Breakfast of Champions
I ♥ a good breakfast. It is my favorite meal of the day. I tend to adapt to the customs of the area, state, or country in which I find myself. When we used to go upstate to visit my grandmother-in-law, it was eggs and grits.
I’m already salivating, people!! All it needs is a bit of butter, and MORE BACONZ!!
When I visited Fwance, it was a bit different. They enjoy breakfast, but it’s of a more relaxed variety. It’s almost like they are just too tired to try making a good, hearty breakfast.
Pretty, isn’t it? I asked the waiter if there was any breakfast meat (SHUT IT!!), and he gave me a blank stare. They have no concept of the BACONZ!!
Germany, however, had a better concept of breakfast. After all, they are the Abe Froman* of the world.
I tell you, that is one thing I miss about Germany. Probably the only thing, along with the beer.
So, what is the quintessential breakfast for y’all? What’s the worst breakfast you’ve ever had? I know there are a few of you who have travelled extensively, so share some of the culinary masterpieces and horrors of the most important meal of the day that you have experienced.
And yes, beer counts 
*You know, “The Sausage King of Chicago”.
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I had a looong drive up into the Fraser Valley yesterday, and starving around 11:00AM, stopped at a rural cafe. Ordered an omelette.
I swear to G*d they must have used 5+ eggs!!
the damn thing was almost an inch thick and covered 1/2 a dinner plate!!! Came with hash browns and toast…no “baconz” (maybe they were Buddhists?).
We used to have a weekend place on Saltspring Island, years ago. Lady that owned the local inn/restaurant served a concoction she called ‘Rita’s Favorite’…a stack of buttermilk pancakes served with massive dollops of vanilla ice cream (jug of maple syrup on the side of course). Incredibly good!
The thing I miss the most about living in upstate NY is diners. Nobody does grease like the northeast.
2 eggs any style with homefries, toast, sausage and bacon. Mmmmmm-mmmmmm.
I don’t like “continental breakfast”, it’s a cop-out. It’s like breakfast only not. Croissants, although greasy, are just not good grease. I do enjoy the cheese with that “breakfast”, Europe does cheese much better than we do.
One of my favorite breakfasts was when I was in Kenya. I was camping on the beach near Mombasa and my buddy went to the shack that served beans and some kind of bread. I didn’t want beans so I went to the shack where the guy, for about a quarter (damn high tourist prices), would chop up a fresh pineapple. That and some local coffee made for one fan-farging-tastic breakfast, even if not greasy at all.
Best breakfast ever…3 egg ham and cheese omelet, double order of hash browns scattered, smothered,and covered, wheat toast,2 packets of jelly, and black coffee. $7.22. Then you tip the Waffle House waitress,the grillman, and you drive home for a nap.
I always loved breakfast in the Army, and damn near ever mess hall made a good one.
Two-egg ham and cheese omelet, bacon or sausage, hash browns, grits or cream of wheat, toast, two glasses of OJ, a mug of coffee, a box of cereal, milk, and a couple of trips back to refill the coffee mug.
Best breakfast? Sunday morning brunch after Saturday opening day of dove season. Dove wrapped in bacon cooked in red wine in a Dutch oven, paired with mint jelly, grits (the Staff of Life), homemade biscuits, sausage gravy (you can never have enough pork products for breakfast), and chicory coffee. Mmmmmmm. Second best? An omelette made from eggs from my own chickens, where the egg is still warm from the bird.
Worst breakfast? Those crappy “breakfast bars” that are merely compressed sawdust chips bound together with high-fructose corn syrup.
Yeah, day in and day out, you couldn’t beat a 24-hour USAF mess hall for breakfast. The only times we aviators were allowed access were those when no officer’s messes were open….like at 0300.
Eggs any style, cooked to order, SOS (++++!), sausage, bacon, grits, biscuits and gravy, plus french toast and fruit if you wanted. Coffee, milk, juices on the right side of the tray.
These meals were pure well being. All for $2 or so.
I do most heartily mess USAF SOS. Any of y’all have the honest-to-actual USAF recipe from the 80s? It was different from that in the other services.
I miss going to Pop a Taco or Tink a Taco on the West side of San Antonio. Carne guisada con queso or barbacoa (talk about grease) and we didn’t ask for hot sauce, it was chilé verde. ¡Muy Picoso!
If you’re up north and want grits, go to Denny’s. They just may be a bit thick from sitting. After mixing them up with those eggs over easy, tastes like the south. And Bacon is not an option.
Ok, ok, another favorite taco, they call it the heart stopper.
Chorizo and egg with bacon and cheese.
My usual breakfast is two fried eggs, over medium (cooked with diced green onion on top) ham, a slice of cheese toast, and a glass of milk. Fried eggs with bacon or sausage and my Mom’s biscuits and gravy are a favorite when I can get it, which isn’t often. I also love my omelets which are frankly better than what I can get in a restaurant.
