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?
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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)
Goetta. Delicious.
Taylor Ham. Likewise.
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.
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.
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)
Good work, Equipoise. Much obliged.
Wot, no sausages?
(Well, aside from the chroizo.)
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.
Nice list there, missred. Glad souse came up! Thanks.
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.
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.
linguiça
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).
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)