Who's buying breakfast at Waffle House?

[oggbashan]

Breakfast in Australia - 40+ years ago.

We had been in Australia three days, staying with relations. I was travelling with my parents going North from Sydney. We had started very early to avoid the commuter traffic heading for the Harbour Bridge. We stopped for breakfast at a roadside diner attached to a motel. This would be our first bought meal.

My father and I ordered steak and chips. The steak was the standard 32oz (you could 'go large' in the modern idiom but 32oz was normal). The chips covered the steak and hid it from view. A 15oz serving of baked beans was poured on top. The side salad was served in a 10inch bowl and overflowed it.

My mother wasn't feeling that hungry so she ordered the Ham Salad. The ham was thick cut and the standard 32oz. 8oz of coleslaw and 8oz of potato salad were served with three whole beetroots and the side salad was the same.

Extra chips were available free if you wanted more.

The cost was the same as a 4oz burger and fries at a Wimpy in the UK. It was a great introduction to Australia.

Og

 

[Guest]

IHOP was never international enough for me. A Mexican Sunday breakfast starts with menudo (a soup composed of beef tripe, hominy and spices, and is upheld as a hangover cure, thus the Sunday morning meal). The table will have (minimally) fresh mangos, papayas and watermelon. Fried eggs may be served with rice and beans, assorted carnitas will be available for those who require real meat. Fresh, warm tortillas of course accompany everything and are the preferred 'utensil'. A variety of chiles and sauces are also required condiments. I love biting into a pickled jalapeño after a bite of egg couched in a corn tortilla.

Perdita

 

[Fag-Ash_Lil]

“Beware! The time is nigh when all ends shall be revealed.”

 

[Guest]

“Beware! The time is nigh when all ends shall be revealed.”

Please god, no. Don't let CV be Ogg. P.

 

[Fag-Ash_Lil]

Please god, no. Don't let CV be Ogg. P.

No. Og knows who he is.

I don't. But then I'm someone else and you know who that is.

Fag-Ash

 

[OldnotDead]

I'm VERY scared!
I post a suggestion about a rather generous breakfast.
Og then tops that with one about 2lb slabs of beef and pork plus lots and lots of 'trimmings'.
Then dearest Perdita posts one that includes some, shall we say, 'explosive' ingredients as part and parcel of Sunday feast that includes the benefit of being a hangover cure.
and then we get . . .

“Beware! The time is nigh when all ends shall be revealed.”

I'm not sure I want ANY ends, North or South, being revealed in this thread!

 

[BlackSnake]

I love the Waffle House at 3 in the morning. Steak and eggs with buttered toast. Made me hungry just thinking about it. The two near my house seem to be always busy. Especially in the early morning hours. The wife and I have stopped by there many times after being out late. Hits the spot just right.

 

[shereads]

My wife tells wonderful stories of the REAL breakfasts her Scottish grandmother would prepare for them, all the while disparaging their debilitating Yankee Breakfasts which were of no value.

Once a week we try to put on a spread here that usually precludes any more eating until well in the evening. I'm the cook and, to date, potatoes have yet to make an appearance and are not on my list for the future. I have yet to achieve anything close to an ideal, but my idea of a perfect breakfast is best reflected at one of my favorite 'nawlins eateries:
http://www.brennansneworleans.com/breakfastmenu.html

Bon Apetit!

Breakfast at Brennans. Been there, done that, so long ago I had forgotten about it until now. Fried Oysters Benedict, my friend. It's not breakfast exactly, but who cares?

 

[shereads]

The thing I miss about Texas: Tex-Mex restaurants in Houston. One place in particular where I tasted my first just-baked flour tortillas. They were as different from other tortillas as cream is from skim milk. How those tortillas managed to be flat and fluffy at the same time remains a mystery.

Breakfast for me = carbs. I tried Atkins one weekend, thinking it would be the most decadent way to drop a couple of pounds after the holidays. After all, I love eggs and bacon, so how could I go wrong?



Ick.

Without toast or a bit of hashed-brown potatoes, the richness of all that fat and protein was unbearable. What good is butter if you can't spread it on toast?

All those tomato-y spicy rich things, including sausage, I tend to like when I'm fully awake, many hours after the coffee has kicked in. Not a morning person. Don't need any challenges. Cereal will do. Waffles are better, but require a nap afterwards.

Is there anything lazier and more relaxing than eating an enormous breakfast on a day when you don't have to work, and then taking a long, after-breakfast nap?

 

[MagicFingers]

I can't sleep. I'm hungry. Not just hungry, but hungry for a specific food: diner-type waffles buried under melted butter and Log Cabin syrup. With a large orange juice. And two strips of bacon, extra-crisp.

I haven't eaten that meal in years. To whoever has a mostly sanitary Waffle House at their closest freeway exit...If you're flyin', I'm buyin'.

Every time I flew into Ga or Ala, the first or last thing I did was go to a Waffle House and get a pecan waffle with eggs and bacon!
YUMMMMY. I wish they had those out west.

 

[snooper]

My wife tells wonderful stories of the REAL breakfasts her Scottish grandmother would prepare for them ...

I thought that all the Scots ever ate for breakfast was porridge made with salt instead of sugar?

This leads to the teatime difference between the English, the Irish and the Scots.

If you ask for a second lump of sugar in your tea:

In England the sugar bowl, complete with a pair of silver sugar tongs is passed down the table.
In Ireland the brown paper bag of sugar lumps of pushed across the table to you.
In Scotland the hostess asks, "Did you stir the first one properly?"

 

[Guest]

The thing I miss about Texas: Tex-Mex restaurants in Houston. One place in particular where I tasted my first just-baked flour tortillas.

