Can You Eat A Breakfast Meal Without Bacon?

Ewwww corn beef and eggs. Not even, ever...

Have you never tried eggs scrambled with corn beef hash? You'd be surprised.

if it aint peameal bacon, then I don't eat it. :P

As for the question, what? people think that Jews don't eat breakfast? or Muslims?

Buzz,

for a real breakfast treat, you might want to try 'pork brains in milk gravy', I mean, just look at the dietary facts on the label.

Peameal bacon is great - wish I could get it here.

Observant Jews and Muslims would not eat pork products. There is a product called beef-fry, which is nowhere as good as plain ordinary bacon.

Although I've enjoyed fried sweetbreads, I'll leave the pork brains for Wheel.

Cherry, apple or pecan?

All and more. Peach if I have to have a preference. My wife makes a nice Amish oatmeal pie.

Ohhh, those are Good!

Aaahhhhwwww - Peaches! Peach cobbler, peach pie, sliced and lightly fried peaches with brown sugar poured over vanilla ice cream!

Cherry pie slightly warm of course, with a dollop of Real French Vanilla ice cream

There's nothing like pork! Food of the gods!

Not Allah or Jehova, I think.

Jehova is just god, and Islam worships the exact same god that judao-christian religions do. So the christian part of Jehova's religions are fine with pork (well most of them). Interesting that the Bahai faith, which some consider to be a further development of Islam is I believe fine with pork.

ewww, that's right next to Spam for breakfast.

Corned beef hash and scrambled eggs.

I do like Amish pepper bacon and canadian bacon when I can afford it. Big breafasts were always on Sunday.

Spam is great for breakfast! Batter it in corn bread batter and fry it up!

I bet you don't like tripe or brains scrambled with your eggs either. ;P

ewwwww wheel ewwww

Fried to a crispy cover is the BEST way to eat Spam.

Bacon that's been fried to a crisp is the worst.

I'd rather have ham.

Yeah, I'm with you mstanley. And tripe is like eating goodyear tires!

Ohh, Kentucky Hickory cured ham..the best

Or KY honeycured ham... Oh my! :-)

and biscuits and gravy...ohhh my breakfast tomorrow is going to be Soooo good. :)

I only eat vegetarian animals that were killed happy. To each their own, though.

it is funny that the only place I have NEVER been able to find Canadian bacon is, and this is really odd, Canada.

Uh could it be that in Canada Canadian bacon might just be called bacon? LOL Sorry but I just couldn't resist the humor in that thought.

nope, bacon is the traditional strip bacon made from a pork belly.

I think it is just sold as smoked pork in Canada. At first I thought that it may be a labeling requirement that bacon had to be from the belly, which 'canadian bacon' is not, but that doesn't explain peameal bacon which isn't from the belly either. Though Peameal bacon is really only a southern ontario thing as well.

Actually the first time I ever even had 'Canadian bacon' was when I first moved to england, and my first comment was 'what's this crap', to which I was told, 'what? you are from canada and you have never had canadian bacon before?'.

Pancetta, mmmmm, italian bacon.

In Canada we call what you call Canadian bacon, "back bacon". Maybe it could be because it is from the pig's back?

Question: Do you make your own redeye gravy? And, if so, do you stir clockwise or counter clockwise? I've forgotten, and can't seem to figure it out.

Thank you from the bottom of my gizzard for your help. Daddy taught me how, he's been dead now for 27 years-- I just can't remember!

I rarely eat bacon, unless it is Canadian bacon, (thin sliced ham),

Dowser, Canadian bacon is called "back bacon" in Canada, and it is bacon, not ham. It's usually round, thicker slices than regular strip bacon, with very little fat.

What they call Canadian bacon over here isn't much of anything... Pretty tasteless and sad compared to peameal bacon.

As I said elsewhere on this article peameal bacon was always the best, but damn it all I can't get it here.

That is what an Egg McMuffin is made with, canadian bacon.

scotty,

that looks like sausage to me, not bacon.

When McDonald's uses sausage, it's called a "sausage mcmuffin".

