

In Irish popular culture

The breakfast roll became a surprise addition to the canon of Irish popular music when comedian Pat Shortt managed to dominate the Irish charts and airwaves with his new song ‘Jumbo Breakfast Roll’ in early 2006… six weeks at No. one rewards it. According to the song’s lyrics, the jumbo breakfast roll would consist of “two eggs, two rashers, two sausages, two bacon, two puddings, one black, one white,” with sauce added. The inclusion of both “rashers” and “bacon” (essentially the same, to be precise, bacon rashers) seems to be due to artistic considerations.

The eggs are described as “snot,” which would make it a very dangerous concoction that could easily soil clothing (which in this case appears to consist of a “light vest,” hinting at the typical image of builders and similar types entering per roll). However, his doctor informs Shortt that he is swallowing an “artery blocker” and he becomes a vegetarian. With cravings.

It is also immortalized through the works of the economist David McWilliams, who named a certain section of Irish society the ‘breakfast man’ in his seminal book ‘The Sons of the Pope’ and does not refer to indecent events in the Vatican, but to the generation. which grew after John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979, which left its mark in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, Clonmacnoise, Knock and the collective Irish psyche).

Definitions

However, there are two definitions that have been developed for Breakfast Roll Man in recent years:

The most common definition is a tradesman working on a construction site or other construction-related businesses (hence the need for the ‘light jacket’) and, at least during the boom years before 2008, making more money than you could reasonably spend. Food was eaten on the run and in large quantities (but often of poor quality), so as not to interfere with the main task of earning more money. If you’re not sitting in a gas station “restaurant”, chances are this breakfast man is sitting in a white van, hastily gobbling up food and drink.

Another definition was offered in 2007 by Colin Kerr, writing on the Irish Medical Times blog:

That’s the guy who leaves his home in Portarlington or Cellbridge at 6.30am every morning, grabs a bacon roll from the garage 24 hours on the way to work, and eats his lunch at his desk.
When he gets home, he realizes how he will manage to pay off the mortgage and bring his wife and children on a vacation abroad.
Breakfast Roll man is young, fit and healthy, so he hasn’t spent much time in the hospital. His main concern is the economy and that is why the Fianna Fail candidates got their number one and number two votes.

Quite a contrast.

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