BS: What did you have for breakfast?

Subject: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Raptor
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 06:38 AM

Corn Pops!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:02 AM

Shame on me, just coffee but normally Cheerios.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:07 AM

Belvita breakfast biscuits.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Newport Boy
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:11 AM

Muesli with apricots & banana, 2 slices toast (1 with Marmite, 1 with marmalade, orange juice and coffee. I'm ready for work!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:21 AM

Porridge - made with just oatmeal and water and a little salt, nothing sweet. Eaten with plenty of cream - again, NOTHING sweet to ruin it.
I'm no puritan - I like sweet things that are supposed to be sweet, but porridge isn't one of them.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:22 AM

Banana/apple/about 20 grapes... every morning.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:27 AM

Porridge, thick, the way I like it. With muscavado sugar (just a little).
And tea - lots of it.

Paws

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:50 AM

Orange Juice , Sainsbury's Fruit Muesli (With extra fruit) and Coffee , with a couple of Quad Choc biscuits

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:53 AM

Beer

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 09:08 AM

What did you have for breakfast?         

the usual

all natural peanut butter on toast ... followed by a coffee (homemade latte) and a cigarette in the garage.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 09:30 AM

As always - porridge made with oats and skimmed milk, over a banana and a small handful of sultanas. Before I was diabetic there would have been a dessert-spoonful of Lyle's Golden Syrup in there too, but not nowadays, too much sugar.

And a large mug of tea - skimmed milk, no sugar.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 09:33 AM

Brown toast with crab spread and a big mug of tea.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 09:33 AM

Large glass of dark rum, followed by a raw haunch of venison, washed down with more rum.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 09:37 AM

Deer meat. Healthy choice Rap.

Me? It's 10:35... I forget.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 10:28 AM

Snow!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Will Fly
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 10:34 AM

Last night's dinner pots and pans to wash up - followed by muesli and coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: olddude
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 10:35 AM

coffee, just coffee ... it is a bad habit of mine, never eat breakfast

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 10:36 AM

Today coffee but usually muesli or porridge. On weekends twince a month a modified English.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Becca72
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 10:58 AM

Same as every week day - bagel and an extra large coffee

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Amos
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 10:59 AM

Does anyone else find it noteworthy (not to say annoying or outrageous) that the question can be posted and finds over twenty ready rewsponses in the first four hours?


A

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 11:16 AM

no

it was just a simple question ... and we simply we answered


biLL

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: EllenV
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 11:19 AM

Fruit and coffee and fresh raw milk.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 11:26 AM

Toasted Sainsbury's best multiseed bread with flora and Waitrose Ginger Conserve, washed down with un desafinado.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 11:27 AM

A bag of peanuts out of the vending machine at work.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: olddude
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 11:38 AM

What is desafinado??

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:42 PM

I don't understand why something as trivial as this gets so many responses when Hal n Tow gets so few.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:46 PM

Bob Dylan used to complain about reporters asking him trivial stuff like this, kendall. ;-) Check the back of your old Highway 61 revisited album.

I had an apple.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:48 PM

Dan! Coffee? Tsk tsk. Get thee some Quaker Oats and start getting that christyerall down lad!

Kendall... perhaps it's because everyone eats breakfast... well, some.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:48 PM

For me, today, the monthly indulgence in an omelet with home fries and toast-- fullsize western with cheese added-- real cheese-- and thick WHITE bread toast with BUTTER and JAM. (NONE of these are on the regular everyday food program, anymore.)

It was divided in half, to have some later-- after the snow-plowing for the month ALSO is done, for which I have a low-cal lo-fat crockpot going with 'maters and beans. Later to add: basmasti and tofu, which is all Greek-spiced and sweetened with Splenda.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:49 PM

I'm not Bob Dylan ... I'm just some poor schlepp in eastern Canada, housebound in the deep depths of dark January where the air outside is freezing and the snow is getting deeper and deeper ... in short .... I'm bored, now does anyone give a rat's ass what I had for lunch?

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:54 PM

Kendall, it's a question that most of us at least know the answer to.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 12:56 PM

If I had a rat's ass to give, I would give it to you, number 6. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 01:05 PM

Porridge (half a mug of oats, 1 and a half of water, 4 teaspoons of sugar), 2 pieces of toast with peanut butter and raspberry jam, 1 cup of coffe with soya and 1 sugar; and here's the rest of My Diet.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Charmion
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 01:49 PM

54 grams of All Bran Buds, 175 grams of 1% milk, a minneola orange, and a very large beer mug (well over an Imperial pint) of tea.

The mixture of measures is typical Canadian.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 02:02 PM

sIx... you had rat's ass for lunch? I've seen a man eat lemmings but not rat's ass. Soup or sandwich?

You gettin much snow. Only a dusting here so far and the radar looks like it will move through quickly. Maybe 15 or 20cm.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: MMario
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 02:20 PM

chicken and broccolli with some leftover turkey added.

Kendall - people *can* answer this question - can't neccessarily add anything to the other discussion

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 02:26 PM

Shit on a shingle.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 02:37 PM

999... I have a relative that does a mean SOASH. A golden shit brindle brown every time. And I've heard it said this person couldn't parboil shit for a tramp. Nonsense!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 02:43 PM

Jaysus, I understood that. Gnu, we gotta get out more . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: ClaireBear
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 02:45 PM

Joining Becca for a bagel (peppercorn, work-provided, toasted and lightly spread with butter) and coffee (French roast, whole milk, Splenda).

Why do you ask?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 02:47 PM

"shit on a shingle" .... Geeeez .... poor you 999

gnu .... I think I had rat's ass last nite ... we were at some friends for supper and they served Moroccan stew.

It's coming down hard here Gnu ... gonna have to get the old Craftsman snow blower out in about 1/2 hour.

btw .... in case anyone does wonder what I had for lunch ... it was an orange, and a cup off coffee and a cigarette out in the garage, make that 2 cigarettes.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: bobad
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:08 PM

"shit on a shingle"

I took that literally until I Googled it....phew....you had me worried there for a minute.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Bert
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:10 PM

Quiche.

Amos and Kendall - Just answer the bloody question or bugger off to another thread;-)

Actually, our answers will probably be of more interest to future students of our culture than will Hal n Tow.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:12 PM

Bert! CELLAR! And not Kendall's... you'd never get out!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:12 PM

We had scrambled eggs, pears that we canned this fall and a glass of milk.

:) Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:12 PM

I ain`t just another pretty face ya know.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:36 PM

I have a question. I`m saying that because I don`t know how to make a question mark on a French keyboard. This is a kinda persol question for the good folk here. Does anyone else get a strange odor in their urine when they eat corned beef (qm). Every time I eat corned beef my pee smells like Fray Bentos. It`s not something I worry about, but it does make me wonder.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:39 PM

Only the tins from Brazil, 999. Hehehehehehee.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:41 PM

Naw. The stuff from Australia has the same effect. Laugh while ye may.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:44 PM

$4.19 a tin now for the Hereford tins from Brazil! Glad I bought 48 tins at 99p a while back. Great for a quick hash or sandwiches. Very aromatic.

