# Brunch: whaddyawant? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895 "2019-06-01T22:29:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 1, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/1 "2019-06-01T22:29:22Z")
You’re at brunch. Maybe by choice, maybe not. Either way, you’re here, and the waiter is taking orders. Menu is: anything you’ve ever had or seen available for brunch ever in your life, e.g. traditional breakfast items, eggs dishes, sandwiches, burgers, soup and salad, pastry, hell, even dim sum if you want it (it’s an extremely diverse restaurant). If you’re like me you usually get the same thing every time but maybe you’re not like me. What are you having? ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/2 "2019-06-01T22:55:22Z")
Healthy? Duck Confit Hash (like at _Marigold_ in Madison, WI), made with sweet potatoes and greens. Not? The full English or Irish breakfast, with eggs, back bacon, multiple sausages, fried bread, grilled to-mah’-toes, baked beans… and a handful of chips plunked on top. Fun anecdote: we told my mom to pick a brunch spot for her 90th birthday, assuming we’d take her to a classy restaurant. Called ahead to confirm, and she said “Well, don’t dress up. I went online and found a little dive downtown that looks great, with huge gourmet donuts and a mimosa bar. It might be loud, they have live rock bands, but I thought you could cope.” ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/3 "2019-06-01T23:38:11Z")
Chipped beef on toast or biscuits and gravy. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/4 "2019-06-01T23:51:41Z")
Is it okay if I just order breakfast? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/5 "2019-06-01T23:52:26Z")
I’ll settle for the brunch at Shaw’s Crab House in Chicago. Filet Mignon, king crab legs, oysters on the half shell, sushi, fried chicken, omelet bar…it just goes on and on… ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/6 "2019-06-02T00:56:35Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Is it okay if I just order breakfast? Yeah, I’m just gonna order chorizo+egg tacos on corn tortillas. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/7 "2019-06-02T01:14:07Z")
Oh, it depends. But there is a great little place in Denver called Poppies. It’s located in a failing strip mall. The décor makes you wonder where Starsky, Hutch and Huggie Bear are. Deep red, dark wood piano bar. It’s straight out of the 70’s. But. They make prime rib every night. In the morning, It’s prime rib hash. That and a bloody mary or two will to just fine. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/8 "2019-06-02T01:16:00Z")
Either Chicken-Fried steak and eggs or a Joe’s Special, with multiple Bloody Marys, Texas-style. ---
**Author:** ![BobBitchin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@BobBitchin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobBitchin)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/9 "2019-06-02T01:19:07Z")
Steak, loaded potato, 1lb bacon, BBq baked beans, lotsa cheesy garlic bread, crown and coke.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/10 "2019-06-02T01:35:47Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Either Chicken-Fried steak and eggs or a Joe’s Special, with multiple Bloody Marys, Texas-style. Please explain the Texas-style Bloody Mary! Three-egg Cheddar omelette with home fries, rye toast with extra butter, no jam, side order of sausage. And multiple Bloody Marys — Caesars, rather, I’m fond of Clamato juice — with lime and horseradish as well as the usual Bloody condiments, unless I’m tempted by **silenus’s** Texas thang. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/11 "2019-06-02T01:38:36Z")
The Joe’s Special is tempting, too. Haven’t had one in years. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/12 "2019-06-02T01:42:50Z")
Brioche French toast with REAL maple syrup, and a cheddar cheese two-egg omelet. And maybe one or two of those Texas Bloody Marys, but don’t expect me to do anything the rest of the day! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/13 "2019-06-02T01:51:16Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > The Joe’s Special is tempting, too. Haven’t had one in years. Explain ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/14 "2019-06-02T01:55:13Z")
[Chilaquiles](https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/seattle-meet-chilaquiles-a-k-a-currently-trendy-brunch-item-oh-and-we-have-the-best-recipe-for-it/) - plain egg or with chicken, chorizo, crab or even brisket… ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/15 "2019-06-02T01:55:43Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Explain It’s an old classic San Francisco dish, probably dating back to the 19th century. Hangover remedy, light lunch, or heavy breakfast. Eggs scrambled with fresh spinach and ground beef, essentially. Onions are usually in there, plus garlic and sometimes mushrooms. If you use Italian sausage instead of ground beef it’s an “Italian Joe’s.” Mexican chorizo makes it a “Spanish Joe’s.” S’good. Fifteen hundred recipes available on th’ internets. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/16 "2019-06-02T02:01:35Z")
Sounds good! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/17 "2019-06-02T02:04:09Z")
BTW, new Bloody Mary opinion thread just opened in Cafe Society, because that needs discussion without distracting us all from THIS thread. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/18 "2019-06-02T03:34:31Z")
Very hot quiche lorraine, a big cold bowl of sliced canteloupe, a glass of orange juice, and coffee, please! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/19 "2019-06-02T03:59:14Z")
I’ll go for brook trout, home fries and roasted veggies, washed down with a nice bubbly adult beverage (all from the Sunday brunch at the hotel formerly known as The Ahwahnee). ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895/20 "2019-06-02T04:07:28Z")
Eggs Benedict (poached medium) with grilled salmon or a crab cake in place of the ham. Extra lemon in the Hollandaise. Fresh strawberries or peaches in cream. Marinated mushrooms and broccoli or roasted asparagus Hawaiian Kona coffee brewed very strong. I like my coffee al dente. Ice water, lots of it. Just bring the pitcher please. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brunch-whaddyawant/834895.md?page=2)