I too wish that more fast food restaurants served lunch alongside breakfast, instead of exclusively breakfast in the mornings.
Turkish and German breakfasts are pretty awesome. (See http://theheureka.com/how-to-be-german-part-1 for an outsiders comment on German breakfast.)
French breakfast is: typically a black coffee and a cigarette. (Add a croissant, if you want to pig out.)
Most fast food restaurants serve their normal lunch/dinner menu all day, with restricted breakfast hours. Some also have breakfast all day, but this is notable. (Some don't even have a breakfast menu at all.)
The restaurants that have all day breakfast but not all-day lunch/dinner menus tend to be (usually, chain) sit-down restaurants, not fast food (or even fast-casual) restaurants.
Burger King does actually serve lunch at all hours.
Wendy's doesn't open until 10, and doesn't have a breakfast menu.
Taco Bell does has a separate breakfast menu. Most of their stores now open at 7, and they start serving lunch items at 9. They stop serving breakfast between 9 and 10.
Your home? I've found that they can make whatever I want...
EDIT: This wasn't a cuckold joke- just a remark that you can to a large degree command your diet
Of course when you make it yourself you can do whatever you like (although you lose the economies of scale).
Trying to get something on the go in this area pretty much means you're reduced to Dunkin Donuts, Mickey D's, or whatever paltry offerings the gas station Quik-e-mart carries, though.
Sorry- a bit sauced. I wasn't!
I'd personally be looking for something like this;
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5vJPM91yqH4/UYzAqHKG0GI/AAAAAAAACM...
and that's not that easy to find abroad. Bad cheese or bad bread but usually both unfortunately.
For what you pictured, just buy some nice cheese and bread and make them and stuff them in a ziploc bag or tupperware.
Schnitzelbrötchen is also good.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/duran-sandwiches-new-york?utm_source...
While they might not consider that they need to go to McDonalds or IHOP, ask what people think of for breakfast and for sure they'll say "cereal, pancakes, waffles, donuts, muffins, scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, sweetened oatmeal, etc.", which certainly are all central to the McDonalds/iHop menu. While it's not exclusive to the sweets the article discusses, there are a lot of sweet things involved, and for quite a few, drowning the product in syrup or honey or sugar is pretty common, if the product itself isn't already. Heck, most people I know add sugar to the already sweetened instant oatmeal they prepare.
It was a bit different when I moved abroad and breakfast instead was just as others in the topic are describing it - an open-face sandwich with a small bit of butter, vegetables, and meat of some accord, usually with a coffee and maybe some cheese. I first was shown it by my partner, who I thought was just too tired in the morning to bother with anything else, but soon learned it's what she grew up with.
I grew up in the rural south, and our traditional breakfast fell into seasonal categories. In the colder months, we'd eat 2 eggs, a small helping of buttered grits, and bacon.
Warmer months or autumn depended on what was available, but often times we'd eat fresh shrimp or "trash fish" (stuff we'd caught like spot, croaker, trout, flounder) fried up with grits.
The grits were always only buttered, never sweetened. Never pancakes or any starchy, sugary items. Older folks knew these things were energy killers, and ironically the families I knew that ate tons of starches were the ones whose parents had bought into the whole "fat kills you, eggs are bad" mantra pushed by the government. I find it extremely ironic that these families were eating less healthy than the "redneck" families they assumed were killing themselves.
No older American who grew up doing farm work thinks the IHOP breakfast is remotely healthy.
I never suggested that the IHOP breakfast is the only breakfast Americans eat, but I do posit if you grab a person on the street and ask them what is "breakfast food", you'll hear the IHOP breakfast in some way
Cereal is the #1 breakfast food in the US, served at home.
Cereal, bacon, pancakes, waffles, french toast, eggs, toast, yogurt, sausage - most of those are more likely on a typical day for American adults than going to IHOP or McDonald's. Teenagers would include poptarts and the equivalent (which are obviously candy). The US is a massive consumer of eggs, bacon and sausage for breakfast, the article pretends that hardly exists.
And if you look at the added sugar content of most cereals, I'm sure the main point of the article still stands.
They are having HUGE year over year declines in cereal sales. People increasingly know it's shit, and the sales numbers show it.
Yoghurt and cereal are actually mentioned in the article, for the average type bought being not much better than anything else.
Eggs, bacon, and sausage are fine - but still not a great choice for every day.
(As long as you get some veggies in over the rest of your day, have as much grease and salt as you want.)
> Eggs, bacon, and sausage are fine - but still not a great choice for every day.
