# Breakfast at dinner
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 29, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406 "2005-10-29T02:07:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/1 "2005-10-29T02:07:37Z")
I had waffles for dinner. Yummy, buttery, sweet crispy waffles, drowning in maple syrup. That’s such a treat.
Anyone else like eating breakfast at dinner occasionally? Pancakes, eggs, bacon?
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/2 "2005-10-29T02:18:48Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#):
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> I had waffles for dinner. Yummy, buttery, sweet crispy waffles, drowning in maple syrup. That’s such a treat.
> Anyone else like eating breakfast at dinner occasionally? Pancakes, eggs, bacon?
I like an omelet for dinner from time to time, and I’ve had cereal when I was too lazy to take a dinner out of the freezer and nuke it.
Once a month I meet friends for dinner at a local IHOP - sometimes I order the pancakes
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/3 "2005-10-29T02:19:47Z")
The missus and I will do this 2-3 times per year.
I don’t usually eat breakfast, so it’s a treat.
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/4 "2005-10-29T02:20:39Z")
I once subjected my wife to ham 'n eggs 'n fried spuds for dinner, oh, around 1983. She was of the opinion that breakfast for dinner was a truly bad idea. I’ve been shy of it ever since. Not that I wouldn’t do it when she’s away, just that I’d prefer a grilled steak and spinach. Or takeout pizza.
Waffles and syrup? SWEET stuff for dinner? That, I couldn’t do.
Sweet is for just before bed, way late at night. Not for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
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### Author:  [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/5 "2005-10-29T02:23:52Z")
Oh yeah! We do breakfast for dinner from time to time.
Usually waffles, maple syrup & bacon. Yum.
When I was growing up we quite often had eggs & toast for supper, but I think that had a lot to do with us being poor. Eggs & bread were cheap & filling. So I acquired the habit early. Now it doesn’t faze me at all and I really like breakfast for dinner.
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### Author:  [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/6 "2005-10-29T02:24:43Z")
I can eat breakfast for any meal of the day. Pancakes (with real maple syrup and butter, please): yum, yum. With fruit, either on top or on the side. Ditto waffles or French toast, but it’s gotta be the regular kind with regular bread slices, not those ultra-thick ones. Eggs come in so many delicious styles: poached, scrambled, over easy, omelettes. And then there’s eggs Benedict. And we haven’t even touched the variety of meats to go with: bacon, scrapple, ham, lox. Fritattas. Bagels. Muffins. Granola. Irish oatmeal.
Why, yes, I am overweight. Why do you ask?
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/7 "2005-10-29T02:25:36Z")
Neither of us eats breakfast. Once in awhile we like to have bacon and eggs, toast and hash browns for supper. (Well, what passes for frozen hash browns - the bits off of french fries that were too small to put in the french fry bag.)
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### Author:  [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/8 "2005-10-29T02:27:06Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#):
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> When I was growing up we quite often had eggs & toast for supper, but I think that had a lot to do with us being poor. Eggs & bread were cheap & filling. So I acquired the habit early. Now it doesn’t faze me at all and I really like breakfast for dinner.
Me too. I remember that on the nights when mom gave us pancakes for supper, I was just overjoyed, it was such a wonderful treat! She never seemed very happy on those evenings, and it wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized she was doing so when she couldn’t afford anything else, and she felt bad that she was not giving us a “proper” meal.
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### Author:  [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/9 "2005-10-29T02:38:36Z")
When my dad is left to make dinner and he doesn’t feel like making a proper meal he’ll make us pancakes. I love when he does, I could eat pancakes any time of the day.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/10 "2005-10-29T03:15:44Z")
Yeah, I rarely eat “breakfast” foods for breakfast-usually I’m not that hungry in the mornings. So I LOVE a good breakfast-dinner, or going out for brunch.
There’s a local restaurant, right across the street from my cousins’ house, that we went to after their First Communions. A real old-fashioned brunch, with omelets made to order, bacon, home fries, sausage, waffles (with syrup OR with strawberries and whipped cream), ham, etc.
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/11 "2005-10-29T03:21:30Z")
Yeah, but usually when the date on the carton of eggs with 10 remaining is approaching. My wife would rather spend the $3 (!!!) for a loaf of Texas Toast for French toast than just chuck the eggs and buy a fresh dozen (89-99 cents).
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/12 "2005-10-29T03:27:43Z")
Oh, hell yeah…the wife and I do this once or twice a month. Waffles, scrambled eggs, bacon, toast…the whole nine. Yuuuuuummy!
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/13 "2005-10-29T03:28:13Z")
I am another “don’t eat breakfast” type so love a hot restaurant brunch or the mixed grill at the _Paragon_ or a home cooked breakfast for dinner.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/14 "2005-10-29T03:32:28Z")
We don’t do it _chez **kaylas** _, these days, Michaela being the unadventurous eater she is. Before her advent, however, it was not uncommon.
We _do_ periodically have Loco Moko for breakfast, oddly enough (rice, hamburger patty, beef gravy, with a fried egg on top). And because Michaela always has hers _sans_ egg, it could be argued that she likes to have dinner for breakfast.
When I was a lad, we would sometimes dine on canned corned beef hash with eggs baked on top (Mom spread the hash on a jelly roll sheet, broke a dozen eggs over it and popped it in the oven), which counts as a breakfast for dinner, or waffles with creamed tuna fish on top, which doesn’t.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/15 "2005-10-29T03:47:44Z")
> [@don't ask](#):
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> I am another “don’t eat breakfast” type so love a hot restaurant brunch or the mixed grill at the _Paragon_ or a home cooked breakfast for dinner.
Oh, it’s not that I don’t eat breakfast, it’s just I’ll usually eat something very light, like yogurt, cereal, a banana. Maybe a pastry, but that’s it.
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/16 "2005-10-29T04:09:22Z")
That’s so funny - tonight as I was making waffles for dinner, I thought to myself “you should start a Doper poll and see who else is making breakfast for dinner!”
So, yeah. Waffles with dark Maple syrup (Grade B - it really is yummier, just like Alton Brown says!) and thick-cut bacon. Mmmmmm…
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### Author:  [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/17 "2005-10-29T04:17:03Z")
We had apple pancakes tonight. 🙂
Pretty much every Friday we’re home we eat some sort of breakfast for dinner: omelets, fritata, french toast, mock souffle… I don’t know why, it just became a tradition.
OTOH, quite often breakfast will be reheated chili or pizza.
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### Author:  [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/18 "2005-10-29T05:48:02Z")
We usually don’t eat breakfast at my house, so breakfast for dinner isn’t that unusual. We try to have it at least once a month. We have eggs, bacon and biscuits. Sometimes we have waffles. The frozen kind, sadly.
Can I come over to one of y’all’s houses for brupper?
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/19 "2005-10-29T05:54:07Z")
It’s pretty common in my family, and I still do it now and then. Sometimes it just tastes so good, so late in the day.
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### Author:  [@Idlewild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idlewild)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/20 "2005-10-29T13:01:40Z")
We had eggs for dinner every Sunday night when I was a kid. Never thought of it as breakfast for dinner. It was either soft boiled or poached eggs with vegemite toast soldiers, or omelettes when we were a bit more grown up. I think that this was just nursery food though, not flipping the meal schedule around. When neither of us feel like anything heavy now I’ll do omelettes.
Now, a full English breakfast for dinner is definitely a treat I indulge in sometimes!
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