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Breakfast in Ireland - What to Eat in Ireland
Mar 24, 2025
Are you heading to Ireland, and not sure what to expect on the breakfast table? Well here we go through the typical breakfasts that tourists will have and experience during the vacation in Ireland. What to eat in Ireland. Wolters World for Food! Our videos focus on helping travelers know what to eat when they travel, the traditional food that you always want to eat when you travel. Copyright Mark Wolters 2025 Filmed in Ireland #ireland #irishfood #breakfastinireland Our Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/woltersworld Visit Our Amazon Store for Drinkware, cookingware, travel gear, and other necessities of life. http://www.amazon.com/shop/woltersworld Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Wolters World on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/woltersworld Follow Our Shorts Channel for quick travel tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSIWRrLCcqamLlTEEBLFLA
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Hey there fellow hungry travelers, Mark here with Walters World and today we're here in Galway, Ireland and we're talking about the breakfast in Ireland
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And we're going to talk about things, yes, you're probably going to find at your hotel, but things that your local Irish friends might be having for breakfast before they meet you
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And I think probably the most important thing to talk about and everybody talks about in all their videos about breakfast in Ireland and food in Ireland is a full Irish breakfast
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Look, if you're going to stay at a castle when you're here, if you're going to stay at a hotel when you're here, a bed and breakfast when you're here
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If they serve breakfast, they're probably going to have a full Irish breakfast option
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And what does that entail? Well, one, you're going to have either fried eggs or scrambled eggs. You can choose whichever one you want
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You're going to have this big, fantastic sausage. Oh, don't get weird, people
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It is really good. The sausage here are fantastic. Any of the Irish, they love their sausages here
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But you have this fantastic sausage. Then you have a big old piece of bacon. And don't think Oscar Mayer bacon
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No, no, this is that big old bacon. You're like, oh, yes, it's so good
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And then you'll have the mushrooms and the cooked tomatoes as well
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And then beans because, yeah, why not? Beans. And you'll have toast with it as well
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But I think the most important, it's not just toast. You want to have the soda bread. Oh, my God
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The soda bread with it or the toast, whichever way you're going to have with the dairy here
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with the butter. And then you're going to have white and black pudding
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Now, black pudding is basically blood sausage. It's made with blood. And think of white pudding as kind of a sausage thing not made with the blood
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more with the fat. And some people get grossed out by it. But I kind of think of it as kind of like a slice-dipped sausage
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And actually, they fry it up and it gets really crispy. Think about a like in the same texture of like a McDonald hash brown but made out of sausage stuff That what it kind of like but oh my gosh it is so good Like that my favorite part of the morning
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And then you have a potato farrel, which is basically an actual hash brown. You can have that with it as well
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And that is one of those caloric punches to the gut. But I say, you do need that, because when you go and explore in Ireland, you're driving for the whole day
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You're hiking around. You're walking along the cliffs. You're going through the national parks. You're going to see all these things
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You need that energy to go. So don't feel bad if you have a robust breakfast, because you can do something smaller at lunch
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Have some of the soup, like a seafood chowder or a sandwich at lunch, and then, you know, a big dinner
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Like, because that's one of those things you just need that, like, fortification when you're here
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And a full Irish breakfast, oh, it'll fortify you so you look like me after your vacation
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And the thing is, you don't have to have the full Irish breakfast. You can have these things separate. You'll see the sausages and the bacon and the potato faros, you know, the hash brown stuff
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You'll see those by themselves. So you can get that by yourself. You just want eggs. You can do that
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I mean, these things can all be broken up, but the full Irish, that's why it's the full Irish. It's everything possible
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You can have that together. Another really nice thing, if you're kind of like watching your weight and trying to be better, like I'm trying to be
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I recommend getting these salmon and scrambled eggs. And what it'll be is usually it'll have a piece of toast, and they put really good scrambled eggs on there
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and then they put some smoked salmon on top, and you have that. Very light, very like, it's filling, but it's light, and you feel good
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Like, I feel like I ate healthy this morning. You can have that a lot of places. You know if you've had a few too many the night before maybe you just want something not so tough to eat
