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American MNetters- what's for breakfast?

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tallulah · 05/09/2004 12:19

Silly homework assignment time. DS3 has to research what people in different continents have for breakfast, why it is eaten (?!) & what time it is eaten.

I would have thought this would differ from family to family, as well as state to state.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

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KateandtheGirls · 05/09/2004 12:49

OK then.

I have my 3 year old niece sleeping over. She has requested waffles today (and they are currently waiting for me to make them!).

Typical American breakfast foods:

Pancakes with maple syrup
Waffles with maple syrup
Bacon, sausage, eggs
Cereal (Cheerios are a big favourite in my house)
Oatmeal (porridge)
Muffins
Toast with jam.

Hope that helps.

KateandtheGirls · 05/09/2004 12:51

What time?

Around 7am for us because we leave for school at 7:30.

When I was working I would leave the house at 6:20am and eat breakfast once I got to work at 7:30.

Weekends later (especially if you don;t have kids nagging you to make waffles).

Oh, just thought of another one: Bagels with cream cheese.

SueW · 05/09/2004 13:58

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tallulah · 05/09/2004 16:26

Sue, thank you so much for that link! It's absolutely ideal.

Kate, do "normal" families eat this sort of thing all the time?

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KateandtheGirls · 05/09/2004 17:00

I would say that "normal"() families would tend to eat cereal, toast, maybe bagels and muffins most of the time, as well as fruit and yogurt. Cooked breakfats would more likely to be a weekend thing.

KateandtheGirls · 05/09/2004 17:01

To drink, COFFEE for sure. Some people though will drink tea, juice or even Coke.

californiagirl · 05/09/2004 17:16

My father (more of a breakfast eater than us) has granola and tea at 7 am most mornings. When I eat breakfast, I have cereal or wholemeal toast with jam, or yoghurt and I drink tea or coffee with a lot of milk, between 6 and 7. My husband bicycles to work and then eats breakfast there between 8 and 9; he says he has fresh fruit and fruit juice or milk but I bet you he also frequently has a pastry of some sort. On weekends we often have a cooked breakast out; an omelette or scrambled eggs with fancy stuff in it (salmon, spinach and cream cheese for instance) and coffee cake, which doesn't have coffee in it, it's meant for eating with coffee, a sort of dense cake with cinnamon crumble on top and often blueberries inside.

JJ · 05/09/2004 17:38

agree with KatG and add grits for the Southerners (FL, while being, geographically, a southern state, isn't a Southern state )

And bacon!

Oatmeal is my youngest son's breakfast nearly every day (it's sweeted with syrup and has butter and milk and he loves it).

Normal for us is cereal and oatmeal on school mornings (my youngest isn't at school) and cooked breakfasts on the weekend. Nearly forgot French Toast, aka eggy bread. A firm favourite in our house and v easy. We'll have that tomorrow as I'm out of milk!

colinsmommy · 05/09/2004 17:57

We're really bad here. DH eats around 7, which is too early for me. We tend to eat things like pop-tarts or granola bars or graham crackers and milk as neither one of us wants to go to that much trouble for ourselves. I don't eat until 9 or so. The baby eats much better than we do. When we're both home on the weekends, we do much better, having pancakes, bacon, hash browns, muffins, poached eggs, waffles etc. on Saturday. Sundays we usually make a really big brunch-type breakfast and don't eat until 10-10:30. We often have breakfast burritos, grits (not from the South, but I used to live there for a little bit, and DH loves them dearly) omlettes, chicken in mornay sauce, thin sliced ham with cajun spices, chilaquilles (sp? had them in Mexico, and I love them) oven-baked german apple pancakes, hush puppies w/ jalepeno jelly (more of a southern us thing, but we love it) and often some fresh fruit w/cottage cheese.

KateandtheGirls · 05/09/2004 18:42

Colinsmommy, can I come to your house next weekend?

JJ, completely forgot about french toast. Probably because I never order it at a restaurant because they make it sweet and cinnamony, not at all like the eggybread I had as a child in England. I should make it myself more often! And you're right Florida isn't really The South at all.

SofiaAmes · 05/09/2004 20:17

One thing I've noticed is that it is quite common to eat yogurt for breakfast in the usa (I grew up having it), while here in england it tends to be given as a dessert and not for breakfast.

lou33 · 05/09/2004 21:18

Is it really? I must be v cosmopolitan then, because we have it for both!

KateandtheGirls · 06/09/2004 02:03

True. I've never seen anyone have yogurt for dessert in the US.

woodstock · 06/09/2004 03:43

One of those morning drinks in a can usually (I know, pretty awful) during the morning commute. Toast with jam if I have the time. Dh likes toast and tea with milk.

On Sundays we have another couple over for breakfast and take turns cooking. Pancakes, waffles, omelettes, eggs and bacon, and once a sort of breakfast casserole that had eggs, sausage, and I think stuffing to hold it together.

Also, lots and lots of coffee!

colinsmommy · 06/09/2004 04:21

You sure can, Kateandthegirls. Just don't bring any hurricanes with you. Hope all is well with you.

KateandtheGirls · 06/09/2004 12:40

Can't promise that Colin's mom! Now there is another hurricane out in the Atlantic that could be coming our way next weekend. Aargghh.

Right - got to go outside in the torrential rain and wind to partialy drain my pool because it's about to overflow despite the fact that I lowered it way down before the storm came. I'm going to need some pancakes or something after that...

colinsmommy · 06/09/2004 17:19

Glad you made it through this one (fairly) undamaged. Hope the one coming turns. Where in Florida are you?

KateandtheGirls · 06/09/2004 17:29

I'm in Tampa.

colinsmommy · 06/09/2004 17:41

Now I know where you are, I will know whether or not to worry about you for the next one.

SoupDragon · 06/09/2004 18:04

Ah... American breakfasts... bottomless coffees, breakfast burritos... even found cinnamon buns on a buffet before. Sigh. I could put pounds on just thinking about them!! Of course, these are just restaurant breakfasts, not "normal" people's breakfasts

zebra · 06/09/2004 18:17

Eggs benedict... I don't even know what that is, but my dad loves it. Or porridge -- made with water not milk, but heavy on the brown sugar, cream and raisins.

One time my dad's twin entered a restaurant minutes after my dad had left. "Weren't you just here?" asked the baffled waitress? "Yes", said my uncle, spotting eggs benedict on the menu, "and I'll have exactly the same thing that I had last time!"

Turquoise · 06/09/2004 18:17

What is it with cinnamon here? Everything seems to have it in!

lou33 · 06/09/2004 18:19

Love cinnamon I do.

SoupDragon · 06/09/2004 18:21

Me too - I was in heaven with an eat-as-much-as-you-like buffet with cinnamon buns on it. My word did I feel sick...!

zebra · 06/09/2004 18:29

What about Mexican people (if you're talking the same continent) or even Mexican-Americans, and the states they are most represented in (California, Texas, New Mexico).

Heated corn (maize) tortillas with butter & salsa, or huevos rancheros (scrambled eggs with salsa, sour cream & guacamole).... Typical mexican breakfasts. tbh, I thought that breakfast cereals were a Victorian invention (keep sexual desire down, the Salvation army founder thought???), and traditionally breakfast was the same sort of food you ate the rest of the day, in most cultures.