Of Breakfasts and National Differences
The Snook made us oatmeal for breakfast this morning, so I was nomming my way through that when I read this thread on the great Full British Breakfast (which is more or less the same as a full Australian breakfast). Yum. Not something you can eat every day, but when you’ve got a hangover, it’s the Best. Thing. Ever. I was surprised at the couple comments from Americans who couldn’t fathom eating baked beans at breakfast. Huh? I don’t remember ever thinking that. I mean, baked beans = double plus good, no matter what time of day (as far as I’m concerned). But anyway, the whole point of this is to mention that towards the end of the discussion, somebody linked to the Wikipedia page for “biscuits and gravy”, and I nearly choked on my own drool. There’s not a lot I miss from home that I can’t get here, but that is definitely #1 on the list. I’ve tried making it myself, but it didn’t turn out well. The biggest obstacle is finding the right sausage. American-style breakfast sausage – the heavily spiced “Jimmy Dean” type – just doesn’t exist anywhere else. Maybe I need to try to make my own…
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My granny has this biscuits & gravy recipe with tomato gravy– it’s seriously good, but I’ve never seen tomato gravy anywhere else other than my granny’s (and my mom’s & aunt’s & uncles’) kitchen & we don’t know where she got it from (she is Okie). You basically just saute a bunch of sliced ripe tomatos and and milk and flour as per normal gravy. I totally miss breakfast by granny with grits & big fluffy homemade biscuits and tomato gravy… drool…
Hmm. Nope, never heard of tomato gravy in Indiana. Must be an Okie thing!
By oatmeal, do you mean porridge?
That’s one of my regular things for breakfast at the moment too. Though for some reason i found it doesn’t really fill me up having it plain and would get hungry again an hour later. I now add dried cranberries to it which seems to do the trick as i don’t get hungry now for ages.
I guess so, WeeB. It’s, you know, rolled oats cooked with water. And then you add butter and brown sugar and walnut pieces on top…. YUM. 🙂