I just realized I didn't know any Americans

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Rather than tell you what I personally eat, maybe it will be useful to know what American diners serve for breakfast. You can walk into any locally-owned diner anywhere in the country and order from a menu almost exactly like this:

  • Breakfast Combo: Two eggs (scrambled, fried, or over easy/medium/hard), meat (bacon, sausage links, steak, or ham), and a carb (pancakes, toast, a biscuit, or hash browns)
  • Biscuits and Gravy: Two biscuits with sausage gravy over the top. Sometimes served with an egg.
  • Pancakes: A short stack is 2 and a tall stack is 4. Served with maple syrup.
  • Skillet/Omelet: Eggs scrambled with onions, bell peppers, cheese, and meat. An alternate version, sometimes called “loaded hash browns,” uses hash browns instead of eggs.
  • Breakfast Burrito: An omelet wrapped up in a tortilla. May be smothered with red or green chili sauce for a Tex-Mex spin.
  • Oatmeal: Boiled oats with fruit, granola, syrup, etc.
  • Eggs Benedict: Poached egg on an English muffin with ham and hollandaise sauce.

And then each diner will have their own “famous” specialty, like stuffed French toast, “home fries” (pan-fried potato chunks), huge pancakes, or sausage made in house. It’s hard to go wrong though, American breakfasts are consistently pretty tasty.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • If you wanna try something different but really good, a lot of breakfast places near me have a variant of Eggs Benedict usually called something like Irish Eggs Benedict, which replaces the ham with corn beef hash. Add a side of home fries, and you've got something that'll really stick to your ribs and keep you full and happy for half the day.

  • source
  • parent