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Ok.

Damnit, what did you eat today, man?  :-P


And if you skipped breakfast, shame on you.

Where do you even buy pig milk?

Cup of coffee prepared by my wife and the warm feeling I get when I watch Elena tuck into a full bowl of Oats 'n Apple.

I don't do breakfast, unless the hotel is paying for it.

I used to have porridge every day: the Starbucks in my office does it with honey, jam or various stuff like that if the genuine, straight thing isn't enough for you.  I like porridge.  Except when a Spanish lady takes over the franchise and decides to make it in a sock or some shit, because it now tastes of, well, socks.  I'm not joking: independent conversations with two different people have provided the same footwear-based comparison.  I just agree with them.

I am starving in the morning, and I am filled with the desperate desire to eat multiple bacon rolls.  In the absence of porridge I cast about for something else to trick my stomach into thinking it's happy to let me think about work instead of persistently demanding of me that I supply smoked bacon and brown sauce on a delicious, buttered white roll.  Recently, the substitute has tended to be Pret's vegetable sushi.  I mean, how unhealthy can that be in comparison to tasty, succulent, heart-disease-causing, cancer-linked, chest-disease-inducing dead pig?

Gym first (chest+cardio this am) and then three eggs scrambled and topped with a mix of shredded cheese (colby, jack, chedder and something else I forget) and some habenaro hot sauce.  I drank water with breakfast, I've given up caffeine for a while.  We'll see how that goes.

I had half of a Blimpie Sub this morning. But this thread makes me desire biscuits, bacon and sausage gravy.

Southern food can't be beat imo.

It's great as long as I don't have to cook it.

Breakfast lasts until at least noon for me, meaning that I stop drinking coffee just before lunch.

You know what's good is that raw cow's milk.  Tastes much better than the processed stuff, unless you drink Mayfield brank milk in which case it is pretty similar.

Banana and diet coke.

My favorite is the cliche pizza and beer, though.

Mmm.. second day pizza... I don't know my body would hold up to the second day kebab these days, but day-after curry is still great.

But for favourite breakfasts, it's full Scottish.  And about twice a year, usually early in the rugby season when I crave protein, I'll cook myself my uber-breakfast of death: fruit pudding, fried duck eggs, hash browns, bacon, pork-and-apple sausages, black pudding, oatmeal pudding, fried mushrooms, fried banana, haggis slices, clootie dumpling, fried pancakes, fried potatoes and onions, baked beans, and fried tomatoes, all served with buttered toast and mugs of tea.  I grill as much of it as i can, and fry the rest in olive oil, but it's pretty much cardiac arrest on a stick.  And cooking a breakfast like that, without keeping stuff warm on the hotplate, so that it all finishes at once, is one of the technically toughest things to cook that I know.

No low Fat Stuff on there.

I love the banana.

Indeed. And a cigarette. Or 3.

Brown Sugar & Cinnamon Pop-Tarts, Tums, and Diet Coke

The whole thing takes a few frying pans, but the mushrooms fried in the same pan as the bananas (although starting earlier than them) gives the mushrooms a gorgeous edge.

And of course, haggis and banana - like haggis and sauces based on loads of fruits - is delicious, especially as a pizza topping.

Banana.
Oatmeal.
Orange juice.
Hard boiled egg.

If I get a free hotel breakfast, I go with bacon or ham, home fries and a couple over-easy with toast (no butter or jam). One place we stay has a platter-served breakfast with endless platters. They put the goddamned bacon platter next to me. The guy on the other side and I demolished at least two platters of bacon every morning. I love that place (Hemlock Hall in the Adirondacks if you get the chance).

Strawberries and Cream Oatmeal, Cup of Coffee and the bitter sting of having to go to work to buy more fucking Oatmeal.

Marry me.

Haha.

Since I wake up at 4am (2 1/2 hour commute on trains), I eat a bowl of cereal (whatever the hell is avaliable) and a large glass of water or if my wife is feeling extra nice, oatmeal w/ peaches.  No coffee until I get to work 2 1/2 hours later, at which point I'll have a breakfast bar (something with fiber), a banana, and 2 cups of coffee (one instant, one brewed).

On weekends though, pancakes of all kinds, or hella-fatty-breakfast, although, not as good as Endie mentioned.

I'm rarely even up for breakfast, and even if I am, I skip the meal because it tends to make me want to go right back to sleep.

Hmm...

I would think that the period you wake up is breakfast time. Doesn't matter the actual time of day.

Or are you saying you won't make something yourself?

Well, I'm lucky if I am up at 10am, which I suppose Could be breakfast time, but I usually just watch TV instead until about 2pm. Then I just eat whatever is around.

