I just realized I didn’t know any Americans
Water.
Maybe a chai latte, yogurt, a piece of fruit, or chocolate oat milk.
Most commonly one the following; granola with nuts and dried fruit topped with yogurt, peanut butter and banana sandwich, eggs and toast.
Most of the time, nothing. I tend to drink tea in the morning (usually, an hour after I wake up do I do that). Green tea with a dairy-free creamer is something I love to do a lot, actually.
Three options each with a couple of options, depending on factors:
If short on time or lazy:
- Cold cereal with milk
- Granola + yogurt
If motivated:
- Scrambled eggs with cheese, salsa, breakfast potatoes / toast, hot sauce or spicy chicken mixed in
- Pancakes with butter + jam
If depression:
- Nothing and then early lunch
Twin Peaks (1990) gives one a good sense of American breakfasts.
Don’t forget pie and coffee.
I went quite a few years making oatmeal for myself and my kids every day, usually with brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, and frozen blueberries.
the kids have stopped enjoying it, though, after all the repetition, so we’ve started doing breakfast cereal, Raisin Bran and one of the Cheerios permutations that has some oat/nut ingredients, so these days I just have Raisin Bran.
Breakfast sausage and eggs usually and depending on my mood coffee or hot tea. Sometimes I cook potatoes with it usually in the form or hash browns or using left over mash potatoes to make potato cakes. I usually vary sausage and eggs to either an omelette, burrito, if I have peppers on hand or a sandwich when I want cheese with it, else usually sausage patties and eggs over easy or sunny side up. If there’s left over rice, egg fried rice with sausage.
Southeast US
Black coffee and patience.
I have to eat really quick on workdays, so I don’t always get anything, but usually cereal, or I’ll spread applesauce and cinnamon on homemade bread if I’ve prepared some the last few days. Or recently pan dulce if I happen to have bought any recently because there’s a bakery nearby that ive discovered sells it fresh for quite cheap.
I usually do not eat for about 4 hours after waking up. If I am hungry immediately after waking, I just want a croissant or some yogurt.
Scrapple is one of those regional things that everyone seems to love but my family didn’t usually eat. My mom cooked it once and it was like wet cardboard covered in shoe leather. She’s a great cook but I wonder if she fucked it up because that made me never want to try scrapple again.
I have 2 scrambled eggs, toast plus elderberry jelly, 2 sausage patties, and either a glass of milk or orange juice.
Depending on how much time I have, either some eggs or a piece of fruit. And a fuckload of coffee
Cold leftover pizza.
Handmade arepa with a layer of goat cheese and topped with scrambled eggs with sausage.
