2 bacon, one egg, mushrooms, tomato, fried bread, followed by tea, brown toast and apricot jam. That's my ideal 'full English' and it would last me most of the day. Definitely no sausages unless I have already had them. I am very fussy about sausages, we buy them in Yorkshire, frozen and bring them back to Cornwall.
Eating contests/challenges are dreadful.
I read most of the article, it's a shame the Guardian don't know that Brigg is in Lincolnshire not Leicestershire. (If Kitty tells me there is a Brigg in Leicestershire I retract that.)