Lately, it's been ramen with eggs and kecap manis. I have nothing resembling a "diet."


Edit: Oh, someone bought some milk. I guess I can have some Cheerios.

Costco brand Slim-Fast knock-off shake in a steel can.

Generally, fruit of some kind. Sometimes I skip breakfast.

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God I love that image. Been around forever too.

Good luck with the diet.  I'm sure you will look splenda when it's done!

I had some oatmeal and coffee.  What I really wanted was coffee and a cigarette.  I want that every morning.  It's irritating.

Fruit snacks.

I'm concerned. The pig appears to be male, and it's still dripping.

Most Mornings: XLarge 2 Cream and a whole wheat bun, butter on the side from Timmy's

What I wish I had time for: Country Omlette with French Toast on the side from IHOP.

My breakfast was octopus sushi, spicy tuna sushi, and Philadelphia rolls.  Cheap college town sushi stands are heaven  :-D

You are a rotten bastard! I just ate a packet of saltines at my desk  :cry:

I just had the most fattening burrito I could make.

Steak
Nacho Cheese
Onion
Sour Cream
Hot Salsa
Rice
Awesome

I bet your roommates hate your ass.


Literally.

Where can you buy awesome?

You can't, it's been discontinued and superseded by Splendid. Do try to keep up.

I don't want splendaid, I want the real thing.

Breakfast = protein shake. 

To those that don't eat breakfast, you should really try to start.  There are MANY benefits to starting the day off with breakfast. 

You mean my coworkers.

AHHAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Hmmm.

On Sundays,  I usually try to cook up a batch of from scratch pancakes (usually banana or blueberry) and separate into 3 or 4 containers for the week.  It's an excuse to eat lots and lots of real maple syrup.  Adirondack,  not that damn Vermont stuff.

Vanilla and Almond Special K is the go to breakfast when I've exhausted my hoard of pancakes.  

On a work day, a banana and a powerade.

On a Sunday, the All-Star Special at Waffle House (buttermilk waffle, 2 sausage patties, hash browns, 2 slices toast, 3 eggs scrambled) and a sweet tea.

I don't generally eat breakfast because my insides don't tend to wake up until about lunchtime, regardless of when I get out of bed.  I eat breakfast foods on weekends sometimes, but it's still around 1 pm, so I don't think it counts.

No lingonberry pancakes?

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I've just started doing this based upon your recommendation to do it in another thread as part of my new regime. I haven't eaten breakfast regularly in 20 years, so it has been interesting to try again. I usually have a couple of Eggos and some of that microwavable pre-cooked bacon (which is surprisingly low in fat/calories for bacon). I have a godawful 7 a.m. class that I need to get out of my house by 6:20 or so twice a week. I got the shakes for those morning so I can drink it on the way and not have to get up any earlier that I already do. If you have a good recipe for protein shakes that are a good day-starter, I'd love to hear it.

Buy a juicer or nice blender, toss in nice fruits, and enjoy?

I'm not that big of a fruit fan so it has to be pretty good for me to get all that interested in it.

How can you not like coconuts?

This stuff and skim milk for me is like crack, I eat it every weekday.  I have never been a breakfast person but the other half essentially forced me to occupy my time between lunch (11:30) and when I wake up (5:00AM).  It really helps, but most of the time I feel like I'm just eating because it's something you are supposed to do early in the morning.

Fresh coconut makes my teeth itch.  So does chocolate and Brazil nuts.

I hate coconut with the burning passion of a thousand suns. That and fresh tomatoes are the two foods I absolutely cannot abide.

I thought I was the only person in the world who didn't like fresh tomatoes!  I don't feel so alone now. 

I don't like tomatoes either.  But then I don't like a lot of things, which makes for many difficulties when one has a rather restrictive diet.

Bhodi:  The Real Thing (http://www.splenda.com/)

I love Marinara and other tomato based sauces or things that incorporate tomato paste but just can't stand them raw.

Your standard supermarket tomato here in the US has had all its flavor and taste breed out of it in favor of looking good and being able to survive packing and shipping without damaging. It's actually a law in Florida, where most of the fresh tomatoes in the US come from, that tomatoes have to look good to be shipped out of state. Taste doesn't matter. If you read cookbooks on making tomato-based pasta sauces, many of them recommend using canned tomatoes instead of "fresh" ones just because your typical supermarket tomato is so bad here.

When I wake up (I'm a night owl, I usually wake up at 7 pm or so) I drink some tea and eat some vitamins from costco that taste terrible.


I also hate tomatoes... The way the seeds pop between my teeth and the too salty taste. Onions are another no no.

