@ruouttaurmind All of the above, or at least several of the above every Saturday and Sunday in my house for the last 30 years. My sons and I enjoyed the feast whilst my Bride slept in a bit. Then BIB for SB when she was awakened.
The masses have spoken. By a huge margin, breakfast buffets are the most popular kind of breakfast food. (foods?)
Three surefire ways to spot a buffet noob:
1.Overloads plate (you can go back as many times as you want, so don’t crowd it!)
2.Loads up on a single item before tasting (spoiler alert: not everything on a buffet is going to be great; start with a small bit, then go back for more if you like it)
3.Fills up on starches like bread, rice and potatoes (buffet operators LOVE you! It costs them pennies to feed you! Instead, leave the potatoes and rice for home, and load up on the more expensive goods like smoked salmon, bacon, steak or prime rib, sauteed mushrooms, sage chicken sausage, etc)
I voted for hash browns, since there are few better things in life than bacon, basted eggs, and nice crispy hash browns, liberally doused with Tabasco and a bit of ketchup. But then I realized that you left biscuits and gravy off the poll. That’s just wrong.
@Dweezle yes, biscuits and gravy for breakfast is just wrong. Finally someone else sees it. No, wait. Sorry, I misread that. Ugh, you’re a monster, don’t eat a lunch food for breakfast, etc, etc. Have a nice day.
There’s no question that the absolute best is buttermilk biscuits covered in sausage gravy. I’ll eat just about any kind of breakfast food but biscuits and gravy is my favorite.
@hchavers@PurplePawprints Wow. I can’t believe it. You made biscuits and gravy even less of a breakfast food. I need a moment to process this. I wouldn’t have even considered thinking about if that was possible. Also, tomato gravy is nasty, so bonus points. Well done.
@hchavers so good. It was dinner when I was a kid and my mom made it. Then in college I went and stayed a weekend at a country girl’s farm and she made me biscuits and tomato gravy for breakfast. From scratch. It was just about the best thing ever.
@djslack@hchavers there’s a mini-chain of biscuit places near me that make shiitake gravy for the non-meaters. I was suspicious at first, but the stuff is magical. Expand your horizons, I say!
@hchavers I cannot say I’ve had, or even heard of, tomato gravy before. It may need to be something I try in the future, but it’s going to be hard to top sausage gravy.
@djslack it’s called Maple Street Biscuit Company. Place is sinful, started in Jacksonville, FL and now has locations around NE/random corners of FL/GA/TN/SC. Sinful, I tell you! https://maplestreetbiscuits.com/locations/
@djslack Hey, I’m with you. I went to Asheville, NC for a “long weekend” but really it was just about biscuits. And coffee. And donuts. http://www.biscuitheads.com/
Cook and break up breakfast sausage
Cook thick sliced bacon; break or chop up most of it but leave a few slices.
Chop up and warm up a slice of breakfast ham.
saute a small diced onion until at least translucent (more if desired)
set the above aside
Cook up some hash browns (we use cubed, but shredded is fine too) in the bacon grease.
When nearly done add minced garlic, then stir in the meats and onions.
Do the final fry to solidify the hash browns and reduce heat to low/medium-low depending on yout stove.
Salt/pepper/other spices to taste. YOu may choose to do this after eggs/cheese (next).
Break eggs over the top of the hash (however many wanted). Sprinkle finely shredded cheese of your choice over the lot (we use the Fiesta mexican blend). Cover and cook until the cheese is melted and the egg whites are no longer runny. Remove lid and cook another minute or so to let excess moisture escape.
Slice and serve.
Alternate; when you add the eggs and cheese stir them into the hash until well distributed. Continue cooking until the cheese is well melted (the eggs will be done).
And final alternate. I tried this once and didn’t care for it but the visiting family members loved it. Serve the hash over a waffle, buttered and syruped to taste. I guess its the same kind of savory/sweet as fried chicken and waffles.
So… all of the above. I think pancakes or biscuits could be used as a top layer also, though I’d go savory with butter and more cheese on top.
Breakfast is just too important of a meal to skimp on.
@duodec
I think you and I might be breakfast soulmates.
For the record, all breakfasts should be the epic-ness that was aforementioned. Well done, and bonus points to you, fellow breakfast enthusiast.
