# Is there a full Canadian breakfast? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [December 25, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154 "2024-12-25T18:07:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/1 "2024-12-25T18:07:31Z")
We have full English breakfasts plus Irish, Scottish and Welsh breakfasts. The latter are just variations on the original (?) English version. I found out there is a full Australian breakfast also although it just seems to be the English version, no kangaroo sausage or anything. Do the Canadians have their own version? It would have to include pancakes and maple syrup. ---
**Author:** ![Beesnest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@Beesnest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beesnest)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/2 "2024-12-25T19:10:21Z")
Obviously needs to have “Canadian” bacon. j/k I love looking at the plates on the reddit fryup sub. Some of those plates look like they would serve 4 not 1. I would bet a breakfast poutine bowl would be a full breakfast. With a side of waffles with maple syrup &bacon. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/3 "2024-12-25T19:18:10Z")
> [@Beesnest](#): > > Obviously needs to have “Canadian” bacon. j/k - And ehggs. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/4 "2024-12-25T23:04:03Z")
We don’t have anything so formalized, and nowhere nearly so large. But pretty much every place that serves breakfasts will have a few standards: 1. Two eggs, home fries, choice of bacon or sausage, choice of bread; 2. Stack of pancakes, sometimes with bacon or sausage; 3. French Toast, again sometimes with bacon or sausage. It’s probably most traditional to get this from a hole-in-the-wall diner in a more working-class neighbourhood\*, but you can also get it in fancier places. For example, kind of local to me: [Eat the Strip | Cindy's Restaurant](https://eatthestrip.com/blog/cindys-restaurant) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/5 "2024-12-26T01:14:20Z")
Canadians don’t have a standard “full breakfast” which contains expected things. Truckers and good breakfast places will offer skillets - a big pan of meat and pertaters. Bacon, eggs, toast, fried pertaters and coffee is the most common “breakfast special”, sometimes with sausage, ham, pancakes, fruit and maple syrup at extra charge. Maybe cretons, beans and/or smoked meat in Quebec. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/6 "2024-12-26T01:42:10Z")
It is just like the average American US breakfast, only colder. At least they have maple syrup. ---
**Author:** ![Beesnest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@Beesnest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beesnest)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/7 "2024-12-26T02:53:23Z")
I have to ask the real Canadians that read this. What do you call the meat on an egg McMuffin? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/8 "2024-12-26T03:19:07Z")
IANC (I am not Canadian) but the [McDonalds menu](https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/product/egg-mcmuffin.html) calls it Canadian bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/9 "2024-12-26T03:36:00Z")
“Canadian bacon” is not a term often used here. There is ham, back bacon and peameal (unsmoked pork loin rolled in yellow cornmeal). I would call it ham. Some might call it back bacon, which I see more as the irregular shaped rashers served in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/10 "2024-12-26T03:56:58Z")
Does anyone know how to keep Canadian bacon from curling in the frying pan? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Take away it’s little broom. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/11 "2024-12-26T04:52:36Z")
That made me laugh. I don’t think I’d ever heard that one. ---
**Author:** ![ch51](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ch51/32/3111_2.png) [@ch51](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ch51)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/12 "2024-12-26T06:44:29Z")
Good joke! If the question is legitimate: The way to keep any bacon from shrivelling or curling while cooking is to dust it with flour. Of course, you’ll need the broom back. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/13 "2024-12-26T08:26:24Z")
There is no “full Canadian breakfast.” It’s the same as a “full American breakfast.” In other words, it’s eggs, sausage or bacon; and more eggs, sausage or bacon; and yet more eggs, sausage or bacon. Oh, and home fries. And would you like more eggs? As one who cannot eat eggs (well, not unless you want me to barf all over everything), it is extremely difficult to find a breakfast that I can eat. Everything is "two eggs, any style, and … " Thankfully, most diners and truck stops can do a BLT, which is my Canadian breakfast. A BLT and home fries, and possibly sausage on the side—breakfast of Canadian champions! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/14 "2024-12-26T13:51:21Z")
The real Canadian breakfast when I was a kid: learning French by reading the back of the cereal box. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/15 "2024-12-26T18:56:52Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > There is no “full Canadian breakfast.” It’s the same as a “full American breakfast.” In other words, it’s eggs, sausage or bacon; and more eggs, sausage or bacon; and yet more eggs, sausage or bacon. Oh, and home fries. And would you like more eggs? You forgot the toast. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/16 "2024-12-26T19:49:54Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > At least they have maple syrup **REAL MAPLE** Syrup. Not the fake _maple_ flavored high fructose corn syrup sold as “pancake syrup”. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/17 "2024-12-27T00:28:47Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Oh, and home fries. If you are south of the M-D line, it’s 2 eggs, sausage/ham/or bacon, grits or home fries, biscuit or toast. You answer. (My answer is “over medium, ham, grits (Do you have cheese grits? No? Okay, regular grits are fine), biscuit”.) Response: You want a side of pancakes with that, sugar? (if they offer french toast as an option, it’s a fancy diner or an IHOP). ETA: Unless you order “Granny’s Breakfast” or “Big Daddy’s Breakfast” in which case you get TWO meats and the pancakes are already included. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/18 "2024-12-27T02:37:28Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > If you are south of the M-D line, it’s 2 eggs, sausage/ham/or bacon, grits or home fries, biscuit or toast. What, no chicken-fried steak? ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/19 "2024-12-27T02:49:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > What, no chicken-fried steak? That’s lunch (or dinner), you heathen. The only primary protein in a true southern breakfast is an egg. I will admit to being an agnostic on the style of egg - unlike my grandmother who thought scrambled eggs were as bad as rock-and-roll in terms of their satanic influence and literally refused to make them. Poached egg requests would get a side-eye as they indicated a haughty air and asking for a soft-boiled egg would get you thrown out of the house. I would ask for over-medium and get over-easy and like it or I could eat somewhere else. She was a woman of strong principles and ran a strict Christian kitchen. If over-easy was good enough for Jesus, it was good enough for me. (Only slightly kidding on that last part. She had some…unorthodox…beliefs in what Jesus did and ate.) Chicken and waffles is, admittedly, a gray area. But is generally considered more brunch than breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154/20 "2024-12-27T02:52:04Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > That’s lunch (or dinner), you heathen. Every diner I’ve ever been to that has chicken-fried steak has it on the breakfast menu, with eggs, hashbrowns (ideally smothered in cheese and gravy), and toast or biscuits. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-full-canadian-breakfast/1012154.md?page=2)