OH! I remember! Two heaping spoonfuls of cottage cheese and a blood pressure pill washed down with skim milk. The brekky of champignons!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:55 PM

Well spoke, Gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 03:58 PM

Bruce, go and lie down in a dark room for a while.
Hack B****rd

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 04:00 PM

I`m at an age where I pee seven times a night. I`m pleased if I can get out of bed for six of `em.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 04:21 PM

Back on track:

one third of a two egg omelet with grated romano and a few teaspoons of spaghetti sauce in it, a piece of cranberry/orange toast with tahini and a cup of green tea.

I am older than 999 and I do NOT have to pee 7 times a night. Depends on what one DRINKS!!! Doofus!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 04:42 PM

You tell 'im, Dot.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 04:44 PM

Oh!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 05:04 PM

Flax wholewheat toast, with wild blueberry jam and a small amount of Becel margarine spread ontop.

A boiled egg with a can of sardines (in water).

Fresh brewed French Roast coffee, with 10 percent cream.

Followed up with about ten smoked almonds.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 05:10 PM

Bert, if future generations are so vacuous as to be more interested in what you had for breakfast than in those three wonderful musicians from New Brunswick, then I pity the poor dumb bastards.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 05:16 PM

Ed T... "with a can of sardines (in water)." WATER?

Yer gonna die hungry. THAT is far too healthy.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 05:18 PM

"$4.19 a tin now for the Hereford tins from Brazil.'

You may have missed the sale at Walmart...it was $250 last week.

As to urine smell associated with corned beef..I have never noticed that? But, I sure noticed the "old folks" smell after eating asparagus:(

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 05:22 PM

"A boiled egg with a can of sardines (in water)." (Ed)...I'd heard of smoked salmon with scrambled eggs, but that's a new one on me.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Joe_F
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 05:26 PM

Pancakes with sour cream (1 with cinnamon sugar, 1 with honey, 1 with maple syrup), bacon, orange juice, coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 05:28 PM

What is desafinado??

Ah should be descafinado - strong decaf coffee!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 05:29 PM

:) I like sardines. I also like smoked salmon, especially the heat smoked type. There are few fish that I don't like, or would not consider eating for breakfast.

The canned sardines were "in spring water" not in "olive oil", not that there is anyhing wrong with olive oil. I just like the young herring taste better, versus the overpowering olive oil taste.

Two days ago I fried up the meat from two lobsters, in butter. I made a sandwitch with mao. Frying the lobster created an entirely different flavour. A few weeks ago, I made a clam chowder for breakfast...it was very good.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 05:30 PM

...could temporarily break my veganity and try some of these, I suppose..?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 05:32 PM

Pity - I was hoping desafinado was going to be something earthy and unrefined and tempting.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 05:33 PM

Seeing it was Friday, I had a Morrison's Big Breakfast (two fried eggs, three middle rashers, one sausage, mushrooms, baked beans, two hash browns and half a slice of fried bread) with black pudding and no toast washed down with capucchino, and it was even still morning (when I started). I won't mention the two mugs of coffee in the shower.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 06:26 PM

Raisin Bran with milk & sugar
Coffee (strong, black)
Orange juice with Emergen-C vitamin supplement
Pills

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: bradfordian
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 06:31 PM

2 halves of red grapefruit. Sometimes I can manage a whole grapefruit (minus the skin--before you ask) Oh, & OJ for the pills!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:18 PM

Kendall.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: kendall
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 07:24 PM

Jacqui! cellar!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Janie
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 09:35 PM

chortle!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 09:54 PM

6 days a week I have half a cup of home made museli (commercial museli + puffed brown rice + bran + more oats + rice flakes + oat bran + rye flakes + sultanas, makes many jars & lasts a along time!), spoonfull of mixed linseeds & sunflower seeds, sliced banana with rice milk & spoonful of Omega-3 oil.
I hard boiled egg + spoonful of baked beans. Assorted vitamins & minerals washed down with water & lemon juice.

On Sunday I have brunch of 2 slices of toasty cheese with egg fried in non-stick pan on top, mushrooms all over, very large banana smoothie (1 banana + 1 small tub of yoghurt, 3 tubs of water & lots of skim milk powder, maybe cinnamon). Smoothie can last most of the day. (ps. Next meal is late at night & for the past few weeks has been from the local Thai shop.)

sandra (not as healthy as brekkie reads!)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Janie
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 10:00 PM

No, I did not have chortle for breakfast.

Coffee.

Eventually.

With canned milk. Because I kept forgetting to buy half-and-half.

Eventually, because I also kept forgetting to buy coffee beans.

Have a stash of stale Folger's ground coffee bought at the local convenience store sometime or other when I realized I was out of coffee at 11:00 pm. Had been making do with it for a couple of days. This morning, I poured water into the coffee maker, pulled out the basket to add the Folger's, opened the lid on the coffee grinder and scooped the ground coffee into there, slipped the empty coffee basket back over the pot, and made myself a full pot of hot water.

Being as how I also kept forgetting to buy dish soap, once I finally succeeded in making a pot of stale coffee, I realized there was not a clean coffee cup in the house. Good thing I have heavy, thick-walled glasses.

Rough morning.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 10:56 PM

"could temporarily break my veganity"

Oh, it's the accent - I thought he said something else ....

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Jan 11 - 11:42 PM

{{{{Janie}}} you puir thing...

every morning: 8 ounces cold almond milk, a cup or so of frozen, unsweetened blueberries, other frozen berries, usually rasp and black, 1/4 banana whirled together into a smoothie with a piece of Ezekiel raisin toast on the side

Sometimes I have the same for supper...it is so tasty and filling. Tonight, I had something Dorothy mentioned in another thread...it sounded so good...black beans warmed up over which I melted some cheese, then shredded lettuce and a tomato sliced up. It was delicious!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 06:23 AM

Ed T... $1.99 at Zellers last week.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: freda underhill
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 06:45 AM

Half a cup of plain yoghurt with blueberries. Rye toast with avocado, tomato, lemon and himalayan salt. A large glass of mineral water.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 08:15 AM

Re. Jacqui and Kendall: they must have started at the toes, I suppose?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 09:07 AM

One egg (over easy), 1 slice of homemade (well made in the bread machine) whole wheat toast, lightly buttered, several cups of coffee with 2% milk. Later on I'll have an apple. I'm getting some great breakfast ideas from this thread!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Ed T
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 09:18 AM

"Have a stash of stale Folger's ground coffee bought at the local convenience store sometime or other when I realized I was out of coffee at 11:00 pm"

In our house we have a similar back up coffee stash. We call it "rat shit coffee". :)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: JennyO
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 10:04 AM

Weetbix - the genuine stuff from Oz which I sent over here. The box is nearly empty, so soon I'll have to start having Weetabix, which is the UK's imitation one - not much different in taste, but not quite as good - naturally!

