# What's for breakfast? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192 "2018-03-07T17:24:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/61 "2018-03-20T16:57:43Z")
Country ham, fried eggs, hash browns, buttered toast with strawberry jam, chilled orange juice, hot black coffee, cold whole milk. I don’t have a big breakfast often, but this morning I was hungry! :o ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/62 "2018-03-20T17:00:17Z")
Yesterday, buttered toast with Marmite, hot tea with evaporated milk and golden sugar. ---
**Author:** ![Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/59ef9b/32.png) [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/63 "2018-03-21T20:54:43Z")
In a hurry, so a couple of Weetabix: 4 mouthful breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/64 "2018-03-21T21:34:45Z")
French toast and bacon. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/65 "2018-09-08T16:49:29Z")
Modified EBCB. Not the Full Monty, but close. Eggs, bacon, chips, beans, with grilled tomato and an English muffin. Eggs fried hard in a ring of onion, back bacon, proper English beans, decent chips, HP sauce and a screwdriver. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/66 "2018-09-08T16:59:47Z")
One scrambled egg, two strips of bacon from the Polish butcher (meaning: really good bacon), and most of a ripe juicy late-summer tomato, on toasted Italian bread with some mayo, salt, and pepper on the tomato side. Grapefruit juice (the bottled stuff that claims to be squeezed fresh and better damn well be because it costs seven bucks a quart) and a big mug of Yorkshire Gold tea with a little milk in it. For the Better Half, I made a soft-boiled egg, two strips of bacon, and a piece of whole grain Dave’s Killer Bread with a little cream cheese and Czech plum jam. She made her own horrible tea, and may have eaten some fruit behind my back. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/67 "2018-09-08T17:14:11Z")
Mrs. L.A. is on call today, and she’s just left to visit a (previously scheduled) patient; so no hashbrowns today. I think I’ll make a cheeseburger. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/68 "2018-09-08T19:40:37Z")
Scratch biscuits, homemade breakfast sausage, homemade jam, and eggs. I have to say that my biscuit skills are unmatched. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/69 "2018-09-08T21:57:51Z")
homemade medsludge - 12 oz whole milk, 4 oz greek yogurt, 2 tbsp oat flour, 1 tbsp ground flax seed, 2 packets carnation instant breakfast. Started with 8 mg zofran, segued to my normal meds then the sludge. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/70 "2018-09-08T23:34:12Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I have to say that my biscuit skills are unmatched. Mmmmm. I admit that’s my one temptation to a sweet breakfast…fresh biscuits with butter and blackberry preserves, with plenty of hot coffee. I wouldn’t say no to biscuits and sausage gravy, either. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/71 "2018-09-09T00:30:06Z")
Most mornings I have two slices of lightly buttered whole wheat toast and a cup of black coffee. We go out to breakfast every Sunday and tomorrow I will have a western omelette with sourdough toast. I love breakfast foods, but I am just two months out from a heart attack. I am working on eating much more healthy. Corned beef hash with some over very easy eggs and toast would be wonderful, as would biscuits and sausage gravy, but for the moment, I am watching my diet carefully ---
**Author:** ![GoodOldKJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GoodOldKJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOldKJ)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/72 "2018-09-10T07:53:20Z")
A ham lunchable ---
**Author:** ![Sloe\_Moe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sloe\_Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sloe_Moe)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/73 "2018-09-10T08:03:23Z")
A bowl of mixed fruit with a mound of cream cheese in the middle Eggs Sardau (two) on a bed of asparagus A 1-pound T-bone medium-rare Two pancakes topped with whipped cream, chocolate shavings and syrup Brewed Verona brand coffee And then —what do you know, it’s time for lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192/74 "2018-09-10T08:54:34Z")
Two small “Swedish toasts” (which are halfs of a small bun, so they’re rounded) with strawberry compote, a small chocolate mousse and a large glass of milk. I usually like my breakfasts on the salty side (fried eggs, omelette; trying to cut down on the meat lately), but apparently the French don’t believe in The Holy Fried Eggs Pan, all the pans in the place I’m renting and in the previous one are huge. I’m spending the weekend back home and shall bring back an appropriately-sized frying pan. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Reading this thread tells me I need to try harder at breakfast.(…) I never was a morning person, so a big breakfast is not my thing. I call what I do as a late brunch. The old English novels call it ‘elevenes’. So do that. Eating when you don’t need it is Bad, and different people have different hourly needs. Spanish has multiple words for elevenses: in the north we call it _almuerzo_ (which in the south means lunch\*), in Valencia we recently had an argument as to what to call it where some people were claiming it should be _desayuno_ (breakfast) because “half a cup of black coffee before leaving the house doesn’t count”; others disagreed, as they would actually have a solid breakfast before leaving the house. We eventually agreed that, in accordance with RCC rules about what does and does not break one’s fast, it was acceptable to refer to that meal as breakfast so long as all you’d had previously was black coffee or a glass of juice with no solids (milk does break fast). One of the atheistic coworkers was laughing super hard about how we’re so thoroughly Catholic even when not that we still let the RCC define what we call our meals. Those of us who did have solid breakfasts had to use _bocadillo_ (sandwhich, sub), _media mañana_ (half-morning) or _almuerzo_. The Assembled Workers Have Spoken! - Definitions of “north” and “south” don’t quite match “take the country’s map and put a ruler through the middle”; the North crawls down to cover the region of Valencia on the East, the South crawls up to cover most of Castille-La Mancha and of Madrid on the West. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-for-breakfast/810192.md?page=3)