tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post4639408690280842664..comments2024-03-28T14:52:13.218-05:00Comments on Stonekettle Station: Breakfast of ChampionsJim Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-3989242540524912572009-10-27T02:00:09.202-05:002009-10-27T02:00:09.202-05:00Breakfast is whatever is in the fridge when I stum...Breakfast is whatever is in the fridge when I stumble out of bed to put on the coffee.<br /><br />Awful kimchee was probably the worst thing (thanks dad-in-law for polluting my fridge with that crap).Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17888059004418191385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-12841508214428529752009-10-22T08:21:14.849-05:002009-10-22T08:21:14.849-05:00I confess when I was delivering the Atlanta paper ...I confess when I was delivering the Atlanta paper when I lived in NW Georgia, my midroute stop of choice for early breakfast was Krystal. Where we'd have a few Krystals and coffee. Only place in our small town that was open at that time in the morning. They catered to the local Police & Fire depts, so it was safe at 3 AM. And they had a clean rest room - which is always a plus!<br /><br />For the uninitiated, a Krystal is a tiny square hamburger (cheese optional) with grilled onions, a squirt of mustard & ketchup on a little square bun. Maybe 3 bites if you were being dainty, and why you could eat several and not feel too guilty. Similar to White Castle. And onion rings if they had the oil up to temp.<br /><br />Damn. Now I want a Krystal. This morning's oatmeal did nothing for me!WendyB_09https://www.blogger.com/profile/03788918629240949526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-2875219259998262792009-10-21T21:28:24.031-05:002009-10-21T21:28:24.031-05:00Do they still make Concentrate? That was a great ...Do they still make Concentrate? That was a great cereal additive.<br /><br />Been known to make a bachelor breakfast of leftover macaroni and cheese, ketchup and a Coke -- and eating straight out of the pot is fine for breakfast.<br /><br />Lot of odd things to eat on the run when I was in college and delivering Chicago Tribunes in the middle of the night. Local 7-11 brought in some locally made sandwiches. One really nice turkey sub was called The Gobbler -- it had lettuce and just enough Italian dressing for taste without making a mess.<br /><br />Yum.<br /><br />Dr. PhilDr. Phil (Physics)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11943336276878704753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-87628750867285690052009-10-21T20:59:16.605-05:002009-10-21T20:59:16.605-05:00I guess I don't really consider anything weird...I guess I don't really consider anything weird for breakfast. Good stuff is good any time...weird stuff doesn't get any weirder at any particular time of day (or when you first get up...whenever that is...if that's how you're calculating breakfast time.)<br /><br />Last Saturday, I had some leftover calamari for the first meal of the day, shortly after I woke up.<br /><br />:DNathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00648438549121320566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-85520251325081534192009-10-21T20:36:58.660-05:002009-10-21T20:36:58.660-05:00Hmm. "Weird" is in the eye of the behold...Hmm. "Weird" is in the eye of the beholder, methinks. ;)<br /><br />Normal breakfasts:<br />1. slushy rice with roe shong (a type of dried shredded meat), chili bamboo strips, something that translates in English on the can to "wheat gluten", various types of pickles.<br /><br />2. Sao bing, yo tiow, do jiang. Sort of a baked sesame flatbread, deep-fried donutlike pastry sticks except savory rather than sweet, soymilk soup (comes in sweet or savory). I believe this is a typical Cantonese breakfast but could be wrong.<br /><br />(and on that note, dim sum is traditionally a lunch thing, also Cantonese.)<br /><br />3. In Taiwan, they have all sorts of stuffed buns and pastries and cake things in the morning bakeries. Some sweet, some savory. I liked the curry turnover things best. (I miss Taiwan bakeries. T.T)<br /><br />Having said that, breakfast most of the time when I was in grade school was a single egg. I liked mine sunny side up, and the whites had better be completely cooked while the yolk was complete runny or I'd whine. My sister, meanwhile, liked her yolk to be completely cooked. On weekends we often had cereal, if we weren't doing the slushy rice thing. If we weren't awake during breakfast time, lunch was usually last night's dinner, stirfried with last night's rice.<br /><br />Later on when I went to a boarding high school, I ate ridiculous amounts of pizza. Got so sick of it that I avoided pizza for a decade afterwards.<br /><br />These days: I'm never awake in the morning and therefore eat lunch, dinner, and supper. ;) It's a hodgepodge of cuisines with nothing particularly typical. Like, today I had a coffee yogurt and a bowl of spinach tofu soup. I might make spaghetti later.<br /><br />On a sidenote, the whole clash of cultures thing passed through my mind when a devout Muslim propositioned me earlier this year. Considering that (authentic) Chinese cuisine is basically all pork-based, it occurred to me that this might be a major problem if we were to get together (I wasn't interested and declined). ;)MWThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09446603415730525882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-26567472769812626862009-10-21T19:52:01.611-05:002009-10-21T19:52:01.611-05:00I like cold shawarma.