Of course you "can" - just not _healthily_ without significant break from norms for other meals.
Does it give you energy in the morning though? I notice that if I eat that I don't really feel all too energetic while if I eat high fiber and light (as in no fat or carbs) I usually don't even feel like lunch. Might be personal; people I know have that as well but that's anecdotal so i'm asking :) I don't know too many people who would eat eggs, bacon and sausage for breakfast often or at all.
You may not necessarily convince me to give up meat, but if you are gentle in your approach, you may convince me to be careful about the way my various food-animals are treated.
My personal experience with it is lots of energy and a long-lasting satiety that allows me to easily skip lunch.
It’s really no different here. We’re talking about, basically, heated fruit sauce mixed into yogurt as a fast and easy breakfast. This isn’t a gourmet restaurant offering.
Frozen berries are a technological improvement on jam/preserves which dramatically reduces the amount of sugar you need for long-term storage, but requires some energy use for refrigeration. If you plan to heat them, mash them up, and stir them into yogurt, they’re pretty much interchangeable with fresh berries, but are cheaper, keep for months, and can be eaten in any season.
Or is it the microwave you are opposed to? If you prefer, feel free to heat the berries in a saucepan or bake them or whatever. I find a microwave to be a lot faster and more convenient for pretty much identical results, but suit yourself..
But then again, may be that's natural in a nation that has only ever tasted plastic tomatoes.
By introducing both of these as your daily breakfast, you also limit the choices of food you can have for lunch and dinner. Sauces like mayonnaise have eggs, you probably shouldn't eat the occasional omelette, which is a tasty, occasional way of enjoying eggs (I particularly love them with ceps or asparagus), chinese fried rice, baked goods, tortilla, desserts like crepes, the list goes on. None of these are foods that should be eaten on a daily basis, but even less so if you introduced foods high in cholesterol right into your breakfast.
Personal data point - 3 eggs almost every breakfast, with some sliced meat or avocado - for about 6 years, with no adverse affects. And with no concern about 'extra' eggs in lunches and dinners (fritata, chachouka, tortilla, quiche, etc).
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/25/6/589.abstract
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199112123252405#t=a...
The current rehabilitation of cholesterol is about politics : http://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2015-08-24-Ho... http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/102/2/235.extract
Eggs are loaded with HDL in addition to LDL, so they actually boost the top number. However, drinking soda or eating sugary pancakes in the same day will radically increase the bottom number.
I became keenly interested in the science on cholesterol and diet ten years ago, because my father, who has been a vegan since the mid 90's, had his first heart attack. He's subsequently had more. He consumes zero animal products, and we have no heart disease in our family history.
Edit:
Your food politics doc you linked to is just AWFUL. It makes a point about industry funding of cholesterol research since the 1990's, but ignores the immense funding and lobbying by the agricultural commodities producers (General Mills, for example) to push the original lipid hypothesis science that spurred "eggs kill you" thinking in the 1970s. I love how they use this basic correlation (increased funding and cholesterol being vindicated) to conclude causation. That's the flawed thinking that led to the bullshit nutritional standards we have today.
In general, we're pretty light on breakfast and we don't have high diabete prevalence compared to countries like the US or even Germany.
When I was in Japan, I would often eat breakfast in a hurry by getting some groceries from 7-11. Such a breafast would usually consist of a smal pack of fried rice, with a pastry or two, and some juice or milk, for about 500Y if I remember correctly. Everything tasted good, but I cannot say it was "healthier" than what I'd have in America. But again, that was a 7-11 5 minute breakfast...
300 calories (150 each), deliciously greasy. I can't imagine eating them regularly though.
I live in Arkansas, and nobody I know eats like that. Nobody I grew up with in rural Virginia eats like that either. Unusually ignorant and poor people in rural America will eat that way, but there are plenty of those in the inner cities as well.
While of course there are higher rates of obesity in "middle America", the portrayal you paint reeks of elitist snobbery.
Did I say everyone does it? No, but it is common enough. Are people improving? Yes, many, but still most are stuck with horrible habits.
In the 90s, my school teachers almost always had a can of Coke or fast food fountain soda cup for breakfast. Yes, Coke.
Breakfast for me has always been a sandwich with veggies or other typical lunch food, just a smaller portion. The whole "breakfast all day" campaigns more and more restaurants push kind of bothers me since there's no "lunch all day" movement anywhere. If you want a good sandwich or spaghetti at 9 AM in the US, good luck.
I'm living in Japan now, and the typical breakfast offered at hotels here is some meat, veggies, rice, and bread. Far more balanced and I don't feel like shit all day.