Followed that with a cup of tea and a nice piece of raisin toast with lots of butter. Yum!

The tea also comes from Oz, and we're fast running out of that. There is a chain of tea places there called T2. They have a huge range of interesting teas. We usually drink decaffeinated, and we discovered one there which is called Daintree tea. It is naturally low in caffeine - actually lower than your normal decaffeinated tea, and has a lovely flavour. We make a pot of that first thing every morning. There's no equivalent here that I've found, so I suppose I'll have to get my son or daughter or someone in Sydney to send us some more - or wait till we visit in 2112.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 11:44 AM

Bowl of Grapenuts. Lots of sugar. 2% milk. Glass of OJ.

Russ (Permanent GUEST)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 12:30 PM

I remember, many many years ago, when there was still food rationing, we had some strange-tasting white butter that came in a tin, and that I was told came from Australia. I also remember having weetabix that didn't taste quite the same as weetabix - in fact it was nicer, and I can still remember the taste. Maybe that came from Australia too. Maybe it was weetbix.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 01:30 PM

Hey-oh, Chicken On A Raft...

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 02:17 PM

For a change to the above, sometimes I have half wheat/half rice flakes with soya, a conference pear, Darjeeling tea (which I once took in situ!), or an orange juice/soya mix.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: open mike
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 02:31 PM

slices of sour dough baguette with guacamole
coffee made in a makeshift thermos drip arrangement--
my coffee pot got left behind the other day.
(at the hospital where i was called in a hurry because my daughter
was in emergency surgery for C-Section)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: JennyO
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 03:14 PM

Guest, topsie, don't know about the strange white butter, but I bet it WAS Weetbix that you had that was a bit like Weetabix. Rob's sister Rosemary and her husband Dave stayed here over the new year, and Dave tried it for breakfast. He reckoned it was nicer than Weetabix too :)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 03:49 PM

No Becca! Don't read it!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 03:52 PM

Today, I had snow and -13C air compliments of the wind. Had the same for brunch.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: kendall
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 04:35 PM

Drivel 90. folk music 17. sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 04:42 PM

My Ivorian husband tells me that for breakfast his family had...nothing. For lunch....nothing. For the evening meal...some rice. And not terribly pure water to drink. I imagine literally millions around the world eat (or don't eat!) like this. It's very sad.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 04:47 PM

Kendall, I did try to watch your youtube but after 3 seconds of film, followed by 10 seconds of loading, then 5 seconds of film and a minute and a half of loading, then 8 seconds of film, then another two minutes of loading and no sign of any more film coming I'm afraid I gave up.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 04:58 PM

Wow! all these interesting breakfasts and, then, Eliza with the reality of life in so much of this plentiful world.

Today: apple buckwheat pancakes with "wild" blackberry Liberty yogurt and green tea. Yum!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 05:06 PM

Kendall... who pissed in your cornflakes?

Seriously, lad. What's up? Are you under the weather? You are not normally this cranky. Close, perhaps. I should think you would be in better spirts if Jac had you for brekky. Maybe she should sprinkle you with sugar too, sweetness.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 05:08 PM

An Indian guest-house manager told me he had just one meal per day, in the evening.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Raptor
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 05:08 PM

Kendall. And yet youre still here reading this.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 06:40 PM

The Selkirk Grace

Some hae meat and canna eat,

And some wad eat that want it;

But we hae meat, and we can eat,

And sae the Lord be thankit.
Robert Burns

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: kendall
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 07:27 PM

I played that video a number of times and it worked fine for me.

Gnu, this is what has my knickers in a knot.
On Utube is a video of three of the most talented folk singers I know. They hail from New Brunswick, and they are not getting much attention on this folk music site while what some of you had for breakfast seems to be much more important. I don't get it.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: kendall
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 07:48 PM

Maybe you are confused about Hal n Tow? I'm not talking about some old ritual or an old song, I'm talking about 3 real folk musicians.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 07:56 PM

I think they are absolutely wonderful and I am very sorry to hear that one has died..was that recent? But I also feel that food is very very important..especially when so many don't have enough or the right kind...and saying what we eat is very important...and will become more prevalent as we realize what is driving diabetes and obesity etc..the two issues are separate issues...people writing down here is not taking anything away from something else...and hopefully people will check them out but for now there is interest in this very primal topic. mg P.S. I went to McDonald's yesterday and had 2 sausage mcmuffins with half the buns tossed (should have been all buns tossed actually) and eggs and diet coke and it was exactly what my body needed, minus any preservatives, antibiotics, pesticides, etc. I do very well on saturated fat and can not do carbs at all and some of the breakfasts mentioned above would lay me out flat, and cause me to gain even more weight. mg

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 08:23 PM

One quick favorite is to take a slice of bread, cut out the middle (a knife, or you can use those fried egg container shapes), insert an egg, and fry in a pan. This can also be done in the microwave if wanted - you just have to modify the cooking technique slightly to adjust to the microwave.

I like to use those 2 plate sandwich toasters, so you can also toast the cutout. You can also drop this on top of the egg in the hole.

A recent modification is to place a second slice of bread and place some cheese on it, then slide the egged bread piece when solid on top, to glue it together.

You can also add things like thin tomato slices, or spreading some other flavoring, before sprinkling the shredded cheese, or adding sliced cheese.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 08:23 PM

I had a listen to Hal an Tow, and they were pleasant enough on the clips that I listened to, but I'd have to hear a lot more to pass comment.

Now I do know, and have opinions on, what I have for breakfast.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: maeve
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 08:24 PM

You are all cordially invited to visit the Hal An Tow thread as you enjoy your favorite breakfast: Lovely music, good folks.

Maeve

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 10:25 PM

Be assured, Hal an Tow are amazing. The videos do NOT do them justice. Just read Kendall's posts. When he says they are good, they are GOOD. The lad knows a thing or two about music.

I even heard someone say Bernie is the best guitarist he ever saw.

And that was a musician of note.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 12:09 AM

Old fashioned oatmeal, with raisins.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: J-boy
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 01:02 AM

Breakfast? What's that? Maybe Tami(ranger1) knows more about it than I do.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 08:38 AM

mg, I agree that food is important, but this is a folk music site and it doesn't come close to the music when it is done so well, and ignored by people who want to talk about themselves rather than listen to good music.It's the ratio of posts that irritate me.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Raptor
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 09:21 AM

Kendal I found some of your stuff on the net and find You to be quite remarkable yourself. PM me an address to send you CD money.Than come to ONTARIO to do a house concert. But don't forget to have a good Breakfast first (Most improtant meal of the day)!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 11:33 AM

What did you listen to at breakfast this morning? We listened to a WAZ CD.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 12:54 PM

What did I listen to this morning? My son, 10 months old, babbling away.

What did I have for breakfast? 2 fresh eggs, 1 slice of homemade whole wheat toast with butter, a glass of skim milk and a bowl of pears that we canned this fall. YUM.