Damn, I love both onions and tomatoes.


Don't use them much for breakfast though. Other than salsa for breakfast tacos, and onions for hash browns.

Before I lived in the ghetto I grew a nice lil veggie garden. Coming home to some nice fresh raw salsa with homegrown ingredients was teh splendiforousness. Tomatoes and onions are staples in my diet, along with garlic.

Damn I should do that more often. My mom has most basic vegatables in her garden, and some exotic stuff to boot.

I do not mind store bought tomatoes though. At least the ones I get.

I don't like tomatoes or tomato sauce.  Pizza is the one junk food I don't eat.  I do, however, like salsa and ketchup.

Today, I had a bunch of green grapes and 4 diet pepsis for breakfast.

I live in the centre of Edinburgh, in a flat, but I'm on the waiting list for an allotment: you put your name down and the city (eventually) gives you a plot of land in the city centre where you can cultivate your own fresh vegetables.  It's not a big plot, but enough to get some vegetables that taste real.  It's no uncommon in the UK, and the practise dates back to the mid 19th century drive to help foster self-improvement in the "urban labouring classes".

Here's an example (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=10&z=18&ll=55.970532,-3.194903&spn=0.002116,0.003996&t=k&om=1).

Not trying to be preachy or anything, but do you drink for energy? Food would do it better.

...

Today was another standard: Pancakes, scrambled eggs, hash browns, and another pig.

And the pig dispensed orange juice this time around.

Wee, wee, wee all the way home, eh?


Same as yesterday gym (back and cardio) and then an omlete with swiss and bacon.

uhhhhh no. (http://www.sugar.ca/).

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Lol, "Splendid".

I'm a fan of EAS Myoplex shakes (http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/eas/myoplexnew.html) blended with skim milk for breakfast and lunch when I'm in a "cut" phase.  This way I get the protein I need, keep carbs down, and don't have to worry about taking a multivitamin.  The only shortcoming is that they're a little pricey.  I'm sure I could find something cheaper, but these taste pretty good and I don't have to do anything more than pour a packet into the blender with my eyes half open.

Two bucks a shake?

You won't think that's expensive if you start making morning runs to starbucks.

Thankfully, I hate coffee.  It's expensive compared to Slimfast, but it's better balanced and tastes better.   

I buy them on the vine here when they look good. They totally suck compared to homegrown, but it gets the job done and tastes good.

Tomatoes, onion, jalapeno, garlic is the basic salsa cruda I make. I always play with it, using a little vinegar or lime; maybe put in some assorted peppers (pablano, anaheim, bell, whatever looks good at the market), sometimes I put leftover jar salsa in for a base.

I eat it by the bowlful alongside quesadillas. So easy to make both of them.

(banana + diet coke again this morning...going to go nuts and have another banana right now! (or would that be 'go bananas'?))

It's weird how peoples' tastes towards tomatoes vary. I love them pretty much every way imagined except one - I can't stand tomato soup. On the other hand, I have a buddy who hates most veggies, tomato's included, but likes tomato soup.

I think the only vegetable I've tried that I disliked was water chestnuts. I've never understood the hatred of all the green vegetables - artichokes, broccoli, asparagus, spinach, green beans.

I love all things tomato except fresh tomatoes on sandwiches or burgers (or alone). I LOVE fresh salsa/pico de gallo, tomato soup, marinara, etc.

I haven't had breakfast yet. I have some lowfat Key Lime yogurt sitting in front of me, but haven't found the energy to get to the breakroom for a spoon. Also have some instant Apples and Cinnamon oatmeal on standby. Last, but not least, I am jonesing for a some Starbucks lovin', so that will happen sooner than later methinks.

Roma tomatos (diced), cilantro, red onion, jalapeno, and lime juice to taste.  Let it stand in a covered bowl overnight.  Pico ftw!

I hate most anything raw or unprepped. I hate tomatos raw, but will eat them in most any other form. Lettuce, I will not eat. At all.

Most fruit I will not eat raw, but will have if used in something...except for apples. I fucking hate apples. Apple pie, too.



Yeah, I'm picky as hell.

Vegetables are for satanists. Except for fried okra, some lettuce in salads (preferably baby greens) and spinach in spinach dip or spinach bread, those are ok. And baked beans.

Today's breakfast was a couple of Eggo's, Cafe du Monde coffee black, and the searing disappointment of still being a failure of a working stiff instead of the novelist I'm determined to be.

I don't use cilantro. I've tried it in various amounts but I just don't like the flavor it adds.

And yeah, I make huuuuge batches so some sits in the fridge for a couple days. It gets better the longer it sits, but it rarely sits long...

