Breakfast for Dinner!

Certain foods in the United States are considered breakfast foods.  In other words, they are foods we eat for breakfast.  For example, eggs, toast, bagels, muffins, pancakes, waffles, hashbrowns, french toast, bacon, sausage and so on are all breakfast foods.

The funny thing is we often eat these foods for other meals.  So it's not unusual to have scrambled eggs or pancakes for dinner.  But we always call it breakfast for dinner.

But it does not work the other way around.  We don't usually eat dinner foods for breakfast.  It would be very strange for someone to eat a hamburger and french fries in the morning.

Of course there are few exceptions to this rule.  One exception is cold pizza.  If you had pizza for dinner and there is some left in the refrigerator in the morning, go ahead and eat it.  This is a favorite breakfast food for college students.

Recently I ate dinner at 2 different restaurants in Ithaca, New York dedicated to breakfast foods.  They are open all day long and serve breakfast foods any time of the day.  The first was a bagel restaurant called College Town Bagels that serves sandwiches on bagels.

The other one ....   Well, you have to wait until tomorrow to hear about that.  Thanks for sharing this Byte of America with me.