Poll: Breakfast: Sweet Or Savory?

[Dimitriov]

Why does your poll list pancakes as sweet?
Good pancakes go with bacon and eggs as a savory breakfast.

American-style pancakes are pretty sweet as they are.

Where'd you get that notion?
Pancakes: Eggs, milk, flour, salt, butter.
None of those ingredients are sweet.
Also; American Style? What other styles are there?

I just looked at three random pancake mix recipes from the first page Google brought up. Every one of them had sugar, and I'd be willing to bet that that trend would have continued if I had looked at more than three.

Also, two of them had quite a lot of sugar.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand, I like a mix of sweet and savoury. Eggs, bacon, and pancakes with maple syrup is easily the greatest breakfast ever. But I also enjoy a variety of other stuff both sweet and savoury.

 

[Twintix]

Why does your poll list pancakes as sweet?
Good pancakes go with bacon and eggs as a savory breakfast.

American-style pancakes are pretty sweet as they are.

Where'd you get that notion?
Pancakes: Eggs, milk, flour, salt, butter.
None of those ingredients are sweet.
Also; American Style? What other styles are there?

All of the ones I've had always had sugar in the batter, so they always taste sweet to me. I thought it was an ingredient all of them had.

And by American style, I mean the ones that are small and round, with a thick batter. These:

I'm Swedish, so our pancakes look like this:

They're more crépe-like with a thinner batter and usually don't have sugar in the batter. Over here, American pancakes are more similar to "plättar", which are super small pancakes.

 

[marioandsonic]

I put down both, but I tend to go with savory.

Bacon and eggs is a fave, but in my mind, you can't beat creamed chipped beef on toast.

Especially when it's freshly made, and...

...Sorry, I think I have a bit of drool in my mouth.

 

[Harpalyce]

As a great sage of our time once said in a taco commercial, why not both?

My ideal breakfast is a mix of the two. One sweet item, one savory item. Pancakes with links of sausage appealingly mingling in the extra maple syrup (and only real maple syrup, mind, not any of that disgusting corn syrup fakery).

However given that I'm in Georgia, and it's peach season, I'd have to say that the most ideal breakfast of the moment is fairly simple. Plain waffles, topped with peaches that have been left with a tiny sprinkle of sugar in the fridge to create a bit of syrup for about 30 minutes - and of course they must be local peaches that you know were still hanging on the tree day before last at perfect peak ripeness. Serve with a side of the best bacon I have ever had (from Pine Street Market in Atlanta), fried in the pan to perfection; possibly also an egg sunny-side-up in the bacon fat if you feel like you need a little more added to your breakfast. Eat. Achieve nirvana and the ultimate understanding of peace and goodwill to all mankind. Ascend into peachy godhood.

For what I actually eat, though, that's usually a depressing answer of 'coffee and a fistful of prescription medications', so why don't we all dream of our ideal breakfasts instead lol

 

[Ten Foot Bunny]

A Luna bar and Mountain Dew. My sweet tooth likes a good massage in the morning.

 

[Foolery]

Savory. Not a fan of sweet in the morning. My breakfast usually consists of rice, vegetables, and some kind of protein. Oh and a cup of green tea.

 

[MysticSlayer]

Normally I just have a bowl of cereal and maybe some fruit. If I'm at school and need to eat the dining hall, then I normally have eggs, vegetarian sausage, fruit, and muffins. Depending on which side of campus I'm on at breakfast, I may replace the eggs and sausage with an omelet that probably has vegetables in it. If I'm eating out (normally at IHOP), then I generally get eggs, sausage, and crepes.

Overall, sweet is what I generally go for, but that's due to limited options. Savory with a little sweetness is what I tend to go for when the option is available.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Sweet all the way. I do a bit of travelling to South East Asian countries for work and as much as I love fried noodles, dumplings and soup there is no way I can face up to them first thing in the morning.

 

[shootthebandit]

bask in the glory that is a scottish breakfast

Spoiler: heaven

Lets have a quick walk through. Those familiar with the english breakfast are almost there but not quite

You are all familiar with the tomato, beans, mushroom, bacon and egg (theres usually some toast too).

