 In Victorian England, vendors in roadside stalls sold bread rolls filled with ham, sausage, or egg to workers going to factories.Ireland, being a former British colony, inherited the recipe, along with other foods of British origin, and passed the breakfast roll off as a more ostensibly Irish food.A breakfast roll typically consists of a bread roll or baguette containing one or more fillings such as sausages, bacon, white or black pudding, butter, mushrooms, tomatoes and tomato sauce or brown sauce.In some cases a hash brown, baked beans or fried egg may be added.