# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/61 "2017-06-18T09:45:44Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Because you can’t pour maple syrup on vegetables. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Challenge accepted. > [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > And eat them. Roast parsnips are quite awesome with maple syrup (I’ve not eaten them for breakfast yet though) ---
**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, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/62 "2017-06-18T10:42:27Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > You would be wrong. Especially amongst English speakers. I don’t know. I’ve certainly met Jewish people but it would probably be less than two dozen in my life that I’m aware of. There really aren’t many at all in either New Zealand or Queensland; the majority of Jews I’ve met have been in the US or UK. I can imagine it would be entirely plausible for most people from China or India or Africa to never meet a Jewish person. ---
**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, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/63 "2017-06-18T18:42:23Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > I don’t know. I’ve certainly met Jewish people but it would probably be less than two dozen in my life that I’m aware of. There really aren’t many at all in either New Zealand or Queensland; the majority of Jews I’ve met have been in the US or UK. > > I can imagine it would be entirely plausible for most people from China or India or Africa to never meet a Jewish person. That you are aware of. There is a Jewish community in Shanghai. There are African Jews. There are millions in Latin America that carry Jewish genes but don’t know it because of their Spanish heritage. [Converso - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converso) The same for Europe…almost anyone can be some small percentage Jewish. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/64 "2017-06-18T18:56:08Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > You would be wrong. Especially amongst English speakers. By “met”, I meant “has held communications with” not “has walked past on the street”. India and the Philippines have large English speaking populations, and probably few Jewish people. I don’t know how popular Jewish migration was to Australia and New Zealand, but I suspect that it is not high. The Jewish population in several states is less than 0.2% of the population of several American states. North Dakota is less than a tenth of a percentage point. If we assume that most of the Jews in those states are principally in urban areas, that leaves a lot of ground uncovered. > **[Jewish Population in the United States by State](https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-population-in-the-united-states-by-state)** > > Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism. Let’s remember, after all, that 40% of Americans believe the Earth is ~10,000 years old and that humans coexisted with dinosaurs. Expecting them to be aware of Jewish dietary laws is asking a bit much. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/65 "2017-06-18T18:57:32Z")
Eggs with diced tomatoes and onions and green peppers Protein Fruit and Veggy 😃 Grits, which is corn, is a vegetable, and considered a grain, and considered a fruit, so its a win win win? Asparagus is good at breakfast, fry in a bit of butter. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/66 "2017-06-18T19:12:58Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > India and the Philippines have large English speaking populations, and probably few Jewish people. I don’t know how popular Jewish migration was to Australia and New Zealand, but I suspect that it is not high. Though there may no be many Jewish migrants there, both Australia and New Zealand are popular destinations with Israeli tourists, I certainly met a lot in both countries. The veggie breakfast in the cafe I work in includes bell peppers, tomatoes and mushrooms. Eggs Florentine is a traditional breakfast food that includes spinach, which _everyone_ agrees is a vegetable. They may not be the main feature, but vegetables at is hardly an unheard of phenomenon even in the West. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/67 "2017-06-18T19:24:32Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > 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. This isn’t a very common thing, I grew up in Japan and never had it. There is a [Japanese wikipedia page](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9B%AE%E7%8E%89%E7%84%BC%E3%81%8D%E4%B8%BC) about it, but the earliest reference is a 1987 cookbook. It also says a rice bowl with fried eggs and SPAM was a common late-night meal for railway crew in Japan, and also common in Hong Kong. Raw egg on rice, on the other hand, is ubiquitous in Japan. Usually you break the egg into a separate bowl, stir it with some soy sauce and then pour it onto rice. ---
**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/68 "2017-06-18T19:43:33Z")
My typical breakfast is one or two bananas. Bananas are not vegetables, but it’s out of the cereal/egg/meat orbit. ---
**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 18, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/69 "2017-06-18T20:00:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Filbert** : > > Eggs Florentine is a traditional breakfast food that includes spinach, which everyone agrees is a vegetable. Actually, spinach isn’t a vegetable. It’s technically a leaf. ---
**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/70 "2017-06-18T20:03:42Z")
So my mushroom, spinach, and bell pepper omelette is vegetable-free! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/71 "2017-06-18T20:22:14Z")
Raw egg on hot rice is in some Korean dishes, including bibimbap. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/72 "2017-06-18T20:31:31Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > 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. Depending on the reason, you might try Duck eggs? A lot of people that can not eat chicken eggs can eat duck eggs, i have no idea why. I vote for the roast beef and gravy with brussel sprouts and roasted cauliflower, with a baked banana with butter and brown sugar for after 😃 ---
**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 18, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/73 "2017-06-18T20:38:48Z")
All this talk of Jews reminds me that my people also gave the bagel to mankind. And when I eat a bagel for breakfast? Well, there’s some onion action going on. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/74 "2017-06-18T20:47:39Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > All this talk of Jews reminds me that my people also gave the bagel to mankind. > > And when I eat a bagel for breakfast? Well, there’s some onion action going on. Yes and for that you must be punished. You should have made the bagel FOR them, NOT told them how to kind of sort of make a thing that semi resembles a bagel and requires a toaster to even be edible. And hey! what? no Lox? :smack: ---
**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, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/75 "2017-06-18T20:57:18Z")
> [@Weisshund](#): > > And hey! what? no Lox? :smack: Why would one put rocket fuel components on a bagel? ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/76 "2017-06-18T21:03:44Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > Why would one put rocket fuel components on a bagel? Lox, not L.OX Although they may well douse the ones at the store in liquid oxygen nasty frozen hockey pucks they are. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/77 "2017-06-18T21:12:02Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > 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. Congee. I always think of it as “juk”, which is what it’s called as a dim sum dish. It’s rice porridge. Pretty bland unless you put something in/on it. But warms your belly on a cold winter morning! ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/78 "2017-06-19T00:33:59Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Because you can’t pour maple syrup on vegetables. But, as read in “To kill a mockingbird”, you can pour corn syrup on vegetables. ---
**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 19, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/79 "2017-06-19T01:05:14Z")
Wasn’t that molasses? And it’s not the Cunninghams’ fault that they lived in Alabama instead of Vermont, or I’m sure they would have used maple syrup. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203/80 "2017-06-19T02:22:51Z")
Congee is the best breakfast. I’ve sometimes chosen my airline on the basis of congee served for breakfast. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-vegetables-for-breakfast-why/789203.md?page=5)