# Do you ever eat bacon and eggs for dinner? **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/62 "2020-08-22T21:44:35Z")
Bacon and eggs for dinner was always my wish when my dad was out of town on business when I was a kid. It just seemed SO scandalous, breaking the rules like that! ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/63 "2020-08-22T22:07:29Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > When work ends at 11pm wherever we are and everything is closed but Dennys or the equivalent it’s breakfast every time for me. Diner dinners are often nasty; their breakfasts good & hearty. It does feel weird to eat eggs & bacon w/o coffee though. Then off to bed on a full but greasy tummy & back to work tomorrow early. At least it’ll keep you regular 😉 ! That’s why I got into the habit as a kid when we’d go to a Denny’s or something for dinner. Their burgers didn’t even beat fast food and they couldn’t even do chicken tenders (as an adult I learned that even a bar can get it right) so that’s when I decided to just stick to breakfast at night. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/64 "2020-08-23T00:12:24Z")
Well, yes. Though I consider omelets and crepes an anytime meal [and crepes can be sweet desserty or savory main course] The classic eggs/bacon/toast is a lovely light supper. ANd it is correct, may restaurants do great breakfasty stuff but their burgers/chicken things are lacking. I find a place that does great home fries, I am in heaven! ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/65 "2020-08-23T00:17:58Z")
One thing I learned during my years in the Navy is that if it’s good for one meal, it’s good for any meal. In the last few weeks we’ve had blueberry pancakes fo dinner twice. Ditto scrambled eggs with hash. (And my usual breakfast is a freshly nuked Jose Ole or El Monterey chimichanga.) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/66 "2020-08-23T12:58:11Z")
FWIW I laughed out loud. You can have my bacon if I can have your fried bread, OK? j ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/67 "2020-08-23T13:58:20Z")
I love breakfast foods, but I have them for lunch more often than either breakfast or supper. As others have pointed out, it’s too much food for breakfast. But in my household we all like different breakfast foods, and we usually all share the same meal for supper, so we don’t usually do breakfast foods then. But we usually each forage for lunch. A nice omelet is a lovely lunch. Or I might make myself soft-boiled eggs on toast. My husband often makes a batch of pancakes for his lunch and shares his excess. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/68 "2020-08-24T00:09:55Z")
mrAru worked third shift and an odd second shift where he was getting home at about 0300 for the past 2 years, and then the plague hit so we have kept the odd hours rather than change back and we like to have our big meal in the morning because I am sort of still on day shift as it were. He would come home, and we would start cooking supper, and play Lord of the Rings Online for about 3 or 4 hours, then he would go to bed and I would potter around doing whatever. My medications have me on a sort of surf around the clock with my sleeping, I can sleep in 3 or 4 hour chunks based on the timing of my clonidine [great sedative effect, I have to say. Just wish it would actually knock me out for a solid 8 hours of sleep, but perhaps my segmented sleep issue has turned into a surf around the clock deal insted of it actually sedating me?] My pancreas would really prefer me to have 6 minimeals, and maybe a light snack or two instead of a huge pancake breakfast, but mrAru makes an amazing poached eggs on texas toast I can’t resist. We keep a jar of strained bacon dripping in the fridge that he uses, amazing stuff. His favorite breakfast is crepes benedict [scrambled eggs and bacon crumbles inside crepes, topped with hollandaise sauce and bacon crumbes - I have been making it for most of my life, I never manageed to keep english muffins or canadian bacon around, so I made do with what I did normally keep on hand.] ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/69 "2020-08-24T01:53:32Z")
We’re going to have bacon, eggs and french toast for dinner tonight. We got up late, spent normal lunch time Skyping with our daughter and grandson, and thus had a very late lunch. The chicken I was planning just sounds too heavy. Will do it tomorrow. ---
**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:** [August 24, 2020, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/70 "2020-08-24T05:27:19Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > We eat breakfast for dinner a few times a month. Eggs over easy with corned beef hash, home fries and toast One of my favorite dinners growing up was a #10 can of corned beef hash, spread out on a jelly roll sheet, with a dozen eggs cracked on top, then baked until the eggs were cooked. Another was creamed tuna fish with peas over waffles. I grew up with nine siblings. ---
**Author:** ![Mimi60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Mimi60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mimi60)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/71 "2020-08-25T05:28:05Z")
I love breakfast for dinner. My kids thought it was the coolest thing! ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/72 "2020-08-25T14:16:08Z")
Usually if it’s breakfast for dinner, I make hot chili pepper pancakes with ham or bacon. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/73 "2020-08-25T17:36:59Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > One of my favorite dinners growing up was a #10 can of corned beef hash, spread out on a jelly roll sheet, with a dozen eggs cracked on top, then baked until the eggs were cooked. Other than the amount, that acctually sounds good. Maybe on a base of texas toast. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/74 "2020-08-25T17:44:09Z")
Ten kids can eat a LOT of corned beef hash. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/75 "2020-08-25T18:26:29Z")
Your own baseball team _with_ a relief pitcher. Cool. When wife & I got married we jokingly sorta said “It’ll either be a baseball team or zero.” Given we were ~30, the former always seemed rather implausible. It turned out to be zero. Oh well, a horde woulda been fun. ---
**Author:** ![Oswald\_Bastable](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oswald_bastable/32/214_2.png) [@Oswald\_Bastable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oswald_Bastable)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/76 "2020-08-26T11:11:05Z")
In the UK, sausage, egg and chips, or ham/bacon, egg and chips are quite traditional working class evening meals. We will have a cooked breakfast for dinner probably once a month. Definitely more often than we’d have it at breakfast time. OB ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/77 "2020-08-26T11:51:02Z")
Once a month or so. Typically at one of those all day IHOP type places. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/78 "2020-08-26T13:35:15Z")
I haven’t since last night. [US, hash browns, eggs, pancakes] ---
**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:** [August 26, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/79 "2020-08-26T17:20:49Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Your own baseball team _with_ a relief pitcher. Cool. THANK YOU for saying “relief pitcher” instead of “designated hitter.” ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/80 "2020-08-26T17:46:57Z")
Eggs, bacon, toast last night for dinner. So good… 😄 ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612/81 "2020-08-26T19:02:56Z")
Chiming in again, just remembered another stupid reason I have breakfast for dinner - redoing chemo, and one thing I can manage to get down and keep down is pap - oatmeal, cream of wheat, cream of rice - bland, pureed and easy to swallow and more or less the same going up and down … though honestly, gingerale and fruit salad has the same property of same up/down. _sigh_ [nausea issues also make me know exactly how much sugar to add to 3 quarts of water to make 1800 calories] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-eat-bacon-and-eggs-for-dinner/918612.md?page=5)