# Do you eat traditional breakfast food? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088 "2011-01-10T13:37:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/21 "2011-01-10T22:41:28Z")
I don’t eat breakfast during the week, but on the weekend it’s full blown breakfast mania. I’ll make the full powered breakfast at least once a weekend with eggs (over easy) hashed browns, sausage, bacon, pancackes, maybe mix it up with some biscuits and gravy or even get fancy and make Eggs Benedict. I not only love breakfast foods but I have killer home made versions of everything and people rave about my hangover breakfasts. If I’m out and have the chance I’ll take a shot at a full Irish breakfast at any time of the day, but I don’t eat the mushrooms because mushrooms are foul. But I will shovel beans and toast and puddings into my face as fast as I can while dipping all of it into egg yolk. Jesus, now I want that for dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/22 "2011-01-10T23:41:52Z")
Only very rarely out to brekkie, with the full on back and eggs on toast. On weekdays, Greek pot set yoghurt with raspberry and some shaved coconut and coffee. On weekends, same Greek youghurt, but since I’m at home, either passionfruit or banana. 350 cals. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/23 "2011-01-11T00:16:33Z")
I love me a good hearty breakfast full of cheese and meat, but I don`t usually have the appetite for it until at last an hour after I wake up. Now with my work routine I usually just eat a few pieces of bread and a banana. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/24 "2011-01-11T00:22:00Z")
Moved MPSIMS --\> Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/25 "2011-01-11T01:03:53Z")
I eat traditional breakfast food all the time - just not for breakfast. Cereal (particularly Rice Krispies, Corn Flakes, and Cheerios) is one of my favorite food groups. I eat it for lunch and dinner or for a snack. But, milk doesn’t like me much, especially not first thing in the morning. If I am going to eat breakfast, it’ll probably be a sandwich or leftovers (Cold PIZZA!!!) I get excited about going out for breakfast (food - not the actual meal) because I so rarely eat things like pancakes, waffles, eggs, bacon, etc. Going out for it means: 1. I get food I like. 2. I get food I hate to cook. 3. I don’t have to cook at all. 4. I don’t have to clean. ---
**Author:** ![heavyarms553](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/779978/32.png) [@heavyarms553](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heavyarms553)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/26 "2011-01-11T01:32:16Z")
My usual breakfast is a cup of tea, a hard boiled egg, and a bowl of cereal. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/27 "2011-01-11T01:36:07Z")
Yogurt and a cup of coffee. I buy seven cups of yogurt each week and those are my breakfasts. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/28 "2011-01-11T03:54:07Z")
Unless you count bagels as a traditional breakfast food, I almost never eat traditional breakfast food. Traditional American breakfast food is way too greasy and too many calories for me in the morning. I’m going to work and sitting on my ass, not working on a farm. If I’m traveling and the hotel has a breakfast buffet, I might visit it. Other than that, I avoid traditional breakfast food. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/29 "2011-01-11T04:02:23Z")
I don’t eat breakfast. I started out in life working in hotels and they’d give you one free meal a day, so I made darn well sure I ate a day’s worth of food at that one meal 🙂 I usually just have coffee. Maybe a yogurt or something small like that. I do love oatmeal though ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/30 "2011-01-11T04:04:01Z")
Quite often - I love a pancake breakfast, as I mentioned in the thread about chocolate milk, and I’m also often happy to grab toast (with peanut butter and some kind of fruit jelly,) oatmeal with brown sugar, or cold cereal and milk. All of which I think of as fairly ‘traditional.’ On the other hand, I also have my favorite non-traditional breakfasts, including leftovers, (like pasta and meat sauce,) pizza, (which might be edging into the semi-traditional category,) or twinkies. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/31 "2011-01-11T04:49:09Z")
Cold pizza and warm beer, the best day-off breakfast ever! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/32 "2011-01-11T10:42:20Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > For me it’s the effort. I love crepes and pancakes with fruit fillings and bacon but what a pain to cook and so many dishes. I much prefer cooking lunch and dinner to cooking breakfast. Concur. I also tend to go to a buffet where I can get breakfast dishes I can’t normally get, and occasionally go late enough that lunch is also available, and brunch is awesome. Oh, and I like McDonald’s breakfast, too, but I’m that weirdo around here who actually sometimes prefers fast food. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/33 "2011-01-11T12:54:02Z")
