# Breakfast Meats -- Pre-Poll Exploration **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821 "2010-04-03T13:50:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/21 "2010-04-03T19:13:42Z")
> [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > Scrapple needs to be on there just so it can get its ass kicked. Ooh yeah, scrapple. Scrapple rocks! Slice it thin and fry the shit out of it. …and it **is** meat, just not the particularly desirable parts. What do you think sausage is made of? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/22 "2010-04-03T19:32:41Z")
Just a couple of days ago, I was inquiring about a square brown patty that was available as a breakfast option at my office (we have multiple cafeterias) and was told that it’s liver mush. Sounds dreadful, but enough people must eat it every day for them to offer it. They also have a couple different types of large link sausages that look like kielbasa. So add liver mush, aka liver pudding to the list. Just don’t make me eat any, OK? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/23 "2010-04-03T20:18:00Z")
I often eat Bratwurst for breakfast. These might just fall under the general “steak” category, but I buy **Beef Loin Tri Tip Steaks** and boneless **Beef Chuck Short Ribs** from Costco, cut them up into bite-sized pieces and individually wrap 7-8 pieces. I keep some out and put the rest into the freezer. For breakfast I salt and pepper them, sear them in my cast iron skillet, then smoosh them around with some half-cooked thickly-sliced mushrooms, let them cool for a few minutes, then dump them into a plastic container as finger food to eat on the way to work when I’m running late. I often add cut up bacon slices and cut up Bratwurst or sausage. God I love low-carb. It can be very boring but no other diet lets me eat like that and keeps my blood pressure and blood sugar in check. Does anyone else eat lengua (tongue)? I’ve only ever had it in tacos, but I might cook some in the crock pot, cut it into chunks and see how it is for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/24 "2010-04-03T20:49:14Z")
> [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > Scrapple needs to be on there just so it can get its ass kicked. I _love_ Scrapple! Some comedian referred to it with the question, “Why would you eat meat that isn’t good enough to put in a Slim Jim?” But I don’t care. Its yummy awesomeness makes up for the presence of any pig nostrils. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/25 "2010-04-03T20:52:15Z")
How about the vegetarian sausages, bacon and ham? I try to watch my cholesterol (sometimes more than others 😛 ) and use these at home a lot. Not that they’re a real substitute for country ham. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/26 "2010-04-03T21:10:30Z")
Here’s a sloppy summary of things mentioned thus far. To help pare it down to a manageable group, please post a Top Ten, either from this list or out of your own head. I think the poll choices will come from those things that are mentioned more than once or twice here. The list so far (probable duplicates involved): Bacon Country Ham Baked Ham Steak Link sausage Patty sausage Chorizo Hash Fake beef bacon, fake turkey sausage veal sausage fake ham slice “Canadian bacon” American pork belly rashers. Jerky Slim Jims Vienna sausage Potted meat Burgers of various types “some meat” and biscuit Chicken/turkey fillet (baked and sliced) Roast beef Dry sausage (with garlic, like chorizo, but not as spicy as that) Pate Liverwurst Speck black pudding and white pudding. Chicken-fried steak Ground beef patty Gravlax or lox ham steak. Spam. fried balogna Fried salami Other lunch meat sausages fried or cooked in some other way pepperoni “breakfast fish” Herring gyros meat rotisserie lamb and veal Kippers. Pork chops. Black pudding blood sausage Chicken fried hamburgers Scrapple Pig brains breakfast kidneys, fried up quite a few different kinds of bacon besides American and Canadian. kielbasa fancier-than-link sausages just plain normal steak square brown patty liver mush. liver pudding Bratwurst Beef Loin Tri Tip Steaks boneless Beef Chuck Short Ribs lengua (tongue) ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/27 "2010-04-03T21:12:40Z")
[Goetta](http://www.goetta.com/). Delicious. [Taylor Ham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_roll). Likewise. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/28 "2010-04-03T21:29:34Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Here’s a sloppy summary of things mentioned thus far. > > To help pare it down to a manageable group, please post a Top Ten, either from this list or out of your own head. In no particular order: Bacon (American, Canadian, Irish, or other) Sausages (American-style links) Sausage (patties) Sausages (other, including bangers, bratwurst, etc.) Chorizo (a sausage, but different from the above) Ham (steak, any style) Steak (beef) Chicken-fried steak Ground beef patty SPAM Hash Fish (Gravlax, lox, kippers, trout fried in butter, other) Pork chops Other meat I’m a vegetarian. I eat \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. That’s more than ten, but there are four sausages (and as it is, you’d have to put fried bologna in the ‘other’ category). Since the poll is about meat, I did not include fake meat in the list. Since there are so many choices, maybe the poll should be a Top Fifteen, or at least a Top Dozen? I did try to pare down my choices, but I just couldn’t get it down to ten. