# Do you ever eat bacon and eggs for dinner?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612 "2020-08-20T22:30:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/1 "2020-08-20T22:30:07Z")
Growing up, never really ate fried “breakfast” foods for dinner - eggs, bacon, sausage, fried bread, etc. I noticed I’ve done it a little more often recently. Maybe a comfort thing, though I am trying to eat more eggs. How often do you eat dinner bacon, eggs or pancakes?
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/2 "2020-08-20T22:33:37Z")
I did growing up.
Mom told me later in my adult life she did that because she was broke and could only afford to feed us breakfast.
Kind of destroyed my fond memory. lol
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### Author:  [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/3 "2020-08-20T22:40:43Z")
When I was a kid, my mom would make French Toast for dinner (with sausage usually). Or cheese omelettes with home fries. Not all the time, but maybe once a week. We kids actually looked forward to it.
My dad, on the other hand, refused to eat breakfast for dinner and was very vocal about that. Dinner was meat and potatoes, damn it! In fact, the first time it happened, he threw the plate full of food across the room!
Same thing happened when she once served him a TV dinner…
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/4 "2020-08-20T22:47:05Z")
Yeah, I had it today.
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/5 "2020-08-20T23:04:25Z")
“To eat well in England, you should eat breakfast three times a day,”
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/6 "2020-08-20T23:08:55Z")
We used to eat breakfast for dinner about once a month. A little less lately because my wife is working from home and we eat breakfast for breakfast a little more often.
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### Author:  [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/7 "2020-08-20T23:17:31Z")
I regularly make omelettes for dinner. And the other day I made biscuits and gravy. Why shouldn’t I? I don’t eat breakfast-breakfast, but I like breakfast foods (well, not pancakes).
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/8 "2020-08-20T23:37:59Z")
I’m also not a breakfast eater but I like breakfast food. So I often eat breakfast for dinner. When my kids were little, they used to love BFD: eggs, bacon, ham or sausage, hash browned potatoes, toasted english muffins, maple syrup.
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### Author:  [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/9 "2020-08-21T00:39:26Z")
We eat breakfast for dinner a few times a month. Eggs over easy with corned beef hash, home fries and toast
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### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/10 "2020-08-21T00:44:28Z")
Not in my childhood but as an adult Oh yeah it’s the easy answer to dinner. Roasted potatoes sometimes bacon and eggs anyway you like ‘em. Or less often pancakes and sausage.iycbi
sometimes I’d allow 🤪 cereal for the kids
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/11 "2020-08-21T01:14:25Z")
> [@TheCuse](#):
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> When I was a kid, my mom would make French Toast for dinner (with sausage usually). Or cheese omelettes with home fries. Not all the time, but maybe once a week. We kids actually looked forward to it.
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> My dad, on the other hand, refused to eat breakfast for dinner and was very vocal about that. Dinner was meat and potatoes, damn it! In fact, the first time it happened, he threw the plate full of food across the room!
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> Same thing happened when she once served him a TV dinner…
wow, dad sounds like a winner …the women in my family would of replied in kind except they’d of use da meat cleaver or the largest butcher knife they owned … (mom could throw a cleaver like a tomahawk… she won a few throwing contest …you didnt argue with her in the kitchen…)
I didn’t mind it until tweaker (aka meth head)culture took over when i owned a house with relatives …and thats all they wanted to fix because they never went to sleep
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### Author:  [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/12 "2020-08-21T01:24:26Z")
My husband loves breakfast for dinner, so yes, we have it a couple times a month. Actual breakfast is typically something much lighter.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/13 "2020-08-21T01:25:34Z")
Obligatory Ron Swanson scene:
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/14 "2020-08-21T01:25:37Z")
Yes, regularly.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/15 "2020-08-21T01:27:49Z")
Breakfast for dinner is great.
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/16 "2020-08-21T01:30:26Z")
I rarely do it, but I think it’s a swell idea.
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### Author:  [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/17 "2020-08-21T01:38:19Z")
Sure, most likely would be a [frozen sausage patty](https://www.aldi.us/en/products/frozen-foods/frozen-breakfast/detail/ps/p/breakfast-best-original-or-maple-pre-cooked-sausag/) tossed in a pan to heat. Meanwhile, chop some onion. When the onion chopping is done, lift up the sausage and put the onion into the little grease puddle left in the pan and then put the sausage on the onions, hot side up, to steam and cook a little with the onion. When the onions have a little color, push them and the sausage off to the side and crack an egg and cook it as you prefer. You’re left with something that works well on a burger bun, tortilla, straight up in a bowl, anything.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/18 "2020-08-21T01:59:40Z")
Quite often our breakfast for dinner is an excuse to eat biscuits and gravy. We usually don’t have the time or patience for that in the morning. The definition of biscuit had been expanded to include all sorts of bread products in the past but during this period of isolation we’ve gone back to biscuit basics.
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### Author:  [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/19 "2020-08-21T03:59:26Z")
We have breakfast for dinner several times a month. Breakfast foods are usually quick to prepare and are good for those times when you’re stuck for ideas on what to have for dinner.
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### Author:  [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2020, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/20 "2020-08-21T04:13:14Z")
Yes, all sorts of breakfast foods for dinner over the years, for all the reasons listed above. Fried eggs and bacon was the very first family dinner I made as a kid all on my own(under the watchful eye of Mom of course) when I had a real interest in the culinary arts
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