Eat your breakfast

August 19, 2016 10:48 PM

A Suggestion on How to Spend a Day at Home (Or: A Breakfast Manifesto). By Mouse Reeve.
posted by mbrubeck (28 comments total)

I wish I were at home right now. I'm stuck at a hotel in a foreign country half way across the globe, and all I've had for breakfast the past three days is plain cereal and soy milk because I'm slightly terrified of eating any of the, frankly delicious, local breakfast dishes because I caught acute gastroenteritis from eating something or other at some point and I'm still getting over it :(
posted by and they trembled before her fury at 10:53 PM on August 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

Aw, take care. I hope you can look forward to a good breakfast when you get home at least.
posted by mbrubeck at 11:11 PM on August 19, 2016 [2 favorites]

I am behind this idea 100 percent!
posted by old_growler at 11:14 PM on August 19, 2016 [1 favorite]

Just a single day?
posted by mwhybark at 12:02 AM on August 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

Breakfast for dinner is one of my favorite things. In general, I have an odd relationship with food and sometimes I simply am NOT hungry. That is, until I start thinking about breakfast foods to eat. It seems that breakfast foods are foods that always appeal to me even when no other foods do.

I fully support this manifesto. If I didn't have actual things to accomplish this weekend, I would follow its instructions to the letter.
posted by hippybear at 12:45 AM on August 20, 2016 [3 favorites]

My breakfast plans so far - I've eaten a mini-tub of icecream (120ml) while I wait for the oven to heat up for the shepherd's pie. Might eat a chocolate cake-bar if I get impatient for the pie.

Breakfast - go big or go back to bed.
posted by YAMWAK at 1:03 AM on August 20, 2016 [5 favorites]

The other day we were messing around on a slow shift at work and ended up making breakfast sandwiches on toasted sourdough of brown sugar and maple candied bacon and cheddar scrambled eggs drizzled with sriracha creme fraiche. I'd say it was a bit much of a muchness but I'd be lying. It was delicious.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 2:51 AM on August 20, 2016 [16 favorites]

Not enough porridge. Prairie-style — hot buttered porridge — is the best. It's basically liquid flapjack but     I    don't    care.
posted by scruss at 3:20 AM on August 20, 2016

This sounds like a perfect day. Particularly in early winter. Filed for future reference.
posted by travertina at 3:37 AM on August 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

I'm not entirely sure why, but reading this gave me a very distinct urge to do psychedelics.
posted by gucci mane at 4:17 AM on August 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

So kind of like a hobbit's daily routine except three fewer meals? (And probably less pipe-smoking)
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 4:27 AM on August 20, 2016 [4 favorites]

I love breakfast, but that's too many for me. I'm not willing to give up the wonderful potentiality of lunch and dinner. I mean, if my meal choice is a second breakfast or a BLT on toasted sourdough, using fat, juicy garden tomatoes, I'll take the sandwich, thanks. A third breakfast or that chicken that's been slow-cooking in the smoker all afternoon? Duh.
posted by Short Attention Sp at 5:22 AM on August 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

With a little advance planning you wouldn't even need to cover your pajamas and go to the store.
posted by TedW at 6:15 AM on August 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

What a lovely sounding day. I should have an English muffin with some of the jam I made in its honor. I'm already working on a grocery list.
posted by maryr at 7:12 AM on August 20, 2016

While I liked the post linked, that blog also has this gem which I adored.

Like most people, I catalogue all the books I own and ingest them into a graph database with a node representing each book, and relationships between books that are weighted to represent the number of things they have in common (same author, shared characters or settings, published in the same year, et cetera).

posted by hilaryjade at 8:04 AM on August 20, 2016 [8 favorites]

I just quietly read this very pleasant essay to my spouse while we're lying in bed and she asks: wait, before or after which breakfast are you supposed to smoke a joint? it's very important

...and then rolled over and went back to sleep.

I think we're doing it right
posted by The demon that lives in the air at 8:34 AM on August 20, 2016 [4 favorites]

As the King Of All Breakfast, I endorse this notion.
posted by sonascope at 10:14 AM on August 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

I'm not entirely sure why, but reading this gave me a very distinct urge to do psychedelics.

I can't eat at ALL when I'm tripping (maybe some fresh fruit at most), but this sound like the ideal way to spend Sunday after doing a decent amount of quality LSD at dawn on Saturday and getting a good night's sleep that night.
posted by hippybear at 10:36 AM on August 20, 2016 [4 favorites]

Why this wonderful idea makes me sad, a one-act breakfast play based on a true story:

Child: Here's your coffee for you!
Me: Oh, thank you that's really nice of you.
Child: I put sand in it.
posted by langtonsant at 2:12 PM on August 20, 2016 [13 favorites]

Also, by the same author: @brand_new_facts which has had me alternately giggling and nodding wisely for the past 10 minutes.
posted by nonspecialist at 2:28 PM on August 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

Nonsense is, indeed, important.
posted by bigZLiLk at 4:27 PM on August 20, 2016

I'm not willing to give up the wonderful potentiality of lunch and dinner. I mean, if my meal choice is a second breakfast or a BLT on toasted sourdough, using fat, juicy garden tomatoes, I'll take the sandwich, thanks. A third breakfast or that chicken that's been slow-cooking in the smoker all afternoon? Duh.

No, no, no — this displays a sad lack of imagination. Make that BLT open-face and pop a fried egg on top, hey presto! breakfast. Slow-cooked smoked chicken, and you're not open to having it breakfast-style with biscuits and toast and coffee and mimosas? Whaaaaat?

Call it brunch and you can fit in the entire range of meals, really. (For those within range of Oakland, the weekend brunch at Bacheeso's on Grand across from Lakeside Park and Children's Fairyland is excellent, as are the bottomless mimosas. Be sure to applaud and tip the accordion player. Anyone who can go from "Smoke on the Water" to "Billie Jean" to "Suspicious Minds" to "Sweet Dreams" deserves a buck or two in the tip jar.)
posted by Lexica at 6:51 PM on August 20, 2016 [5 favorites]

I am an antsy person who doesn't see the point of herbal tea. This day sounds awful.
posted by The corpse in the library at 9:30 PM on August 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

@brand_new_facts is great. "Facebook is the practice of binding books in human skin"
posted by gryftir at 1:47 AM on August 21, 2016

Yeah, this is basically how I want to spend every day for the rest of my life.
posted by holborne at 10:12 AM on August 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

This is like depression personified. I should know.
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 1:25 PM on August 21, 2016

i need to eat breakfast more.

Sunday night, I scramble ten eggs with cheese, green pep, and a meat. In the tupper in the fridge. Each morning I microwave a daily portion, gobble it down, and some coffee, as I'm out the door.

I need to eat breakfast more. I need to sit, more.
posted by rebent at 12:36 PM on August 22, 2016

I could be doing that right now but instead I'm looking busy at my desk at work. I think I'll head home for the day.
posted by rebent at 12:37 PM on August 22, 2016