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There's also porridge Irish porridge or maybe you know it back home by Irish oatmeal
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Oh my god it is so good the hotels have a big pot of it going or if you going to a nice breakfast kind of place They have it there I know where we stayed we stayed at a castle Kennedy Castle And they came and brought it out this nice little bowl They had the cream to put on it
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Here's a little secret hand. If you go someplace that they have some whiskey, put a little whiskey in there, too
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Oh, it was so good. Maybe throw some honey on there and some fruit. But the porridge here, you just think it's silly
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Why am I spending money on oatmeal? No. The porridge here, the Irish oatmeal, is fantastic
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It makes a really good breakfast as well, especially if you don't want that heaviness of the full Irish. And the thing is, if you're looking
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for something quick, what you'll probably see, the locals, they'll just have bread for breakfast
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There's a lot of different breads you're going to see here, right? And probably one I'd recommend is the soda bread. And that's just basically, it's bread. It's not yeast that raises it. It's
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baking soda, hence soda bread. But it is wonderful. It's very dense, but it's so flavorful. And all
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you need to do is just put some of that Irish butter on there. Because honestly, the dairy here
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the cream, the milk, the butter, the cheeses, they're all wonderful. So put as much as about
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like whole pad on one side, whole pad on the other side. You won't say, you won't say no
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take my word for it. It's that good. But you'll notice the locals do a lot of bread at breakfast. They also do a lot of fruit. Yogurt's very popular if you want to do that. Cereal is going
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to be an option at pretty much every hotel and most people's houses as well. So, you know, normal kind of stuff. And that's one thing is when you come here, talk to the locals about what they
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recommend for breakfast and food because the people are so friendly. Like the fire guy came
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by to talk to make sure everything's okay, some locals stopped up, hey, what about this for breakfast
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So it is really fun to like talk to locals about what to eat and what not to eat for breakfast or any time of the day
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Now let's get back to the bread. You got a Waterford Blah, which is basically a roll and it's really good, like kind of
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a fluffy roll you might have here different shades but you see these breakfast rolls you see there And obviously they have the usual breakfast pastries at hotels people will grab those things It not like we only eat Irish breakfast food when you here The same stuff you probably eat at home you probably find here
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But another really kind of Irish breakfast thing is the potato pancake. I know there's potato pancakes around the world, but these grated ones here
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they might have different fillings and it might just be a plain potato kind of pancake. But the box tea is something that you can get all day long
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Like I recommend it. For me, I always like having it more like as a lunch kind of thing than a breakfast kind of thing
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but here people have it for breakfast sometimes too. You can get that, you know, with your eggs and your toast kind of stuff
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and your black and white pudding, so you can do that. So my mom and I, I had a sausage breakfast roll
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which was bread with all those fantastic sausages cut up to be eaten and delishified in my mouth because it was so good
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My mom had one that was just bacon together, thick bacon and a couple fried eggs on it
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I mean, you have those as well, so that can be a really fortifying thing while you're on the go
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so you're not waiting to get served, you're not waiting for your food, you can just get out and explore more of the country
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because that's what I want you to do. I want you to have these great Irish breakfasts so you can come here and explore Ireland because you do need it when you go around
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Whether you're doing the hiking, seeing the cities, taking in the sights, it's always good to have a good breakfast, especially a good hearty Irish breakfast
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So whether you're getting the porridge or the full Irish, let us know in the comments below what breakfast you love to have when you come to Ireland
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And also tell us what country's breakfast food would you like to hear about? Anyway, I wish you all the best. I hope you have a great time here in Ireland
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I'm not worried about your eating because it is fantastic. If you want to learn more, maybe what to eat when you come to Ireland, Jocelyn has a video
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that goes through like the main foods throughout the day that you should enjoy. We have all kinds of other fun stuff on our website at waltersworld.com
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Anyway, I wish you all the best and have a fantastic meal when you are here in Galway
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Oh, seafood. Seafood is the Galway way. Bye
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