FReeper Canteen ~ Your Favorite Breakfast! ~ 31 July 2007

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The FReeper Canteen Presents ~Your Favorite Breakfast!~
Welcome to the FReeper Canteen! It's great to have you with all of us!! Thank you to all of our Troops, Veterans, and their families for allowing us to entertain you!

 

 

Main Topic:

What is your favorite breakfast? 

A bowl of cereal?

The word cereal derives from Ceres, the name of the Roman goddess of harvest and agriculture. Cold cereal is largely an American invention, but its popularity has spread throughout the world.

Some YUMMY waffles?

Waffles were first introduced to North America in 1620, by pilgrims who brought the method from Holland. Thomas Jefferson brought a waffle iron from France, and waffle frolics or parties became popular in the late eighteenth century. Waffles were eaten with both sweet (molasses or maple syrup) and savory (such as kidney stew) toppings.

Blueberry Pancakes!

The first pancake-type foods were eaten by ancient peoples, and were not the same pancakes we eat today. The simple, fried concoctions of milk, flour, eggs and spices were called "Alita Dolcia" (Latin for "another sweet") by the Ancient Romans.

Depending upon the proportion of ingredients and method of cooking, the finished product might have approximated pancakes, fritters, omlettes, or custard. Some of these dishes were sweet (fruit, nuts, honey); others were savory (cheese, fish, meat). These ancient recipes are also thought to be the relatives of waffles, cakes, muffins, fritters, spoonbread and doughnuts. Pancakes, as we Americans know them today, were "invented" in Medieval Europe.

Eggs Benedict, true indulgence

There are differing accounts as to the origin of Eggs Benedict.

In an interview in the "Talk of the Town" column of The New Yorker in 1942, the year before his death, Lemuel Benedict, a retired Wall Street stock broker, claimed that he had wandered into the Waldorf Hotel in 1894, hoping to find a cure for his morning hangover, and ordered "buttered toast, poached eggs, crisp bacon and hollandaise". Oscar Tschirky, the maître d'hôtel and legendary "Oscar of the Waldorf", was so impressed with the dish that he put it on the breakfast and luncheon menus, but substituted ham and a toasted English muffin for the bacon and toast.

Craig Claiborne, in September 1967, wrote a column in The New York Times Magazine about a letter he had received from Edward P. Montgomery, an American then residing in France. In it, Montgomery related that the dish was created by Commodore E.C. Benedict, a banker and yachtsman, who died in 1920 at the age of 86. Montgomery also included a recipe for eggs Benedict, stating that the recipe had been given to him by his mother, who had received it from her brother, who was a friend of the Commodore.
 

Breakfast Burritos, some pan-fried potatoes and eggs sunny side up!

Southwestern cuisine, New Mexican cuisine in particular, has popularized the breakfast burrito. An entire American breakfast can be wrapped inside a 15-inch flour tortilla, accompanied by field-fresh, often very hot, green chile. Southwestern breakfast burritos may include scrambled eggs, potatoes, onions, chorizo, guisado, or bacon. Tia Sophia's, a Mexican café in Santa Fe, New Mexico, claims to have invented the original breakfast burrito in 1975, filling a rolled tortilla with bacon and potatoes, served wet with chili and cheese.

The WORKS!

Many regions of the U.S.A. have local breakfast specialties that are less popular nationally. In the South, homemade biscuits served with country-style gravy (also called sawmill gravy), country ham and red eye gravy and grits are one traditional breakfast menu.

The Southwest has huevos rancheros and spicy breakfast burritos; scrapple is a favorite in the Mid-Atlantic states; pork roll is rarely available outside New Jersey and Philadelphia; and New Englanders still occasionally indulge in fried salt-pork, and pie. Specialty sausages also vary in popularity regionally, such as linguiça in Hawaii and southern New England, andouille in Louisiana, and chorizo in the Southwest.

Come tell us about your favorite Breakfast!!

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[NRA1995]

Damn straight!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, Mrs.N...((HUGS))

[stand watie]

GM, dear.

my favorite is SOS on toast w/fried eggs. (as you know, i'm an "old soldier".)

the "young kids" hardly know what SOS even IS!!! PITY.

free dixie SMOOCH,sw

[beachn4fun]

GA, sugar

yeah, I figured an “old soldier” would like SOS.

SMOOCHES back atcha

[stand watie]

fyi, during Desert Shield a BUNCH of us "old soldiers" were "called up" from the "tired reserve" (i had been retired from the ARNG less than 30 DAYS when they called me back!!!) for AD. (ONE of the "tired reserve" guys was a "E-8 over 40", an electronics specialist, who had last been on full-time AD in 1960!!! he literally could NOT sew on all the service stripes that he was entitled to wear on his dress blues!)

the Ft Meade "food service folks" HAD to find (equally old/"tired") cooks that knew HOW to make SOS, for the "recallees".

but, fyi, we had SOS w/eggs "to order" at least 3x a week for Desert Shield/Storm.

free dixie SMOOCH,sw

[Arrowhead1952]

Just got back from the morning session.

