Why has the English breakfast endured when so many traditions fade?

The English breakfast has endured because it is practical, adaptable, and deeply embedded in British social life, while also being sustained across different social classes over time. The upper, middle, and working classes have each adopted it as their own at various points in history, using it to mark authority, comfort, routine, or occasion. While individual components have shifted, the underlying structure has remained recognisable, allowing the tradition to persist without losing its identity and making it a genuinely shared English culinary tradition.