I never understood having the ribeye for breakfast. Ribeye is with salad and baked potato and all that stuff.

I don't know. Maybe it is just a 'guy thing' but steak and eggs is the ultimate breakfast when I can afford it. LOL In some states there is even a chain of restaurants called "Steak and Egg." In other states that same chain is called "Waffle House." When I was on the road a lot I used to thrive on these places because the food was good, relatively inexpensive, and they were usually quick. My usual was "steak and eggs, medium and over medium, with grits, and wheat toast and black coffee." Back in the day when Denny's had their Grand Slam special for $2.99 I would opt for that now and again just because of the price. Good luck finding anything that cheap now though. Can't even get a pack of gum for that anymore. LOL

Another interesting thing for me is that I often opt for breakfast foods for lunch and even dinner on occasion. I just like the taste. I guess that I am just not governed by convention when it comes to food. For example I sometimes make chili in the dead of summer and have been known to grill out in the dead of winter. LOL What can I say. When I want it, I want it. HEH HEH HEH HEH

Waffle House coffee is the THE BEST!!

My late BIL used to love to grill, he did it winter and summer.

McDonalds has a steak and egg bagel on their breakfast menu. Pretty good but very gassy. Not a good look (or smell) whan face to face with customers.

Another interesting thing for me is that I often opt for breakfast foods for lunch and even dinner on occasion.

If McDonald's would serve sausage mcmuffin with hash brown all day, that's all I would eat there.

(Wheel - don't yell at me - I KNOW how unhealthy that is, but I eat at McD's only about once every 3 months)

Wheel I think that the grilling thing is a throw back to our cave man ancestry. There is just something about the flavor of a piece of meat seared over an open flame with a little smoke thrown in for good measure. LOL

Scotty never tried McD's steak and egg bagel. Not sure what would make that particular combination gassy though. Might be some additive they put in it or something. Who knows? LOL

Buzz speaking of McDonalds I am wondering what it is about that place. First we had the 40 something year old lady offering sexual favors for some McNuggets and then we had the 37 year old drive up line cutter with her 3 year old toddler in the car who got tasered because she refused to get out of the line when instructed by the police. Jimminy Christmas their stuff just ain't that great

Shepherd, I agree with you on that point. McDonalds stuff really isn't all that great....and not all that good for you either.

Was it in McD's where some woman was found in between the actual ceiling and the ceiling tiles?

Geeze Louise! I don't know about that one. Was she dead or alive? I heard of a poor schmuck being found (or at least his bones) stuck in the chimney of a bank. It turned out that he had disappeared and been reported missing some 10 years or so prior. Looks as though he might have been one of the first candidates for "Dumbest Criminal."

Generally speaking when I feel the urge to seriously disrespect my body I do it right. I hit Burger King and get the double beef whopper and onion rings. That usually calls for a couple of Alka Selzer later but it sure tastes good going down. LOL Kind of like when I was younger and drank too much. "Oh Lord please get me through this one and I will never do it again." HEH HEH HEH HEH Things sure change as we get older. :=))

I can't locate it now. I recall that when I saw the article I thought of the movie "A Stranger Among Us" where a jeweller is murdered and his body is hidden in the false ceiling, but then the blood dripped through and stained the ceiling tiles which gave the hiding place away. I would not have thought about that if I hadn't read about the woman in a ceiling. Maybe it wasn't McDonald's, but it doesn't come on google anyway.

Why? To prevent cruelty to animals. That is why!

But, but, what greater cruelty is there than no bacon????

BTW, I'm kidding. I'm sure you could tell me in graphic detail, but I'd rather you didn't.

peace!

Patience Polka14 ... all things will be as they should when balance can be obtained.

As with all things, there is a time for evolution. ... for change from traditional and age old customs. For the world to suddenly deny the consumption of pork would send all economies into chaos and many farmers and their families and even countries into financial disaster.