Best part? My husband made breakfast this morning, all of it...rght down to the homemade bread!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Charmion
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 01:00 PM

WRT Kendal's point:

Some threads you read, follow the link and take in the message. The Hal An Tow thread is one of those: I followed the link to YouTube and watched several of the videos; I will think about what I heard, but have nothing to say because I did not know the musicians.

Other threads you glance at and post to, then move on -- easy peasy. A whole different kind of interaction, much more casual and, it must be admitted, usually much less significant.

Sunday breakfast is always good. Today we had a nice cheese omelette with green onions, croissants from the French bakery on Murray Street, and three espressos each.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 01:04 PM

One egg with cheese on a toasted English muffin with cranberry juice and coffee.

Janie, I buy my favoite coffee on sale (3 bags for $10. It usually sells for $6.99/bag) and freeze it. Always have the good stuff in stock. Of course, I prefer coffee to chocolate so I have my priorities right.
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 01:06 PM

This morning, the usual copious amount of strong coffee with milk, and a piece of French toast made with homemade whole wheat bread, followed by an apple a little later on. I tend to agree with Charmion, this kind of thread is akin to 'small talk' that one might engage in with one's coworkers. Requires little thought, it's amusing and plus I admit I love getting ideas about food.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 01:29 PM

Raptor, I'm so pleased that you think that. I would love to come to Ontario but over the last 10 years I have slowly lost my voice.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 01:39 PM

What's the republican version of "breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dine like a pauper"..?..breakfast like a truckie..? (I'm fairly close to that, anyway.)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Bruce Michael Baillie
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 02:06 PM

Two poached eggs, two rashers bacon, two sausages, wholemeal toast, tomatoes, mushrooms and a few slices of french bread, baked beans, washed down with coffee
Wonderful!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 04:04 PM

A dingo's breakfast - a drink of water, a fart, and a quick look around....

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 04:52 PM

...learn something every day...I wonder what a wombat's breakfast is like?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Raptor
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 05:25 PM

So just play blues

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Smokey.
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 05:51 PM

Raw kittens.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 06:12 PM

Brrrr....

No breakfast this morning. Had to rush off and start someone's car as mine actually did start!
So brekkie was at lunchtime - the gingered chick pea casserole I took to Quaker meeting for the potluck - which is not until next week!!! Oops. We all enjoyed brunch, however, and I'll do it again next week!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 06:21 PM

Kittens raw? That is disgusting! I prefer mine well cooked.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Joe_F
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 06:31 PM

*This* morning it was an omelet with gouda cheese, summer sausage, red onion, and mushroom; half an English muffin with butter & marmalade; orange juice; and coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Beer
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 09:21 PM

Strangest meal of the day. You must eat your corn flakes, your porridge, your toast, your bran and so on. I eat what I want. Most of the time it is bacon and eggs or Newfoundland steak, give me a can of beans and throw in a few hot dogs. But my favorite is a good bowl of stew, or barley soup. Trout is always a favorite when one can buy it or catch one. If I was back home (the maritimes.) I would have a clam omelet. I know, I know a lot of what i eat is not good for me but I like breakfast the way I want it and not by who says what I should eat. Porridge is probably one of the best things for you. Personally I can't look at the stuff. I had it 7 days a week when there was nothing else and that is probably the reason. But if you like it, than why not eat it for lunch or supper. Have you ever heard of anyone doing so? If I like my stew in the morning than why not have it. When my wife rolls her eyes at my breakfast plate of goodies, I just shrug my shoulders with a smile.
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 05:12 AM

Beer, it's not such a strange idea - the traditional breakfast at a large country house would include a choice of kedgeree, kippers, chops, devilled kidneys and many more substantial dishes.
Yes, I have eaten porridge at other times of day, and 'breakfast' cereals make a nice snack before bed.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 05:22 AM

I've never been in the habit of having breakfast every morning although it is supposed to be the most important meal of the day but I can't face it that early in the morning. Most days I wait until I get into work and have a banana with yoghurt and a cereal bar.

But when I can force myself to have something especially on a cold day, it is 3 Weetabix with hot milk all mushed up like baby food.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 06:56 AM

"But if you like it, than why not eat it for lunch or supper. Have you ever heard of anyone doing so?"

Errrrmmm, well me, actually.
Been known to have porridge for lunch and supper, and for tea as well (But not all on the same day!). And as an in-between meals snack, very occasionally.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Beer
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 08:56 AM

Good for you Backwoodsman. I don't know why but your mudcat name sort of fits having porridge besides just at breakfast.

This morning I'm having a fiddle-head omelet. Picked some last fall with 999 and it is time to go to the deep freeze and dig them out.
ad

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 10:15 AM

I know it hasn't got to be any particular time of day, but I am guessing that the thread is asking what get's us going for the day. Replies clean please!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 10:49 AM

Beer, I changed my Mudcat name to Backwoodsman because the term was used about me as an attempted insult by one of our, shall we say, psychologically- (or perhaps psychiatrically-) challenged members. Otherwise it says nothing about me at all.

By the bye, what's a fiddle-head omelette? Omelette I understand, but 'fiddle-head omelette' sounds like something the guy might eat before climbing on to the roof to play his banjo. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Beer
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 11:29 AM

There are many variations to this recipe but this is a very good one. You can also see by the photo why it is called a fiddle head. Looks much like the end piece of a violin. Actually if you google fiddle head and go to images you will get a much better view of the fern head.
ad.

http://100mile.foodtv.ca/recipe/fiddlehead-omelette

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 11:38 AM

Fiddleheads? YUM!!!

Breakfast (for me) this morning was Cheerios, skim milk, a banana and 2 pieces of lowfat string cheese.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: bubblyrat
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 12:22 PM

Having recently converted to a South African diet, I had,this morning,a bowl of "Krimmelpap" maize-meal porridge,with cinnamon & sugar, and rye-bread toast with strawberry jam ; very nice too ! And tonight's meal ( Boerwors ) is sizzling away gently in the pan( tomorrow's breakfast as well, probably cold !).

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 01:30 PM

Thanks, Beer, all is explained. Don't get many fiddlehead ferns in the Lincolnshire Backwoods......in fact none at all! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 02:57 PM

I can do good cereal & milk...or oatmeal...for breakfast... or even bacon, sausage, hash browns, toast...etc...when I am organized or traveling, but 95% of the time anymore it's a peanut butter sandwich on really good bread, with honey or good jam, with OJ and coffee.

It could be worse...as I read above.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 03:14 PM

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: SINSULL - PM
Date: 22 Jan 11 - 03:49 PM

No Becca! Don't read it!!!!!


Sadly, Sins, this warning came MUCH too late.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 03:45 PM

Backwoodsman... you need to get some fiddlehead fern spores and set them. You could make millions!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 04:01 PM

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: maeve
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 04:10 PM

Here's the link to your fortune, Backwoodsman: Ostrich fern/Shuttlecock fern

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 04:20 PM

"I changed my Mudcat name to Backwoodsman because the term was used about me as an attempted insult"

Same reason (long story) as why The Fooles Troupe got started ... truly we often owe a lot of thanks to those who think they are better than us and attempt to put us down ... :-)

This morning - leftovers, last night rice, with diced tomatoes, basil, garlic, ginger (tablespoon of each bottled) microwaved.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 05:30 PM

As said above, I like porridge with sugar (or, if empty, raspberry jam), but I've heard of salt being added...anyone?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 05:59 PM

Good porridge only needs milk (or cream) and a little salt while cooking. If you need sugar or jam to drown the taste ...

