When was the last time you had a "complete breakfast"?

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* a bowl of your favorite BRAND cereal of choice
* Buttered toast
* Eggs
* Bacon and/or sausage
* Pancakes
* Hashbrowns
* Banana or other fruit
* Orange Juice
* Milk
..you know, just like in the cereal commercials aimed at kids?

You're allowed to leave one item off. You're also allowed two minor subsitutions. So did you? ANYTHING MORE DEVIANT IS NOT A COMPLETE BREAKFAST. PURINA/GENERAL MILLS/KELLOGG'S SAYS SO!

donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

According to that list, I've never had one.

luna (luna.c), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

I remember it as "A complete breakfast including juice, toast, milk and Trix" .. But the picture always indicated the fuller breakfast that you indicate. So stuffing myself at the Sunday Bruch Buffet is still not a full meal, because I never eat cereal.

geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

indicate.indicate.

geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

donut bitch you sellout - the other thread was sufficient!

j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Coffee
Toast
Eggs
Bacon
Fried Tomatoes
Grapefruit Juice

Is as close as I get and I haven't made it in over a month.

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm all about big breakfasts, but cereal is never included. Cereal is for weekdays and is a breakfast unto itself.

Also, if I am having a non-breakfast cereal, I would never have both a glass of orange juice and a glass of milk.

Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I actually forced my family to make me one on a Saturday morning when I was a kid.. I was SCREAMING for a complete breakfast when I was seven or so, because all the kids in the cereal commercials were so happy eating a complete breakfast. And my family was never that happy. I thought the key to having a happy family was having a complete breakfast.

So they obliged. They were not happy making it either. I actually ate everything, too. What was I thinking? They should have put my hand in the gas burner, or held me over a dumpster or something. I was an awful fucking kid.

donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

We have a cooked breakfast most sundays. Bacon, Black Pudding Egg Toast, Tomatoes normally.

Ed (dali), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

I have had:
* a bowl of your favorite BRAND cereal of choice
* Banana or other fruit
* Orange Juice

or
* Buttered toast

or

* Eggs
* Bacon and/or sausage
* Pancakes
* Hashbrowns
* Orange Juice

or

* Bacon and/or sausage
* Pancakes

or
* Banana or other fruit
* Orange Juice

but that's all.

luna (luna.c), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

blount, the only thing the other thread would have done was people naming bands named after breakfast items.

donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

never. the closest i've come is the HALF Irish Breakfast at a local irish pub, and that was damn big. the FULL irish bkfst had an extra egg, more sausage, and maybe other stuff.

AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

The closest I've come was every morning at the breakfast buffet at my hotel in Hawaii this past spring: pancakes, bacon/sausage, croissants, orange juice, hash browns, crullers. I would have gained a good bit of poundage on that trip were that not the only full meal I ate each day.

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 6 June 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

a "big" breakfast for me is

juice
coffee
fruit
toast/muffin
potatoes
eggs of some sort
sometimes bacon/sausage

how could you possibly add cereal AND pancakes to this? it's rediculous.

AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday morning I ate 3 roasted ears of corn, about 1/3 of a pineapple, and two lukewarm meatballs. That seemed complete enough for me. Kellogg's can eat one dick.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

that complete breakfast thing is an ENORMOUS amount of food. I don't remember that much in the commericals. I mean, pancakes and hash browns and toast and cereal? That's a lot of starch!

teeny (teeny), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Eggs are teh suck.

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 6 June 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I love nostalgia threads. donut's answer is the greatest ... Marketing to kids = classic.

geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

My personal complete breakfast would contain one item from each of the five breakfast food groups: eggs, bread (pancakes/waffles/french toast/toast), meat (bacon/sausage/ham), potatoes, and coffee.

Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

who the hell drinks milk AND orange juice? two beverages at one meal is insanity.

I think on the road, at a restaurant, I've had pancakes, eggs, and hash browns. but no fruit. and i always just get water when eating out (well unless someone else is paying, and I'll have a beer or 6) cause i'm thrifty.

oops (Oops), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

I've had coffee, orange juice, and water at various breakfasts out, but milk and orange juice seem much more at odds.

Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

What you do is MIX the milk and orange juice!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

And subsequently vomit violently!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

yeah, there's a bit of unnecessary doubling up on this menu - toast AND pancakes, cereal AND milk AND OJ, really unnecessary. I cook big breakfasts on the weekends though - usually involving fruit, meat (eggs or sausage), pancakes or waffles or toast, and potatoes. its fun.

