# 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:** 2
### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/21 "2005-10-29T13:06:02Z")
When I overindulge during the day and still want to eat at night, I will have toast and tea. And on hot nights cereal, fruit and yoghurt is the way to go.
I love the word “brupper.”
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### Author:  [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/22 "2005-10-29T13:07:11Z")
When I was an investment banker, sometimes I’d be so exhausted when I got home that I would hoover down a bowl of cold ceral and milk, and crawl into bed. It was too much effort to nuke something or god forbid try to make pancakes.
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### Author:  [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/23 "2005-10-29T13:29:32Z")
We almost always eat toast or cereal for breakfast, and so sometimes indulge ourselves by having waffles, scrambled eggs, or pancakes for dinner.
This week it was french toast made with cinnamin chip bread.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/24 "2005-10-29T13:32:46Z")
We did sausage, scrambled eggs ‘n’ biscuits just the other evening. That’s all I had in the house. It rocked.
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### Author:  [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/25 "2005-10-30T03:10:15Z")
I made buttermilk pancakes and scrambled eggs with diced ham just last night. Delicious! I never want that much food in the morning, but it was just the thing for a Friday night.
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### Author:  [@lonesome\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lonesome_loser)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/26 "2005-10-30T03:13:41Z")
Breakfast is my favorite supper.
Lonesome
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/27 "2005-10-30T12:16:04Z")
I often eat eggs and bacon at lunch. And I make a big pan of home fries on Saturday or Sunday morning and eat them most of the day.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/28 "2005-10-30T12:34:33Z")
> [@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?
Well, yeah. Doesn’t everybody? 😕
They don’t!? :eek:
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/29 "2005-10-30T19:14:21Z")
> [@](#):
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> 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).
She does realize, does she not, that the purpose of French toast is to use up the _bread_ that’s getting close to its “use by”? Eggs will keep for longer than bread.
I’ll often have sunny-side-up eggs for supper, or if I’m feeling fancy, an omelette. Eggs are about the cheapest source of protein you’re going to find, and quick and easy to prepare. Waffles for supper are not unheard of, either. But I just can’t sup on cereal and milk.
Oh, and to quote from the movie _Smoke Signals_, some days, it’s a good day to die, and some days, it’s a good day to eat breakfast for supper.
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### Author:  [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/30 "2005-10-30T21:52:47Z")
Breakfast for dinner is not something I generally do at home, but at least once a month Mrs. Know and I will go to one of the local casinos with a 24-hr breakfast special in the evening. One has an absolutely scrumptious ham steak and eggs for $2.79 and another has steak and eggs for $3.99.
IHOP is only good at 2 AM when there’s no screaming kids around.
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### Author:  [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/31 "2005-10-31T01:06:51Z")
My sleep schedule tends to go 20 hours awake -\> 8-10 hours asleep -\> 20 hours awake -\> etc. For whatever reason I just can’t sleep unless I’m totally exhausted to the point of collapse, so that’s the way it goes. Throughout the week I may be awake or asleep at any given time. The concepts of breakfast and dinner are unknown to me.
When I want eggs and bacon, I eat eggs and bacon. Sometimes that is 8 AM. Sometimes that is 5 PM. Sometimes it’s 3 AM. Likewise if I wake up at 5 AM and want to eat the leftover Chinese food from the previous night’s meal, I will. It’s all just food.
I will say though that I don’t like waffles, pancakes, or French Toast all that much. I will eat a few bites if they’re given to me by someone or come with a meal (like at IHOP), but don’t find mushy, mostly flavourless stuff covered in liquid sugar to be all that tasty. I’m not sure I could consider them much of a meal at any time, unless you also consider a slice of chocolate cake or a donut to be a meal. Meh.
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/32 "2005-10-31T01:41:31Z")
My mom used to make this stuff called “breakfast pudding” for dinner sometimes. It’s a major comfort food.
Tear two pieces of bread into bitesize pieces.
Put em in a bowl, dab with butter.
Add a soft boiled egg, peeled (I prefer poached, because peeling a hot soft boiled egg is a pain in the ass).
Toss with a fork, breaking up the egg white and distributing the melting butter and liquid yolk (and salt and pepper) as evenly as possible.
Eat it up yum
(Best with your grandmother’s freshbaked white bread.)
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### Author:  [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/33 "2005-10-31T02:02:39Z")
Just as I put the egg pan in the dishwasher, and sat down to see what’s been going on here all weekend while I was shopping at Ikea, putting the new bed together, celebrating Skip’s 50th last night, waking up oddly hungover this morning, doing yard work, then coming in to watch the Bears win, finally putting putting the rest of the Ikea booty together (book cases), I see this thread. Cool.
After the weekend, I didn’t feel like putting together a big dinner, nor did I want anything heavy. A couple eggs over easy, some re-heated chorizo a couple tortillas and a heap of salsa verde with a big tall glass-0-cow and I’m in heaven.
Oh yeah, at least twice a month I’ll have a nice breakfast for dinner, you can’t beat it.
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### Author:  [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/34 "2005-10-31T02:27:40Z")
I like breakfast for dinner. But my mom’s eggs suck so I prefer having it out. She hates eggs so she makes them in the microwave. Blah.
And nothin’s better than pounding beers all night and going to Waffle House at 3am and getting an egg, bacon, and cheese sandwich and some hash browns. Did it last night and it was amazing. That and Steak n Shake are the best drunk food.
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### Author:  [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/35 "2005-10-31T03:34:24Z")
Breakfast at any time of day is all right by me!!
Ketchup on my eggs!
Ketchup on my hashbrowns!
Plenty of non-ketchup items too!!
Pancakes or Waffles or French Toast with syrup,honey or jam!
A couple glasses of cold milk too!
Breakfast for dinner is good for some crazy dreams at night too!!
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### Author:  [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/36 "2005-10-31T03:49:09Z")
I love to have breakfast for supper. I’m not much of a morning person, so supper is the best time to do something more complex than toast and coffee.
I’ll make waffles or pannukak’kua (kinda like a baked pancake, you find all sorts of recipes when you drop it in google) with bacon or sausage. Mmm yum.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/37 "2005-10-31T03:51:45Z")
Eggs no longer agree with me, but pancakes, mmmmm.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/38 "2005-10-31T03:56:13Z")
We do Eggs Benedict for dinner every couple of months. Or sometimes I will just get a bug up my butt, and make Chicken-Fried Steak with Biscuits and Gravy for dinner. Goes over pretty well, I must say. 😃
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/39 "2005-10-31T04:09:39Z")
I love to go to IHOP late at night with a friend, and order waffles or french toast or whatever can be slathered with fruit compote, and have it with sausage… hash browns… mmmmm. Just love doing that.
and by the way the google ad is for italian ‘pace’ flags. i have one. i bought it in ITALY.
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### Author:  [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-at-dinner/328406/40 "2005-10-31T08:11:48Z")
I eat breakfast at dinner pretty often. Kind of a tradition. Just had French Toast, Bacon, Home Fries, and some eggs over easy at the **sknew** house last night.
It is also pretty common for me to make one of my Dad’s skillet dinners for myself from time to time. It usually consists of a base of crispy fried potatoes with onions, green peppers, (and in my case, garlic) and then the addition of sausage (or corned beef, or lunch meat, or ham, sometimes steak, or any other meat leftovers) and a few eggs to scramble. Fry it all together in one skillet and you have a “hash scramble” concoction. I love to eat it with a little hot sauce and maybe some ketchup…Good stuff, Maynard.
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