Re: “breakfast food” and “dinner food”
Pancakes for dinner was a rare childhood treat for us as kids.
Years later I found out it was because my parents were running really short of money and it was an inexpensive way to feed us kids that also made us happy enough that we didn’t even realize the stress they were under.
I’d disagree with the whole premise of “breakfast food” and “dinner food”, personally. Food is food. And whatever food you eat first in the day, whatever time that may be, is technically breakfast. For me, it’s most often a big fresh fruit salad with a piece of cornbread, vanilla yogurt on top, garnished with nuts, sometime between 2 and 4 pm, as I’m never at all hungry when I get up. And whenever I eat eggs in any form, it’s almost always in the evening.
It was boxed macaroni and cheese at my house. In later years my mother wouldn't eat it because it reminded her of being poor.