You are a brave man. I have a whole case of the stuff, but I sure as hell wouldn't drink it black.

Thanks for the reply, but those are very high in iron. I have hemochromatosis so taking one of those every day would mean more trips to the leeches, er... I mean phlebotomist.

Ah, sorry to hear it.  I live at 7300 feet, so the extra iron in combination with my workouts really helps. You could just buy some chocolate flavored whey protein (not vitamin fortified) and mix it with skim milk.  Something like this (http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/opt/whey.html) is quite popular and pretty inexpensive. 

If you blend it on high to get it think and creamy, most are pretty tasty.  Drop in a strawberry or two and/or a banana and it's a decent breakfast. It's also considerably cheaper in bulk than the Myoplex I first mentioned.

Thanks for the advice. I'll give that second one a try.

You can now get whey protein at most decent grocery stores.  Even WalMart sells it now.  If you have a Whole Foods or some other Natural Foods/Coop in town, I'd say buy a 1lb container and try it for a week.  It's not for everyone... so I'd try it before buying a decent quantity. 

I don't like broccoli or spinich because I find them extremely bitter.  It's why I don't like a lot of food.  (Or beer.)

Texture is the other thing which gives me a lot of trouble.  While I don't mind the taste, the texture of mashed potatoes makes me gag.

Maybe you've never had good mashed potatoes.

Utah seems to be the supplement capital of the universe, so I shouldn't have too much trouble tracking something down.

I love breakfast, all other meals suck and I only involve myself with them due out of obligation.  But as I have gotten older my stomach has developed the tendency to reject anything eaten prior to about 9:30am.  Which is bullshit because you can't get good breakfast once you are at work.

This weekend I had bacon and waffles on Saturday and Sunday was well a whole mess of various snackjunk.

If you are in the Midwest, get Yoder's Amish mashed potatos!! Hands down, the best I've ever had.

P.S. the best chip in the world-  http://www.ballreich.com/ Its like you are eating a stick of butter.  I send away for these chips when I am in godless New England/foreign climes.   

Sex for breakfast ftw.

Morning breath ftl. ;)


No really, you win. Breakfast of Champions.

Nah, that's a totally seperate issue and not to be confused with food.

"Looks fade - get yourself a wife that can cook" is one of the all time truisms.

Besides, as I remember (ooo, it's been so long) Sex for breakfast serves only to give you, well, an appetite....

Woof.

If there is a god, I'm going to punch him in the face when I die, just for creating those fucking horrendous things.



I haven't actively eaten breakfast since I graduated High School.

Ah, you're one of those passive breakfasters....

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Dude, cocunuts dispense the freakin' NECTAR OF THE GODS. What are you guys talking about?

Freakin' heathens.

I just can't stand any coffee with creamer or sugar. Never liked it. About the only thing I'll drink in coffee is a hazelnut creamer when I'm in the mood, or coffee syrups, especially hazelnut. Hazelnut coffee has got to be my favoritest coffee ever.

EDIT: Coconut milk is the jizz of Lucifer, you heathen. All coconut products are in some way, shape or form, organs from the body of the Maleficient One himself. Satan's Bollocks, I promise you. When you are being face-raped in Hell by the red-horned demon, the balls across your chin will be COCONUTS.

I would actually kick people's asses for dissing coconut milk.

[edit] Even if I can't spell coconut damnit.

NERD FIGHT!

No way, man. It's personal. Serious business. Dissing coconut milk is like dissing my mom.  :-P

Your milk's so fat, when it backs up, it makes a beeping noise!

Stray is a palm tree?

Count me as a cocohater. Especially the shredded stuff. Ecch.

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Without coconut, where would I get my Thai curry? Heathens.

I'll let the coffee thing slide a bit as personally, i can't stand having any sugar in my coffee or tea. Favorite way of having coffee though is cafe au lait.

I hate fresh tomatos.  The processed forms are great.  Fresh is nasty.

Fresh tomatoes are great if you like the taste of shit.

Mmm fresh tomatoes, with just a bit of salt.

The problem is you have to have home-grown tomatoes.  They've genetically engineered supermarket tomatoes so they're so firm and nasty they aren't worth eating.  Fucking corn's getting the same way.

I eat almost any vegetable raw vs cooked. Most cooked vegetables taste like stewed socks when cooked as a side and have all the texture of the same.   Brussels Sprouts, Asparagus need to be steamed (and w/ a healthy amt of butter & sour cream on the sprouts. The Rom-Hung GF's family taught me that one. Delicious.) corn needs to be boiled or grilled.

