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cheese_greater @lemmy.world

1mo ago

Whats an unconventional food you enjoy eating for breakfast?

cheesecake (with frozen berries and whipped cream)

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Cold slice of leftover cheese pizza.
- Love toaster pizzas for breakfast of any time really
- The best hangover breakfast.

I didn’t think it was weird but when I put lox on my bagel one of my coworkers gagged and asked “ugh how can you eat fish for breakfast?”
Which is rich considering her people invented scrapple.
- Nah, your coworker's weird. That shit slaps.
  https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-lox/
  By the 1950s, 'bagels and lox' had become an insult—a disparaging term used by Jewish immigrants to describe their counterparts who had become too American.
- Hear me out, toasted onion dill rye bread instead of a bagel. Room for more lox, creme cheese so holds together and a better crunch. Also rosemary sourdough bread.

Peanut butter sandwich with mustard.
- I think this counts as unconventional at all times of day.... and night.
  
  The question could be read either way.
- Yuck, have an upvote haha
- What deeeee fuk?
  What type of mustard?
  
  I don't tend to use Dijon for this, but most types of brown mustard or spicy mustard go well. Also other vinegary condiments such as chimichurri or cilantro chutney.

I'll be revealing my nationality with this one, but Wheatbix and Milo (chocolate malt usually for milk drinks) is something apparently no one else I've met has.
Before I moved away from dairy entirely, I couldn't stand the taste of plain cow's milk and adding Milo helped with the wheatbix severely.
- And in winter, put your weetbix and Milo in the microwave for 45 seconds to make it nice and warm. A little bit of cinnamon and sugar helps too.
  
  Aww yisss. Weetabix just barely sopping in the milk and then nuked to brown-sugar-ready perfection while it sponges up the rest.
  I'll do that with regular (1%) milk right outta the bag. 🇨🇦
- I'm a long long way from my place of birth, and one day a coworker gave me a tin of Milo she'd picked up on her travels but didn't like. I ate it dry, in spoonfuls, almost sobbing with nostalgia.
  Also, Wheatbix, ahhh. Weetabix is a miserable con artist of a breakfast cereal. It's for feeble people with bad teeth.

When I lived in Chicago, mom-and-pop Mexican stores were a stone's throw from one another, take your pick. Also, they opened early to cater to laborers.
Real Mexican for breakfast? I would kill to have that back.
- The Mexican places here make breakfast chilaquiles with yesterday's leftover chips!
- Come back, it's a great place to live.

As some one who dœsn't believe in "breakfast" , list of things I've eaten in the morning :
Potato crisps
Chow mein nꝏdles
Hambourghers
Pizza
Crackers
Cup ramen
Cake
Popcorn
Mac cheese
Maybe some others but don't remember
- Cake
  Candy
  Chicken wings
  Steak
  Fried chicken
  Pie
  Ice Cream
  Tacos
  Burritos
  Chili
  And probably much more over the years. I don't actually eat breakfast that often to begin with. If I want breakfast food, I'll eat it whenever I want.
- Hambourghers
  Cournerstoune ouf any nouutriciouus breakfast.

Whatever leftovers are on hand, but my favorites are noodle dishes like pancit bihon, pho (a normal breakfast but not here in the US), or Singapore curry noodles.

Pho. I have a pot every morning.
- A pot o' pho? Isn't that a French thing?

Mi goreng ramen with carrot, broccoli, egg, and anchovies. And sometimes other things

Dark chocolate.
- One of my exes is a dark chocolate for breakfast person
  
  I just can't do caffeine late in the day.

Cold Irish stew
- Cold Irish stew while shitfaced by the cold but beautiful glow of the fridge light.

Leftover Chinese food warmed up in the microwave
- This makes it sound like microwaving it is what makes it unconventional. 😆

At this point, i'm just happy there's food

Pickled herring. Or soused herring. Or really, any kind of cold fish.
- "Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!"

Breakfast is my favorite meal, though I don't eat it very early, so I'm more likely to eat breakfast stuff for lunch or supper, than the other way around.
But leftover reheated pizza is so good for breakfast.

Rice. I know it's common in Asian countries but absolutely not where I'm from.
- Unless it’s Krispie
- My grandma used to eat leftover rice with a little milk and sugar for breakfast. Kinda like oatmeal.
- Rice with chili paste and a fried egg, and pork fu is my "Korean grandma" breakfast, but I have done the same with grits and potatoes.
- Sticky rice and a plain omelette with Maggi seasoning. Top tier breakfast.

As an American, this is the most American thing I've ever heard.
- Y'all hardly have a monopoly on cheesecake
  
  But the unhealthy eating habits are decidedly American.

My wife and I don't eat traditional "American" breakfast at all, it's always either refried beans, some kind of Indian curry, or protein and fried rice. PBJ is supplemental otherwise.
- We love a breakfast burrito with refried beans, potatoes, eggs, onion, cheese, salsa.

I love a Greek salad for breakfast. Eating salad as the first meal of the day makes me feel energetic, without the heavy, achy feeling that meat and bread-based foods give me.

Probably not the weirdest by a long shot, but I absolutely love having leftover dinner for breakfast because I'm not a big breakfast food fan.
One of my favorites is if there's leftover homemade mac and cheese, I'll take some and heat it. Then I'll put some on a tortilla and then add ketchup. Roll it up and I will gladly devour it.

I only like sweet breakfast. Cereal, cookies, choc pancakes, cakes etc Not healthy but otherwise I won't eat breakfast

Hotdogs.

Do grits count? Grits with as close to an entire stick of hot butter as someone will let me have.
- Grits is traditional breakfast foods though? When were you eating them before?
  Grits with butter, cheese, and nutritional yeast, yum!

A wrap - 2 boiled eggs, beans, shredded cheese, dill pickle, salad dressing, and pepper. After that high protein greek yogurt with creatine and ground flax.

Hamburger Helper, cheeseburger macaroni. When hungover...

Caesar salad.

Oh man you are a visionary.
I can’t believe I never thought it suitable to just eat cheese cake for breakfast. Or any cake for that matter!
Seems obvious now that it’s been said, but never occurred to me prior seeing this. That’s a bit sad honestly, that I’ve become so reserved and “traditional” with my morning meals.
Edit: well just to answer the actual question so as not to waste space in the thread unnecessarily, the one thing I’d consider a bit more unconventional in my habits is just eating boiled eggs with nothing else. A cup of coffee and some 3 eggs, nothing else. I guess it’s not that strange, but I’ve got some funny looks when people are visiting or for example starting dating with someone, and I happen to do this.
- Whenever I'm talking to a little kid and they start trying to joke me, I normally reply with the "oh yeah. Well I can go and eat cake for breakfast or dinner if I want." That usually shuts them down.
  For the confused they are normally related through family or friends. I'm not just going out to the playground to start trash talking a kid. They normally are just being kids and start making jokes.
- Yeah, cheesecake with possibly some kind of frozen berry variety and maybe some whipped cream is fantastic
  Not terribly different than like waffles or crêpes or whatever the heck people sometimes have aha

apples

Well, I'm the only person I've met that has soylent for breakfast everyday. It's basically meant for breakfast though so...
- Soylent green?
- Those breakfast shakes? I had one of those. They are pretty good.

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