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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?"
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!
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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.
Coffee and a smoke. Then some more coffee.
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.)
A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.
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).
The force that blew the Big Bang continues to accelerate.
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.
-- Minds are like parachutes... they work best when open.
Well, Jon Stewart just added Gatorade A.M. 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.
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?
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
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.
Nothing for 6-digit uids?
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
Do Or Do Not, There Is No Spoon, There Is Only Zuul. Everything in the above post is probably opinion.
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.
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.
StoneCypher is Full of BS