About the only veggie I just plain won't eat are beets.  They were put here to make Vodka, not for eating.

Some of you guys sound like a bunch of 12 year olds with your eating habits.

How can you dislike a good insalata caprese (http://whatscookingamerica.net/Salad/InsalataCaprese.htm)?  Seen this recipe done kabob style with cherry tomatoes.  Just as good.

Roma Tomatoes are great. Homegrown tomatoes are excellent. Beyond that, I never touch the things fresh, nor do I ever use fresh tomatoes to cook with in any of my recipes. Canned simply trumps them in taste and they don't require any prep work.

I used to love them when I was younger, but I'm not sure if "advances" in food science have ruined them within my lifetime, or I just got older and had so many bad ones in a row I soured on them.

Coconut = good
Raw "fresh" tomato = balls esp. because cutting them is fucking immpossible.

That looks really damn good. I'm going to have to give it a try in the next few weeks. Thanks.


If you can't cut the tomato, your knife isn't sharp enough.  It's really just that simple.

Being Celiac and Lactose Intolerant (likely due to celiac) means most of the normal American Diet is BAD and  prevents me from eating the majority of the things I do like.  Having taste buds that don't function like the rest of humanity is simply a cruel joke played on me by the universe.

I'm probably worse than a 12 year old.

At least you have an excuse.

The closest I come are the tomato dlices in a jar filled with oil and stuff...yum.

I quit eating breakfast in high school, because I found it made me ravenous by 10am.  If I didn't eat anything, I was cool until lunchtime rolled around.  Nowadays, breakfast is a treat for me, like dessert is to some people.  I work in a restaraunt and on the weekend day shifts, when we do mostly prep and have few customers, someone gets breakfast duty.

BTW, recent scientific studies have shown that hungry rats fare better on tests of intelligence than ones who are sated.  It appears that being hungry puts one in "hunting mode", where the organism is more alert.  So much for those state funded breakfasts for schoolchildren to make them better students.  They might be ok if the kids were getting steak and eggs for breakfast, but you know that is NOT what the state is shelling out for.

While I agree that fresh tomatoes are delicious (as are sundried tomatoes, sunblush tomatoes and just about every other form) it's quite important to eat cooked tomatoes too, as that's the best way to get lycopenes, which some (not all) studies conducted so far have shown may help prevent cancers of the lung, stomach and prostate.  The best way to cook them is lightly fried in olive oil, which is (with garlic and basil) God's Own Delicious.

Luckily for the astonishing number of picky fuckers in this thread, tomato ketchup and tomato-based pizza topping also provide good sources of lycopenes.

PS While I'm preaching, both women and men should drink non-pasteurised pomegranate juice every day, especially once they get into their thirties.  I have it as part of my breakfast as often as I can.  Evidence is emerging that it's pretty useful in combating the appearance and then growth of various cancers, most impressively prostate cancer (http://healthcare.ucla.edu/vital-signs/article-display?article_id=605).

Best way to eat a tomato:

Get a fresh mountain tomato (the fuck off large ones that are slightly green).

Cut whole in top.

Fill with lichorich alcohol (aarak in arabic).

Put lots of pepper an salt on the top.

Let sit for 30 mins.

Cut into slices.

Enjoy!

That "Arak" stuff is terrible. I had some with my Lebonese friends and it looks like freaking semen in a glass. I can't imagine it enhancing the flavor of a tomato.

Go with Hunt's ketchup. Based on America's Test Kitchen, I recently switched from Heinz, which is more sweet. Hunt's is a bit more vinegary, a nice change imo. Heinz is a bit thicker, so if you need it to stick better, that still might be the way to go.

Tomatoes...I don't buy the ginormous freaks that are a pale shade of pink. I get romas or the ones that come on the vine. The vine tomatoes don't have the huge stiff cell walls of the freakmatoes, but they have a lot more flavor. Nothing like homegrown, but I've found them to be the best easily available.

I really base my entire menu around what looks good, I rarely know what I'll eat before I hit the market. Peruse the various areas to see what is looking fresh and tasty and work up something from there. Even with a decent bin of veggies, I still have to go through it and find the very best specimen, I may be a bit obsessed with fresh and pristine ingredients (which my girlfriend likes to point out, is a good thing).

I also shop for dinner every day so I have fresh stuff, I might buy one day ahead if I'm going to use frozen veggies. I never let stuff sit in the fridge more than three days, I'm also a master of slipping leftover ingredients into recipes.

Yes, because I live in fear of getting prostate cancer...

 :-P

I live in fear of getting a prostate exam, much less cancer.

The line we used to hear from the upperclassmen in med school: If you're getting a prostate exam from a male physician and feel two hands on your back, it's time to get a new physician. 

