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Big breakfast

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Big breakfast

The classic ‘fry-up’ breakfast includes bacon, pork sausages and mushrooms.

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Allan Gillingham, Pigs and the pork industry – Pig farming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15445/big-breakfast (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Allan Gillingham, published 1 March 2009.