For almost 40 years I have had a cheese sandwich and a cup of tea for breakfast as the usual fare. Once in a great while, usually after being dragged out for breakfast in a restaurant, I’ll have “traditional breakfast food” for breakfast. Otherwise - I’m probably more likely to have cereal as a snack or light dinner than for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/34 "2011-01-11T13:04:50Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Oh, and I like McDonald’s breakfast, too, but I’m that weirdo around here who actually sometimes prefers fast food. Nonsense. In the course of human history there are a few stand out things that we’ve accomplished. Fire. The wheel. Cars. Airplanes. And the Bacon Egg and Cheese Biscuit. ---
**Author:** ![prettydorky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@prettydorky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/prettydorky)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/35 "2011-01-11T13:41:32Z")
I just mentioned this in another thread- I have to force myself to eat breakfast. I don’t mind breakfast foods at dinner time, and I’ll sometimes have dinner foods at breakfast time like curries or cold pasta on my days off. Definitely not burritos. I agree with the OP about eggs, the smell makes me feel sick in the mornings. I require a bread or grain. Lately it’s a banana or a smoothie with lots of berries and something whole-grainy or an english muffin with cheese. I love oatmeal but it takes forever. At the very least, I have tea. Milky earl grey with just a little sugar. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/36 "2011-01-11T15:51:07Z")
> [@ecseas](#): > > I can handle burritos, curries etc easily, but just the smell of a fried egg can make me sick. A burrito with egg (and other elements of burritohood) in it is one of my favorite breakfasts. > [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > On the very rare occasions I am away with my wife sans kids and able to devote my attention to it I will have the “full english”. > > To me that is, toast and coffee (obviously) sausage, fried eggs, bacon, fried bread, baked beans, black pudding. > Opinions vary as to the true make-up of the full English. > Some say fried tomato rather than beans. Some say scrambled rather than fried eggs and these are all perfectly reasonable alternatives. However, some omit the black pudding and it is for those that I reserve my full scorn. They are to be pitied and shunned. The least they can do is order it and give it to me. If we were in a restaurant, I’d give you the pudding, but I’m not going to cook the stuff myself. Ideally, I’ll have tomato _and_ beans. Irish-style farls not toast. Strong tea not coffee (though coffee with almost any other breakfast). ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/37 "2011-01-12T16:22:58Z")
I don’t like the traditional foods: eggs, bacon, sausage. What I do like are pastry-type or bread-based breakfast foods. Cinnamon rolls, waffles, pancakes, muffins, that sorta stuff. If I want something quick at home, I’ll do peanut butter on toast. Biscuits are a favorite, though I’m not a big gravy fan, so I just butter my biscuits-without-gravy. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/38 "2011-01-12T16:32:13Z")
I usually have cereal, tea, and two veggie sausages (microwaved). And I LOVE going out for breakfast. It is my favorite meal to eat out. Good breakfast food was one of the things I missed the most when I lived in Eastern Europe. So yes, I guess I like traditional breakfast foods. ---
**Author:** ![FrigidLizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@FrigidLizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrigidLizard)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/39 "2011-01-12T17:24:45Z")
Nearly every morning it’s two scrambled eggs with onion and bell pepper, a single piece of sausage or bacon, and a sprinkle of sharp cheddar all wrapped up in a red chile tortilla. Filling, portable, nutritious. Perfection.😃 ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088/40 "2011-01-12T17:42:22Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Oh, and I like McDonald’s breakfast, too, but I’m that weirdo around here who actually sometimes prefers fast food. Me, too. I don’t eat it that often (cost and calories both being reasons), but I do like McBreakfasts. Been meaning to give Burger King another shot since they’ve recently upgraded/expanded their breakfast menu, but haven’t yet. On work days I generally have a bowl of cereal and a glass of orange juice. I wake up hungry, but anything really heavy early makes me feel odd later. On weekends, when breakfast is usually a couple of hours later than it is during the week, I like eggs/bacon/pancakes/omelettes/whatever\*, but still only go that route perhaps once a month (either in or out). These days it’s usually another bowl of cereal because I’m watching what I eat. (Which is fine, because I like cereal.) - - The one big hole in my “breakfast food likes” is fried or poached eggs; I can barely gag them down (So, no Egg McMuffins for me!). Scrambled eggs, or eggs in an omelette, though, I really enjoy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-eat-traditional-breakfast-food/567088.md?page=3)