Best breakfast meat

The current roadfood poll asks for a vote on this subject. I voted for bacon because steak wasn't an option. Out here in the midwest we are not offered pork roll or scrapple (frankly I don't even know what pork roll is). But while we may be deprived, we know that steak and eggs is a great morning combination.

Pork roll is ham -- super SUPER salted.

I voted for sausage -- only because kielbasa wasn't an option.

I remember a scene in the old movie, Electric Horseman. Redford was a rodeo cowboy not a sheep herder) and the spokesman for a breakfast cereal named something like, "Cowboy Breakfast".

He was doing a press interview, and a lady (it may have been Jane Fonda's character)asked him if he really ate Cowboy Breakfast for breakfast.

He replied with something like, "No, ma'am, I eat steak and eggs for breakfast. I eat Cowboy Breakfast for lunch."

Italian sausage or hot links; I'd have to flip a coin.

I can't understand what is wrong with so many people here. There is nothing other than corned beef hash. Well, maybe clam hash.

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Originally posted by Michael Hoffman

I can't understand what is wrong with so many people here. There is nothing other than corned beef hash. Well, maybe clam hash.

I'd like a clam hash recipie ... anybody ???

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Originally posted by wheregreggeats.com

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Originally posted by Michael Hoffman

I can't understand what is wrong with so many people here. There is nothing other than corned beef hash. Well, maybe clam hash.

I'd like a clam hash recipie ... anybody ???

Here's one picked off the internet:

Clam Hash
Ingredients
5 tablespoons butter
2 cups (about) minced or ground clams
2 cups (about) finely chopped peeled potatoes
1/2 cup minced scallions, green and white parts, or onion
1 teaspoon minced garlic
salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
4 poached or soft-boiled eggs (optional)


Instructions
Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a 12-inch non-stick skillet over medium heat. Mix together the clams, potatoes, scallions, and garlic; when the butter foam subsides, spread the mixture in the pan and flatten with a spatula. Lower the heat, season with salt and pepper, and cook slowly until browned on the bottom, about 20 minutes (check by lifting a corner with a spatula).

Slide the cake onto a plate, top with another plate, and invert. Melt another 2 tablespoons butter in the pan and, when it melts, return the cake to the pan. Cook until browned. Spread with the remaining tablespoon of butter and serve, with or without poached eggs.

Tenderized conch or minced shucked oysters can be substituted for the clams.

Yield: 4 servings

I prefer patty sausage with my eggs. However, while certainly not meat, an accompaniment of breaded fried calamari to my eggs in Monterey, circa, oh, about '78, is still memorable.
The Bear

Bear, that was a long time ago. Are you sure it wasn't a Hangtown Fry with breaded fried oysters,eggs,bacon scrambled up.

I would choose chewy bacon packed with flavor although I do enjoy breakfast sausage too.

Personally , I like all of them but nothing smells better than bacon being fried crisp, coffee and toast.

I did buy a smoked bacon not too long ago. I fried it and it really stunk up the house. No more of that!!!

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Ask my wife...

Country Ham!

Goetta. Hands down.

Country ham steak from Burger's Smokehouse.

Hello All,
It's a toss up for me...bacon, because I love the taste and love making it for my daughter,
(she'll eat my bacon or scrambled eggs, that's about all she'll eat that I make, well, she
loves my french fries, but that's all)..
or country ham, because salty country ham wakes us my senses and tastes so good.
But I rarely eat breakfast, so these treats have become a special tradition when I do eat it.
Take Care,
Fieldthistle

Livermush.

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Originally posted by Michael Hoffman

I can't understand what is wrong with so many people here. There is nothing other than corned beef hash. Well, maybe clam hash.

I'm with you. A nice corned beef hash is a fine thing in the morning.. although some double smoked bacon can make me smile.. or chicken fried steak...

I know its not a meat, but here in Monterey on the coast, we have deep fried squid with our eggs all the time. In fact, squid, and eggs over easy, is my traditional Christmas morning breakfast. Tastes great. The smell is a little rough on the kids though.

With eggs, I like bacon, but only if it's crisp. With pancakes, I like link sausage.

FISH STICKS......... OK not really, well maybe, roastbeef/cornedbeef hash, sauage, bacon, scrapple, porkroll, steak, chili, ham, porkchop, a list of meats NOT associated with breakfast may be shorter ...

