I just realized I didn’t know any Americans

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
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    15 days ago

    The scraps of my children’s uneaten breakfasts, so:

    • half an egg sandwich

    • the dregs of a bowl of oatmeal with maple syrup, mixed with whatever unsyruped oatmeal I can scrape out of the pot

    • about four apple slices and half a bagel

    on days my spouse cooks breakfast. When I cook, everyone eats pancakes.

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    Usually nothing. When I do have breakfast it’s either pancakes and eggs or milk and cereal. Every now and then I get a wild hair and have oatmeal.

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    Technically nothing, but I do have coffee at the office.

    Except on Thursday. That’s doughnut day.

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      Ctrl-F’d for doughnuts.

      It sounds bizzare from where I am, but I do have to admit it’s not that different from a pastry.

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        Honestly, my favorite “doughnuts” aren’t doughnuts at all. We get a variety, and I go for the cinnamon rolls, fritters or eclairs before I’d grab an actual doughnut.

        Also, most Americans can’t spell doughnut, so you’re better off ctrl-fing for donut.

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          I did that first. One other mention, but right alongside pastries, maybe because OP knew other places think of them as unsuitable for a full meal.

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    I don’t generally eat breakfast. I honestly don’t know how people do it, when I wake up the last thing I want to do is eat.

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      I rarely eat breakfast, but if I feel like getting a treat on my morning break at work there’s nothing better than a toasted everything bagel with sliced onion, tomato, and cream cheese… Well, lox could make it better, but I’m not getting a $15 bagel lol

      It’s sooooo damn goooood…

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        We used to have a sandwich shop at my office that would do lox and veggies on a bagel for maybe $6. They also had an avocado bagel for $4. They were replaced by a Starbucks in a different building on campus and it’s not as good and more expensive.

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      When job hunting, I will genuinely check to see which office has the best bagel shop in walking distance.

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      Mmm. I’ve been eating better, but I miss my toasted salt & pepper bagels with butter and cream cheese🤤

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    Rather than tell you what I personally eat, maybe it will be useful to know what American diners serve for breakfast. You can walk into any locally-owned diner anywhere in the country and order from a menu almost exactly like this:

    • Breakfast Combo: Two eggs (scrambled, fried, or over easy/medium/hard), meat (bacon, sausage links, steak, or ham), and a carb (pancakes, toast, a biscuit, or hash browns)
    • Biscuits and Gravy: Two biscuits with sausage gravy over the top. Sometimes served with an egg.
    • Pancakes: A short stack is 2 and a tall stack is 4. Served with maple syrup.
    • Skillet/Omelet: Eggs scrambled with onions, bell peppers, cheese, and meat. An alternate version, sometimes called “loaded hash browns,” uses hash browns instead of eggs.
    • Breakfast Burrito: An omelet wrapped up in a tortilla. May be smothered with red or green chili sauce for a Tex-Mex spin.
    • Oatmeal: Boiled oats with fruit, granola, syrup, etc.
    • Eggs Benedict: Poached egg on an English muffin with ham and hollandaise sauce.

    And then each diner will have their own “famous” specialty, like stuffed French toast, “home fries” (pan-fried potato chunks), huge pancakes, or sausage made in house. It’s hard to go wrong though, American breakfasts are consistently pretty tasty.

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      If you wanna try something different but really good, a lot of breakfast places near me have a variant of Eggs Benedict usually called something like Irish Eggs Benedict, which replaces the ham with corn beef hash. Add a side of home fries, and you’ve got something that’ll really stick to your ribs and keep you full and happy for half the day.

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    Greek yogurt, walnuts, craisins, pumpkin seeds, hemp hearts, chia seeds, maybe cinnamon, maybe a dash of honey, possibly some frozen fruit if I feel like waiting for it to thaw a bit. Coffee with a dash of oatmilk.