Domesticated swine are not wild ... they would have no purpose. Knowing the human race as I have observed, swine would be eliminated ... eradicated ... most probably on a scale that would horrify the faint of heart. The suddenly useless swine would be slaughtered and wasted for lack of the means and economics and space to integrate the species into our environment and an economy to support them and their increasing numbers.

Patience Polka14 ... all things will be as they should when balance can be obtained.

So until then we should continue to accept the killing of pigs for human consumption? Vegans like me can't accept that or participate in it.

No ... you shouldn't accept it if you believe otherwise.

I'm "just saying" ... it's something that will not change for a VERY LONG TIME. And pigs are just the tip of the animal-berg so to speak. There's bovine, sheep, goats, fish, fowl, and in some cultures, dogs, cats, horses, even rats. In some areas of the US there are deer, bear, squirrels, rabbits, possums, raccoons ... all consumable ... the list is endless.

Personally, I cry for every whale and dolphin slaughtered.

One must choose the battles to fight. I'm kind'a on the cause for NOT killing dogs, cats, or horses for food because of the plentiful supply of other meat.

I applaud your Vegan commitment. Perhaps someday, there will be so many followers no one will eat meat, though I wonder what this planet will be like with few animals ... because they serve no purpose. Humans have a way of disposing of what serves no purpose.

I would desire to see various animal species be reintegrated into the wild. Those that can not will become extinct but if they were only allowed to exist artificially then I would say there would be no true loss to nature. Those that are against the killing of dogs/cats/horses for food should be against the killing of pigs and other animals. There are no true difference. All are animals and all deserve the same respect.

... as all humans deserve the same respect, and humanity has yet to achieve that. As I said, there is a time for evolution ... and it takes time.

And there a scientific studies that vegetables have feelings too. do we stop eating those too? I don't walk into a vegan restaurants throw beet juice on the patrons and claim they're making innocent plants suffer. I expect the same consideration.

And in are meant to be omnivores, look at your teeth in the mirror.

And there a scientific studies that vegetables have feelings too. do we stop eating those too? I don't walk into a vegan restaurants throw beet juice on the patrons and claim they're making innocent plants suffer. I expect the same consideration.

Plants don't suffer. They don't feel pain. They are not conscious and are not sentient. Those are the facts. Animals suffer when killed. That is why I am against the consumption of animal products including the bacon.

Well Polka14 it seems that the pork species has adapted pretty well to the wild and, in fact, are becoming a nuisance and in some cases a physical threat to the human populations where they are breeding like crazy and destroying the environment causing the extinction of other species. If we don't kill them and eat them then they will ultimately be the only species left in those areas. Also they're spreading kind of like the killer bees. They started in the Southern states from Texas to Florida and are spreading North.

What MoonCrow said about 'balance' is very apropos. This is because every species of creature on this planet must have some form of natural predator so as to control their population and prevent them from becoming the dominant species. We humans have become the dominant species and have no natural predators left other than ourselves. Theoretically we are supposed to be intelligent and should understand that we cannot just reproduce willy nilly without there being some kind of consequences. Unfortunately we just cannot seem to grasp that concept yet.

Consequently we must have wars, pestilence and disease, natural disasters, and general inhumanity to man in order to prevent us from overpopulation. Even with that we continue to multiply like rabbits and are gradually destroying our planet and our environment. We, by our very numbers, are our own worst enemy because we pollute mercilessly, contaminate our environment in every way possible, and are approaching the limits of our planet to sustain us. So I say eat away at our fellow animal species. It is far better to feed them and give them a very easy existence and a merciful and quick dispatch than to have them starve to death or die slowly from some disease in the wild.

Interestingly I just took a cruise to Hawaii. One of the islands is now overrun with ferral chickens because when the hurricane hit there in the 1990s it freed all of the domestic chickens and they are proliferating like crazy. So much so that they are crowding out other native species that only appear in that island chain. As MoonCrow says, balance is the true mantra of nature. Therefore we must do our part and consume our fair share of our brother animals if for no other reason than for their own good. LOL Besides they taste great. :=))

Shepherd ... I like the way you think :-) Friend request sent!