Or at least a reacharound!

I think my point was missed.

You don't have balls, we got it. Frankly, it went without saying.  :-P

Lay off, like 80% of the board still thinks she's a gay man. 

I thought she was an extremely tolerant panda, way to ruin things for me Triforcer...

In one of the Science mags (Discovery, SciAm, PopSci, I forget which) there was a GREAT article. There is a new fiberoptic probe that's the width of a human hair. Should be rolling out to commercial use in the next several years, just in time for my probing! And may I say it's about time the best way to check for such a popular cancer isn't a centimeter thick tube jammed further up the wrong place than even people who enjoy that kind of thing would ever want. Go go science!

I just wanted to ditto this. I eat Oatmeal and wash it down with a Diet Dr. Pepper. I now have a 100oz humongus jug on my desk that I feel about halfway with water also based on that thread.

And yes, I've noticed a difference. Since that thread I've lost almost 20 pounds due to changes I've made: eat breakfast, drink lots of water, soup for lunch, pretty much whatever I want for dinner.

BTW, my dreambreakfast is pancakes, scrambled eggs, toast, and lots of bacon, much like some others in this thread.

Nice! I shouldn't be needing regular exams for a couple more years (had one once already, and while it wasn't as bad as I had feared, it wasn't anything I want to make a habit of), so I will hold out hope. Yay technology!

I grew up eating things that we grew ourselves.  Those fresh tomatoes were the basis for my dislike.  For reference, I can eat an onion that I pull from the dirt, and could do the same to corn if I was hungry enough.

If  you are pulling ears of corn out of the dirt I would have to say that someone is playing a joke on you and I certainly wouldn't eat them.

/lol

@ Riggs, what thread?  Oh, and I wish I had more appreciation for soup.  But I don't, I'm a sandwich man :(

Hunt's tastes much better as a condiment on burgers, I'm not sold on it for fries yet. I also made the switch based on Cook's Illustrated.

Speaking of fries, I love mayo on fries. Holland sold me on that.

I can barely eat a small french fry let alone drenching it with more fat.  I don't know how you guys can eat that stuff.  I guess 15 years of low fat eating has turned me into a fat pussy.  Anything deepfried will make me sick after more than a couple of bites.  Especially with the film it leaves behind in your mouth. 

You shouldn't eat deep fried stuff cold.

I considered rewording my post but decided to leave that opening.  Touche.

HTH  :-D

It was Belgium for me.  He started slathering it on from something that looked a little like a Mr Whippee ice cream nozzle and I was like "whoa there" in my In-Scotland-We-Add-Ketchup-or-Chippy-Sauce way.  But I was sold at the first bite.

The other impressive thing is that you buy your chips in Belgium - much as in Holland - from a kiosk staffed by a bloke who speaks at least four languages.  I tried ordering in my stilted German, swapped to French when I remembered we were in the Walloon south then found myself addressed in reply in perfect English.  Turned out he spoke Dutch too, but then speaking German and Dutch is like speaking English and Doric, just with more throat-clearing sounds.

Ah, but did you make it up to Brussels, and have the Mussels?

That came out differently than you intended, methinks.
I think I agree, based on Heinz's thicker consistency. I don't use ketchup/mustard/mayo on burgers, I cook juicy burgers and pile on tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, cheese, whatever.

We broke in the grill for the season last week with a couple great steaks but this past weekend we did Splendid Burgers. Fried onions/garlic/fresh thyme/bacon/worcester/salt/pepper mixed in with the burger. Used 85% lean because of the bacon fat, they were still super juicy. Melted swiss plus a nice slab of tomato on a fresh kaiser.

Try mixing in some crumbled blue cheese next time.... Made some bambi burgers with deer meat, bacon and blue cheese and they were delicious.

I usually just crumble the bleu cheese on the top as they are finishing up.  I use 80% lean beef, also.  Any less than that and you really end up with dry tasteless burgers.

Bingo!

It was the English that got me doing this.  "We don't have catsup Yank.  Try this." 

Mayo is ok, but tartar sauce is far superior. Especially good garlic-y tartar. Mmmmmm.

If I'm going to grill burgers....  Put ground beef in a mixing bowl.  Throw in some spices,  some chopped up onions.  Dump in some sauce for flavor:  soy, teriyaki, worcestire, whatever.  Mix it by hand for a while.  Then make your patties.  Mmmm.