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 06:22 PM

The only thing I would change in Dave MacKenzie's post would be to swap over the milk and cream (milk only if cream is unavailable). If the person who made the porridge insisted on not adding any salt I would then sprinkle some on with the cream.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Joe_F
Date: 24 Jan 11 - 08:57 PM

Jewish French Toast
Break eggs into a small bowl. Stir in enough milk to make the mixture smooth.
Brown in a little olive oil & butter a chopped small onion. Add a sliced mushroom or two. Add something savory (such as sliced salami or kipper).
Break a matzoh in coarse pieces into the egg-milk mixture. Pour it over the ingredients in the frying pan. Cover with a plate. When the plate gets too hot to touch, remove it, discard the condensed water on it, cut the contents of the pan in quarters with a spatula, and turn them over. Season with salt & pepper; that takes enough time to finish the other side. Serve on the heated plate.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 12:41 AM

So we have "What did you have for breakfast?"

And the next thread is now "Rats".

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 03:11 AM

"Same reason (long story) as why The Fooles Troupe got started ... truly we often owe a lot of thanks to those who think they are better than us and attempt to put us down ... :-)"

Yup! I've been insulted by experts, Foolestroupe. Little do they know I've got a hide like a rhino - insults just bounce harmlessly off it (unless they're made face-to-face, then I've found that a carefully-served knuckle-sandwich usually puts a stop to them) :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 07:56 AM

...for what it's worth, I don't like aristocracy, but for sandwiches we have the cards-keen Earl of Sandwich to thank, apparently.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 09:17 AM

Oh.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 25 Jan 11 - 06:49 PM

Two pieces of muesli bread toasted, with tahini, and green tea. Yum.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 08:47 AM

Today we had porridge with brown sugar and creamy milk. Yum!

Rob said his mother always cooked it with milk, and I always just cooked it with water (and a pinch of salt) and added the milk when eating it. So we've reached a compromise - cooked it with half milk and half water. BTW I think the pinch of salt is very important for the flavour.

When I was in Oz, I sometimes used to have it with soy milk, brown sugar and LSA (ground mixed linseed sunflower and almond) and it was really yummy. I'm not a great lover of soy milk, but it does go well with porridge.

As for having breakfast food at other times of the day - I've often been known to have weetbix for a bedtime snack - very satisfying.

And for the person who suggested kittens - raw or cooked - I quote my friend Rhymin' Simon here - "I like kittens, but I couldn't eat a whole one!"

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 Jan 11 - 09:41 AM

...even the coolest cats reading this must be having kittens!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: J-boy
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 12:02 AM

A Marlboro. Followed by ramen noodles.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: goatfell
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 01:58 PM

food

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 02:41 PM

Coffee, black, no sugar.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 02:46 PM

An egg over easy, with a vegetarian sausage patty on a whole wheat bun.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 02:50 PM

Eels, dear mother!
Eels, dear mother!
So mother be quick,
Cos I wanna be sick,
And lay me down and die.
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: MMario
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 02:57 PM

Porridge made with beef/onion broth with an egg cooked on top of it...

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 03:30 PM

Yesterday we had the veggies left from supper. I had left them in the frying pan and seeing there was plenty of liquid, I heated them to bubbling and poached two eggs in there. Totally delicious. Veggies for breakfast have become a habit. I have to make "planned overs".

Today, no planned overs so it was a quarter of a two egg omelet and two small pieces of toast with tahini. The omelette had a handful of oregano leaves mixed into the eggs and shredded romano and salsa in the omelet. Sometimes I put in planned over spaghetti sauce.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: JennyO
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 04:29 PM

Today was more a brunch than a breakfast. It was a bit of a fry-up with bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms and - best of all - bubble and squeak made from fried onions mixed in with left-over mashed potato and cabbage - made into a big patty and fried on both sides. Yum!!!

We didn't need anything more to eat till dinner tonight!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Spleen Cringe
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 05:57 PM

Double espresso. A big bowl of Unicorn 41% fruit-and-nut muesli with soya milk. Radio 4. The sofa. Another double espresso.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 27 Jan 11 - 07:01 PM

I cut up a coupla fresh mangos, put 'em in a bowl of yogurt, then poured some whisky over top of it and set 'em on fire, just like they do in them fancy French restaurants. Delish!

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: maire-aine
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 09:31 AM

2 poached eggs, 1 slice of Canadian bacon, 2 pieces of toast & a glass of vegetable juice.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 12:58 PM

"I cut up a coupla fresh mangos, put 'em in a bowl of yogurt, then poured some whisky over top of it and set 'em on fire, just like they do in them fancy French restaurants. Delish!" (Chongo Chimp)...and I thought the breakfast of champion-chimps would be banana fritters?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 01:07 PM

Yas know yer drivin Kendall nuts eh?

1 slice of bacon? ONE? That does not compute. Of course, I don't touch the stuff any more, even when I cook up a pound for Mum (she freezes it for nuking)... two pans... I admit I have to take the first pan over to her immediately and the same for the second pan.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 02:49 PM

Eggs over easy, 1 slice of whole wheat toast with butter and a banana.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 03:04 PM

Easier to slice it with a knife, LF.

Some warm green stuff in a cup. Looks like swamp water and tastes much the same; however, my buddy Phil says it`s good for me. I`m taking his word for it. I must say that SOMEthing is happening. I`m feeling lustful to that elm tree outside the cafe.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,lefthanded guitar
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 03:17 PM

Some damn oatmeal with walnuts and raisins for like the fifth time this week. I hope my friggin doctor's happy now!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 04:33 PM

As long as you stick to tree-hugging, 999!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 04:34 PM

That`s what`s scaring me, WV.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Jan 11 - 04:48 PM

Don't piss the squirrels off!
I had Chex Multi-bran... whoopee. I scored some Red River when I was in Canada, and I've been eating that. I like it with a little salt and a little butter, or nothing, which is probably sacrilegious. Maybe I'll try it sweet tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 01:13 PM

Red River... only in Canada you say? Pity. (Canuck joke.)

Brown sugar with oatmeal, cream of wheat, Red River,...

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Joe_F
Date: 29 Jan 11 - 06:14 PM

This time, oatmeal with milk, raisins, fruit peel, & one dried cherry (surprise!) in it & brown sugar on top, half an English muffin with butter & currant jelly, and black coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Fastauntie
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 07:56 AM

Today I'm off to a local cafe for some kind of omelet (with mushrooms if available), maybe one of their bacon-and-cheddar muffins, and definitely a big latte.