It’s hard to think of a bad breakfast actually. The worst while traveling has to go to breakfast in England. What they serve as “bacon” is almost nothing like we think of bacon. It’s fatty, tough ham basically. Not at all pleasant.
As an Upstate NYer, I’ll second what Veeshir said about our diners.
As for my favorite breakfast, French Toast or Belgian waffles (pancakes will do in a pinch) with bacon. Or sausage. Better yet, both.
And anyone who didn’t get the Abe Froman reference should not be allowed to dine at Chez Quis.
What I eat every day is 1 cup cottage cheese and about a gallon of strong coffee.
What I want is 6″ of homemade pancakes smothered with Canadian maple syrup, scrambled eggs, home fries, bacon, sausages, baked beans and toast.
I indulge once in a while, but the heart problem taught me that I could have heavy food or coffee, and I made my call.
Me love Waffle House!
Someone said mine already, hash browns, scattered smothered and covered, Waffle House.
Funny breakfast story: loudmouth (but nice) guy always came into the restaurant I worked at, complaining about how long his breakfast always took. One morning he was in a particular hurry, and ordered his breakfast like this:
“I want my egg sandwich, and I want it now!”
He got 2 pieces of white bread, untoasted and unbuttered, with a whole egg, in the shell, between them. With a packet of jelly.
He didn’t complain much, after that.
GRITS! With enough butter, salt and pepper to stop a heart.
And anything spicy, wrapped in a tortilla with cheese is an excellent second choice.
Gotta agree with LTC, best breakfast was in the USAF mess. The SOS was +++++++.
The full English, aka heart attack on a plate: back bacon, fried bread, bangers, black pudding (Blutwurst), bleedin’ martyr (fired or stewed tomato), baked beans, two eggs over and tea. That’ll do until the pubs open.
What Nicole said about grits, along with some cheddar cheese mixed in.
Yum, yum…I can hear my arteries hardening!
Nice Ferris quote Aggie!!
Favorite breakfast would be my Grandmother’s. You would think the way she fed us that she thought we were not being fed.
eggs made to your liking(rest of my family was over easy and I cannot stand the running yoke so she always broke mine for me)
lots of bacon
possible sausage as well
hashbrowns
pancakes, smothered in butter and real homemade maple syrup
homemade bread toasted smothered in butter and homemade jam
I was usually a later breakfast and then we didn’t eat until supper time.
First of all….. WICCAPUNDIT, the words “Chicory” and “Coffee” should never be used in the same sentence. Ever.
The best breakfast I’ve ever had would be my sophomore year in college. I was the only guy in a house that had been converted into 5 apartments. Two of the girls that lived below me were originally from Mexico and after a night of hard drinking would grill up steak and bacon smothered in cheese all wrapped up in tortillas. With fried potatoes, OJ and some of my Colombian Blue Mountain to wash it all down it was sweet ambrosia.
The worst breakfast I’ve ever eaten, would probably be what I eat most mornings these days. Some variation of a cardboard like cereal that my lovely wife buys me and makes me eat to keep my cholesterol in check. I still have some good coffee though. Right now it is an Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. What can I say….. I’m a chemical snob.
Buttermilk scratch biscuits, Homemade Jam or Jelly, Homemade Sausage and some thick cut peppered bacon, eggs over easy, hash browns with onions and peppers, gravy, grits, fresh sliced German Johnson tomatoes, fresh ground coffee, fresh orange juice,,,and a good German wheat beer.
Salt and Pepper to taste…and real Butter…and a lemon for the beer.
I have to agree with LTC….when I was flying with the Air Force, breakfast was ALWAYS awesome. (Coming back from a mission at 0400, I was always hungry.) Bacon, Denver omelets, grits, French toast, orange juice, coffee, and hot sauce!!! /wink
Slightly:
I think Cafe du Monde in New Orleans might differ with you on the chicory thing. According to their website, they add chicory to soften the bitterness of dark roasted coffee, adding an almost chocolate flavor to the Cafe Au Lait.
Anyway, its what I growed up on, so it always takes me back home. To each his own.
A big breakfast with eggs, bacon, homefries a short stack, OJ and ice cold milk is nice and all, but I think I’d rather have the nipples.
Late to the party and likely no one’ll see this but I have to add my two cents:
Had a GREAT breakfast just this AM with my girls right after church.
Texas style cinnamon raisin French Toast, two eggs over easy and a nice rasher of crisp bacon. Bottomless cup of black coffee and roll me over to the easy chair.
Who cares what it cost? Awesome, says I.
I too am supposed to eat bullcrap for breakfast. However, I’ve discovered that if you add some sugar, cinnamon, apple juice and 4 or 5 crumbled up slices of bacon, oatmeal becomes somewhat more palatable.