What Breakfast Gets You Going?

Crash McBang asks: "Apparently many are foregoing the morning coffee for something sweeter, according to a recent article in RedOrbit. 'There is nothing better than the feel of Coke on the back of your throat in the morning,' said McKinsey, a morning pop drinker since the 1970s, savoring the cold, stinging sensation that coffee drinkers just don't get. What gets you going after waking up?"

Fruit!

[ilovegeorgebush]

Cereal, a nice cup of Tea (yes, i'm British) and some fruit gets me going. Apparently, Apples are more effective at waking you up than coffee!

3 options

[fusto99]

1. Mountain Dew is the usual meal 2. Red bull or other energy drink when I need a slightly stronger kick. 3. Carmel Machiato with a triple shot of espresso if I need something more.

A very common breakfast

[NetDanzr]

Coffee and a smoke. Then some more coffee.

Re:Fruit!

[xtracto]

I love honey nut cereal mixed with shredded wheat (it is the ONLY way I can stand eating wheat cereals without feeling that I am eating a cardboard box...) . I add some sliced bananas.

Of course I also get a cup of coffee and waffles (difficult to get in UK, the "normal" egg waffles with honey and butter and no the potato waffles they eat here...).

Something interesting is that in UK people often have something really light for breakfast (as parent said), unlike in Mexico where the breakfast my mom used to give us where two scrambled eggs with ham and some mashed refried beans as side order. Or the typical Moyetes (a french like bread sliced in half with refried beans and grated with cheese... oooh god).

Of course you could ask what about the [in]famous English breakfast (bacon, "yummy-looking" black pudding, eggs, some kind of horrible tomatoes, sausage, beans and if u are vegy, mushrooms) but as far as I have seen, it is not until 11:00 (lunch hour) that they take these. My gf used to work in a restaurant where they served "all day english breakfast". It is very "funny" to watch people ask for an english breakfast at 10:00 pm...

BTW, did you know that Irish drink more coffee than tea? well, that is something an Irish man told me maybe it is bollocks =oP

Mornings

[Venner]

Most days it's a bowl of cereal (typically Raisin Bran or Frosted Shredded Wheat), a banana, and a nice big glass or two of tea, typically green. In the wintertime, it's hot oatmeal or cream of wheat.
If I have a lot to do that day, or an exam, or whatnot, I'll get up a bit earlier and make a couple of eggs, whole grain toast with peanut butter, yogurt, etc. Brain food.

Breakfast has never been optional for me. Not only do I not like to be hungry, if I haven't had something of substance to eat within a couple of hours of waking up, I typically get a horrible splitting headache that lasts all day and which doesn't respond to analgesics. (No, it's not the caffeine. I can go days without tea - I just won't be happy about it.)

bacon, eggs, and sometimes sausage

[rednip]

bacon, eggs, and sometimes sausage. Usually washed down with some lightly or un-sweetened iced tea. Lately, I've been stopping by the local quickiemart for a 24oz eye opener, and a banana for a mid-morning snack. if I'm pressed for time I get a sausage, egg, and cheese bagel from Wawa (Convenience store/deli).

My Ultimate Breakfast

[skroz]

Warning: Only to be used sparingly. Excessive usage WILL kill you.

• Two strips bacon, fried in butter (not margarine, sissy boy)
  
• Two strips sausage, fried in bacon grease and butter from above
  
• 4 eggs over-easy, cooked in bacon grease, sausage fat, and butter from above. Yolks should be slightly runny.
  
• Two waffles, buttered. Syrup to be applied in large quantities (see below)
  
• Hash browns or grits
  
• a biscuit, buttered
  
• 1 cup coffee
  
• 1 large glass orange juice
  

The excess melted butter, syrup, and egg yolks should be allowed to mingle. The resulting soupy mess should be eaten mixed with the hash browns. The biscuit can be used to mop up any remaining liquid.

This should not be eaten on a regular basis. I use it before a long day of hard outdoor work, like felling trees, hauling timber, pouring concrete, etc.. Anything where I expect to burn a huge number of calories.