In fact, I'd like to ha...I like cold <i>shawarma</i>.<br /><br />In fact, I'd like to have one right now.Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-57062961553985269612009-10-21T19:35:43.543-05:002009-10-21T19:35:43.543-05:00Dried shredded squid, washed down with some kind o...Dried shredded squid, washed down with some kind of Japanese soft drink that I could not identify, but which tasted like the stuff they give you at the hospital to prep for a barium enema, in the cockpit, on the way from Atsugi to Iwakuni.<br /><br />Next would be cold schwarma, out of Bahrain on the way to Fuj.CWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-17093580844636689952009-10-21T16:11:14.858-05:002009-10-21T16:11:14.858-05:00Grape Nuts are not delicious. They're compara...Grape Nuts are not delicious. They're comparable to aquarium gravel (the brown boring kind, not the exciting blue kind).<br /><br />And if they steep too long in milk, they become muddy and soggy, like a breakfast of warm silt.Dicing with Dragonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-1201493253130228422009-10-21T15:08:25.568-05:002009-10-21T15:08:25.568-05:00Don't know that I've eaten anything partic...Don't know that I've eaten anything particularly weird for breakfast, although eating dinner leftovers are not unusual. The second time I went to college this often meant warm beer and cold pizza for breakfast.vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16955307244053931069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-71989097481746214992009-10-21T14:08:33.088-05:002009-10-21T14:08:33.088-05:00Grape Nuts? I didn't realize they still made t...<i>Grape Nuts</i>? I didn't realize they still made those. Although if I think about it, I'd bet there is a box on my parents cereal shelf! That or <i>Concentrate</i>. <br /><br />I heard even <i>Fruit Loops</i> are good for you now, they've added fiber to all that sugar!!WendyB_09https://www.blogger.com/profile/03788918629240949526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-39289879953260039532009-10-21T13:57:44.964-05:002009-10-21T13:57:44.964-05:00Grape nuts are delicious. Grape nuts with brown su...Grape nuts are delicious. Grape nuts with brown sugar and hot milk are even more delicious.RickUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16440973897449920438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-81942386019279730162009-10-21T13:27:13.143-05:002009-10-21T13:27:13.143-05:001st weirdest: Whoppers and Jolt.
2nd weirdest: ...1st weirdest: Whoppers and Jolt.<br /><br />2nd weirdest: Grape Nuts.Dicing with Dragonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03132972790091524968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-59104585021382918582009-10-21T12:04:57.175-05:002009-10-21T12:04:57.175-05:00I only objected to 2 of the MRE meals and I think ...I only objected to 2 of the MRE meals and I think I only had one of the "breakfast" MRE's and it's one of my favorites...Corned beef hash. Yum. I heard about a bacon and egg MRE but never had one. Eggs with a shelf life of 10 years just sound like a bad plan.<br /><br />The rest of the MRE's I had ranged from "not bad" to "tasty".<br /><br />The 2 I objected to were the 5 fingers of death and the pot roast. They were both awful. Doubly so if you had to eat them cold. The pot roast came out with cold fat congealed around the shoe leather like meat...blech.<br /><br />My favorite was the beef stew...but only when properly prepared. You had to trade or wait for some jalapano cheese (pronounced JAh Lah Pah No since they didn't put the accent mark on it) mix that and the crumbled up MRE cracker in to the hot stew and add some of the Tabasco sauce.RickUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16440973897449920438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-28420521504689199712009-10-21T11:52:25.912-05:002009-10-21T11:52:25.912-05:00I didn't think I ever had a weird breakfast un...I didn't think I ever had a weird breakfast until Lauren mentioned dim sum. There's a Taiwanese dumpling place where I go for breakfast once a month. For some reason, I go heavy on the pork. Juicy pork dumplings and pork fried rice. Yummy. Then we'll stop at the nearby bakery for a sweet pork bun, which I refer to as "dessert pork." Now that I think about it, that's probably weird.nzformehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13982194544873836336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-88714413946333430552009-10-21T11:19:07.468-05:002009-10-21T11:19:07.468-05:00Jim, your comment about "processed food"...Jim, your comment about "processed food" reminded me of an Alaska story. In the mid-nineties, my employer had an operation in Anchorage supporting the Army Corps. of Engineers. We did a lot of local hiring and we brought some of those folks down to our corporate HQ in Pasadena, CA for training. <br /><br />One night we all went out for a steak dinner. In the middle of dinner this big guy from Alaska (<i>which may be a redundant description</i>) stopped mid-bite and looked at the meat. We asked him what was wrong.<br /><br />"Nothing," he said. "It's just that this is the first piece of meat I've ever eaten, that I didn't know who killed it."<br /><br />Also, now that I think about it, I did have breakfast in England a couple of times. Not weird, actually -- but <b>bad</b>.Nick from the O.C.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-78921663858880557602009-10-21T11:07:06.828-05:002009-10-21T11:07:06.828-05:00Yeah, I miss the days when I could down a whole la...Yeah, I miss the days when I could down a whole large 5 item pizza and 5 beers and still function.