These days during the work week it's usually a Clif bar, Luna bar, or something similar, no prep required and I can eat it while dressing, then a cup of coffee when I get to the office.

I like my oatmeal with salt and butter, and have it for dinner as often as for breakfast.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 08:29 AM

Its Sunday , so I went berserk ! Two Middle Rashers , cut small and fried with half a dozen mushrooms , then three eggs wipped up to make a SERIOUS Omel ! TOO big to be an Omelette !
With Orange juce to start , and coffe and biscuits to finish !!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 10:41 AM

Two slices of homemade cinnamon raisin toast with butter here! Mmmm Mmmmm GOOD!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: open mike
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 05:41 PM

oatmeal made in a hotel room microwave, with butter, brown sugar and banana slices. coffee with cocoa and 1/2 & 1/2, and mango/orange juice.
been "camping out" in a hotel room while working at the cowboy festival . the room is supplied with a microwave oven and fridge, when a coffee pot from home is added to the mix, this allows "home made" meals to a certain extent...

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 06:58 PM

Not strictly topic, but you should read this.... :-)

http://smartabouthealth.net/diseases/2011/01/30/study-confirm-broccoli-other-vegetables-fight-cancer/

I've always liked broccoli - and no reason why you can't have it for breakfast!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Slag
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 07:08 PM

Well, this is mundane to me but looking at what you all eat, hey! Maybe it's exotic. 3 eggs (brown, free-range) soft scrambled, one medium brown Russet potato from Idaho hashed and well browned on both sides, Potter's Hot Sausage from Oklahoma, 3 slices of soft white bread, toasted and slathered with butter, strawberry perserves, piping hot dark French roast Italian 100% Arabica coffee (Peerless). And I know what many of you are thinking right now but you'd be wrong. Maybe once a week if I'm lucky.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 08:09 PM

Everclear and corn flakes, breakfast of champions.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Jeri
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 08:26 PM

You shouldn't drink Everclear with corn flakes. It might go with Fruit Loops, but corn flakes should be paired with a nice bourbon, oat meal with a good breakfast single malt would be very Scottish, and rum goes with well with Cocoa Puffs.

I've been pretty healthy with all the grainy cereal and apples, but this morning, I got to the potato chips first, and then had a cheese omelet for dinner. I guess it was a backwards sort of day. Must go back to the Red River tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Jan 11 - 09:04 PM

Thanks to Max, who posted this on Facebook..

Blueberries faked in cereals, muffins, bagels and other food products

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 08:26 AM

I wouldn't be surprised if most so-called dried berries aren't faked in cereals.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 08:29 AM

Weetabix and hot milk. Porridge would have taken too long but as it was a very cold morning it was an instant warmer.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 02:15 PM

Breakfast (and lunch) pic.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 02:21 PM

Why is there a spoon in the beer?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 02:33 PM

...don't you mean a ladle in my pottages, Topsie!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 02:38 PM

Well it looks like beer to me - looks like a half pint of mild. Quite suitable for breakfast.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 03:16 PM

...or perhaps you mean my coffee with a beer-like head on it - got by pouring from a dizzy height.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 03:22 PM

That would be it. My coffee never has a spoon in it, which is why I didn't recognise it. Why do you pour it from a great height? Doesn't that make it go cold too quickly?
Or is it that you are preparing your breakfast on the floor or a low coffee table and you can't be bothered to bend down?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 03:41 PM

I like to get an extra stir, and froth, by pouring from a height into the (pre-stirred) instant coffee, sugar and soya mix; and then to re-stir as I sip down my cup of coffee (or tea).

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 03:48 PM

Instant coffee with sugar and soya - it sounds horrible, but if you enjoy it . . .

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:14 PM

French toast. I don't often make that, but there was quite a bit of suitable left-over bread from the snack I bought in the Enormous Room last night.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:26 PM

A hard roll with some butter. Kind of boring, but I was in a hurry and it was quick!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 04:28 PM

"And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert,"

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 31 Jan 11 - 07:13 PM

Pouring from a height adds air into the brew - a big thing in some parts of the world when serving tea - the more foam, the better.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 09:11 AM

...great heights/great minds..!

And, without tongue twisting, does anyone ever tip their toast over as, apparently, taste buds are atop our tongues?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:01 AM

My dad used to ask me if i wanted a high poured or a low poured cup of tea and I thought he was joking but it did taste better. Unfortunately not many people use teapots these days.

Talking of rituals with toast I leave the top crusted half until last and it has to be buttered up to the edge and if I have jam or marmalade it can only be spread to just a bit below the buttered crust. Strange but true.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:14 AM

Not strange at all, Patsy, I always eat the top crust last, with plenty of butter right up to the edge. And it's always real butter.
And I always make tea in a teapot.
I was once astonished to watch someone making tea for six people in the kitchen attached to a hall (while we were setting up for a dance). He lined up six mugs and, ignoring the large teapot on the shelf, put a teabag in every cup.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 10:16 AM

And I usually use loose tealeaves, not bags.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 01 Feb 11 - 04:05 PM

A diced apple with cinnamon, microwaved for 1.45 with granola and plain yogurt. Nice in winter because it is warm!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: saulgoldie
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 06:32 AM

A big & strong cup of coffee, and a strong pipe. In Winter, a SAD light, too. Oncet I get to work, I often have oatmeal honey with asstd dried thingies.

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 09:22 AM

Same thing I have every day, summer or winter:
Steel cut oats, with raisins, dried cranberries and frozen Maine blueberries added in the last 5 minutes, a sprinkling of homemade granola for crunch, topped with 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk.

Why yes, I do qualify as an aging hippie. Why do you ask?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: maire-aine
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 10:41 AM

Made-from-scratch waffles. Not going anywhere today, so why not?

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 12:28 PM

Coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 01:19 PM

Alison, do you have a recipe for the homemade granola? I've never made it but would like to give it a try. There are some recipes on the internet, but I'd like "tried and true".

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 01:41 PM

I can't remember.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 02 Feb 11 - 01:43 PM

LOL

Good one, Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 03:41 AM

Gnu's description of body hair, I've suddenly lost my appetite.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 04:23 AM

I've just nibbled a couple of chocolate covered coffee beans.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Van
Date: 03 Feb 11 - 05:07 PM

Whisky. The dog has a healthier diet than me, and she has to be fed first.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:33 PM

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 02:35 PM

You didn't have ANY breakfast 999? Why, it's the most important meal of the day... or so I heard.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,David E.
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 03:41 PM

Scrambled eggs with salsa, raisin toast and three cups of coffee. I haven't read this entire post, are we doing this for some particular reason?

David E.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:06 PM

...as variety's the "salsa" of life..?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:10 PM

``I haven't read this entire post, are we doing this for some particular reason?``

It`s a research project for a giant food company.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 04:26 PM

Who cares, but I got up at noon and had a bowl of soup, a ham sandwich, a glass of milk and a few Tostitos.

