Mark DominusFeb 26

“Breakfast is a vector space. You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour. We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.”

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?

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Show threadAbhijit Menon-SenFeb 26
@mjd Our most common breakfasts are entirely outside this triangle. :-)
Show threadMark DominusFeb 26
@amenonsen Details please!
Show threadRichard PennerFeb 26
@mjd @amenonsen Fried plantains/bananas form a breakfast staple, sometimes with beans or a sour cream analogue called crema
Show threadAbhijit Menon-SenFeb 26

@Arpie4Math Where is it commonly eaten?

@mjd

Show threadRichard PennerFeb 26
@amenonsen @mjd Certainly in Cuba, Mexico, and large US Cities like New York and Los Angeles, and the California Central Valley. Likely in much of the Americas, but my first fried bananas were gifted as a lunch side from the Filipino mother of a friend.
Show threadMark DominusFeb 26
@Arpie4Math @amenonsen There is a Dominican restaurant around here that serves tres golpes, which is mangú (mashed green plantains), fried salami, and fried white cheese.
Show threadRichard PennerFeb 26

@mjd @amenonsen Pardon, did you mean mashed like mashed potatoes or mashed like cutting the plantain into short cylinders and squashing those along the axis into individual fried stars?

// Did the research: boiled and mashed ✅

Show threadMark DominusFeb 26
@Arpie4Math @amenonsen Axially-cut smashed plantain slices are called tostones.
Show threadAbhijit Menon-SenFeb 27

@mjd

There's something oddly formal about this sentence. 😆 Like "tostones" is a title conferred on axially-cut smashed plantain slices in recognition of their sacrifice.

@Arpie4Math

Show threadRichard Penner

@amenonsen @mjd They do rather resemble a service medal: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/16768/puerto-rican-tostones-fried-plantains/ (chosen for images, not necessarily the recipe)

Please bury me with my tostones and other worldly goods — like a pharaoh with Mesoamerican roots.

Feb 27 at 9:50amWeb