OK, cold leftover pizza is a very definition of breakfast. But why are there no breakfast pizzas in the way that there are breakfast burritos and breakfast sandwiches?
EDIT: Mrs. L.A. said, ‘Don’t even say that! Someone will make it!’
.
I agree with your wife. And sometimes a person will already have regular pizza at home.
I doubt that breakfast pizza would travel well too. A burrito is easier to eat on the go.
A google search for “frozen breakfast pizza” got several hits, so it’s not a completely unknown thing. They’ve got fruit or bacon/eggs or whatever on them.
Seems kinda dumb, though. A “breakfast pizza” is just last night’s pizza straight from the fridge. No need for a distinction.
A local restaurant does an “American breakfast” in the morning - there’s a breakfast pizza that they serve.
Of course there is breakfast pizza! Now Imma haveta Google this and everything. But I can guarantee I have ordered and eaten breakfast pizza.
Just save us all from anything like those McD serving breakfast all day commercials when Domino’s starts doing it.
From my perspective, “breakfast pizza” either means:
- bread with cheese, eggs and meat on it. Which is just an open-faced breakfast sandwich or an unfolded breakfast burrito, isn’t it? Except harder to eat in the car.
- All of the above with tomato sauce. Which would make it clearly a breakfast pizza… but also something that I’d never consider ordering for breakfast.
So there you go: it’s either not a pizza or not breakfast.
Red Baron or one of the other pizza biggies does have one.
I can see how you might not have heard of it; only 30 million hits.
It’s not uncommon. Here’s one example I like.
Any pizza from the previous night fresh out of the refrigerator is a breakfast pizza. And room-temperature Diet Coke is a breakfast beverage.
I’ve seen frozen breakfast pizza thingies at the grocery store.
I’m always amused at the indignancy of people’s reactions to foods they would normally eat together (in this case, bread, eggs, bacon, tomatoes and cheese) but combined in a slightly different fashion and called something else and familiar.
I should have made mention of that in the OP. Oh, wait…
Whether people make their own breakfast pizzas at home (Ethilrist’s link), or a one-off Chinese restaurant makes one, I’ve never seen them advertised on TV. This morning, not feeling up to cooking and watching yet another pizza commercial on TV, I thought, ‘Why isn’t there breakfast pizza? I’d sure like to just call in an order and have it delivered.’
Because after staying open until midnight or later, nobody want to be back in the store by 5am to make a breakfast pizza for the one clown in town who wants one.
Breakfast means burritos, dude! You know that!
No delivery on those, either. And the corner gas station doesn’t do breakfast on weekends.
Yeah, I know, but… Cold pepperoni and mushroom isn’t improved on by adding eggs and hash browns to it. Or with orange juice on the side.
I know of one hospital cafeteria that does this. They have a pizza oven & are open for breakfast. So they put scrambled egggs, bacon, etc. on a pizza.
Don’t see many pizza restaurants opening early to start serving breakfast, though. But here are five Houston eateries that had breakfast pizza in 2014…
It is Red Baron, and I have some in my freezer right now. There is a bacon variety and a sausage variety. It went away for a while, but came back, at last, and we buy at least one or two (they come in packs of two) every store visit to try to keep them on the shelves.
Very tasty. There is also a mail order method which I’ve never tried.
The grocery store up the street from me sells a breakfast pizza in the deli. It’s essentially cheese with sausage and/bacon. No tomato sauce.
The QuikTrip chain of convenience stores in the Midwest has breakfast pizza. Never had it.