Depends on how you define “best”.
Tastiest = bacon
Healthiest = eggs, oatmeal, yogurt
Easiest = cereal
Heartiest = pancakes, waffles, French toast
Homiest = yellow grits with butter and sugar
Exoticest (regular breakfast food I’ve ever had)= congee with pickles and fish
So biscuits (and biscuits and gravy) have been mentioned. Those are the best, but I’m also going to throw out fried grits as pretty damn good.
If I could get it, I’d love to have ackee and salt fish with little bread balls for breakfast anytime I wanted. But I’d pretty much have to be back in Jamaica for that one.
@djslack Hadn’t ever heard of this so I looked it up. Here’s a how-to. Not personally interest in eating this, don’t like fish. But I could listen to this guy talk all day.
@moondrake ahh, that looks outstanding! The version I had had was served alongside collard greens or similar greens. I think you could do it without the fish and it would still be good (maybe need some salt).
Ackee is (I believe) Jamaica’s national fruit, and what it most closely resembles to me is fluffy scrambled eggs.
Pair it with some fried dumpling balls (kind of like hush puppies but flour-based instead of cornmeal). Festival is close but is usually a bigger piece or patty of dough.
Chicken fried steak, sausage gravy, buttermilk biscuit, eggs and crispy hash browns! That’s my fave a few times a year! My favorite morning staple is old fashioned oatmeal with minced, dried California dates (tastes amazingly like brown sugar) and some other fruit… I tend to favor blueberries…yum
@blndfayth Jones Dairy Farm makes pretty good scrapple (for frozen). My Dad got us hooked on this as kids and it always grossed out visitors when we served it (more for us!)
one of each! and to whoever was saying biscuits and gravy weren’t breakfast food, whenever i would sleep over a particular friend’s house on saturdays, on sunday morning we’d go around the corner to her gramma’s house who’d be making doughboys. so you’d eat some sugary doughboys and then her grampa would return with donuts. and the whole time gramma was also working on the sunday gravy (red sauce aka tomato sauce). so then you’d have a little plate of meatballs and gravy. and probably some hot chocolate with marshmallows. fond memories!
My favorite breakfast would be one I did not have to cook.
I like bacon, eggs, waffles, pancakes, biscuit and gravy, grits and hash browns. Surprise me.
Before I quit smoking my breakfast was always a cough, a smoke and a coffee. Now my breakfast is a cough and a coffee, occasionally with a biscuit/cookie.
Where is the “all of the above” category?
God bless ‘merica and the good ol’ fashioned breakfast buffet!
@ruouttaurmind All of the above, or at least several of the above every Saturday and Sunday in my house for the last 30 years. My sons and I enjoyed the feast whilst my Bride slept in a bit. Then BIB for SB when she was awakened.
The masses have spoken. By a huge margin, breakfast buffets are the most popular kind of breakfast food. (foods?)
Three surefire ways to spot a buffet noob:
1.Overloads plate (you can go back as many times as you want, so don’t crowd it!)
2.Loads up on a single item before tasting (spoiler alert: not everything on a buffet is going to be great; start with a small bit, then go back for more if you like it)
3.Fills up on starches like bread, rice and potatoes (buffet operators LOVE you! It costs them pennies to feed you! Instead, leave the potatoes and rice for home, and load up on the more expensive goods like smoked salmon, bacon, steak or prime rib, sauteed mushrooms, sage chicken sausage, etc)
Depends on my mood.
Beer.
Biscuits.
Eggs and grits.
Breakfast tacos
Cereal soup.
@kdemo the sweetwr the better
https://meh.com/forum/topics/is-cereal-a-soup
Pizza
I voted for hash browns, since there are few better things in life than bacon, basted eggs, and nice crispy hash browns, liberally doused with Tabasco and a bit of ketchup. But then I realized that you left biscuits and gravy off the poll. That’s just wrong.
@Dweezle yes, biscuits and gravy for breakfast is just wrong. Finally someone else sees it. No, wait. Sorry, I misread that. Ugh, you’re a monster, don’t eat a lunch food for breakfast, etc, etc. Have a nice day.
Eggs, grits, and sausage can’t be beat. Although, waffles and peanut butter comes close.