I'm really hungry now, thanks a lot. My fave brekkie is eggs benedict. Or as I like to call it, "eggs with benefits". I ate it almost every day on my honeymoon, which, in combination with multiple pina coladas daily (also love ALL cocnut products), caused me to gain 5 pounds in a week. My favorite breakfasts usually are some combination of breakfast burrito, pork products and fried taters with ketchup, but I have become a recent fan of simple fried eggs over medium with toast. The runny yolks are gravy! And biscuits & gravy is something I always get if they're offered at hotels. Can't help myself. I make pretty stellar B&G at home sometimes.

I recently tried making my own ketchup from pureed sundried toms, canned toms, chipotles and some other accoutrements (brown sugar, vinegar, Korean chili paste, S&P), and it's pretty good with oven-fried fingerling taters w/sea salt and cracked pepper.

I love every food I've ever tried except osso bucco. Too cartilage-y, and I don't care for marrow. Tripe is also not my favorite, but I'd prolly eat it again in pho if it was put in front of me. Not bad, just not anything to write home about. Kinda like calamari, but sorta crunchy.

I make smoothies sometimes on weekends if my tummy is too iffy from overindulgence the night before: some combo of frozen berries, peaches, and mango, fat-free yogurt, splash of apple juice (for proper emulsion) and a scoop of Trader Joe's soy protein. Blitz. Done. But for that many calories I could just have real food, so I try not to do it all the time.

Eggs Benedict FTW. My mother has made it all of twice.

She refuses to make it again. Also, I sure as hell am not going to make it.  :|

As if it's not artery clogging enough to fry them twice in beef fat. And people think we're weird for deep frying Snickers.

Stop talking about fries. One of the reasons I needed to lose weight was my really lousy diet that consisted mostly of fast food. I haven't had it in 3 weeks and I'm really starting to get the DTs.

You know what I hate about tomatoes these days? We get these ones that have hard bits running through the center of the tomato most of the way down from where the tomato connects to the plant (I am obviously a botanist). I mean, fuck, tomatoes are meant to be soft not firm with hard bits in the middle. Pisses me off no end. I can no longer eat normal tomatoes in most foods because it's just a tasteless, wet, texture-hell of a thing wedged in otherwise fine food. It's now right alongside pickles, beetroot, and pineapple as my "things that do NOT go in a burger" list, only I don't eat the tomato seperate like I do those other things. If I can get my hands on on some nice tomatoes that are actually ripe and full red I go to town though. I also can't eat whole cherry tomatoes anymore, I'm the most unlucky person in the world with these things, if there's a bad one in a batch it will be in the container we buy and it will be on my plate. You can only bite into so many rotten pieces of hell before you can no longer bring yourself to try it. I cringed right then as I thought about biting into one.

The only food I truly hate in all forms is parmesian cheese. Just the smell of that nasty stuff makes me want to throw up.


My favourite breakfast is to oil up a pan, drop in some butter, and then cook up chopped bacon, onion, and garlic. Towards the end I throw on some soy sauce and when it's done I put it on a sandwich with a slice of cheese. It makes me feel like I'm going to have a heart attack shortly after, but it sure tastes good! My usual breakfast is whatever cerial I'm not sick of that week. Usually rotating between cornflakes, rice bubbles, wheat bix, and cheerios. Most days I just really don't like eating before midday but I force myself to eat something I can ignore as I eat it and those cereals fit the bill. I haven't had coffee for years because I realised one day that I hadn't had any drugs for months and figured I might as well do without them permanently. At the same time I hadn't had a soda or cordial (I think you guys call it cool-aid? basically flavoured sugarwater) for a while and when I had a coke it was like coating my mouth in sugar syrup which was not pleasant. The only thing I drink now is water and the odd milo (milk mixed with a malt powder), and the very odd single beer when offered at a friend's place.


EDIT: Holy food essay Batman! I was kinda writing this while doing other things, adding a bit here, a bit there. I didn't realise it was getting so big, honest. :P

Even fresh parmesan, by which i mean still in the block rather than grated?  Grated parmesan in a container is vile stuff, utterly unrelated to the real thing in taste, smell or texture.

If you don't like Parmesan, have you tried gran Padano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grana_Padano) or pecorino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecorino)?  The latter in particular is the king of Italian hard cheeses, sweet and salty and gorgeous eaten sliced with fruit (especially with freshly-picked grapes at ten at night as a desert after a meal eaten under the stars on an Umbrian hillside.  Pretentious, moi?)

My favorite parmesan is the stuff in the cardboard tube.  Jeff Smith says it tastes like the cardboard it comes in, and I can only say that I must hate good things because I likes me some processed cheese powder.

To be honest I couldn't tell you, the only stuff we have had for a while is the stuff in the container, and I'm not certain if we've had anything else. I'll have to pop down to a deli and ask for a sample sometime.

