I just realized I didn’t know any Americans
Coffee and pills
I don’t eat. I run on thoughts, prayers, and the power of friendship.
I read fried shrimp instead of friendship at first.
Nine cans of ravioli.
I call bs. No one wants to admit they ate nine cans of ravioli…
The fourth and fifth, I think I burned with a blowtorch.
Technically nothing, but I do have coffee at the office.
Except on Thursday. That’s doughnut day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Coffee and cigarettes
Sounds very french lol
Bien sûr!
Expresso gauloise sans filtre
bagel and cream cheese, with coffee.
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…
When job hunting, I will genuinely check to see which office has the best bagel shop in walking distance.
Mmm. I’ve been eating better, but I miss my toasted salt & pepper bagels with butter and cream cheese🤤
Anxiety and despair
I find the lack of cheese in the comments very concerning.
Leftovers often feature cheese
I rarely eat cheese now because my LDLs were high. :(
Omelet au fromage
Cheese for breakfast is crazy, unless you’re talking cream cheese on a bagel or melted cheese on a breakfast sandwich.
What’s your favorite cheese for breakfast and why is it comté??
Comté (FTFY) - Now you can impress all of your friends with your knowledge of good cheese AND spelling!
That’s how you know I’m French, I don’t know how to spell my own language and no one truly does. Too many homonyms… makes it hard.
Compte, conte, comté, condé, dégonder…
Please marry me.
3 cups of coffee. Unless it’s 4.
Nothing. Last thing on my mind in the morning is food.
Appetite usually kicks in the late afternoon/early evening, when I have my first and usually only meal.
Same. Every now and then around 10 I’ll go ape on a proper eggs n bacon or sausage type meal, but 6/7 days I don’t eat til like noon -2:00 p
I am genuinely floored by how many people here are claiming to actually eat breakfast. Tf is all the chia pudding bananas toast eggs shit??? For me, and everyone I know, breakfast is a special occasion for days off. My wife and I make breakfast maybe 10 times a year. I’ve always heard Lemmy’s average age is on the higher end, and this thread has confirmed it for me.
Well I mean you put oats in a jar overnight and take them to work or school in the morning. Easier still is keeping instant oats at work if you can. Breakfast is important man idk about skipping it everyday.
If you’re doing office work, breakfast really isn’t that important
I do office work and feel pretty bad if I skip breakfast, even if I pull an early lunch. That’s probably because I’m used to breakfast, but I still think it’s important enough to take 5 minutes at night to put oats in the fridge.
Uh… you’re shocked that people eat breakfast? That’s so insane to me
Maybe those who don’t eat breakfast or eat nothing fancy don’t feel motivated to comment so there could be some bias in the comments.
There are some of us who wake up early to work out and have breakfast with our significant others before work. You don’t have to be old to appreciate spending time together, or make room for it in your life.
My wife leaves for work at 7:30a, I’ve been up since 5:30a spending the morning with her. Sometimes those two hours are the highest quality time we’ll spend together all day, fewer distractions.
Coffee and a water.
This is me as well. Though occasionally I like 2 hard boiled eggs with hot sauce.
But for every day? Black coffee and that sweet, sweet hydrating H2O.
Damn… a hard boiled egg with hot sauce sounds pretty good for the am.
Thanks for the idea!!
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.
American Diner breakfasts are not anything like people’s daily meals.
Says who? In a typical month I make myself most of the above at least once.
The amount of Americans in the comments who don’t eat breakfast is shocking
As an American who doesn’t eat breakfast, I’m curious why that is shocking to you?
People say breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
I’ve always assumed that was propaganda pushed by big breakfast. /s
I see breakfast as part of the time when you’re getting ready for the day. I am not sure what else to respond to why it’s shocking to me, it just is. I am also more likely to skip lunch than breakfast.
My mom would not approve
