They are…well…sausages made with blood. Pig’s blood particularly (making them one of the least kosher things on Earth) mixed with suet and oatmeal…yum! I can’t say I know what white or red is…I’m guessing less blood, more suet.
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Well, all that sounds just…um, yummy.
You know, I was actually eating some toast (and drinking Water!) while I was reading this, and I actually had to put the toast down. Yep. Couldn’t finish it. I mean, to each his own, but my American brain just couldn’t handle the whole blood, more blood, extra suet anyone? part.
Then again, who am I to talk? My mother and grandfather loved pigs feet. And my uncle ate liver. <shudder> I think I’m done posting (and eating) now.
Not even 9am and I’ve already made someone nauseous. And here I thought I wasn’t going to accomplice much today. So I guess you don’t want to hear about haggis then?
I’ve been known to drink soda in the morning too. Not every day, but I never thought of it as weird. My mom let me have Coke and chocolate chip cookies for breakfast more than once when I was a kid. I’m sure it was exactly as healthy as a heaping bowl of Frosted Flakes, so nobody needs to call CPS. And I’m in Texas, so it looks like it’s a cultural thing.
When I eat a real breakfast, which to me consists of most of the things in seosamh’s example, I drink either juice (apple or orange) or Coke with it. Often Cherry Coke here at school, for reasons I don’t understand. I try not to drink caffeinated things after noon. They affect me strongly. I have seen many people drink Coke or other sodas with their breakfasts here in Louisiana. It’s quite common in my experience eating in the university cafeteria that some people get three glasses with their breakfast–one for milk, one for juice, and one for soda.
To add a little confusion to the mix, there is a subset of Southerners which call all sodas Coke/Coca-Cola/Co-cola. As in, “What kinda Coke you want?” “Oh, Ahl have a Mella Yella.”
I’m in New England, but grew up in the Pacific Northwest (if that matters at all) and have coke for breakfast daily. I don’t care for most hot beverages and coke provides that caffeine boost I need to get me through the day. Tastes good too.
I think my drinking of Coke in the morning started at Waffle House at eleven years of age when realizing that Coke was not only cheaper per glass, but free refills were available. Orange juice came in stingy 5 oz. glasses that weren’t refilled. Combine this with the seed that was planted a year earlier by a friend’s mother who admitted to drinking soda in the morning, and a habit was born!
I’m currently on the wagon, but when I was a caffeine addict I had coke for breakfast. My mom also has Coke for breakfast. My maternal grandmother thinks we’re both freaks, and tries to convince us to have eggs, bacon, toast, and OJ when we visit. The thought of a heavy meal like that for b’fast makes me nauseous.
Unlike my mom, I like coffee. But its just too much hassle to deal with in the morning. It takes seconds to grab a coke from the fridge. Making coffee, pouring it into a travel-safe cup, and waiting for it to cool enough to drink would take precious minutes from my beauty sleep.