<br /><br />Chicken-ala-King and cheese spread schlurped out the corner of the bag while on the morning run - not hung over - warmed only by thigh heat in a cargo pocket - had to swallow between lines of cadence.<br /><br />Stuffed, roasted squash with a spiced tomato sauce on the night shift while in Greenland.<br /><br />Cold Jaegerschnitzel eaten one-handed while driving my M1.<br /><br />Gotta be the top 3, but I'm not sure which is the weirdest.Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11854671368992589012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-37445737388066669082009-10-21T10:43:05.293-05:002009-10-21T10:43:05.293-05:00Asian breakfasts are good- there's a Vietnames...Asian breakfasts are good- there's a Vietnamese rice noodle diwh that I ate about every day when I was there- the name is blanking on me. I guess this morning's cereal isn't enough for brain food and the iced tea hasn't kicked in yet.Pam Adamsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-57719136405289715562009-10-21T10:06:58.092-05:002009-10-21T10:06:58.092-05:00Well, part of our family's New Year's Eve ...Well, part of our family's New Year's Eve midnight or celebratory breakfast is pickled herring & eggnog w/lotta nog...<br /><br />Morning breakfast is Polish sausage w/horseradish, and poppy seed bread. Is also usually served on Christmas morning. Daddy used to make the Polish sausage from his mother's recipe.WendyB_09https://www.blogger.com/profile/03788918629240949526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-9585623444669559082009-10-21T09:37:32.025-05:002009-10-21T09:37:32.025-05:00While in Japan I stopped at a small stand and got ...While in Japan I stopped at a small stand and got a sticky doe ball. It had a sugary sweet glaze over steamed doe (weird enough, just getting started). It looked like a three napkin treat and I was stoked for the sugar rush. There was a little old Japanese lady who smiled nicely and kind of snickered when I gave her my yen. I walked away with my warm sticky goodness in hand and readied myself for a big ol bite. I took that bite and found the surprise inside. Raw fish. Don't know what kind but it was wrapped in sea weed film and was pretty much not what I was expecting. Heck I thought I asked for the jelly doughnut. GAAAAAWWWWW Thwpt! It landed with a thump in the nearest waste can and I used the napkins to wipe off my tongue.Beastlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05734235111057536747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-81708380005227188932009-10-21T09:37:07.960-05:002009-10-21T09:37:07.960-05:00Ohhh, I like herring for breakfast. I pass on the ...Ohhh, I like herring for breakfast. I pass on the sour cabbage though.<br /><br />Dim sum? Not so much. Dinner sure, but not for breakfast.Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-23683801710123347822009-10-21T09:31:53.890-05:002009-10-21T09:31:53.890-05:00We go out for dim sum breakfast probably once a mo...We go out for dim sum breakfast probably once a month or so. In LA, a breakfast of juk, pork char siu, coconut mounds, jin dui, har gow, and fried lotus sesame balls would sound perfectly normal, but I imagine that it might not be so common in other cities in North America, except maybe San Francisco.<br /><br />We had that for breakfast this last Sunday. Yum Yum. My son, his #1 trombone buddy, the girl who has been friends with my son since they were 15 months old, her boyfriend, her mother, who is my oldest friend (except for my dear husband), and her father made up the group. <br /><br />My dear husband does not go out for dim sum because, in his mind, there is no breakfast food in the world worth getting up at 8 am on a Sunday to procure.Laurennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-4451178051147754982009-10-21T09:28:47.791-05:002009-10-21T09:28:47.791-05:00Used to eat whatever was left-over the dinner at m...Used to eat whatever was left-over the dinner at my parents. Usually involved potato salad, sour cabbage, and herring.Some dude stuck in the Midwesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00852056495927941030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-91923486324081572062009-10-21T09:20:44.531-05:002009-10-21T09:20:44.531-05:00Hey, I like pop tarts. They give me screaming hear...Hey, I like pop tarts. They give me screaming heartburn though - most processed food does nowadays. <br /><br />I was going to mention MRE breakfast, but that's not really weird, just nasty. Gak. I don't care if I ever see another MRE or a T-Rat as long as I live. Seriously, I have nightmares about those fucking things.<br /><br />Blood sausage anybody? I lived in Spain for a while, and England. Blood sausage is a breakfast staple there.Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-44058036679011905682009-10-21T09:14:03.359-05:002009-10-21T09:14:03.359-05:00Breakfast is definitely my favorite meal of the da...Breakfast is definitely my favorite meal of the day, but is also the meal that I skip the most. My typical breakfast is a poptart or SpecialK bar eaten at my desk, which hardly qualifies as <i>breakfast</i> in my mind.<br /><br />Anyway, if I have time for breakfast, I always make it a good one. Consequently, I can't remember actually eating anything weird for breakfast. <br /><br />Why does that make me feel like less of a man?Nick from the O.C.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-86265802859800302822009-10-21T09:13:26.054-05:002009-10-21T09:13:26.054-05:00Ah yes, East Timor. Just loads of fun.
I never h...Ah yes, East Timor. Just loads of fun. <br /><br />I never had taco rice, but it does sound like something I would eat for breakfast.Jim Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.com