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TiL Traditional English Breakfast of bacon eggs sausage black pudding baked beans & grilled tomato was available only for royals and the wealthy in the 1300s. In the 1950’s when goods became more available to everyone most people were able to adopt this full breakfast. That’s about 600 years later!

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