Alright. From my experience, it seems to be a cultural thing.
I like my breakfasts salty. I want my sweets to be in the form of dessert, not as an entire meal (urgh).
So which is it for you?
I can go either way but I prefer savory, and even the sweet not too sweet. I.e. unsweetened muesli with no sugar on it.
My girlfriend’s Italian and she eats cake for breakfast. Not only do I find the thought sickening, there’s no way it would fill me up like a nice egg on toast with bacon.
I didn’t get sweet breakfasts till I got pregnant - now I am a huge fan of chocolate chip brioche, the legitimate breakfast cake.
By the way, after an all-night drinking session last year, a female friend of mine shouted “I want a salty breakfast”. We did not let her live the innuendo down.
Salty but being a type 1 diabetic may have affected that somewhat.
I picked both because I wasn’t sure what category cold pizza fell into. 
Both, as in both at the same time. My ideal breakfast would be something like a spinach and mushroom crepe with a side of fruit salad, or scrambled eggs and hashbrowns along with blueberry pancakes. Usually, I have to go with one or the other: an everything bagel, or a bowl of cereal.
But no cake! I can’t even fathom frosting in the morning. Apple pie, on the other hand… I could give that some serious consideration…
Unless you are a fan of the abomination called dessert pizza, why would pizza fall in the sweet category?
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Mom, her mother and Middlebro’s wife like it sweet; Dad, the bros, the two nephews and I salty. My other three grandparents preferred salty. Great-grandma Laura was prone to biting the head off anybody who approached her before she’d had her first slice of toast with jam.
In general, I prefer salty to sweet. People laugh at me when I say I don’t like ice cream, because I’m so humongously fat…
Joe
Me too…especially with a slab of good, salty cheddar cheese melted onto the top of it!
I voted both, but I’ve had cake for breakfast every day this week and it’s been awesome.
Whatever’s customary.
Depends on what time I eat b-fast. The earlier the saltier. Late breakfast on weekends or holidays or bruches can include some sweet, maybe a mini pastry or fruit, but I rarely crave sweets.
First breakfast or second breakfast?
Sometimes I have a quick bowl of cereal (no sugar added) and then later have eggs and toast. Or I might have the eggs first and then a danish or tea biscuit a bit later in the morning.
Sometimes I have french toast or pancakes with syrup and bacon on the side. That would be both salty and sweet, I guess. I suppose that makes me an either or both kind of breakfast eater.
I prefer hot and salty – buttered toast, eggs, etc.
But I rarely have time to make breakfast, so its usually cold cereal or pastries – all sweet stuff.
I’m sick of sweet breakfasts every day.
It depends on my mood. Generally I have cereal with some sweetener on it. It’s not Cap’n Crunch, or Super Sugar Crisp (yes, I know they’ve changed the name), it’s usually something like Cheerios or Shredded Mini Wheats, with blueberries. I need that fiber!
I’ve never been able to think of a donut as breakfast. Bagel and a schmear, yes, but not a donut. A donut is a dessert or sweet snack, it sure won’t last me more than an hour or two. I metabolize the sugar and starch and then I’m hungry again. A sensible cereal, though, will keep me from feeling hungry for several hours. AND it won’t do horrid things to my blood sugar.
I could eat cake in the morning, but there’s that blood sugar spike to worry about. I used to love pumpkin pie for breakfast. Sweet, but not too sweet, and it goes wonderfully with coffee or tea.
I’ve wondered about this question when we’re travelling, and the continental breakfasts at hotels were one sweet food after the next. Do people seriously eat a 500 calorie chocolate muffin for breakfast? At least they usually have an adult breakfast cereal available that I can eat without adding sugar. No protein available at all, though - only carbs and fat.
My go-to breakfast is toast with peanut butter. But when I have time (i.e., weekends), I make “Special Daddy-style oatmeal” for me and the little one: rolled oats with lots of raisins, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and vanilla. It’s basically a breakfast pudding. And when I really have a lot of time (i.e., the little one sleeps in), I’ll make buttermilk waffles or pancakes and serve them with sausage or bacon.
So sweet and salty both work, and the ideal meal has a lot of them. Sausage dipped in maple syrup, mmmmmm…