I love a high quality fried sirloin hamburger sizzling hot with fried eggs and hashbrowns, with very hot italian roast coffee to wash it down. Also good toast buttered then slathered with Marmite (The Black Gold).

Morningstar Farms Veggie Breakfast links.

in order...

country ham
city ham
crisp bacon
patty sausage
link sausage
sirloin steak (actually the favorite, but good steak and eggs are hard to find...much easier to find pork breakfast meats than beef.)

Andoo
Above, I note my memorable breakfast of squid and eggs several decades ago on Cannery Row. It was in a large building with many stores in an airy restaurant without walls. The huge building was originally an old cannery. Great breakfast!
The Bear

Cold sausage/mushroom pizza.

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Originally posted by Gizmolito

Cold sausage/mushroom pizza.

We HAVE a WINNER here, folks!!! This was also a topic in another thread, BTW.

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Originally posted by Sundancer7

Personally , I like all of them but nothing smells better than bacon being fried crisp, coffee and toast.

I did buy a smoked bacon not too long ago. I fried it and it really stunk up the house. No more of that!!!

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

What brand of bacon do you usually buy? I guess I am really dumb on the subject of bacon.............I thought that any bacon that one bought in supermarkets was smoked!

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Originally posted by Greymo

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Originally posted by Sundancer7

Personally , I like all of them but nothing smells better than bacon being fried crisp, coffee and toast.

I did buy a smoked bacon not too long ago. I fried it and it really stunk up the house. No more of that!!!

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

What brand of bacon do you usually buy? I guess I am really dumb on the subject of bacon.............I thought that any bacon that one bought in supermarkets was smoked!

I think Paul was having a "senior moment", here. (No offense, Paul )

I voted for Bacon, as the choice looked good to me. I like CFS and Eggs and Link or Patti Sausage for breakfast too.

But Bacon is the Prime Choice. Here is an example of a small side of bacon and a few Link-Sausages with an order of Biscuits and gravy at the Brown Hotel in Louisville taken a few weeks ago. I passed on the eggs that morning....Gotta watch that Cholesterol Count !!



P S I won't touch Pork Roll, just for the nick-name it gained during my service days. I love S-O-S, but can't even think about eating "DONKEY DI*K!"

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Originally posted by Al-The Mayor-Bowen


I voted for Bacon, as the choice looked good to me. I like CFS and Eggs and Link or Patti Sausage for breakfast too.

But Bacon is the Prime Choice. Here is an example of a small side of bacon and a few Link-Sausages with an order of Biscuits and gravy at the Brown Hotel in Louisville taken a few weeks ago. I passed on the eggs that morning....Gotta watch that Cholesterol Count !!



P S I won't touch Pork Roll, just for the nick-name it gained during my service days. I love S-O-S, but can't even think about eating "DONKEY DI*K!"

Please don't tell me you ate all of that.

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Originally posted by Michael Hoffman

I can't understand what is wrong with so many people here. There is nothing other than corned beef hash. Well, maybe clam hash.

There's a restaurant named Morgan's in Allentown, PA that serves a good crab hash as a breakfast side dish.

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Originally posted by Adjudicator

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Originally posted by Al-The Mayor-Bowen


I voted for Bacon, as the choice looked good to me. I like CFS and Eggs and Link or Patti Sausage for breakfast too.

But Bacon is the Prime Choice. Here is an example of a small side of bacon and a few Link-Sausages with an order of Biscuits and gravy at the Brown Hotel in Louisville taken a few weeks ago. I passed on the eggs that morning....Gotta watch that Cholesterol Count !!



P S I won't touch Pork Roll, just for the nick-name it gained during my service days. I love S-O-S, but can't even think about eating "DONKEY DI*K!"

Are Eggs Bad for us again this year
YUM

Mr. Mayor, That's my kind of "small side of bacon".

Is that sos or biscuts and sausage gravy? Whichever, it looks like a delicious midmorning snack.

I sincerely hope you don't eat like that very often. A very quick calculation shows 3600 calories, 250 grams of fat, 450mg cholesterol. The sodium is incalculably high. Seriously, there's a difference between eating a nice meal and suicide by food!

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Originally posted by Al-The Mayor-Bowen



Here is an example of a small side of bacon and a few Link-Sausages with an order of Biscuits and gravy at the Brown Hotel in Louisville taken a few weeks ago. I passed on the eggs that morning....Gotta watch that Cholesterol Count !!

