# no vegetables for breakfast-- why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 17, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203 "2017-06-17T14:53:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/41 "2017-06-17T21:33:40Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Dope pedant]Tomato is a fruit. Specifically, a berry.[/Dope pedant] > > 😃 Not for tax purposes…[Wikipedia on Nix v. Hedden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden) ---
**Author:** ![Waxwinged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@Waxwinged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waxwinged)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/42 "2017-06-17T21:43:15Z")
We’re probably outliers/weirdos, but have been having salad for breakfast for over 5 years, in this household… ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/43 "2017-06-17T21:52:02Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > So tomatoes are not a vegetable. Neither are cucumbers. Nor bell peppers, squashes, and green beans. Correct. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/44 "2017-06-17T21:57:10Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > One favorite dish is to take a small bowl of rice and crack an egg into it, letting the heat of the rice cook the egg. Do the Japanese do that for lunch as well? I thought I’d seen what looked like fried egg over rice for lunch in some Studio Ghibli movies. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/45 "2017-06-17T22:17:50Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > And eat them. Brussels Sprouts. Roasted with bacon and maple syrup. I have multiple friends and family who do that. I generally decline since BS are Satan’s hemorrhoids. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/46 "2017-06-17T22:24:54Z")
When we ate breakfast at the little short order place one flight up in out hotel in Moscow, which was a lot like getting a lunch in a school cafeteria, except you could get things a la carte, one choice for breakfast was always green peas. They were canned. You could get what looked like hotdogs, and no doubt were a bit less than kosher, and we never got them, bread, tea, and sometimes something that was kind of like the filling in cheesecake Canned peas for breakfast can grow on you. Usually we ate stuff we bought at the US Embassy, which meant boxed cereal, Finnish milk (which is the best milk ever), and canned citrus fruit, but we ran out sometimes, and so it was peas, cheesecake filling (called seerok), bread, and tea. When we have Chinese food carry-out, we get tofu with mixed vegetables, and I eat the leftovers for breakfast all the time. I think historically, people ate what was already in the house for breakfast, plus eggs and milk, because gathering eggs and milking the cows were the first two chores of the morning, before you ate, when you put things on to warm. Then after you ate, you started the bread, and then went out and picked some fruits and vegetables. It took a long time to cook some vegetables, when you were cooking over an open fire, so you needed to get them, cleaned peeled and started for supper. You had fresh fruit and greens at lunch, and maybe pies for supper. For breakfast, you ate the leftover bread from the previous day, and you toasted or fried it, because fresh bread went stale fast, and it was the best way to make it palatable. I lived on my family in Slovakia’s subsistence farm in the 1980s for three weeks, and granted, it wasn’t just like the middle ages, but a lot of the food patterns were probably similar. They ate what they grew, and raised, for the most part. The only thing they bought was milk, because the it wasn’t a big enough farm for them to have a cow or goats, but the milk was delivered every morning, and they pretty much went through it in a day. They had a refrigerator, but didn’t refrigerate the milk. They refrigerated cheese, another thing they bought, and leftover meat. My uncle had had to learn to shect the chickens. This was very shortly before I became a vegetarian. My cousins had never had boxed cereal or peanut butter. When we were coming, they went way out of their way to get Pepsi for us, which I didn’t have the heart to tell them I hated, they were so proud they had gotten it for them Americans. We brought them gum, including bubble gum, and they were amazed. I taught my cousins to blow bubbles, and I guess they were rock stars at school for having this amazing skill. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/47 "2017-06-17T22:37:42Z")
> [@](#): > > My uncle had had to learn to shect the chickens. That’s… Kosher butchering? Maybe? ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/48 "2017-06-17T22:41:06Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > That’s… Kosher butchering? Maybe? Yeah. ---
**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:** [June 17, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/49 "2017-06-17T23:32:23Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > My uncle had had to learn to shect the chickens. This was very shortly before I became a vegetarian. Cause and effect? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/50 "2017-06-17T23:40:44Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > > [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > > > Because you can’t pour maple syrup on vegetables. > > > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > > > Challenge accepted. > > And eat them. Latkes for breakfast, coming up. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/51 "2017-06-17T23:43:36Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Dope pedant]Tomato is a fruit. Specifically, a berry.[/Dope pedant] > > 😃 To out-pedant you, a tomato is contextually a vegetable when used as a food, and not a fruit or a berry, which are defined differently in a nutritional and culinary context. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/52 "2017-06-18T00:07:26Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I am pretty sure that the grand majority of people on the planet have never met a Jewish person. I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of English speakers haven’t, either. I dunno. There were Jewish people even out in the middle of nowhere in West Texas when I was growing up, and even Bangkok has at least a Jewish temple or two. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Latkes for breakfast, coming up. 😉 At 20 paces! ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/53 "2017-06-18T00:17:18Z")
You could made a veggie omelette for breakfast . I cook onion and red pepper with my potatoes for breakfast and put salsa in an omellette or is it omelets ?? ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/54 "2017-06-18T00:32:39Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Because you can’t pour maple syrup on vegetables. Insert meme of man calling the police here. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/55 "2017-06-18T03:57:01Z")
I can’t eat eggs because of a food intolerance ( which some people call an allergy, but same same, the upshot is I can’t eat eggs) so I am much more open to eating other foods for breakfast. Cold leftover pizza is good, almost any dinner leftovers are great, especially fried rice (no egg, lol) and roast beef with gravy. A green tossed salad doesn’t sound that good, but a chicken sandwich, leftover roasted cauliflower, Brussel sprouts or tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich is perfectly fine with me. Mostly, though I have a banana and yogurt. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/56 "2017-06-18T05:54:43Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > My Wifes ‘go to’ breakfast at a restaurant is always some sort of ‘vegi scramble’ that is on the menu. She often asks for extra broccoli. > > It’s a common choice on the menu in Colorado. > > I’m never that good, and often ask about the corned beef hash (when available). I remember the best breakfast of my life was in the Angel’s Rest cafe near Breckenridge, Colorado. An omelet with green and red peppers, and potatoes parboiled and then fried to crispy tender perfection. That is the standard by which all other breakfasts are judged. That was back in 1981. Looks like it isn’t there anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/57 "2017-06-18T06:35:19Z")
No self-respecting bacon & egg roll is complete without onions on it, and last time I checked onions were a vegetable. It’s not uncommon to find spinach and/or capsicum as a breakfast component at cafes, either. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/58 "2017-06-18T06:44:05Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > I am pretty sure that the grand majority of people on the planet have never met a Jewish person. I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority of English speakers haven’t, either. You would be wrong. Especially amongst English speakers. ---
**Author:** ![justpassingthrough](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@justpassingthrough](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justpassingthrough)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/59 "2017-06-18T07:23:18Z")
A breakfast salad of spinach, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and almonds with a raspberry vinaigrette is very nice. Dried cranberries optional. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/60 "2017-06-18T07:57:06Z")
Soup for breakfast is almost unheard of in the U.S., but from what I’ve seen, it’s common in Asian cultures. The soup contains vegetables. Americans don’t eat fish for breakfast, but it’s common elsewhere. In general, the U.S.A. does not want lean and green for breakfast. I’d say that the favorite breakfast is leftover pizza. If it’s in the fridge, it’s breakfast. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203.md?page=4)