To Quote Jon Stewart

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, Jon Stewart just added Gatorade A.M. [comedycentral.com] to his pantry of fame. The label reads, "Gatorade A.M. helps you put back the fluids and energy you lose during a full night's sleep."

Because, you know, you lose a lot of fluids when you sleep?!

Between the tongue in the ass and Gatorade A.M., I'd probably take the tongue in the ass.

Re:A very common breakfast

[TheLink]

Italians?

How about the Japanese?

Whatever the Japanese are doing, they have long life expectancies despite 50% of the males smoking (was 80% in the 80s!), working long hours and drinking lots of beer... The females live even longer.

Given most developed countries are worried about aging populations, perhaps they shouldn't be so upset if people insist on smoking and killing themselves earlier.

Maybe we should thank them for their sacrifice for the greater good and all that.

Nothing.

[Lord Bitman]

I've read all the comments, and only 2 so far said they didnt eat, without mentioning drinking something or some other ritual.

I would hereby like to specifically mention:
I wake up, I go to work.
I don't eat.
I don't drink coffee.
I don't drink orange juice.
I don't drink...
I don't chug 2 liters of water. (wtf?)
I don't get a blowjob.
I don't I don't take a bunch of [xxinsertstimulantherexx].

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

A bowl of Cheerios, with Pepsi in lieu of milk

[vrmlguy]

Actually, that was my great-grandmother's usual breakfast. It always used to freak me out when I saw her eating it, but I guess it isn't much different from eating dry cereal and washing it down with soda. She was born in the 1890s and out-lived all of my other great-grandparents, so maybe it's good for you. I always thought that habit was unique to her, but a few years ago I saw a review of a play wherein an elderly character did the same thing. Google doesn't seem to turn up anything, however.

Totally off-subject, but she had a son who lost a total of 7 fingers in multiple cotton gin accidents. Dispite this handicap, he could still roll his own cigarettes, which was truly amazing to my five-year-old eyes. IIRC, he died of lung cancer about the same time as her; perhaps he should have been eating the same breakfast.

Re:Breakfast?

[Thansal]

For me I have a muffin for breakfast.

however again, weekends (or anytime I have the time), breakfast turns into some thing with eggs.

either fried eggs over biscuits and a side of meat or a quick fry up of everything I have around (Meat, onions, potatoes, bread, peppers, whatevever is around) in lots of butter, then pour eggs over that to bind it all together, top with cheese and ketchup and I am set for the morning.

Or there are always pancakes and/or waffles. Waffles are also great topped with eggs/meat/potatoes/cheese/ketchup. That was a standard for me in college, the dinning hall had belgium waffles for brunch on weekends, top that with anything else they had. Then eat a second one topped with icecream.

Yah, I eat to much :)

Re:Coke for breakfast?

[jcorno]

Coke has fewer calories per ounce than orange juice, apple juice, or milk. Granted, it has none of the health benefits of any of those, but it's probably not making you fatter. Plus, the caffeine-induced twitching is good to burn off a few more.

Re:Irish Coffee

[stonecypher]

Interestingly it's also a relatively new invention, not much more than 50 years old.

Also interesting is that Irish Coffee is an accidental American invention. An individual from a San Fransisco bar called "the Buena Vista" stumbled across a variation on the theme in the Shannon Airport, and on returning home talked the bartender into experimenting with him at length. The drink they ended up with is significantly different than the Irish drink, which was really just a heavy unpasteurized spiked coffee with sugar.

For example, the characteristic "double cream on top" was created here when the local proprietor misunderstood what kept the cream afloat (the cream only floats when cold enough that the drink won't melt it until it releases air; in the original Irish version, it's a thick-walled, refrigerated mug, whereas in the Americanized version, the cream itself is first frothed to make stronger bubbles (as with Cappucino,) then intensely chilled to get the puff to last without the support of the glass.

Unfortunately, Ireland has begun to retcon history to make this drink their own. C'est la vie.