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 6 June 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

When I was a kid, mixed milk and orange juice was the most disgusting drink that I could think of (and I tried)!

But now they make that 'calcium-enhanced orange juice' stuff which is just that.

Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I just listed what I remember from the cereal commercials. Don't blame me.. blame Battle Creek, Michigan!

donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Well, until my dad brought some mysterious bread from Japan, I had cereal with milk. During the day I usually have a smoothie as well. It takes about five minutes to make but only ten seconds to drink: banana - vanilla soymilk/yoghurt - (fresh) orange juice and sometimes mixed with mango.

I've grown to dislike orange juice from a can/bottle. I only want it fresh now.

Now I have the mysterious (rice)bread from Japan topped with Honey-Chocolate. YUM.

nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

haha, I just realized Donut included PURINA up there

meow

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

i have gotten close in the past, but there is no way i could eat this much for breakfast. if people do actually eat that kind of breakfast, i understand why there is so much obesity in the U.S.

t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Dude, Purina makes a lot of cereal for humans.. or at least used to.. I think they merged with one of the other biggies a while ago.. I think all the really oddball sugary cereals like Cookie Crisp and the Powdered donuts tasting cereal were Purina cereals.

donut debonair (donut), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Biggest b'fast within immediate memory:

two buckwheat waffles
mango sauce (heated) on top of the waffles
two sausage (not sausage) patties
one banana
one cup of Very Vanilla

Most of the time lately I've had an apple and maybe some soy yogurt.

I used to love eggs but now just the sound of the word makes me a little nauseous. It sounds like a substance, like gak or vaz.

Andy K. (ADK), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Actually the largest meal of the day should be breakfast. Most of the things are very healthy, esp milk, orange juice and cereal should be essential.

what the hell is purina? *goes off the google* Dog food???????

nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

a breakfast for me is usually:

yogurt
orange juice
waffles
english muffin
banana

i couldnt possibly eat anything more than this

t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

I haven't had a breakfast like that since the last time I stayed over at my grandparents' for a week (which would've been around age ten or eleven). I'm used to eating horrible Pop-Tarts.

Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Monday, 6 June 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

This one morning while I was in Hartford, CT and was staying at that thurr extended stay Marriot, they had this breakfast buffet, and, one excruciatingly hungover morning, I somehow willed my meatcarcass onto the elevator and down to the first floor and shoveled into my face...

about a handful and a half of scrambled eggs
three sausage patties
one belgian waffle
a cup of sliced grapefruit
three glasses of orange juice (they were, however, wee little 4 oz. glasses)
two slices of toast

...following which I subesequently stumbled back up to my room, laid down in front of the tube, and did everything in my power not to explode my guts all over Buffy's pretty TV face.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Ian, learn to love one life.

Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

I think the most complete breakfast I have eaten was at the IHOP 2 weeks ago.
Bacon, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, orange juice, iced tea, stuffed, yes stuffed with cream cheese, french toast.
I thought I was going to pop. Then I went to Krispy Kreme and watched the donuts go by for about 20 minutes in my fat and sugar soaked haze.

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 6 June 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

iced tea, stuffed, yes stuffed with cream cheese

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

I meant the french toast. Argh!

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I had a great breakfast in Belfast last month. I didn't need lunch until about 5pm.

Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

If I ate all that first thing in the morning, I think I'd have to call in sick. Just a little coffee for now, thanks. I'll be hungry later.

slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 6 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

When I was a kid, mixed milk and orange juice was the most disgusting drink that I could think of (and I tried)!

But now they make that 'calcium-enhanced orange juice' stuff which is just that.
-- Jordan (jordan...), June 6th, 2005 11:27 AM

Creamsicle® to thread!

rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 6 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

this morning i had:

a chorizo scramble
two half-pieces of rye toast (out of four)
side of home fries
large OJ

barring coffee, i don't think i can get much more complete than that.

to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

I rarely eat breakfast before 1030 am. I'm just not hungry.

luna (luna.c), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

i love getting up extra-early and going out for breakfast. a good breakfast --> a good day, usually.

to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

lunch is the meal i'd be willing to skip -- it's too damn close to dinnertime.

to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

i like to have a breakfast of this scale at least once a week. no OJ or bananas, but add shrooms and tomato..

shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 6 June 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

A big breakfast for me is - well, *anything*.

Proper fried breakfasts are great, but not at that time in the morning. They're brunchtastic.

caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

God, how can anyone think the original list is a complete brekky? Its too much! Cereal and coffee or juice. Or toast and same. Or toast and eggs/meat/sides and same. Not all of them!

