While Brits’ love for the full English remains undiminished, what condiments people choose to put on it differs greatly with may opting to swap the good old HP for gravy!

What on Earth?

Gravy on fry-ups is more popular than brown sauce, a shock study has found.

One in 10 Brits say they like to douse their English breakfast with the roast dinner staple, while just 7% of people chose the classic accompaniment of HP sauce. The poll found ketchup is the most popular condiment with a fry-up, and is favoured by one in four of us.

But breakfast barbarians also voted sweet chilli and horseradish as the second best sauce to pair with a plate of sausages, bacon, eggs, beans and toast.

An outlandish 14% of condi-mentalists said they liked the controversial flavours with their breakfasts.

Mayonnaise was voted the third best sauce with 12%, and gravy was fourth with 11%.

Just get out!
Just get out!(Image: Getty Images)

Just under 10% said they don’t like to interfere with the flavour by adding a sauce, and mustard didn’t make the cut at all.

But the survey by Best Western Hotels also found our love for the full English remains undiminished with the much adored bacon, egg, beans, hash brown, tomatoes, black pudding and egg (poached, scrambled or fried).

It revealed a quarter of the nation enjoys a fry-up seven days a week, while 41% have it at least once a week.

But it revealed the traditional line-up may be changing, with one in five confessing they would never add a fried egg to their plate.

Our love for the full English remains undiminished
Our love for the full English remains undiminished(Image: AFP via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, in other food/drink news, Brits are returning to fizzy lager and Guinness as they ditch trendy craft beers.

High prices and big breweries cashing in are killing the hoppy ale market.

But industry insiders claim the market is just settling down. Matthew McAloone, of 40ft Brewery, said: “There was a plateau that people weren’t talking about.

“I think craft has reached that.”

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By staronline@reachplc.com (Adela Whittingham)

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