The basis of the overpopulations of animals like pigs and chickens are the result of using these animals to feed human populations. Life in the wild is never comfortable for any animal. Animals tend to suffer and die from disease and by predation.

All the better to end their misery soon by killing and eating them.

I would have considered a different solution. Suffering and misery should be reduced or eliminated. Not encouraged.

I was talking about those in the wild that you said were naturally miserable.

A difficult survival is the natural way for all living things. It isn't humanity's place to interfere in my opinion.

so we should let our own population be cut in half then half again. stop building roads, driving cars, using electricity. Just go full amish. but wait they raise animals so vegan amish. You like the ideas of the NWOers?

A bull can kill a person, so can a horse, so can a boar so can many other animals- unprovoked. All of those would be animals interfering in the lives of humans. Face it we are intertwined, we can accept our role as the species we are and use our abilities to cultivate live stock and hunt wild game, or we can hide from what we are supposed to be and spend our days eating lentils and rice. I chose the former. I get really pissed off when it is demanded we all switch to the latter.

so we should let our own population be cut in half then half again. stop building roads, driving cars, using electricity. Just go full amish. but wait they raise animals so vegan amish. You like the ideas of the NWOers?

I am not like those evil entities and people that support the New World Order. They wish to see the human populations reduced to serve their own agenda. It would not be a choice. It would be compulsory. I believe that humans should take their populations into consideration and it would be beneficial if they reduced it but I believe in free will and it would be good if humans choose to reduce their populations but they should not be forced to do so even for the Planet's purposes. It is because I am against anyone forcing their will on another sentient being.

Face it we are intertwined, we can accept our role as the species we are and use our abilities to cultivate live stock and hunt wild game, or we can hide from what we are supposed to be and spend our days eating lentils and rice.

Vegans like myself adopted a specific philosophy. A philosophy that is not always easy for others to understand because it is sometimes difficult to describe the true reasoning behind it. For some, it is animal centric and maybe it is but we have adopted the concepts of animal rights into our ideals. This includes the right to live.

MoonCrow I thank you for your FR. I accept it with pleasure. Sorry that I am so late acknowledging it but I am presently a care giver for my aged mother and I pop in and out here on the vine. I always appreciate a friend request. Thank you again.

My mamaw used to throw a couple tablespoons of lard in the skillet to fry potatoes...Boy those were good.

I was just listening to a story about how much better for you lard is than something like Crisco!!

Really? that's like wow, if she was still alive she'd be madder than a wet hen...Doctor told her to stop with the lard. Of course she was like 80 by then so it didn't really matter to her.

I found the story for you, http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/02/03/146356117/who-killed-lard

It's really interesting, given what we know today about hydrogenation of oils and what they do to the body.

All to make a few bucks!

LOL jwc2blue. I LOVE sausage ... and you will never taste a better "crust" than one made with lard. :-)

yeah, but they put BHT in like almost everything even lard to preserve it. But lard is way better for the transfat deal. :)

Yeah, I love using lard, and you really don't use that much of it, so the impact isn't that great anyways.

10/4 on the lard. I cook for a hobby and I use lard in all of my Southern recipes. I also use Olive Oil for salads and other oil needs. However for deep frying I use peanut oil unless I am cooking for someone who has a peanut allergy. That is kind of scary. Then I will succumb to your basic Crisco vegetable oil or similar. Frankly I am very big on generics now because in most cases I find the quality to be just as good and the prices much lower.

Oh and BTW to Polka14 as far as plants not responding to pain there was a scientist a few years ago who connected a galvanic skin response machine (your basic lie detector) to a series of plants. His goal was to see if plants could somehow be used as a witness to a violent crime committed in their presence. What he discovered was rather controversial and is debated even today. However when a plant witnessed physical pain by an animal or even another plant in the room it registered the equivalent of a scream. Now as if that wasn't strange enough the plant actually seemed to remember the perpetrator because after that event, every time that person entered the room with that plant it would register what resembled a fear response. In other words the plant seemed to have feelings and be capable of remembering on a cellular level. Just sayin.' LOL