My parents went to LA once on a trip and said at the brekky buffet some people were loading up plates with pancakes, eggs, bacon, DOGHNUTS and syrup all on one plate. EUUUEGHRHHRrHhHH.

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 08:11 (twenty years ago)

I rather like an asian style breakfast myself - congee, or miso soup. Nice and savoury and light and yet hearty. Not that I ever get to have that.

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

I don't eat the black pudding in our cooked breakfasts!

The other weekend Ed brought back fresh-laid farm eggs from one of his camping jaunts. They were the nicest, freshest eggs I've ever had, and made the most incredibly yellow scramblies I've ever cooked.

I like two slices of bacon and sausage (one Cumberland or two chipolatas) with a fried egg and really nice buttered toast, chased with a very strong cup of milky tea or nice coffee. I only like fried tomatoes if Ed does them (we are in a phase where we have really lovely cherry tomatoes from Borough Market).

If I'm really loading it on I make home fries: sautee half an onion, chopped, in a frying pan (either with the fat from cooking bacon and sausage or with butter). Add chopped-up leftover chips (ideally from a fish and chip supper a day or two before), salt, pepper and a couple of crushed-up pepperoncini. Deglaze with a shot-glass of water (this helps flavour to mingle) and leave the potatoes to one side on a low heat so the bottom crisps, then flip, assemble the breakfast, add the potatoes to the plate. It's also nice to finish the home fries and then as a final step (with fries still in pan) make space for the eggs - sunny side up, bleeding into the crispiest bits of home fries and showered in black pepper.

See, there's good reasons why we only do this once a week!

One thing that purely does not exist in Britain that I miss from America: sausage patties. To the point where I sometimes remove the sausage casings before cooking and patty them up myself.

suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

Closest i've had to this recently was brunch -

2 eggs
3 sausages
bacon
chips/fries
mushrooms
toast
fried tomato
baked beans

(i left some of the chips)

Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

i had a moussaka for breakfast once, at the millenium cafe on holloway road.. fancied it over the millenium special that day because i wanted something juicy.

the millenium special is nice though.

ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

One thing that purely does not exist in Britain that I miss from America: sausage patties

Two words: Lorne sausages.

(although they're not that easy to get hold of outside England)

caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 10:19 (twenty years ago)

Bah. outside Scotland natch.

caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

I was going to mention square sausages/Lornes but that post was already quite long! I've had 'em in Glesga. Also they are BRIGHT PINK and not as spicy as the US patty, which is burger-shaped and flavoured with nutmeg/mace/salt/pepper.

suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure I have had them in the UK, usually from roadside fast-food vans; but I don't remember seeing them in the shops at all.

caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

MORRISONS IS YOUR FRIEND.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

"one belgian waffle"

But the question is: which ones? Brussels or Liege waffles. ;-)

nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

It's been ages since i've had a cooked breakfast. I usually have porridge made up with half water and half semi skimmed milk, mixed with sultanas; walnuts and pumpkin seeds, topped with stewed apple and a splodge of natural yoghurt with a dusting of cinammon and teaspoon of honey. So filling that i rarely feel like eating till late afternoon afterwards.

leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

I have never in my adult life liked porridge/oatmeal. When my auntie was a teenager she refused her porridge (which she hated) and stepped into a dinner-table stalemate with my grandfather ("young lady, you finish what's put in front of you") which resulted in her being served the same cold porridge for three straight mealtimes. I'll have to ask my mom to remind me whether she wound up missiling it at his head in the end.

My favourite everyday breakfast is one soft-boiled egg divided between two slices of buttered toast with TONS of freshly ground black pepper and a pinch of sea salt on top. I could live on this as basic rations.

suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

If I make porridge and put the bowl in the sink to soak, my cat loves to drink the water out of it.

caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

A big breakfast for me is usually a vegetable omelet. The huge "complete" breakfasts described upthread have the effect of making me feel very sick later in the day.

Leon hearts Crazy Frog (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Is eating salad or anything like that an acceptable breakfast? I ask because sometimes I eat my lunchtime sarnies instead of breakfast as I'm rushing out the door.

dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

salad is not an acceptable meal in whatever circumstances

ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

In Vermont, breakfast was:

Large plate of fruit
Croissants
Bacon
Home Fries
A choice of (enormous) french toast-style croissants, (enormous) blueberry/raspberry waffles, or something else involving eggs
Juice
Coffee

You could also have cereal if you wanted. It was the biggest breakfast I've ever eaten.

Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)


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