The item is the centre is a potato scone (or potato cake if you are some weirdo from south of the border), I cant really describe the taste but its like potatoey soda bread.
The item resting upon the bacon is a square sausage. Its usually lightly spiced and kicks the arse of a "normal" sausage
The bottom right is a black pudding. This is some vampire shit. Its basically dried blood with oats and spicies
Top right is a white pudding. This is basically the same as a black pudding but fat instead of blood

There are variations and the english breakfast is similar and still amazing

It then has to have HP sauce on it

Spoiler: HP sauce

HP 'houses of parliment' sauce (brown sauce) is the perfect breakfast sauce. In the UK it is illegal (its not really but it should be) to put ketchup on your breakfast (you know who you are). This stuff is amazing, read the ingredients and its bizarre (dates, celery and some other weird stuff) but its damn tasty. I thoroughly recommend Americans import some of this stuff. Your breakfast could be vastly improved by this.

 

[FPLOON]

I can go either way... especially when I have breakfast for dinner...

Other than that, I tend to try to combine them together during the weekend... I forgot when I started doing that, but I haven't stopped so far... (except that one time I couldn't buy pancake mix AND my favorite cereal for that particular month... But, I digress...)

 

[Risingblade]

I don't usually eat breakfast but when I do...both!

 

[Jedamethis]

I tend to wake up late and have breakfast and lunch in one go, so it's something savoury and solid that'll keep me going 'til dinner. Usually means bacon, sausage, or egg, usually in a sandwich for convenience. Usually more than one of those things. Most of the time I chop a little spring onion, or normal onion, just so there's vegetable in there.
Sometimes I fry one side of the bread, and put everything in the middle. Soft on the outside, crispy fried heaven on the inside.
I try not to have that too often because I can feel my organs panicking.

It is my dream that one day I will have an entire english breakfast in sandwich form. The tomato, bacon, sausage, egg, and mushroom are easy enough, but it's proving tricky to get beans in there. May have to get creative with my arranging, maybe use the sausage to form a sort of fence for the beans to sit in, with bacon above and below to keep it in.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

A mug of tea and a granola bar usually starts my day, so I guess sweet(ish), but nothing beats a hangover like the good old Full English.

 

[Euryalus]

I usually just have porridge or plain cereal like Bran Flakes or Weetabix.

On rare occasions, I'll have boiled eggs and toast or maybe some bacon if I'm going out for breakfast.

Gosh, I sound so boring, don't I?

Anyway, short answer, I don't really have a sweet tooth so I'll always pick savoury.

I'm telling you, quesadillas or hot wings in the morning will set you free. Best breakfast foods.

OT: I don't like sweet things and hate almost all "normal" breakfast foods, so I just what I would eat at lunch or dinner. Savoury all the way.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Generally sweet but I can go either way. Wink, wink.

 

[lacktheknack]

Maple-fried bacon (because I'm Canadian, and that's what all Canadians eat).

But seriously, both. My perfect breakfast would be a meat omelette with maple pancakes. I'm still planning the day that I have the opportunity and the ingredients to make it happen.

 

[viscomica]

Sweet, obviously.

I like having toasts sprayed with jam and cream cheese and coffee. If I get fancy then it's coffee with cake or coffee with croissants. But if I'm in a hurry to get to work (which is almost every single the time) then I skip breakfast altogether and just eat some crackers on my way there.

 

[Musette]

Breakfast is the only meal of the day in which you might not get weird looks for putting chocolate in every piece of the meal. Why would I ever pass that up for something savory?

Yes, I have the taste buds of a small child.

 

[game-lover]

Both. Not either. Both.

With the exception of waffles, cereal, hashbrowns and meaty goodness, I need both for my breakfast. I prefer it.

The examples mentioned are the things I can eat by themselves mostly. But for other stuff, I probably won't eat if the two flavors aren't together.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

For the most part I don't eat breakfast, and on the rare occasion that I have breakfast it's normally something like bacon and eggs. Which is when I'm going out and having breakfast, and praying for the waitress to hurry up and getting me my coffee. Not a morning person at all. >.>

Other than that, I make myself a pot of coffee and consider it done. I'm a massive night owl, so the thought of getting up early and having breakfast is just not happening. By the time I actually want to eat something it's lunch time.

So yeah, savory I guess.