Parmesan tastes a hell of a lot better than it smells.

Eggs Bennie - the secret is learning a quick cheater version of the sauce. Hollandaise/Bernaise sauces are way to much work, learn a good easy substitute - a simple white cheese sauce works - and you've got eggs bennie as often as you like.

I've been eating All Bran Rat Turds for the last while for breakfast. I'm much more regular now.

I'm 99.44/100 % sure that tripe shouldn't be crunchy.  In Pho or otherwise.

Yea, I wondered about that too. Any I've seen in Pho looks more slimy than anything.

Gods yes.  Even without the bun (and good toasted buns make the burger *sob*), this is the way to go.

Fries deserve mustard.

Assuming Pho=Vietnamese breakfast thing, there shouldn't be anything crunchy in it (besides the bread things). This is based off what they actually eat in North Vietnam.

Also
No. Chips deserve better than that, give them mayonaise.

Pho=Vietnamese beef noodle soup, possibly the best thing ever.  I guess I would probably eat it for breakfast, though.

Bean sprouts are crunchy. Tripe has a texture that is toothsome, not slimy.Not really crunchy like an apple, but definitely has bite.

ALso, I don't know how all you people get so far in life with the palate of a 5-year old. Hell, I grew up white trash and still developed a sense of taste.  

Tripe is intestine/stomach lining.  You could compare it to squid or octopus but not if they're fried and it's also not even nearly that chewy.  I wouldn't say it was slimy either though.

Anyway Pho Quyen is Vietnamese beef noodle soup, Pho is just soup.  Pho Quyen when done well is awesome.

I wish I could spell it out in Thai, but Pho Quyen is called (transliterated) "Guee Teel" or something like that. Or maybe that's the name of the rice noodles they use (which tend to be thicker than Vietnamese stuff I've had). My mom makes it all the time. Good stuff.

Uh, for breakfast?

I've had pho for breakfast.

There's Nothing wrong with that.

I taught Engilish in Hanoi for about 8 months, Pho Bo (beef) for breakfast works well. Plenty of chilli sauce and it gets you quickly acclimatised to the heat and humidity.

Also I've recently been converted to chicken livers done Middle Eastern style. Chopped up and fried with a bit of salt, white pepper and cinammon then some balsamic and lemon juice. I throw in a bit of paprika if I feel like spicing it up a bit. With some warm bread, hummus and some fresh olives and tomatoes it is delicious.

Fuck you for making me miss home.

Must.Find.Lebanese.Restaurant.

Also: "acclimatised", that's the first time I've heard or read that word.  I'm so ignorant.

According to several Vietnamese people I've asked, pho is supposed to be breakfast or lunch food.

I woke up around 5pm today and had Los Dos Molinos for breakfast. It's the only meal I've had. But nothing quite beats incredibly spicy food for breakfast.

Deffinately lunch around here, though quite a few of the Pho places are 24 hours. What I get blown away by at these places though is the portions - the small is still about half a gallon of soup. Oh, and avoid the meatballs option - still not sure what the hell those were made of. I think I'd be more likely to try the tripe than those meatballs again.

Oh, and those chicken livers mentioned above sound good. I've only had them done as pate.

Meatballs are a mixed back at north american vietnamese restaurants.

Tripe is ok.

But it's really all about straight beef pho. No tripe, no balls (not a pun? hohoho), and no miscellaneous other parts. Not because their bad, but because the straight beef slices just go fucking awesome with hot sauce. Rooster sauce. Pick your poison.

I have it on good authority (VDL) that the correct name is cock sauce. And it is pure love.

If I am eating it, it is rooster sauce.  You people are welcome to gobble all the cock sauce you want.

Sirracha?  No I have no fucking idea how to spell it.  I know the sauce of which you speak on most days I'm too white for it.

Also to someone earlier in the thread.

Pineapple on burger = win
Pineapple on pizza = fucking bullshit

My dad used to tell me and my bro that the Pho meatballs were monkey balls.

I have a bottle in my fridge and I'm positive it's cock sauce. I know because my wife won't let it touch her mouth.... :rimshot:

Classic.

Is it evil that I was waiting for Lantyssa to say something about cock sauce to provide Merusk with another sig quote?

Not at all. Especially if it's a nice fatty Pho. Like Ramen the fattier the meat the better the soup. And yeah from what I know it's a late breakfast/lunch food traditionally although I'll eat it anytime.

I started to comment and caught myself.  Unfortunately one of them is still completely applicable.

Nex time you want to try it, when you get your pizza with pineapple and ham, add some cinnamon.  Really sets the whole thing off.