Tuesday 12th May - monthlydiaryday entry

[gillo]

monthlydiaryday last month was such a washout that I didn't bother to post. At least today I had a little more going on in my life.

Comments

[slaymesoftly]

Hmmm I forgot to mention that I ate breakfast (cereal, fruit) and lunch (fried egg on raisin bread). I presume people will figure out that I didn't go all day without eating. :) Your day sounds quite pleasantly busy. :)

[gillo]

Fried egg on raisin bread? How very unBritish. :D

It was a good day. I feel mildly ashamed I listened to the radio so long in bed, but would it have been morally better to lounge on the sofa instead?

[slaymesoftly]

LOL I love raisin bread, and these particular kind is quite small, so a sandwich is really only 1/2 a sandwich. Which cuts down on the amount of bread I'm eating.

[gillo]

It's the mix of fried eggs with raisins I find hard to get my head around. Fried eggs belong on a plate with bacon, mushrooms, sausage and toast! (And brown sauce, natch.)

[slaymesoftly]

LOL I've always mixed sweet with my fats/proteins. I put syrup on bacon, bacon on a jelly sandwich, etc. Not a big fan of sausage, and can't believe how many mushrooms you all eat! LOL But the rest of sounds good, I would just have some jam or jelly handy to put on my toast. :)

[gillo]

I like fruit with meat in some contexts - redcurrant jelly, apple sauce, prunes in beef stew. Syrup on bacon is a mystery to me, however.

[slaymesoftly]

Well usually I'm having pancakes with the bacon and the syrup is for them, I just make sure the bacon gets its share. :)

[gillo]

So, for me, bacon is the odd one out there. I like some combinations of sweet and salt, but that just doesn't work for me. If I had those three for breakfast there would be two courses, so to speak.

It all gets mixed up later, I know - but after the taste buds, not before!

I know. I'm British. ;-)

[slaymesoftly]

Well, TBH, it's sort of irrelevant in that I rarely make a real breakfast, and don't usually have bacon in the house. (Tori and I are in revolt over the factory farming of pigs, so if I can't get free-range pork, I don't ever buy it. Haven't for years). I only eat like that when we are having breakfast out somewhere. Then I get a big breakfast, but at home, it's usually cereal, blueberries and a banana with skim milk. Or a banana shake - banana, cottage cheese, blueberries (notice a theme?), brewer's yeast and milk. Sometimes I'll have pancakes for dinner if I'm home alone, but no bacon.

[gillo]

Cooked breakfasts happen in hotels for us, rarely otherwise. But bacon and eggs would definitely be on a different plate from pancakes and any of fruit, syrup or preserves.