Sher, until I was ten my mother made fresh flour tortillas every morning, leaving enough dough refridgerated for fresh baked torts for lunch and dinner too. A good tortilla heated up, spread thinly with butter is comfort food to me. P.

 

[shereads]

Sher, until I was ten my mother made fresh flour tortillas every morning, leaving enough dough refridgerated for fresh baked torts for lunch and dinner too. A good tortilla heated up, spread thinly with butter is comfort food to me. P.

I try to crave only foods that I can either make or buy locally. This is bad, Perdita. Very bad.








Edited to add: There are some Mexican restaurants in Miami, and one in a rural area south of here that I had heard raves about. The tortillas were not fresh. After that, I was too disappointed to know whether the rest of our meal was any good.

A restaurant with mediocre bread is mediocre.

(Waffle House and IHOP are exempt because they fall under the unofficial category of "slightly disreputatable franchise with convenient highway location." If those places baked their own bread/biscuits/tortillas the entire concept would fall apart. They might as well use tablecothes.)

 

[Dream Keeper]

I prefer McGriddles. A wonderful Mcdonalds creation. These breakfast sandwhichs consist of two panckake like layers with syrup soaked into them. In the middle are three ingrediants, a scrambbled eggs-like substance in the form of a circle, a large sausage patty, and several slices of cheese. It is very delicous even if it doesn't sound that good to you. Anyone who lives in a location that has no McDonalds... Just ask, and I will send some to you in a thermal container by air mail!

 

[shereads]

DK, I have tried to embrace the concept of a syrup/egg combination, but it just seems wrong. Like finding chunks of cooked egg in cake batter. With the addition of cheese, it's a complicated culinary concept, but I salute your courage.

I prefer McGriddles. A wonderful Mcdonalds creation. These breakfast sandwhichs consist of two panckake like layers with syrup soaked into them. In the middle are three ingrediants, a scrabbled eggs-like substance in the form of a circle, a large sausage patty, and several slices of cheese. It is very delicous even if it doesn't sound that good to you. Anyone who lives in a location that has no McDonalds... Just ask, and I will send some to you in a thermal container by air mail!

 

[Dream Keeper]

DK, I have tried to embrace the concept of a syrup/egg combination, but it just seems wrong. Like finding chunks of cooked egg in cake batter. With the addition of cheese, it's a complicated culinary concept, but I salute your courage.

*goes to look for a thermal container* I'm sending you some goddamn it!!!

 

[boxofrocks]

Nice AV Dream Keeper

I'm with shereads on this one.

Eggs and syrup?

 

[Dream Keeper]

Nice AV Dream Keeper

I'm with shereads on this one.

Eggs and syrup?

Thanks. Oh, do I need to send you some too? They are so good you will become addicted to them. I swear you will, no joke. Everyone I know is...

 

[Guest]

DK, re. your McD thingy. Eggs and syrup easily get mixed up on some breakfast plates, but what is really unappealing to me:

Pancake "like" and scrambled eggs "like" substance (in the form of a circle no less!)

I also prefer my sausage link 'like', vs. patties.

At any rate, I haven't been to a McD in years and do not plan to eat at or from ever again.

Welcome back though, Perdita

 

[Dream Keeper]

DK, re. your McD thingy. Eggs and syrup easily get mixed up on some breakfast plates, but what is really unappealing to me:

Pancake "like" and scrambled eggs "like" substance (in the form of a circle no less!)

I also prefer my sausage link 'like', vs. patties.

At any rate, I haven't been to a McD in years and do not plan to eat at or from ever again.

Welcome back though, Perdita

I understand your reasoning, and I must say you make a point, but I described it as is. The substance is definately eggs, but that's all i really know... Thanks for the wb, I always do feel welcome here.

 

[pop_54]

Yep with the Brit crew here... Mick's Cafe just outside Oxford rail station... wooden shack with benches along each side.

Two griddled eggs... Two rashers of bacon... Two pork sausages... Pile of fried mushrooms... Pile of boiled tomatoes, or baked beans... Two slices of fried bread... buttered white bread on a side plate... Mug of tea or coffee. £3.85 the lot.

Couldn't imagine having anything savoury with sticky sweet sauce piled over it.

 

[shereads]

*goes to look for a thermal container* I'm sending you some goddamn it!!!

I'll say it's a suspicious package and call the Feds.

 

[shereads]

Two griddled eggs... Two rashers of bacon... Two pork sausages... Pile of fried mushrooms... Pile of boiled tomatoes, or baked beans...

I was with you most of the way; I could deal with mushrooms, because fried things say "breakfast" in any language. But the baked beans have me stumped.

I can't deal with beans used as a dessert topping, either, at Japanese restaurants. It's a bean, dammit. It wants to be served at supper, or at a picnic with hot dogs.

Baked beans I completely understand, but for some reason they're an after-11:30 a.m. thing, like french fries and Diet Coke.

Who's been to Japan?

I've heard that sushi is served at breakfast. I like sushi, but not with my Captain Crunch.

 

[pop_54]

I was with you most of the way; I could deal with mushrooms, because fried things say "breakfast" in any language. But the baked beans have me stumped.

I can't deal with beans used as a dessert topping, either, at Japanese restaurants. It's a bean, dammit. It wants to be served at supper, or at a picnic with hot dogs.

Baked beans I completely understand, but for some reason they're an after-11:30 a.m. thing, like french fries and Diet Coke.

Who's been to Japan?

I've heard that sushi is served at breakfast. I like sushi, but not with my Captain Crunch.

I never have the baked beans, I hate the bloody soggy tastless things at any time of day.

 

[Guest]

Couldn't imagine having anything savoury with sticky sweet sauce piled over it.

No?




Edited to add - Such a shame!