I’m currently in the US staying with my girlfriend (we’re in a long-distance relationship) and her family. Been here for a month, have 2 more to go. Where I’m from (Romania) “breakfast foods” are not a thing. Breakfast is a full, proper meal just like lunch and dinner. Since being here, I haven’t been able to get accustomed to the concept of “breakfast foods”. Cereal, pancakes, waffles, bacon, eggs, toast, sandwiches, etc. These are like side dishes or snacks to me. I just don’t feel sated. Gave up on that. Now I’m back to eating what I normally do for breakfast: steak, pasta, rice, soup, stew, chicken, fish/seafood, etc.
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All you have to do in the US is put an egg on anything and it becomes a breakfast food. Steak? Steak and Eggs. Cheeseburger? Good Morning Burger. Whisky? No egg necessary for that one, but still.
One bourbon over-easy, please
You look hungry. Make it a double?
Just leave the bottle on the counter
Just as the good Lord intended
I love this. I’ve started using the phrase “as God intended” as God intended (objectively wrong) recently and it brings a smile to my face every time I find a chance to do so.
“That man is doing his job as God intended” while the fucker is ignoring his entire team yelling at him to stop
“I see someone someone read the CIA’s sabotage manual”
Oh that’s a good one
As an older American from the deep south, it’s just a holdover from cheap high calorie/high carb foods to start the day back when America was mostly agrarian.
Then when the 50s rolled around it got combined with nutrition concepts of a “balanced breakfast” by cereal marketing firms and romanticized to sell even cheaper products to children/parents; sugared cereal.
For me, breakfast is bacon, eggs and biscuits or toast. And maybe grits if I’m feeling like it. I like hash browns but I don’t like making them.
It’s just leftover marketing. Eat what makes you happy.
american here. we definitely have 3 distinct categories of food that are “proper” for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. there is some overlap, but its culturally obvious which foods are for which meals (it doesnt seem weird to me, but i can see how that is weird to everyone else).
my wife doesnt like breakfast foods and eats things like instant ramen and a coke for breakfast - this is considered very strange here. i still think its weird, and we have been together for 18 years, heh.
edit: oh, lol… i didnt answer the question. breakfast is my favorite meal. biscuits & gravy and breakfast burritos are my favorites <3
Second breakfast burritos. A good one is definitely filling, tasty, and has all types of stuff (veggies, protein, carbs, dairy) in it.
I wouldn’t be able to find the time to prepare so many meals. In Germany we usually only have a proper meal for lunch. Bread (often with a sweet spread like marmelade) or cereals for breakfast and bread with something savoury for dinner. The German word for dinner is literally “evening bread”.
Of course this can vary. I think it is more and more common for families to have the proper meal in the evening when everyone is together. And of course with guests or going out with friends you’d make something special or go to a restaurant.
These are like side dishes or snacks to me. I just don’t feel sated.
Funny, I’m the opposite - I get stuffed from a breakfast of bacon, eggs, and toast/biscuit/hashbrowns, whereas I don’t tend to eat nearly as much at other meals.
I also love breakfast foods. Eggs are life.
I travel a bunch and have lived abroad and I always consistently only ever miss breakfast restaurants/diners and breakfast foods.
I oppose breakfast foods for a different reason. Pancakes for dinner, and damn the haters!
Ever had Ethiopian food?
A lot of it’s served on a pancake-like bread called injera. Tastes a bit like sourdough bread, but with that nice gummy/spongy pancake texture. Tear a chunk off, use it to grab a handful of some delicious curry/stew-like food, and go to town on it.
Ethiopian restaurants can be few and far between, but definitely worth a search to see if there are any near you.
as someone who has never eaten ethiopian food, you made me want to eat ethiopian food <3
this sounds great : D
I’m definitely a fan! It’s pretty unique… if you’ve had Indian food, that’s probably the most comparable - tasty curry on naan bread. But at the same time, not really.