I wouldn't recognize a calorie or a cholesterol if it bit me in the artery!

Painter
You are correct it is sausage gravy with some pretty fair biscuits.

As for the dietary comments...

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Originally posted by xannie_01

does goetta taste like scrapple?

Never had scrapple - yet - so I can't tell you....hopefully some more well travelled individuals will respond to this question

I 4th the country ham with hot bisquits and runny eggs, well, over easy anyway.

Watched a Travel channel show the other night that featured "Taylor Ham"--the product was described as "pork roll" but looked to me exactly like Spam. I know I've admitted that I don't know what "pork roll" is, but would someone expand on the subject. Is it processed meat like spam, really salty ham, or it depends on the area????

And what is "sos" I'm serious

S (poop) O (n) a Shingle (toast).

I know Frank/Joe Torre, that's the slang but what is it really ?

[url='http://www.lyricsdownload.com/ween-pork-roll-egg-and-cheese-lyrics.html']Pork Roll Egg And Cheese[/url], by Ween. It's the classic NJ sandwich. Pork roll's got a texture like fried bologna, a taste like mild Spam. Taylor Ham is the same thing, made by the Taylor company. Other companies make it, too. It's never eaten cold, like a cold cut, always fried in a pan or grilled.

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Originally posted by stevencarry

I know Frank/Joe Torre, that's the slang but what is it really ?

It depends. For civilians it is creamed chipped beef. In the service it is ground beef in a cream sauce served over toast. At least, that's what it was when I was in the service.

Michael, that sounds good, were they just sick of it as to why the nickname?
Stouffer's makes a frozen food like that and it's not that bad either.

Steve,
SOS is the slang term used in the military to label one of the basic breakfast dishes. "CREAMED CHIPPED BEEF ON TOAST". While the real deal used the dried little pieces of thin sliced (and quite salty) beef, most places today used ground beef (or some other meat ground up) to add to the peppery white gravy. Replace that ground meat with ground Sausage and put it on Biscuits and you have another traditional breakfast menu item.

The 'nickname' has been around for so long, and is used so often as a term of endearment NOT insult, that many places simply label the menu item as S O S rather than write-out the longer description.
Sorry for the duplication of information. Hoffman is talking about food served in the Union Army, I served in the 20th century !!

This country cookin' sounds good. It's reminds of the old Charlie Daniels tune "The South's Gonna Do It Again"

I actually like turkey bacon best. Country ham is also good, as is well made maple sausage.

1. Pork Chops
2. Bacon
3. Salt Pork (haven't had this in years)
4. Chicken Fried Steak

I be the strange one. I won't eat meat at breakfast. Too heavy for me. I usually eat natto w/ a raw egg (do a google for natto and we raisee our oun eggs).

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Originally posted by stevencarry

Michael, that sounds good, were they just sick of it as to why the nickname?
Stouffer's makes a frozen food like that and it's not that bad either.

I have bought the Stouffer's frozen chipped beef many times and it is great over toast.

I always enhance it by adding more black pepper.

Thanks for reminding me of the product. I have not bought it in several months.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

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Originally posted by stevencarry

Michael, that sounds good, were they just sick of it as to why the nickname?

I don't know when it acquired the SOS name.I'd guess, though, that the reason it did might have had something to do with the way it looks.

When I was in the Air Force, we had it everymorning and a lot for lunch.

I think due to it being available at almost every meal, the terminology SOS came into play.

I sort of enjoyed it. I think I had it about everyday myself. It seems about eveyone I knew had it.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

I remember in the '70's going to a conference and staying at the Brown Hotel. My breakfast looked like that. Those people really knew how to cook. And the signature sandwich was to die for. Thank God for Louisville.

I vote for the fresh sausage from Shuffs Meat market. They have been around since Ive been a kid (that is many moons ago, might I ad).It is the best Im telling you all!

I had been told that goetta was very similar to scrapple, except made with oatmeal rather than cornmeal. I didn't get a chance to try it until about ten years ago, when I finally saw "eggs with goetta" listed on the chalkboard menu at a small family restaurant in rural Pennsylvania. The goetta slices were crisply browned on the outside, tender on inside, and were accompanied by both honey and syrup. I thought it was delicious.

I did think of something closee to meat I like at breakfast...pork brains mixed w/ scrambled eggs.

not much mention of Canadian Bacon
we love up north