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I just realized I didn't know any Americans

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago

I have to eat really quick on workdays, so I don't always get anything, but usually cereal, or I'll spread applesauce and cinnamon on homemade bread if I've prepared some the last few days. Or recently pan dulce if I happen to have bought any recently because there's a bakery nearby that ive discovered sells it fresh for quite cheap.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

A big heaping bowl of FASCISM!

No, actually, usually just a bowl of cereal. Sometimes eggs and/or bacon as well on weekends when there's more time.

[–] KRAW@linux.community 7 points 1 week ago

Whole wheat toast topped with peanut butter, sorghum syrup, and bananas. The toast has fiber and the peanut butter has protein. The bananas and the tiniest drop of sorghum add enough sweetness to round out the flabor but contain less added sugar than most cereal.

[–] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well I’m Asian and don’t really do the typical American breakfast. I just eat whatever, leftovers maybe. I’ll have coffee over tea though, so that’s pretty American of me lol

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

You and millions of other Americans eating leftovers for breakfast. Since the Mayflower for sure, and probably for centuries before that. Although they probably didn't have the Breakfast of Champions, cold leftover pizza.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

My kids and I typically have a bowl of cold milk and cereal, and (separately) a chicken egg cooked in one of several ways.

On the weekends I cook eggs in a different style for each member of the family, bacon or sausage, pancakes or waffles or crepes with jam/maple syrup.

AuDHD has me going in phases.

For a while it was rice with a barely fried egg. Optional soy sauce or msg.

Then it was one slice of bacon and a fried egg.

Then it was half a bagel, cream cheese, and a slice of bacon.

Then Greek yogurt with some PB2. Sometimes with whatever fruit I had around.

Sometimes I go for salami and apple slices. Pepper jack cheese too.

I am now on a kick of these granola+peanut butter bar things either dipped in hot cocoa or hot coffee.

[–] Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Usually coffee. Plunger, at least a pot. Otherwise it's pretty evenly split between vegemite toast, taiwanese green onion pancakes from trader joe's, or maybe a bagel, granola, shakshuka or left over takeout.

I grew up outside the country though, hence not being a fan of us style drip coffee which always taste like hay to me.

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[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Breakfast sausage and eggs usually and depending on my mood coffee or hot tea. Sometimes I cook potatoes with it usually in the form or hash browns or using left over mash potatoes to make potato cakes. I usually vary sausage and eggs to either an omelette, burrito, if I have peppers on hand or a sandwich when I want cheese with it, else usually sausage patties and eggs over easy or sunny side up. If there's left over rice, egg fried rice with sausage.

Southeast US

Black coffee. Nicotine lozenges.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Twin Peaks (1990) gives one a good sense of American breakfasts.

Don't forget pie and coffee.

[–] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago

I make a warm mug of Ovaltine®. But with coffee instead of milk. It's... effective.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

I almost never eat breakfast. Maybe a few times per year. I usually don't get up early enough.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Coffee and water. Used to have a banana too, but they self destruct my digestion now.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I have nothing usually.

On the rare occasions I eat breakfast at home I eat cereal.

On the rare occasions I eat breakfast out I eat sausage gravy or classic bacon and eggs.

[–] ascallion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Banana pancakes - just an egg and banana mixed together into a batter and fried for a few minutes. I throw on some frozen strawberries usually and its quite good

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I drink coffee mixed with protein shake.

Then I eat more of a traditional breakfast around lunch time. I saute a bunch of veggies and a but of sausage (just enough to grease the pan) and then add some eggs, put it in a tortilla for breakfast burritos.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Man, I miss my American, pheep. Hope he's doing fine.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Coffee plus one of the following (it changes, depending on my whim and ingredient availability):

  • Homemade egg bites (egg, sausage or meatless sausage, peppers, onion, spinach, cheese)
  • Cereal
  • Greek yogurt mixed with a dollop of jam
  • Breakfast sandwiches (homemade, prepackaged, or from a local restaurant)
  • Biscuits and gravy
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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

poptarts, coke zero, and pills

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[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Coffee on weekdays. On the weekend when I have time, I'll fry up some eggs. Breakfast food is my favorite food, mostly, but I never really have time to eat it.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Typically 3 eggs, overnight oats with protein powder, and a mandarin orange. Not a body builder or anything, just a ~~large~~ tall person who eats mostly vegetarian so if I want to eat healthy I have to get protein in where I can.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Pot of coffee, a bowl of dried figs, and a few pieces of dark chocolate.

Then I fire a heater at a porcelain target fast enough to launch a small payload into orbit.

Nothing, I cant be bothered

[–] randomcruft@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

Oatmeal with honey, fruit, and tea… typically.

[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

A glass of water. About an hour later a cup of coffee. For lunch I usually have a slice of bread toasted, with butter and jam followed by a cup of coffee.

This pretty much every day.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Cold leftover pizza.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Coffee, peanut butter sandwich, and a banana (shout out gwen Stefani)

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago

Unflavored shredded wheat cereal with frozen berries, toast or vegetarian sausage, and quality tea.

In summer, I'll sometimes swap the tea for a smoothie if it's been hot.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Metamucil, coffee, and either a fried egg on toast or oatmeal with maple syrup. I grew up in BC so I may not be the best sample.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

I grew up in BC so I may not be the best sample.

You're the single best sample of you! I celebrate you!

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[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

I went quite a few years making oatmeal for myself and my kids every day, usually with brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, and frozen blueberries.

the kids have stopped enjoying it, though, after all the repetition, so we've started doing breakfast cereal, Raisin Bran and one of the Cheerios permutations that has some oat/nut ingredients, so these days I just have Raisin Bran.

[–] JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Eggs and Bacon if I'm cooking. Scrapple if I'm feeling extra PA. If I'm not cooking and I grab something quick it's usually a breakfast sandwich from somewhere.

[–] muxika@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

A bowl of Raisin Bran with milk an and 2-3 cups of coffee. On weekends, I do pancakes with bacon and eggs.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Coffee with a bowl of yogurt, banana, Cheerios every weekday

Something with eggs on weekend. I try to be creative. If my kids are here, it might be pancakes or waffles, which technically have eggs

[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Either a large piece of buttered toast or a bowl of yogurt.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Coffee. And then coffee.

[–] alternategait@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I haven’t been eating breakfast since I started intermittent fasting. Before I kept it very simple and repetitive. I mostly had cold cereal with milk or overnight oats with chia and cinnamon.

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