If you do have one near you, see if they have a sampler type platter with like a large-pizza-sized circle of injera with a single scoop of multiple types of curries in little piles across the top.
You’ll usually get little rolls of extra injera cuz the stuff on the main plate will disappear quick.
I’ve only tried the tip of the iceberg with Ethiopian food, but pretty much everything I’ve tried so far has been great - easy favorite is the lentil curry.
In my family growing up, pancakes for dinner was a common enough thing, but my father constantly insisted that if you’re having them for lunch or dinner they’re called flapjacks instead and only pancakes when made for breakfast. And every time we had them I’d mess with him by pretending to forget and asking him if he was making pancakes that night.
you dadded your dad. i hope he realizes he got dadded, hehehe.
i can remember my dad calling our PC “the nintendo” then i was growing up, and that irked me every time, heheheheh.
Yeah, I feel like where in from we just eat whatever whenever, the concept of “oh you can’t have that, it’s a breakfast food” or any other meal food… just seems dumb x3
Am Asian American, I think Asians are similar. What is Asian breakfast food anyway lol Maybe congee?🤔 My parents were immigrants, we never grew up with the concept of certain foods being designated for breakfast. I’d occasionally have cereal or eggs, but that’s a learned custom
As an aside, eating sweets for breakfast is weird to me. I mean I’ll eat it if it’s there, but it doesn’t feel right xD
Interestingly cereal for me growing up was mostly a “lunch food” cause I couldn’t be bothered cooking after walking from school x3
Why do you multiply the last word of your comments by three?
x3 is an emoticon, its like xD but more furry as the 3 is like a cat’s mouth shape kinda. Sorta like the difference between :) and :3
Do I? It looks fine on my end, so if that’s happening I have no real clue as to why
I couldn’t be bothered cooking after walking from school x3
Oh you mean the “x3”? That’s just xD but more furry :3
I have no concept of breakfast foods. Breakfast refers to any food that I have in the morning, which includes leftover Chinese takeout! I typically only eat cereal late at night, so cereal is always either a snack or a second dinner.
Yo, same!
- Breakfast = leftovers, something hearty
- cereal and milk = dessert any time of day
Don’t leave famous anti-onanist Kellog out. He promoted the idea of high carb breakfasts to dull the sexual appetite. Contrast to the filthy-minded English, eating titillating substances like sausages and eggs.
Anyhow, there’s “dessert for breakfast” foods and there’s “breakfast” foods and it sounds like your girlfriend is a bit more towards the dessert side of the spectrum. Nothing wrong with a fry-up. I used to be a big dessert for breakfast guy but I realized that it sent me into a sugar rush/crash and was very bad for my mood and productivity.
Personally, I just don’t bother with it. Started off as intermittent fasting but now that I’ve seen there’s not a ton of evidence to support the theory, I just don’t because convenience.
I start every day with oysters and champagne just to make that sadsack spin in his grave. Well, that and to awaken the sexual appetite.
Breakfast is coffee and toast.
/Swede
My Italian friend assures me it’s coffee and a cigarette.
If pancakes aren’t saiting you, then you need to eat more of them.
But seriously, it’s just a case of what you’re used to.
In my experience, bacon and pancakes take a fair bit of time to make, but not a great deal of effort or attention. They are perfect for a lazy Saturday morning, and I can talk and socialize with the cook while they are being prepared, or as the cook while I prepare them. Compare to dinner which is either a whole production that keeps me in the kitchen and requires my attention, or tossing something frozen in the oven for an hour.
My opinion: I need to do some ‘breakfast research’, in Romania, you know, for SCIENCE.
Don’t believe in (breakfast|lunch|dinner) trichotomy , I just eat whatever and at any time of day
Lets go pancakes at 8pm
I often make things like pancakes, or fried eggs with bacon for supper/dinner. My ex wife would look at me like I was crazy.
But I just asked her, what makes a breakfast food a “breakfast” food other than social convention? Eat whatever you want whenever you want. It’s quite literally in the who cares category of let people live their lives.