@hchavers Grits and chorizo with a sunny side up egg on top and a few drops of hot sauce.
@hchavers Do you prefer sausage links or sausage patties? Which kind of grits? Hint: Look at Moondrake’s answer.
There’s no question that the absolute best is buttermilk biscuits covered in sausage gravy. I’ll eat just about any kind of breakfast food but biscuits and gravy is my favorite.
@PurplePawprints ever tried tomato gravy on those biscuits?
@hchavers @PurplePawprints Wow. I can’t believe it. You made biscuits and gravy even less of a breakfast food. I need a moment to process this. I wouldn’t have even considered thinking about if that was possible. Also, tomato gravy is nasty, so bonus points. Well done.
@hchavers so good. It was dinner when I was a kid and my mom made it. Then in college I went and stayed a weekend at a country girl’s farm and she made me biscuits and tomato gravy for breakfast. From scratch. It was just about the best thing ever.
@djslack @hchavers there’s a mini-chain of biscuit places near me that make shiitake gravy for the non-meaters. I was suspicious at first, but the stuff is magical. Expand your horizons, I say!
@hchavers I cannot say I’ve had, or even heard of, tomato gravy before. It may need to be something I try in the future, but it’s going to be hard to top sausage gravy.
@hac Whereabouts and what’s it called? Anywhere that has a chain of biscuit places sounds like someplace worth checking out.
@djslack it’s called Maple Street Biscuit Company. Place is sinful, started in Jacksonville, FL and now has locations around NE/random corners of FL/GA/TN/SC. Sinful, I tell you! https://maplestreetbiscuits.com/locations/
@hac when I’m in one of those areas I will have to check them out. They seem to be spreading, so that’s great!
I’ll actually be in the Pensacola area next month, close but not close enough yet.
@djslack three hours to Tallahassee… that’s too far for biscuits, I think. Next time!
@hac oh believe me, I mapped it and debated the chances of my wife thinking I was insane if I suggested it
@djslack Hey, I’m with you. I went to Asheville, NC for a “long weekend” but really it was just about biscuits. And coffee. And donuts. http://www.biscuitheads.com/
Cook and break up breakfast sausage
Cook thick sliced bacon; break or chop up most of it but leave a few slices.
Chop up and warm up a slice of breakfast ham.
saute a small diced onion until at least translucent (more if desired)
set the above aside
Cook up some hash browns (we use cubed, but shredded is fine too) in the bacon grease.
When nearly done add minced garlic, then stir in the meats and onions.
Do the final fry to solidify the hash browns and reduce heat to low/medium-low depending on yout stove.
Salt/pepper/other spices to taste. YOu may choose to do this after eggs/cheese (next).
Break eggs over the top of the hash (however many wanted). Sprinkle finely shredded cheese of your choice over the lot (we use the Fiesta mexican blend). Cover and cook until the cheese is melted and the egg whites are no longer runny. Remove lid and cook another minute or so to let excess moisture escape.
Slice and serve.
Alternate; when you add the eggs and cheese stir them into the hash until well distributed. Continue cooking until the cheese is well melted (the eggs will be done).
And final alternate. I tried this once and didn’t care for it but the visiting family members loved it. Serve the hash over a waffle, buttered and syruped to taste. I guess its the same kind of savory/sweet as fried chicken and waffles.
So… all of the above. I think pancakes or biscuits could be used as a top layer also, though I’d go savory with butter and more cheese on top.
Breakfast is just too important of a meal to skimp on.
Forgot to mention - the bacon not broken up to go into the hash is for the cook; got to keep your strength up when making epic breakfast.
@duodec
I think you and I might be breakfast soulmates.
For the record, all breakfasts should be the epic-ness that was aforementioned. Well done, and bonus points to you, fellow breakfast enthusiast.
Two pieces of leftover pizza, put together like a sandwich, then reheated in a waffle iron.
@simplersimon slap some extra mozzarella on the outside and I’m sold.
@Dweezle the crunchy bits of cheese that spill out on the waffle iron are the best bit, so added cheese sounds like a great idea.
How has Meh been around as long as it has, and this is the first time this poll has come up?
@shahnm are we sure about that? They repeated polls (slightly modified) before. I’m too lazy to check.
