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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
 They called it stormy Monday,but Tuesday is just as bad
Oh, they called it, they called it stormy Monday,
But Tuesday, Tuesday is just as bad
Oh, Wednesday is worst And Thursday oh so sad
The eagle flies on Friday now, Saturday I'll go out to play
Oh, the eagle, the eagle flies on Friday Saturday I'll go out and play
Sunday I'll go to church, and I fall on my knees and pray
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=J_GNIvs0x0U )
Good morning, all. The storm came early. Sunday morning rains... Maybe a day at home today. Hunker down with a good book and a pot of tea... Tea starting with Taylors of Harrogate's "Yorkshire" tea, beside a plate of hummus, Kalamata olives, and babbaganoush. Chick peas, olives, and eggplant... a good way to start the day!
I have a close friend who can only eat Western breakfasts. Nothing else will do. He can eat foods from most other countries for lunch or dinner, but breakfast has to be bacon and fried eggs, pancakes and scrambled eggs, waffles with syrup and sausages, etc. He'd rather just not eat if he can't start his day that way.
He came to Japan to visit me a few years ago, and we traveled a bit. We stayed one night at a small traditional Japanese inn located in a very rural part of Honshu, but the owner could speak a bit of English. He asked my friend if he would prefer a Japanese breakfast or Western, and of course my friend said bacon and eggs would be fine. Usually breakfasts are served communal style in Japanese Inns, as 'set menu' meals. My friend was surprised to discover the next morning that his bacon (Japanese bacon, unsmoked) and his fried eggs had been cooked the night before so as not to disrupt the kitchen's morning preparation of the Japanese set menu. Cold tasteless bacon and cold greasy eggs... served by the smiling wife of the Inn's owner who was absolutely delighted that she could provide a nice Western meal to her foreigner guest!
I'm going to have another cup of tea. Yorkshire tea is really hearty!
Stitchawl |
I'm all over a "western" breakfast, eggs, hashbrowns (and they MUST be shredded, not cubed!), bacon or sausage, occasionally SOS or eggs benedict. I also completely am enamoured of a classic german breakfast of hard rolls, soft cheese, a variety of wursts and cheeses. I've often had cold pizza, YUM! spaghetti or schnitzel. quinoa, yogurt and nuts are high on the list. I can't stand oatmeal (chalk that up to Girl Scout Camp), and can only handle french toast or pancakes about once a decade, and forget mixing bacon or sausage with syrup!