The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we have never observed?

Re:The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we... by fhdkweig on Friday February 27, 2026 @09:17AM (#47180714)

I would add sugar.

Egg nog is listed on the triangle as away from flour, but it is extremely high in carbs. When I was a kid, I loved egg nog and a couple of years ago I decided to purchase some. I liked it so much I drank the whole half gallon in a day. That night I had horrible painful bloating and looked at the ingredients label to find "sugar", "cane sugar". "corn syrup", and "high fructose corn syrup".

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Re:The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we... by crazygringo on Friday February 27, 2026 @09:39AM (#47180990)

It's not so much that it's high in carbs, it's extraordinarily high in fat. Its main ingredients are egg yolks and heavy cream along with the sugar. What you're describing is like eating an entire cheesecake or drinking a pitcher of melted premium ice cream. The bloating is from the enormous amount of fatty calories that are slow to digest. Not really about the sugar. (And of course it has sugar, it's essentially a dessert drink.)

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Re:The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we... by MegaDeKay on Friday February 27, 2026 @09:54AM (#47181184)

My money is on the amount of lactose in all that dairy. There's a lot of lactose in a half gallon of nog.

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Re:The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we... by goodmythical on Friday February 27, 2026 @11:27AM (#47182399)

Right? I felt bloated just thinking about drinking a half gallon of nog.

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Re:The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we... by recursive on Friday February 27, 2026 @12:47PM (#47183260)

I can barely get through an 8 oz glass of that stuff. Wow.

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