"breakfast" = "when I'm hungry, I'll eat something." What I eat when I first wake up, if anything, is usually a by-product of whatever happens to be handy, or whatever is readily available when I get my coffee/tea.
The only reason I did not mark kippers as acceptable breakfast food is that I have smelled kippers, and I am not convinced that they are acceptable food, period.
I'm told (though have never witnessed) that my brother-in-law eats powdered doughnuts dipped in jalapeno cheese sauce. Apparently, it's the combination of sweet and salty/hot that appeals to him, but ew, ew, ew.
How about kedgeree? It features at breakfast in every Wodehouse novel I've ever read, and I was just now finally prompted to look it up. I think I won't be trying it any time soon, however, since it involves fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedgeree).
(ObLJspellchecker oddity: it claims that "doughnuts" ought to be spelled "dough nuts", "dough-nuts", or "donuts". *sigh*)
My own preferences tend to be fairly my-region-of-USA "traditional" and while I might make fun of other people's breakfast choices, I don't really hold fast to any particular breakfast canon.
Not a horrifying story, but I was a little surprised when I visited Albuquerque a few years ago (my first visit to that part of the country) that eggs were always, always served with chili sauce. I quite liked them that way (but for some reason, once home in New England, I never did take it up as habit, or even an occasional indulgence.)
Eggs poached in tomato juice tend to disturb people, no matter what time of day I eat them. But worst at breakfast. Early in the morning, some people are going to be disturbed by anything, including such innocuous combinations as chocolate and oatmeal.
Mostly these days I'm eating poppy seed rolls, bought fresh that morning, or baguettes if I can't get fresh poppy seed rolls that day. I'm also a big fan of dessert for breakfast. I feel that the purpose of breakfast is to get enough carbohydrate into me for me to be functional, so the main criterion is a large quantity of starch washed down with fruit juice. Bread, potato products, cake and rice pudding are all good. I am still leery of breakfast cereal after spending a month living on cereal, toast and fruit when the gall bladderyness started.
Alexa's breakfasts often scare me - she likes much more strongly flavoured food than I do anyway, so she's often found eating runny, smelly cheese or salami for breakfast - sometimes without even the accompanying bread. I can't face strong flavours or smells in the morning, so things like curry for breakfast is right out. I also dislike cold pizza or cold Chinese at the best of times - while I will, on occasion, eat left-over dinner for breakfast, it has to be heated up. I generally dislike any cold food straight from the fridge apart from things that are intended to be eaten cold, like mousse, jelly and ice cream.
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Date: 2006-05-11 04:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-11 05:20 am (UTC)Whoo!
Of course, my favorite is cold tuna and corn pizza, but that's because I'm a total fob ;).
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Date: 2006-05-11 05:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-11 05:38 am (UTC)The only reason I did not mark kippers as acceptable breakfast food is that I have smelled kippers, and I am not convinced that they are acceptable food, period.
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Date: 2006-05-11 05:44 am (UTC)How about kedgeree? It features at breakfast in every Wodehouse novel I've ever read, and I was just now finally prompted to look it up. I think I won't be trying it any time soon, however, since it involves fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedgeree).
(ObLJspellchecker oddity: it claims that "doughnuts" ought to be spelled "dough nuts", "dough-nuts", or "donuts". *sigh*)
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Date: 2006-05-11 01:02 pm (UTC)Not a horrifying story, but I was a little surprised when I visited Albuquerque a few years ago (my first visit to that part of the country) that eggs were always, always served with chili sauce. I quite liked them that way (but for some reason, once home in New England, I never did take it up as habit, or even an occasional indulgence.)
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Date: 2006-05-11 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-11 06:49 pm (UTC)Alexa's breakfasts often scare me - she likes much more strongly flavoured food than I do anyway, so she's often found eating runny, smelly cheese or salami for breakfast - sometimes without even the accompanying bread. I can't face strong flavours or smells in the morning, so things like curry for breakfast is right out. I also dislike cold pizza or cold Chinese at the best of times - while I will, on occasion, eat left-over dinner for breakfast, it has to be heated up. I generally dislike any cold food straight from the fridge apart from things that are intended to be eaten cold, like mousse, jelly and ice cream.