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/29 "2010-04-03T21:37:58Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > That’s more than ten, but there are four sausages (and as it is, you’d have to put fried bologna in the ‘other’ category). Since the poll is about meat, I did not include fake meat in the list. Since there are so many choices, maybe the poll should be a Top Fifteen, or at least a Top Dozen? I did try to pare down my choices, but I just couldn’t get it down to ten. Thanks for the help. Good points all. Since I know of no way to allow more than one choice per voter without allowing as many as one wants to check, I’m thinking at least a dozen and up to 20 as the final list to be voted on. Using lists like yours I can trim the thread down to the 20 most frequently mentioned and then put the poll up and let voters check as many as they wish. I just want to avoid too many catch-all and “other” entries. I like the way the eggs poll went and I think anybody can tell at a glance what most Dopers prefer. That’s all we can ask for in such polls, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/30 "2010-04-03T22:10:40Z")
To get it down to 10 I cheated wildly and put items into categories, like all kinds of Bacon and all kinds of Ham and all kinds of Steak. Bacon (includes Canadian Bacon along with pork belly rashers) Ham (any type) Steak (any type) Chorizo Gyros meat Burgers of various types Chicken/turkey fillet (baked and sliced) Lamb and veal Pork chops Lengua (tongue) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/31 "2010-04-03T22:29:13Z")
Good work, **Equipoise**. Much obliged. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/32 "2010-04-03T22:35:05Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > To get it down to 10 I cheated wildly and put items into categories, like all kinds of Bacon and all kinds of Ham and all kinds of Steak. Wot, no sausages? (Well, aside from the chroizo.) ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/33 "2010-04-03T22:51:03Z")
I went with my top 20: Bacon (American) Ham (Baked) Steak Link sausage Patty sausage Pork chops Hash Chorizo Spam Souse Country ham (for our Southern Dopers 🙂 ) Fake (or vegetarian) anything Canadian bacon Burgers Chicken Black / white pudding (for our UK Dopers 🙂 ) Country fried steak Lox Fried bologna (Again, for our Southern Dopers) Scrapple (for our Amish Dopers 😛 ) Notice that I snuck in souse. My PA Dutch grandmother would turn over in her grave if I left that out. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/34 "2010-04-03T23:05:58Z")
Nice list there, **missred**. Glad souse came up! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/35 "2010-04-03T23:24:12Z")
Bacon Ham Steak Sausage-link or patty black/white pudding Chicken-fried steak Fried luncheon meat Kippers Scrapple Other The bacon category includes all forms. Chorizo is usually an add-in, I’ve found, so it gets booted. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/36 "2010-04-04T00:09:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Bacon (includes Canadian Bacon along with pork belly rashers) > Ham (any type) I don’t know about that… Canadian bacon is a lot more like ham than it is like American bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/37 "2010-04-04T00:43:58Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I don’t know about that… Canadian bacon is a lot more like ham than it is like American bacon. That’s my take on it as well. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/38 "2010-04-04T01:07:30Z")
linguiça ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/39 "2010-04-04T01:45:59Z")
By hash, do you mean with corned beef? If not, that would be my #1 breakfast meat (followed closely by chicken-fried steak). It can come dog-food style or homemade (hard to find unless you make it yourself but awesome); I don’t care! I like corned beef hash about a hundred times better than I like corned beef and cabbage (which is still better than okay). ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821/40 "2010-04-04T01:49:35Z")
In no particular order: Things I normally want to eat for breakfast: Bacon Scrapple (the bacon flavored recipe, preferably) Corned Beef Hash Link sausage Patty sausage Spam breakfast fish Things I’ll settle for if none of the above are available: Country Ham Baked Ham Steak just plain normal steak Fake beef bacon fake turkey sausage fake ham slice Canadian bacon Things that aren’t breakfast but I would eat if I was starving: Jerky Slim Jims Vienna sausage Chicken/turkey fillet (baked and sliced) Roast beef Burgers of various types Chicken-fried steak Ground beef patty ham steak gyros meat pepperoni Pork chops quite a few different kinds of bacon besides American and Canadian fried balogna Fried salami Other lunch meat sausages fried or cooked in some other way Things I’ve never had and therefore can’t say if I’d eat or not (but probably not): veal sausage Dry sausage Chicken fried hamburgers fancier-than-link sausages Beef Loin Tri Tip Steaks boneless Beef Chuck Short Ribs square brown patty Things that are inedible, and shouldn’t be on a list of food items: Chorizo Potted meat American pork belly rashers Pate Liverwurst Speck black pudding and white pudding Gravlax or lox Herring rotisserie lamb and veal Kippers Black pudding blood sausage Pig brains breakfast kidneys, fried up kielbasa liver mush liver pudding Bratwurst lengua (tongue) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-meats-pre-poll-exploration/534821.md?page=3)