# Best things to sop up with breakfast sausage
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 13, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563 "2011-03-13T18:35:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/1 "2011-03-13T18:35:21Z")
What other food on your plate do you love to get all over your breakfast sausage? I like pancake syrup or egg yolk. Any other sausage/syrup or sausage/yolk lovers? Do you have another combo you prefer?
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### Author:  [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/2 "2011-03-13T19:00:17Z")
Mustard.
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/3 "2011-03-13T21:09:14Z")
NO BACON OPTION!?!?
But seriously, I like sausage, but not the breakfast kind usually. Bacon is always good. I guess egg would be the answer, as I rarely eat that kind of stuff together with pancakes/waffles in the same meal.
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### Author:  [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/4 "2011-03-13T21:46:39Z")
Sausage and syrup go well together. If I don’t eat pancakes, egg yolk isn’t bad.
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/5 "2011-03-13T21:47:54Z")
Some of us like to mix egg yolk, maple syrup and dip sausage or bacon into it, then finish up with toast bits …
The full on eggs, pancakes, bacon and toast breakfast is something we do maybe 3 or 4 times a year, usually while on vacation somewhere so someone else gets to make it and clean up afterwards =)
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/6 "2011-03-13T22:03:35Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> NO BACON OPTION!?!?
Hey, if you WANT a bacon poll, post one. This one is strictly centered on sausage. 😛
> [@aruvqan](#):
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> Some of us like to mix egg yolk, maple syrup and dip sausage or bacon into it, then finish up with toast bits …
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> The full on eggs, pancakes, bacon and toast breakfast is something we do maybe 3 or 4 times a year, usually while on vacation somewhere so someone else gets to make it and clean up afterwards =)
It’s not something we do all the time, only on Saturdays when I get up early enough and there’s not something else going on.
Dishes, though…man, if you don’t get that egg yolk off RIGHT NOW, it’s such a pain. Don’t hurry through breakfast and just stack dishes so you can go do whatever!
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/7 "2011-03-13T22:07:25Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/8 "2011-03-13T22:10:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
Wow, I think that’s a step up in the world!
Such fine distinctions :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/9 "2011-03-13T22:17:36Z")
Cafe Society is the food forum.
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/10 "2011-03-13T22:34:13Z")
> [@Hades](#):
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> Cafe Society is the food forum.
But IMHO is the poll forum according to its description, I guess that’s why I chose it.
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### Author:  [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/11 "2011-03-13T23:06:47Z")
What???
No gravy option :eek:
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### Author:  [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/12 "2011-03-14T01:02:34Z")
Gravy, jelly, syrup, butter, egg yolks, ketchup, salsa - basically any liquid breakfast-y substance (except maybe coffee).
Aaand now I’m hungry.
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### Author:  [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/13 "2011-03-14T01:31:48Z")
> [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](#):
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> Gravy, jelly, syrup, butter, egg yolks, ketchup, salsa - basically any liquid breakfast-y substance (except maybe coffee).
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> Aaand now I’m hungry.
No matter HOW hungry you are, don’t microwave frozen sausages. It’s _never_ worth it.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2011, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/14 "2011-03-14T02:02:53Z")
Maple syrup.
But I rarely eat pancakes, so the usual sopping liquid is egg yolks.
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### Author:  [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/15 "2011-03-14T02:48:47Z")
More breakfast sausage.
Personally, I’m more of an egg yolk over hash browns kinda guy.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/16 "2011-03-14T14:05:20Z")
I’m a vegetarian. I love veggie sausage eaten with fried cheese ravioli. I fried some togewther when I had the cast on my arm, the electricity went off so I couldn’t use the microwave, and was afraid to use my gas oven, so I fried them up together. It’s good.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/17 "2011-03-14T14:46:57Z")
No “the blood of my vanquished enemy” option?
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/18 "2011-03-14T15:19:55Z")
> [@flickster](#):
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> What???
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> No gravy option :eek:
I am equally horrified.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2011, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/19 "2011-03-15T12:05:58Z")
If I’m going to have to top the sausage, white gravy is the best option. After that maybe syrup, but that takes a rather spicy sausage for the sweetness not to overpower it.
I’m just now getting to the point where I can stand runny yolks, and that has to be mixed with a starch, like bread or gravy. My eggs are normally cooked through.
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### Author:  [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-things-to-sop-up-with-breakfast-sausage/574563/20 "2011-03-15T12:24:33Z")
To me, sausage is something you sop up with something else.
Those little greasy sausage bits & egg yolk need sopping up. With grits or hash browns or biscuits.