@simplersimon Yeah. I pretty much lost interest in my own comment just after I posted it.
Depends on how you define “best”.
Tastiest = bacon
Healthiest = eggs, oatmeal, yogurt
Easiest = cereal
Heartiest = pancakes, waffles, French toast
Homiest = yellow grits with butter and sugar
Exoticest (regular breakfast food I’ve ever had)= congee with pickles and fish
@moondrake You get a gold star for mentioning yellow grits.
/giphy donuts!
So biscuits (and biscuits and gravy) have been mentioned. Those are the best, but I’m also going to throw out fried grits as pretty damn good.
If I could get it, I’d love to have ackee and salt fish with little bread balls for breakfast anytime I wanted. But I’d pretty much have to be back in Jamaica for that one.
@djslack Hadn’t ever heard of this so I looked it up. Here’s a how-to. Not personally interest in eating this, don’t like fish. But I could listen to this guy talk all day.
@moondrake ahh, that looks outstanding! The version I had had was served alongside collard greens or similar greens. I think you could do it without the fish and it would still be good (maybe need some salt).
Ackee is (I believe) Jamaica’s national fruit, and what it most closely resembles to me is fluffy scrambled eggs.
Pair it with some fried dumpling balls (kind of like hush puppies but flour-based instead of cornmeal). Festival is close but is usually a bigger piece or patty of dough.
Croissants from the pâtisserie around the corner from the Notre Dame.
https://goo.gl/maps/CnEtoV5Lp772
Chicken fried steak, sausage gravy, buttermilk biscuit, eggs and crispy hash browns! That’s my fave a few times a year! My favorite morning staple is old fashioned oatmeal with minced, dried California dates (tastes amazingly like brown sugar) and some other fruit… I tend to favor blueberries…yum
3D Irk cakes
https://meh.com/forum/topics/pancakebot
Cold breaded pork chops and cold pizza
I appreciate the effort, but @mediocrebot is clearly out of its depth here.
The correct answer is simple.
Honey.
Butter.
Chicken.
Biscuit.
/giphy scrapple
@blndfayth Jones Dairy Farm makes pretty good scrapple (for frozen). My Dad got us hooked on this as kids and it always grossed out visitors when we served it (more for us!)
@blndfayth Found the Philadelphian. Or Southeastern Pennsylvanian. Or South Jersey. Or Delaware.
Coffee, followed by more coffee.
one of each! and to whoever was saying biscuits and gravy weren’t breakfast food, whenever i would sleep over a particular friend’s house on saturdays, on sunday morning we’d go around the corner to her gramma’s house who’d be making doughboys. so you’d eat some sugary doughboys and then her grampa would return with donuts. and the whole time gramma was also working on the sunday gravy (red sauce aka tomato sauce). so then you’d have a little plate of meatballs and gravy. and probably some hot chocolate with marshmallows. fond memories!
Yes, please.
What is best in breakfast? To crush your eggs, see them scrambled before you, and hear the crackling of the bacon.
All of the above, plus ham and red eye gravy & sausage gravy with biscuits.
Dutch Baby Pancakes… also called German Pancakes. Mmm… powdered sugar and lemon… sigh…
@DRBLAW OOOOHHH!!! Dutch Babies with fresh lemon and gobs of butter! And German Apple Panakuchen (basically Dutch Babies with apples and cinnamon)!!!
Oh hell yes.
@DRBLAW when I make them, I usually cook up a banana in butter and brown sugar to throw on top.
Maybe I’ll make one tomorrow…
@DRBLAW made one and now I don’t want to move.
@RiotDemon Dang your inability move has me convinced I am making one or two this weekend…LOW CARB diet be damned!
@DRBLAW I ate it with three small bananas. Way too much but so delicious.
The only other thing I’ve had today is a homemade berry smoothie.
I chose waffles because bacon isn’t a “breakfast” food… bacon is an anytime food.
@thismyusername Good point!
cheeseburger…breakfast foods are for dinner
My favorite breakfast would be one I did not have to cook.
I like bacon, eggs, waffles, pancakes, biscuit and gravy, grits and hash browns. Surprise me.
Before I quit smoking my breakfast was always a cough, a smoke and a coffee. Now my breakfast is a cough and a coffee, occasionally with a biscuit/cookie.