Now please understand my friend that I am not criticizing your personal feelings or choices in any way. I too am averse to causing unnecessary pain to any creature. That is one reason that I could never become a farmer even though I grew up in a family of agribusiness people. Once I assisted in the castration of some piglets I immediately lost interest in being a farmer. Once I shot a rabbit and cleaned it I lost interest in hunting unless I was starving. The commercial 'farming' of food animals is actually a necessity and requires people who can get past the momentary pain caused by the production of meat products for our consumption. The human species has been granted the mastery of all that we perceive in our environment and are charged with the stewardship of the same. That includes the land, our environment, and all of the creatures that reside therein. We are kind of making a mess of it as I see it but nonetheless that is how it is. So we must try and achieve balance and the benefit is steaks, chops, bacon, and roasts. Also for those who like them fish, lobsters, clams, shrimp, and so on are also on the menu.

One final point to consider as well. Recently several palentologists theorized that our species didn't develop our current brain capacity and the associated ability to remember and reason until we stood upright and began to scavenge on the red meat kills of other predators in our environment. That red meat protein allowed for the development of the increased grey matter in our brains and ultimately brought us to where we are today. I don't know if that has been validated or not but it certainly makes sense to me since my late grandmother always used to say "you are what you eat." LOL A friend made a joke of sorts about it saying "if you eat nothing but nuts and pansies you will turn out to be a pansie a$$ nutcase." LOL A little cruel perhaps but nonetheless humorous.

I've always felt that Nature tells us what to eat. Our teeth are the way they are, with cutters and grinders, because we are meant to be omnivores.

It's simply my own personal feeling, and I'm not looking to start an argument over who is right or wrong.

Truth to tell, whenever someone tells me that they don't eat meat, my first thought is "Great! More steak for me!"

most of is suppose to be...turkey meat...:(

@razorsteven,

Consider the bacon passed---and you are quite welcome!

Damn it all, HW, if it weren't supper time here your comment would have had me drooling. As it is I'm going to have to try that recipe one of these days, but I can't get buiscuits here, so I'll have to improvise that.

Can't get biscuits here? What?!! Flour, salt, water or milk/buttermilk, and baking powder and a 450 degree oven for about 10 minutes and you have biscuits. If you are lazy get some Bisquick, pour some in a bowl, add milk or buttermilk until it comes together in a ball, roll it out on a floured surface, cut them in little rounds, and then bake them in that same 450 degree oven for 10 minutes. Biscuits are the staff of life and are probably the easiest form of bread their is. LOL I can't imagine no biscuits.

As for the sausage gravy I cheat. HW's recipe is a good one and if he substitues some coffee for the water he also gets redeye gravy but it is time consuming and if your are not careful it can get lumpy. I use Pioneer Brand Biscuit gravy mix. I saute' and crumble sausage in a small fry pan, then add it to one and a half cups of water and bring that to a boil. Then add the gravy mix after blending it with another half cup of water and boil that mixture for about one minute. Then spoon it over hot split biscuits fresh out of the oven. Yummmm! Start to finish takes about 30 minutes flat.

Buzz, I love having breakfast for dinner once in a while. I try not to do it too often, you know, the whole cholesterol business, but once in a while is great.

shepherd, I cheat even worse than that...canned flaky Pillsbury Grands, love 'em. Just smack 'em on the edge of the counter and throw 'em in the oven. Life is too easy, lol!

Thanks, Shepherd. I'll try it. I do make my own pancakes from scratch so this should not be hard. I like your comments generally. FR sent.

HW - I used to enjoy the "all day breakfast" at certain restaurants when I was in Canada.

Thank you Buzz for your FR. I will gladly accept it before signing out tonight. I kind of got into cooking as hobby when my late wife became disabled. It was learn to cook or starve. LOL Actually I find that it is kind of relaxing. My elderly mother says that I should have become a chef and opened a restaurant. Not sure if I would want to do it day after day for 10 to 12 hours a day though. LOL

I enjoy cooking as well, it IS relaxing, but you're right that doing it all day long would become a drag.