I’ll be here for the next hour or so.

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[JosephW]

My favourite breakfast has to be Syrian Coffee (very similar to Greek or Turkish but with more of a fruity flavour as you get to the grounds) and a bowl of hot and sour soup with congeled pig’s blood (adds that sweet taste). Throw in a glass of grapefruit juice or a pummelo to round it out.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

I thought this was cute!

Dick Cheney and George W. Bush were having breakfast at the White House.

The attractive waitress asks Cheney what he would like, and he replies, “I’d like a bowl of oatmeal and some fruit...”

“And what can I get for you, Mr. President?”

George W. looking up from his menu, replies with his trademark wink and slight grin.... “How about a quickie this morning?”

“Why, Mr. President!” the waitress exclaims “How rude! You’re starting to act like Mr. Clinton! “

As the waitress storms away, Cheney leans over to Bush and whispers..........

“It’s pronounced, ‘Quiche’. “

[beachn4fun]

Just in time I see. hehe

woo hoo

[Arrowhead1952]

It’s funny, but #650 posted before 649. I don’t know how that happened.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?id=115739

[Tanniker Smith]

Oh, please explain this to me....It'll also help in business later on. I would've gone farther and might not have been laid off in 2001 had I been a regular on the golf course.

whoops. missed that the first time. Okay, story time boys and girls.

I used to work for one of the Big Five accounting firms back when they were still the Big Eight accounting firms (there have been mergers since then).

Cutting to the chase: there were two places were "networking" was taking place -- the golf course and the smoking areas outside the building. I wasn't going to take up smoking. Anyway, there isn't a better way to get to know the project leaders and project managers and the up-and-coming wunderkinds than spending a couple of hours with them on the links. (Unless, of course, you stink at it and you hold everyone up.) Golf, unfortunately, was a big part of corporate life, which I used to joke about.

Sometime back around 1994, there was a moment that I knew would came back to haunt me. A guy that worked in tech support came over to fix or upgrade my PC and while doing it, he noticed the deck of Magic cards on my desk. He asked if I'd teach him how to play, and we were going to go to lunch. He came back about 20 minutes later and said, "Dude, I totally forgot that I promised to go to the driving range with Pardo. Can we do it another time? You're welcome to come with us if you want."
Well, I made my usual joke about not being able to get past the windmill and declined. And I immediately realized that that had been a mistake. I wasn't really going anywhere in my department and Pardo was on his way up and I should have been expanding my connections.

Flashforward to 2001: I had been floundering around for a bit after Y2K had ended and they weren't sure what to do with me. I finally wound up in a group where I could get things done working for a partner I liked. And then the partner was bought out in a cost-cutting move. After everyone was through shifting around, I found myself working for Pardo, who while he knew who I was, he really didn't know me. When the axe finally fell and 400+ people were laid off, Pardo tried to save as many of "his people" as he could, but I really wasn't one of his people, and I'd been with him for the shortest amount of time, so I'd done the least amount of work for him.

Now, had I been networking, I might've been in a better position with him or someone else sooner. For that matter, I might not have actually been in that department which was a major mess after a string of mergers, acquisitions and spinoffs. It was like something from a soap opera or Dilbert.

Anyway, maybe playing golf wouldn't have helped, but it definitely couldn't have hurt.

[rottndog]

Since we're still talking breakfast...





Yumm!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

These are so cute!

1) NUDITY
I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, “Mom! That lady isn’t wearing a seat belt!”

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2) OPINIONS
On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from his mother. The note read, “The opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily those of his parents.”

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3) KETCHUP
A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. “Mommy can’t come to the phone to talk to you right now. She’s hitting the bottle.”

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4) MORE NUDITY
A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women’s locker room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, “What’s the matter, haven’t you ever seen a little boy before?”

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5) POLICE # 1
While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my uniform, she asked, “Are you a cop?” “Yes,” I answered and continued writing the report. “My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?” “Yes, that’s right,” I told her. “Well, then,” she said as she extended her foot toward me, “would you please tie my shoe?”

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6) POLICE # 2
It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me “Is that a dog you got back there?” he asked. “It sure is,” I replied. Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, “What’d he do?”

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7) ELDERLY
While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. A One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth! soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered,
“The tooth fairy will never believe this!”

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8) DRESS-UP
A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, “Daddy, you shouldn’t wear that suit.” “And why not, darling?” “You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning “

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9) DEATH
While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his 5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. The minister’s son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: “Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnn, and in the hole he goooes.”

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10) SCHOOL
A little girl had just finished her first week of school. “I’m just wasting my time,” she said to her mother. “I can’t read, I can’t write and they won’t let me talk!”

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11) BIBLE
A little boy opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. A Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. “Mama, look what I found,” the boy called out. “What have you got there, dear?” With astonishment in the young boy’s voice, he answered, “I think it’s Adam’s underwear !!!!!”

[Kathy in Alaska]

“I think it’s Adam’s underwear !!!!!”

LOL!! Out of the mouths of babes.

[Teflonic]

Mmm, mouthwatering picture!