Researching mattresses.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 06:07 PM

Get a Vita Mix. Raw unsweetened chocolate, blueberries, a banana, maybe some
rhubarb, a dash of Agave, add water and you can forgo coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 06:47 PM

Noon? You got up at noon?

Oh... yeah... you live in Alberta. I understand.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 07:07 PM

But I don't want to forgo coffee.

I really really like coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Feb 11 - 09:21 PM

Two little boys come down for breakfast, the mother says to the first one "what would you like for breakfast?"

he replies, "I'll have a fucking egg"

she gives him such a clout he falls off his buffet and she glowers at the other kid and says "AND WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR BREAKFAST?"

he says, "I don't want a fucking egg"

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 07:24 AM

Started off this morning's breakfast with a large glass of water at the suggestion of my London GP in order to eat less!!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: JennyO
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 09:16 AM

Today we had some rather nice kippers, with buttered wholemeal toast on the side, followed by more toast and marmalade - but not just any marmalade. We found a lovely one while we were living in Aberdeen and brought down a couple of jars with us. Unfortunately we haven't been able to find marmalade anywhere near as tasty down here in Somerset, although it probably does exist somewhere. This morning I scraped the last bit out of the jar :(

Our tea is also special. It is one that we sent over from Oz, from a chain of tea places there called T2. They have a loose leaf tea called Daintree Tea, which has the interesting property of being naturally so low in caffeine, that it is lower than decaffeinated tea. It also has a particularly good flavour. Unfortunately we are coming to the end of that too :( So it will soon be back to Tetley decaffeinated teabags unless we can find something else. So far we haven't found any decaffeinated loose tea here, which is a shame because we do prefer loose tea made in a teapot.

Seems like a lot of the stuff we brought over or sent is running out now. I'm down to the last 4 Weetbix too (2 more breakfasts), and then it will be back to Weetabix, which although similar, is not as good IMO.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 10:24 AM

JennyO, now is the time to make marmalade.
Put 3lb or 1 1/2 kilos of Seville oranges (about 15 fair-size ones) and a lemon or two in a large pan, cover with water and bring to the boil and then simmer for ages, until well softened. Allow to cool, and remove the fruit from the liquid. Cut the fruit in half, and put the pips in a separate small saucepan (there will be far more than in dessert oranges). Put the pulp back in the cooking liquid, then cut the soft peel into thin slices and add those as well. Meanwhile, cover the pips with water and simmer, then strain and add the pip-water to the rest.
Add sugar to the liquid/pulp/peel mixture at the rate of a pound of sugar to a pint of liquid (roughly 400 grams to 1/2 litre?), dissolve well and then boil till it reaches setting point. Pour into clean warm jamjars.

If anyone tries to tell you that you have to slice the oranges BEFORE boiling them, just smile sweetly and ignore them.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 11:52 AM

Coffee and a smoke.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: JennyO
Date: 05 Feb 11 - 12:26 PM

Thanks for the recipe, Topsie. Home made might be the answer :)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: maire-aine
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 11:13 AM

Oatmeal with brown sugar, maple syrup and a little bit of butter.

M

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 11:47 AM

Eggs scrambled with tortillas - topped with salsa. And the usual 3 or 4 cups of coffee with milk and sugar.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 11:50 AM

Molson Export Ale, and a smoke.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 12:06 PM

Big Sunday fry-up, with bacon, eggs, tomato, mushrooms and a delicious bubble and squeak made from last night's mashed potato and fried onions, cooked in the pan that we did the pork chops in last night. Yum!!!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Frug
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 12:13 PM

Fried tomatoes on rye and coriander toast.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 04:26 PM

In the past, I've split an unpeeled banana down the middle, spooned in some cocoa, before steaming/melting it; or just cut slices onto my porridge.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 04:30 PM

Nothin` strange about that for a poet . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Charmion
Date: 06 Feb 11 - 05:56 PM

Today I discovered that, although my desire for bacon is as extensive as ever, but my digestive tolerance therefor is now limited to three rashers, preferably two.

Woe is me. It is to weep.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 09:30 AM

It's very wise, Charmion. Good pig like that, ya don't want to eat him all at once.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 10:37 AM

I made chocolate chip pancakes and sausage for my husband, bananas and plums with rice cereal for the baby and so far, nothing for me yet. Soon. Probably Cheerios. :)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Smokey.
Date: 07 Feb 11 - 09:43 PM

Strong tea with nicotine and herb surprise, followed by toast and marmite, followed by stronger tea with - when does breakfast actually finish?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,Max Johnson
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 10:51 AM

What an odd thread.

Egg fried rice, made with last-night's left-over rice, a few frozen peas, a spring onion, seasoning and a little soy sauce. And an egg, obviously. I sometimes like a sardine with egg-fried rice, I don't know why it works so well, but anyway I hadn't got any.
It's usually some type of chicken on a raft, occasionally with unsmoked bacon or one of my secret stash of sausages from Kitridding Farm, and I'm very partial to a kipper.
And strong Kenyan tea.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 11:22 AM

Coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Smokey.
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 03:12 PM

Tea & a damn good grumble.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 03:28 PM

lol

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Smokey.
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 03:39 PM

Grumblo ergo sum.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 04:01 PM

3:15... 2 heapings tsp 2% cottage cheese, water. 5:00... hard boiled egg, blood pressure pill, water. 7:00... a small bit of fruit salad (from a plastic jar; washed the light syrup off with water), water. 9:00... one slice cracked wheat bread, water. Brekky ends at 9AM. After that, it's brunch.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Feb 11 - 04:14 PM

...when woken through the night, I like to have a quick sip of orange juice (from a glass kept bedside), before trying to get back to sleep.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: JennyO
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 10:00 AM

Well I do intend to make my own marmalade one day, but in the meantime, my quest for the perfect marmalade has come up trumps. This one is every bit as good as the lovely one we used to get at Kellys of Cults in Aberdeen - maybe even better.

We found it in a rather unexpected place - Pynes Butchery at North Petherton has a range of jams and chutneys and other goodies from Homefarm Foods Banbury. This is already our favourite butcher, and now we have yet another reason to go there. When I opened the jar of their seville orange marmalade today and sniffed it, I knew I had a winner. The taste confirmed it! That's a relief. My cupboard was starting to get cluttered up with marmalades that had failed the test, although they will probably get used up somehow at some point.

So what did I have for breakfast? Tea (without any grumbles), toast and lovely marmalade. Yay!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 10:15 AM

While noting that 'other marmalades are available', I have to say that Waitrose's organic is pretty good.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 12:53 PM

My favourite conserve is raspberry jam.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 01:04 PM

Apart from marmalade I am fond of pineapple jam, and bramble jelly.
And I like apricot jam (or apricots) with thick cream.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 02:33 PM

Partridgeberry (Lingonberry) for me. I gets me jam from Newfoundland eh.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 03:02 PM

Tea.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Smokey.
Date: 09 Feb 11 - 04:10 PM

Industrial strength tea, toast & smoked mackerel pate followed by spiteful grimaces and a smoke.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: saulgoldie
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 06:39 AM

A cup of Columbian coffee given to me by my boss whose bicycle tire I changed and for which he was ohso grateful, and a pipe of McClellands 5110, full English. It is another day. So far, so good. Perhaps there will be another day tomorrow.

