# Diner breakfast! Whatcha having? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353 "2017-11-01T01:32:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [November 3, 2017, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/101 "2017-11-03T15:43:06Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Damn, I’d KILL for a Full English. Never seen a grilled tomato or mushroom caps offered for breakfast anywhere in America, though, let alone a nice white pudding or gammon. You are hereby invited to Casa Silenus, where every 3 months or so the wife whips up a killer EBCB. I’ll grill up the tomatoes and mushrooms, but you’ll have to forego the white/black pudding. I’ll compensate by offering a house Bloody Mary, which adheres to the old Texas adage: “Honey, if I can’t see through it, it ain’t doin’ me a lick of good.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/102 "2017-11-03T15:58:33Z")
I checked the menu for Ye Olde King’s Head in Santa Monica. It looks like the English breakfast no longer has black pudding. Not that I can go there anymore anyway, since I’m 1,200 miles away now. (FWIW, the last time I had breakfast there, I had curry.) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/103 "2017-11-03T16:31:31Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > OOOOOOOOOO nice. Hard for me to find chicken fried steak for breakfast in Brooklyn, though, or decent biscuits and gravy anytime. **Or scrapple, for that matter.** > > Only a few hours drive south to Philly to have scrapple for breakfast…I’ll have to consider that. You mean Gerry Mulligan was LYING to us all this time? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/104 "2017-11-03T18:55:58Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Then kyew. Yes, the lines can be long but the food’s worth it. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/105 "2017-11-03T19:14:21Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > You mean Gerry Mulligan was LYING to us all this time? “Scrapple from the Apple” was a Charlie Parker original, although Mulligan and nearly every other bop dude certainly recorded their own versions. If Bird knocked at my door tomorrow morning looking for a half-dozen scrambled eggs, a loaf of toast, scrapple, and a quart of gin, I would damn sure find some way to obtain scrapple. Probably do the same for Jeru, come to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/106 "2017-11-03T19:14:48Z")
Stack of pancakes (blueberry, if you got 'em), maybe some sausage links, and milk ---
**Author:** ![vix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a88e4f/32.png) [@vix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vix)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/107 "2017-11-04T01:02:44Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > HEY, BABY! Long time, no see! Hellllooooooo! I probably wander over the SDMB once a week or so, and post about once every six months. Hope you are well! ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/108 "2017-11-04T01:29:46Z")
Any food thread where Charlie Parker comes up twice is OK by me… ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/109 "2017-11-04T13:09:50Z")
On a road trip, my sister insisted on stopping at Waffle House. Not a fan. But dayum their loaded home fries are good. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/110 "2017-11-04T19:37:52Z")
Poached eggs, bacon and a nice, freshly made waffle. No space for a waffle iron, and it makes little sense to have an appliance like that in a home when you use it so infrequently, but boy is a fresh one nice to have once in a while. But that’s what the Golden Nugget on Lawrence is for. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/111 "2017-11-04T19:57:11Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > But dayum their loaded home fries are good. ♬ _Keep the home fries burning While my stomach’s churning…_ ♬ Nothing against home fries. Things like this just pop into my head. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/112 "2017-11-04T20:05:45Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Chicken-fried steak and eggs, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, OJ, coffee light and sweet. No OJ or coffee for me, ever. Unsweet iced tea. Otherwise, same for me, depending: The diner we ate at today doesn’t do biscuits at all, so sourdough toast. Our favorite place close enough for us to eat at is 70 miles away, so we go when we are taking to long trip to the big city. They do have biscuits and gravy. The only thing we add is green chilies. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/113 "2017-11-04T20:20:41Z")
SCRAPPLE! I haven’t had scrapple in decades. It’s not available out West that I have ever found, and I haven’t yet worked up the courage to buy some online. Any suggestions for we who are stranded far away from civilization? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/114 "2017-11-04T21:33:24Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > … I haven’t yet worked up the courage to buy some online. Any suggestions for we who are stranded far away from civilization? I have ordered sausage and cheese from Wisconsin online — Usinger’s and Widener’s respectively — consumed it with relish, and am still here to tell the tale. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/115 "2017-11-04T21:39:13Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > SCRAPPLE! I haven’t had scrapple in decades. It’s not available out West that I have ever found… We have \*laws \*against that sort of thing out here. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/116 "2017-11-04T21:51:38Z")
It depends upon what part of the country I’m in. First of all, I’m assuming we’re talking a **real** diner, not some fake excuse for one like a Denny’s. Second of all, I’m assuming we’re talking something a bit more expansive than a Waffle House. If it’s WH (which I love!), then it’s cheesy scrambled eggs, three strips of bacon, hash browns “scattered, smothered, and covered”, raisin toast and OJ. In the West, I usually loved to eat chicken-fried steak (as we called it out there), smothered in really good sawmill gravy, usually with scrambled eggs, sourdough toast (sourdough is my absolute favorite bread!) and something in the way of home fries or hash browns. In the Mid-West, I usually would see if the place had decent steak for a steak and eggs breakfast, though if GOOD corned beef hash was available, well, I’m all over that. Here in the South, it would be biscuits and gravy, with cheesy grits. But that had better be REAL sausage gravy, not some wimpy excuse that just runs all over the plate. And those biscuits had best be good-sized, made-from-scratch. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/117 "2017-11-04T22:08:58Z")
as I posted earlier crazy Otto’s fulfills my diner needs although the 2nd owner was a Asian guy who learned to cook in Alabama …apparently he went to college there and worked in various diners …his motto was "if you leave hungry its your fault " once you see the portions youll understand … people still refer to the guy who took over from him 10 years ago as the new guy ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/118 "2017-11-04T22:41:39Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > as I posted earlier crazy Otto’s fulfills my diner needs… > > once you see the portions youll understand … people still refer to the guy who took over from him 10 years ago as the new guy I missed that post. But yeah, Crazy Otto’s is the place to eat. Ham, eggs, hashbrowns, and biscuits and gravy. Back when I was a kid and Otto was alive, the ham would be half of a ham steak. You got three eggs. The hashbrowns were like 8 inches by 5 inches (at least). And then you got two biscuits with their excellent gravy. Later on they cut back to two eggs, and the ham was about ⅓ or ¼ of a ham steak. Seems the hashbrowns got smaller, too. And it was _still_ a lot of food! When Crazy Otto’s moved from the tracks, their new location was (still is?) on Ave. K and 20th St. W. – which was very close to our house on W. Ave. K-13. Didn’t like the location on Ave. I as much, as they served home fries instead of hashbrowns. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/119 "2017-11-05T00:23:36Z")
I can’t eat eggs due to a food intolerance, don’t like sausage gravy, and pancakes are something I make at home WAY better than any diner, so I usually get a biscuit or two with ham, bacon or sausage. I’d take a side of grits, thankyouverymuch, but won’t pay extra to get them. Coffee, of course. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353/120 "2017-11-05T14:30:02Z")
Ooh, excellent! Short stack of pancakes, bacon, hash browns, and a big glass of milk please! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diner-breakfast-whatcha-having/800353.md?page=7)