I just realized I didn’t know any Americans

  • isaacd@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Rather than tell you what I personally eat, maybe it will be useful to know what American diners serve for breakfast. You can walk into any locally-owned diner anywhere in the country and order from a menu almost exactly like this:

    • Breakfast Combo: Two eggs (scrambled, fried, or over easy/medium/hard), meat (bacon, sausage links, steak, or ham), and a carb (pancakes, toast, a biscuit, or hash browns)
    • Biscuits and Gravy: Two biscuits with sausage gravy over the top. Sometimes served with an egg.
    • Pancakes: A short stack is 2 and a tall stack is 4. Served with maple syrup.
    • Skillet/Omelet: Eggs scrambled with onions, bell peppers, cheese, and meat. An alternate version, sometimes called “loaded hash browns,” uses hash browns instead of eggs.
    • Breakfast Burrito: An omelet wrapped up in a tortilla. May be smothered with red or green chili sauce for a Tex-Mex spin.
    • Oatmeal: Boiled oats with fruit, granola, syrup, etc.
    • Eggs Benedict: Poached egg on an English muffin with ham and hollandaise sauce.

    And then each diner will have their own “famous” specialty, like stuffed French toast, “home fries” (pan-fried potato chunks), huge pancakes, or sausage made in house. It’s hard to go wrong though, American breakfasts are consistently pretty tasty.