Evolution of a Breakfast, or Tales of the Breakfast Wars

[gnomi]

So I'm eating breakfast and thinking about breakfast.

Comments

[mabfan]

Is this in honor of Pi Day? Pie for breakfast!

[gnomi]

It was, actually, just random.

But you remind me that I wanted to do a brief Pi Day post...

[madknits]

When I was in high school, my father was quite ill, and my mother spent much of her time tending to his needs. So she was usually asleep when we would get up for breakfast. Since there was usually chocolate cake in the house, breakfast would consist of a slab of cake and a glass of milk.

Yes, I was one of those kids who really did eat cake for breakfast.

[gnomi]

There's nothing wrong, in my book, with cake for breakfast.

Bill Cosby agrees.

[dianora2]

I have the same breakfast every weekday morning, a toasted whole wheat bagel with butter and a small coffee. Breakfast of champions. But I'm like you, I don't like to eat as soon as I get up, blech.

And once in a while I'm bad and have a donut or two instead. *g*

[gnomi]

I know some people who wake up hungry and can eat right after getting out of bed.

Those people confuse me.

[tygerseye]

I am this person. I wake up starving.

[tygerseye]

Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, and therefore often my largest. It's not uncommon for me to have a yogurt with grape nuts and some kind of fruit in it like a banana or berries, and some toast or a bagel, plus water and coffee and orange or grapefruit juice.

I'd much rather eat breakfast than dinner. So much so, that I often end up having breakfast food for dinner. ;-)

[gnomi]

Your breakfast and mine aren't that divergent. Mine has evolved over time, but I think that my current combo is the perfect one for my current situation (what with it having to be preparable and edible in my cube).

And there's nothing wrong with breakfast at dinner time. One of our local kosher restaurants (Rubins) has a breakfast menu that you can order from at any time, and folks do so.

[tygerseye]

If I lived near you, that would be my favorite restaurant.

And yes, my breakfast has also evolved from the "at my desk" mentality. :D

[autotruezone]

"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance."

--Steven Wright

[half_double]

I'm one of those people who wake up hungry. I don't think I could eat right after getting out of bed, but if I haven't eaten within an hour of waking up, there is Big Trouble in Little Eli. Leora eats breakfast at 8:30 on weekdays (2 hours after getting up) and gets discombobulated by weekends, when she has to eat about the same time I do, 1/2 an hour after getting up. She says it feels wrong

[gnomi]

Going to class in PJs was one of the excellent perks of Riklis (the dorm/classroom building I lived in). I can't even remember which one of my cohorts started it (though, even all these years later, I have an idea of who it may have been). And Miki (our Hebrew teacher) didn't mind. There were only seven of us in that class, so Miki was very flexible with us. PJs and tea in class, watching movies instead of her lecturing, it was all good.

(It was ulpan for those of us who came to the country already fluent. So it was 4 yeshiva graduates and 3 US-born-kids-of-Israelis or something like that.)