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@rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon American breakfast has always baffled me, even when we had the light version up in canada I had to give up after a couple of day, and just eat oatmeal, it was the only thing that wasn't sickly sweet :p

American breakfast has many forms, though, from insane-megacalorie-meal to just-coffee-black-thanks. ;)

This and a big cup of black coffee is my normal breakfast:

Dave May 26

@sotolf @rl_dane @CursedSilicon I used to prefer syrup drenched pancakes when I was younger. Now I'll take toast and maybe an egg. Or Oatmeal. And, ALWAYS coffee. That is non-negotiable.

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@dm @sotolf @rl_dane @CursedSilicon when I was younger my breakfast was a bottle of coke

It's tee or coffee now

I still love grits, ever since a friend introduced me to them (and the right way to prepare them -- lots of black pepper, a good bit of butter, slow grits preferable, 5 minute grits ok, instant grits never)

@rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon I don't think I've ever had grits :p

It's basically just cooked corn meal. Not a lot of flavor by itself, which is why you add pepper and butter.

But it's very nice and warming, like a thick porridge. And while not very flavorful itself, it's quite pleasant, I find.

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cooked corn meal
as far as I can tell that's called Polenta here and usually served with grilled vegetables :)

hmm,... Wikipedia says it's Italien. I've never seen that in an Italien restaurant, only other Mediterranean ones

@kabel42 @sotolf @dm @CursedSilicon

Might be similar, but grits might be more processed.

@kabel42 @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon

Yeah, polenta is italian yeah, that I've eaten, it's basically tasteless kind of weird textured italian thing that I have eaten enough times to know to avoid :p

@sotolf @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon It's nice with heavily spiced vegetables :)

@kabel42 @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon Like with most italian things (pasta etc) it is always better if you just substitute it with potatoes :p

@sotolf @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon I only like crunchy potatoes, preferably unpeeled and quartered :)

@kabel42 @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon No gratin? Or Mashed potatoes it's just sooo good :D I for one love potatoes in almost every kind of configuration :)

@sotolf @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon Gratin is very good, right :)
Mostly not a fan of peeled and boiled or mashed untill it's textureless soup

@kabel42 @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon You don't have to completely mash the mashed potatoes though, I kind of like it when it's a bit more chunky as well :)

@sotolf @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon the uni mensa had mashed potatoes that tasted like rehydrated potato flour, combined with a "you add salt yourself" policy and generally low spice levels :)

@kabel42 @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon Ah yeah, the potatomash from a bag are not that great, I still like it, but the homemade ones are way better :)

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@sotolf @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon But given the choice, I'd prefer palestinian rice with spices and almonds and raisins

Cheap mashed potatoes is reconstituted from powder. It's bland.

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@rl_dane @sotolf @dm @CursedSilicon
yeah, the side dishes generally weren't their strong suit, but the soup bowl of rice pudding and the freshly grilled stuff were nice

Not wrong.

Ham an Cheese on a Kaiser bun?

@rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon That might be what it's called in the us yeah, we call them Semmel, but I think I've seen Kaisersemmel as well, it's kind of ubiqutous here, and it's what we have in the breakfast mensa at work :)

@sotolf @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon is a Kaisersemmel different from a plain Brötchen(/Semmel) beyond the different cutting pattern on top?

@kabel42 @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon

I don't think so really, Wecken are usually the better ones, they are square-ish and usually have more grainy bits in them, the semmel ones just are very plain and probably the cheapest kind of brötchen that you get here :p

@sotolf Isn't Semmel just the regional name for Brötchen?
Also, the thing we call Wecken is usually Milchbrötchen :)

@kabel42 @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon

Semmel mostly are the ones with that spiral pattern on top, Brötchen are all of them combined, like Wecken and Semmel and so on, Wecken are the rectangular or rombus shaped ones Milkbrötchen are Milchbrötchen :p

Then you have things that are long something like a baguette or like the Salzstange :p

Douglas Floyd May 26

I went to #WaffleHouse a few weeks ago. I was surprised how good it was. Good enough that I tipped the waitress a C-note, because I made some good cash that day on a stage magic prop I 3D printed. However, I tend to stick to simple things, and drink unsweetened ice tea.

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thedoctor May 26

@rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon I had to look this up on Wikipedia. You eat this for breakfast?! Yeesh!

Yeah, it's probably the very heaviest variant of the American Breakfast.

Not something you'd want to eat every day.

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Corvus 🇨🇦 🇺🇦May 26

@rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon
Waking up wet and cold on the west coast of Washington State, hiked to a diner and this CND boy had biscuits and gravy for the first time. It was cheap and the best thing ever!

It'll really warm you and keep you trekking for a long time!

I ate it six hours ago and I'm still not hungry. I didn't even have room for tea afterward, and I'm talking black tea!! XD

It shouldn only have very trace amounts of uranium. And lots of calories. Yes??

Supposedly only 470 calories from one website that had it listed, but I don't believe it.

Oh, maybe that was for ONE biscuit. 🤣

NOW it makes sense. I had two.

Okay and probably less than 470mg of uranoum??

Or microchips? What unit are we using again?

The joke was that the meal had more calories than uranium. Like, I'm of course conflating nuclear and chemical energy.

I know, I was jokingly.misreading as "it contains more calories than it contains uranium" rather than "it contains more calories than uranium contains" :p

Oh, I just fully got this, lol.

How can you compare calories and uranium when calories don't have mass or volume?!? XD

pixx May 27

2000 calories and 2g of uranium, I think the uranium contains more morts?

MORTs?? ;)

MORT (long non-coding RNA) - Wikipedia

@rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

pixx May 27

Micromort - Wikipedia

Fork me, that's cold-blooded.

I mean, I get why such a thing should definitely exist, but DANG!

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kabel42 May 27

@rl_dane @pixx @dm @CursedSilicon wouldn't you compare joules?

Y'all need to get a hobby or sumfin'. 🤣

@pixx 470 mg of /dev/urandom?

when I worked at waffle house there were no biscuits and gravy was for hash browns

I strongly suspect the introduction of biscuits and the introduction of microwaves are connected

there's no action item here I just wonder what else they're taking shortcuts about :(

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@khm @dm @CursedSilicon

The guy serving up the food said the biscuits were freshly baked. They actually tasted quite good, for what I could taste underneath the blanket of gravy. XD

go back and ask him where the oven is

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@khm @dm @CursedSilicon

Heh. Not gonna. I understand that food at THAT price in 2026 is "if you have to ask..." ;)

I'm a thousand miles too far west for waffle houses, but I'm going back into the hell zone for a work trip next month and I'm gonna get to the bottom of this

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@khm @dm @CursedSilicon

I'll be looking forward to your report. ;)

@khm @rl_dane @dm @CursedSilicon

are you calling the midwest the hell zone?

the midsouth

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