# Breakfast: Salty or Sweet? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 20, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119 "2012-01-20T11:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![slm2955](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@slm2955](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slm2955)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/21 "2012-01-20T18:21:02Z")
I prefer salty. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/22 "2012-01-20T20:13:00Z")
For an every day breakfast I don’t put salt on anything and don’t eat anything sweet. For breakfast, I usually cook 2 or 3 eggs on a pan lubricated in butter and wash it down with some coffee. The eggs get a little butter on them but nothing else. No salt. Not even pepper. For a diner type breakfast, I GUESS it would be salty because of the bacon and sausage, but I really am not a big fan of salt. I do love me some pancakes but find that I never get around to making or ordering them. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/23 "2012-01-20T20:38:47Z")
Give me sausage and bacon and eggs with pancakes on the side in butter and syrup. That’s an ideal breakfast. I also eat way more honey butter chicken biscuits than are good for me. Mixing sweet and savory is one of the culinary joys in life. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/24 "2012-01-20T20:39:49Z")
Combo. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/25 "2012-01-20T20:58:09Z")
Savory mostly. Toast, a bagel, or hot multigrain cereal if I have a couple extra minutes. Sometimes might put some maple syrup in my coffee, and on a day off might make pancakes. But I’m more likely to make eggs and potatoes. Those IHOP dessert pancake concoctions make me nauseous just thinking about them. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/26 "2012-01-20T21:33:05Z")
Generally savory, but pancakes and syrup are often a side to my eggs and sausage. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/27 "2012-01-20T21:48:02Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Unless you are a fan of the abomination called dessert pizza, why would pizza fall in the sweet category? What you don’t put ice cream on your pizza? I like both. Pancakes, an omelette and some sausage is my favorite breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/28 "2012-01-20T21:52:32Z")
Combination of the two, e.g. pancakes with maple syrup and sausage. ---
**Author:** ![hazel-rah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/29 "2012-01-20T23:40:53Z")
Where’s the option for spicy? Breakfast tacos (potato and egg) with jalepenos and extra-hot salsa verde is better than any other breakfast food I’ve ever tried. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/30 "2012-01-20T23:49:59Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > 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. This is no joke: a few years ago me and my brother went to a cottage in the countryside for the weekend with a huge box of ingredients, with the express intention of creating a savory ‘granola bar’, because both of us were sick of sweet breakfasts on the run. However we got stuck at the agar-agar stage, and ended up with some really unpalatable mush. So we went to the pub instead. [Marmite](http://www.marmite.com/love/snacks/) has actually produced such a bar now. Unfortunately they’re slightly sweet and even though I love Marmite, I find them gross. ---
**Author:** ![phantom\_lamb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@phantom\_lamb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phantom_lamb)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/31 "2012-01-21T00:33:41Z")
> [@hazel-rah](#): > > Where’s the option for spicy? Breakfast tacos (potato and egg) with jalepenos and extra-hot salsa verde is better than any other breakfast food I’ve ever tried. That’s in the salty category. I, too, like my breakfast (and every other meal) spicy 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/32 "2012-01-21T02:01:31Z")
Salty and spicy… scrambled eggs with a little guacamole and and a turkey sausage is my favorite. I can’t do a sweet breakfast anymore. Things like donuts and danish taste heavenly with a strong cup of coffee but it makes me feel like utter crap an hour later. ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/33 "2012-01-21T02:40:47Z")
I really only eat breakfast on the weekends, and it varies between scrambled eggs with cheddar and (plain, homemade) yogurt with raspberries and oatmeal. So a little of each. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/34 "2012-01-21T03:19:38Z")
In the egg thread, I had a flashback to being a kid again, and my mom fixing homemade waffles and we’d have fried eggs and bacon. I remember eating a bite of syrupy waffle dunked in the runny egg yolk and nearly swooned at the memory. All of perfection in that one bite. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119/35 "2012-01-21T15:54:14Z")
I voted for sweet, but for me breakfast is almost always plain Cheerios, 1% milk, orange juice, and a banana. So it’s on the sweet side, but just barely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breakfast-salty-or-sweet/610119.md?page=1)