No, Spam is however. It kinda tastes- right. 
This is a poisoned dagger straight to my millennial heart! You’re missing the single best part of modern Western civilization.
Well, remember i was a line cook once upon a time. In the morning the wife and I just want to eat- so it is either cereal or I cook bacon and eggs or steak and eggs, etc. Those are easy and we have the stuff on hand.
Now take a good cheeseburger at say Black Bear Diner- you have to have tomato, a fryer for the fries, etc etc.
When we go out it is in the later afternoon to run by the bookstore or something.
Mind you my buddy and I go to the beach once or twice a week, then eat lunch out.
My favorite things from Wisconsin are Kringle pastries and beer & cheddar soup. Venison sausage is good too.
I just discovered Kringle pastries this year. Pretty good!
Yeah, that’s fair enough, especially if you can make a breakfast as good as the restaurants anyway (I cannot).
But this…! Nobody ever said breakfast has to be a morning thing 
Brunch all day, baby.
That I can do. Simple stuff cooked well, and my eggs come out RIGHT for me and the wife (she likes them over hard I like them sunny side up)- with sourdough toast, 'nach.
My buddy does sometimes order breakfast for lunch.
I don’t know, it seems like the craft beer aisle of my local Total Wine is still dominated by IPAs. The same at BevMo. Much less selection if you want some other style.
But I think beer in general might be declining in popularity. Yes, I have heard younger generations don’t drink as much. But also people who do drink are switching from beer to drinks like hard seltzers, which are perceived as healthier. Hmmm, has hard seltzer been mentioned in this thread yet?
Yeah, good point. I only discovered them in the last few years (see Lone Water Ranch Water upthread), and since they’ve replaced 90% of my beer drinking… I love Clarity and Caldera seltzers too. So much better than White Claw.
OK, now I’m definitely pretentious.
The number of edible foods marketed as a “Superfood” surely fit this thread, right?
Goji berries, chia seeds, hemp seeds, and a helluva a lot more foodstuffs have been marketed as a “superfood” here in the US.
How about pickles and pickle-flavored this, that and everything? I lived in Japan from 2009 to 2024 and other than occasionally seeing deep-fried pickles, I rarely ran across anything pickle-related except for actual pickles. Since I returned to the US after my 15 year absence, it’s picklemania (including the unrelated pickleball!)
That seems like it goes with the recent trend for “ancient grains”. There’s a reason we stopped eating all of those as soon as we could grow something better…
Deep-fried pickles are another recent trend. Some say that it began in Arkansas. Others note that it seem to be similar to the Scottish habit of deep-fried everything, including candy bars.
I wanted to try them when I visited Duluth, MN in 2008, but the brewpub I went to was sold out. I never saw them in Japan, but if I had, I likely would have ordered them.
I’m lucky if I have one sit down restaurant breakfast a year. Lunch, dinner? At least a couple times monthly but breakfast? Nah.
Folks be different. I eat about 29 sit down restaurant breakfasts per month.
How recent is recent? I swear I’ve seen them fifteen years ago at least. At least deep fried pickle chips. Pickles as a pizza topping feels even more recent, but I saw that first in the mid-10s. Pickle as a general flavoring does seem to be trending the last year or two or three
As recent as most of the posts on this thread, which isn’t very recent.
Deep fried pickles? Common appetizer fare when I was an undergrad. 1977-1981.
Yeah there’s a lot of old stuff, and it’s also so regional. A flavor I’ve seen pop up a lot lately, or at least seems to me, is blackberry.