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 09:09 AM

Hey, Gnu, did you ever have crackerberries.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 01:46 PM

Don't think so 999. Same as a bunchberry, right? Canadian dwarf cornel? Cornus canadensis?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 02:10 PM

Gee... I am glad I got up this morning...

Cornus canadensis (Canadian Dwarf Cornel, Canadian Bunchberry, Crackerberry,... Each flower has highly elastic petals that flip backward, releasing springy filaments that are cocked underneath the petals. The filaments snap upward flinging pollen out of containers hinged to the filaments. This motion takes place in less than half a millisecond and the pollen experiences 800 times the acceleration that the space shuttle does during liftoff. The Bunchberry has one of the fastest plant actions found so far requiring a camera capable of shooting 10,000 frames per second to catch the action (Edwards et al. 2005). The fruits are edible with a mild flavour somewhat like apples.

I'll have to be more careful when I'm out in the woods.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 02:15 PM

I have visited LA and NY but didn't notice - are all-day breakfasts popular in the US?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 04:04 PM

Don`t know, gnu. I was in Nfld many years back and I was given some to eat. IF my memory is right, they were a transparent greenish colour with some white stripes on them. They were delicious. However, all I know them as is cracker berries (so named I think because of the crack sound when ya bite into them). About the size of a medium blueberry.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Feb 11 - 04:10 PM

999... "transparent greenish colour with some white stripes on them"

Gooseberries! The finest wine I have ever tasted was made by me buddy Lew in The Codroy Valley from his Gosseberry bushes. I shit you not. Some shockin good me zon me zon.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: J-boy
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 01:21 AM

oxygen

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 05:42 AM

Among my Imprssions of London in 1997 was "All-day breakfasts at the good pubs," and I was wondering, above, if there is suchlike in the U.S?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Max Johnson
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 08:55 AM

I really like some of Walkabout's poems.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: JennyO
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 10:15 AM

Places serving all-day breakfasts are very plentiful all over Sydney, where I came from. It's quite a common practice, particularly on a Sunday morning in the inner 'burbs, particularly the more yuppie ones like Glebe and Annandale, to go out for a large breakfast quite late in the morning and into the afternoon. Good idea if you ask me!

Meanwhile, just coming out of winter in Somerset, it was scrambled eggs on toast today, with tea, followed by more toast with marmalade and vegemite (not together). The thing that made today's breakfast different was that we were able to have it in our usually chilly conservatory because the sun was shining and had warmed it up (we did get up rather late). We could sit out there and watch the birds. Roll on spring and summer!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 12:20 PM

Thanks, Max.

Thanks, JennyO: I never used or noticed the all-day breakfasts in Sydney; nor did I ever goto Sweathearts, but I remember the very-early-bird Jimmy Barnes song about it -

"Six o'clock I'm going down,
Coffee's hot and the toast is brown".

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 01:04 PM

"All Day Breakfast" is also popular in the US - there are chains that specialize in breakfast any time of the day, although they offer lunch and dinner items as well - International House of Pancakes, Waffle House, Cracker Barrel, Aunt Sarah's Pancake House. On a weekend the lines at those places will be out the door well into the afternoon, and a lot of those people are having 'breakfast'. Most diners will do breakfast any time, as well.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 04:48 PM

Thanks, Maryrrf.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Smokey.
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 04:58 PM

Proper tea (which is theft) and smoked mutterings.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 05:06 PM

I had a henway.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: bobad
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 05:08 PM

Was it 4 - 6 lbs.?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 05:31 PM

Coffee and cereal... BORING. Then I went to the gym, came home and had a cheese omelet (Gruyere. not as good as Cheddar) and toast, and for desert, a glass of lovely Port (2000). There's some of that port left (the port was Micca's fault), and that may be dinner.

I generally don't do the eggs first thing. I normally don't have time, and if I do, you just can't do a decent workout on a stomach full of eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 05:40 PM

Ahhh... okay 999... what's a henway? (Yer welcome.)

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 05:43 PM

You can get arrested for publicly dangling your punchline in some places...

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Smokey.
Date: 11 Feb 11 - 06:13 PM

It's a hanging offence where I come from.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Feb 11 - 10:40 AM

"Henway" hasn't anything to do with that American writer's minimalist style has it..?..something from The Sea..?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 11 - 01:38 PM

WV... I saw a henway get hit by a pepsicost.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 12 Feb 11 - 01:43 PM

Hey, Gnu, what`s a Pepsicost.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 12 Feb 11 - 01:44 PM

Buckwheat-apple pancakes with strawberry yogurt! YUM! and green tea.

Henway was one of the new items Chuck Baker put on the menu at my luncheonette in 1976. And a mattababy, too!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 11 - 02:05 PM

I dunno 999. I drink Bud.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Feb 11 - 02:29 PM

Now I'm totally confused: did someone Chuck the Pepsicost at the Henway and nip the baby in the Bud?!

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: gnu
Date: 12 Feb 11 - 03:14 PM

WV... what's a hen weigh?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Feb 11 - 03:27 PM

I'm a veggie, me, but something to do with cooking time and temp., I'd have to say, Gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Smokey.
Date: 12 Feb 11 - 07:05 PM

What you lot need is some upme duck.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Feb 11 - 06:59 AM

In 1988, long before going vegan, I downed (it may have been my first meal of the day?) some Peking duck in Peking/by then Beijing - very nice with bok choy.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 13 Feb 11 - 01:45 PM

Today, blueberry pancakes for husband and me. Required two different batters, though: gluten-free (from a King Arthur Flour mix) for him, and whole wheat (and without the potato starch that the mix had) for me. We're just starting out on this gluten-free adventure. Common ground (for complex carbohydrates, at least) will be found in rice, I guess.

(I'm on a nightshade-free diet -- no potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant -- seems to minimize inflammatory arthritis in me and my mother.)

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Feb 11 - 02:30 PM

Back in the early 80s, Becky, my school friend got arthritis and started drinking carrot juice..?

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: CET
Date: 13 Feb 11 - 08:10 PM

First breakfast: cereal, followed by a long run.

Real breakfast, about 10.30 a.m.: 4 slices of double smoked bacon from Aubrey's butcher shop, which is what they serve the really deserving Vikings in Valhalla, 2 fried eggs, 2 slices of Maritime brown bread from the Trillium bakery, and two large mugs of coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 01:26 PM

Instead of my usual coffee, I washed down my usual breakfast with Darjeeling tea today - but, apparently, it could well have been Tregothnan tea, as that part of Cornwall grows the very same Camellias, in a similar micro-climate.

Subject: RE: BS: What did you have for breakfast?
From: Charmion
Date: 14 Feb 11 - 02:40 PM

It's Monday and I'm appropriately puritanical. All-Bran with 1% milk, three shots of espresso, and a ride to work.