Breakfast Today

[mister d]

Humiliating experience when I ordered a “financier” with my coffee only to learn the “r” isn’t silent. I can never go to Millburn again.

[A_B]

8 oz bottle of Diet Coke.

They have 8-ounce bottles?

Yes. Every so often - glass in my local market.

Pro tip…look in the international aisle for the little glass bottles. Those were my moms favorite.

[serrano]

Humiliating experience when I ordered a “financier” with my coffee only to learn the “r” isn’t silent. I can never go to Millburn again.

I’m just glad they’re open. Everything around there looked really decimated yesterday.

[The Sybian]

Humiliating experience when I ordered a “financier” with my coffee only to learn the “r” isn’t silent. I can never go to Millburn again.

Tried to Trebek the foreign looking word, eh?

[A_B]

Rice Krispies with Vanilla Almondmilk is a new fave of mine, despite the obvious fact that almonds ain't got titties, as has been established here.

ETA: Did not make bagels this week, but planning on it this weekend.

[sancarlos]

I treated myself to a real home-cooked breakfast today. Fried up some high-quality sausage (almost no grease cooked off), paired with an omelette made with Better-Than-Eggs (you may recall I had a heart attack once), blue cheese, and leftover chard, seasoned with TJ's Imami powder, Penzey's Justice, and pepper. And, fresh hot coffee.

[duff]

I had oatmeal. Need to use SC's avatar for this comment.

[Ryan]

Me: (orders and omelet with toast and home fries and a Vitamin Water)
Girl at the Toyota dealership cafe: “And are you here for service?”
Me: “Yep” (internally thinking why anyone would come here for food without getting their car worked on)
Girl: “That’ll be $5.95”
Me: (Oh)

[rass]

Watch out for hidden ketchup fees.

[The Sybian]

Me: (orders and omelet with toast and home fries and a Vitamin Water)
Girl at the Toyota dealership cafe: “And are you here for service?”
Me: “Yep” (internally thinking why anyone would come here for food without getting their car worked on)
Girl: “That’ll be $5.95”
Me: (Oh)

No option to finance?

[Giff]

Now we just need you to sign here, initial here, and do the same on the next 38 pages.

[mister d]

Idiot for getting breakfast at Toyota when a local repair shop would have had even cheaper breakfast.



(I'm still reeling from the phrase "Toyota Dealership Cafe".)

[The Sybian]

Idiot for getting breakfast at Toyota when a local repair shop would have had even cheaper breakfast.



(I'm still reeling from the phrase "Toyota Dealership Cafe".)

Yeah, that threw me, too.

[Ryan]

I haven’t had the Mocha Chip Scones from Pep Boys yet - are they any good?

[Ryan]

Idiot for getting breakfast at Toyota when a local repair shop would have had even cheaper breakfast.



(I'm still reeling from the phrase "Toyota Dealership Cafe".)

Yeah, that threw me, too.

Full-on diners at the top floor of both the big places across the street from each other. Eating beside the mechanics, morning news at full blast, B+ toast. Hidden gem.

[The Sybian]

Idiot for getting breakfast at Toyota when a local repair shop would have had even cheaper breakfast.



(I'm still reeling from the phrase "Toyota Dealership Cafe".)

Yeah, that threw me, too.

Full-on diners at the top floor of both the big places across the street from each other. Eating beside the mechanics, morning news at full blast, B+ toast. Hidden gem.

Next time I'm in NH I'll check it out. What is their Zagat rating? (Is Zagat still around?)

[rass]

I used to be happy with a partially stale bagel at the Subaru dealership so that really sounds great.

[wlu_lax6]

The old Saturn dealership (connected to the Cadillac dealer) had that nasty paid machine coffee. But often they would share extra doughnuts that they bought for the mechanics.

[A_B]

I used to be happy with a partially stale bagel at the Subaru dealership so that really sounds great.

Sad we missed this spot last summer.

[rass]

important breakfast related news

(and to be fully thread compliant, I had a couple of cups of coffee and instead of my usual rxbar I had a banana plus a scoop of peanut butter since I bought a bunch of bananas earlier in the week for one of the kids who hasn't touched them and I couldn't let them all go to waste).

[The Sybian]

since I bought a bunch of bananas earlier in the week for one of the kids who hasn't touched them and I couldn't let them all go to waste).

I feel like that is 50% of my food consumption. Only the girl now. The boy eats EVERYTHING in the house.

[rass]

The breakfast bars I've been eating for years are stuck at $2 a bar (I used to get them for less than $17 per box of 12) so new year/old habit (probably pre-having a full-time job) let me try being a bowl of cereal guy again.

But that led to a slight change in routine. I used to brew my coffee and then take the first cup and my breakfast downstairs and consume both at the same (alternating, really) time. That just doesn't seem as appealing with cereal and didn't want to carry a bowl in one hand and a mug in the other. So I've been making the cereal and eating it while the coffee brewed. This morning I was doing a couple of other things around the house while the coffee brewed (fed the mutts, grabbed laundry out of one of the kids' rooms) and didn't get around to the cereal until after the coffee was done. I prepped it and carried it downstairs and read the Athletic Pulse newsletter in my email and kept thinking to myself "wow these honey nut cheerios* are really sweet" but finished it up and took the bowl upstairs and opened the fridge to grab the half and half for my coffee and realized that's what I poured on the cereal. Luckily not too much.

*store-brand organic honey and nut o-shaped cereal

[mister d]

TLDR: Rass likes half and half on his cereal

[Brontoburglar]

these have been my go-to breakfast bar, but they are also expensive and I've moved away from them. I stock up whenever they're at costco, but $20 for 12 is still pricey, especially when you're buying 5-6 boxes at a time because they're not always in stock (and I don't go to costco more than once a month or so)

the latest move with the cold weather has been the kodiak protein oatmeal. the chocolate chip and the maple brown sugar have both been a lot better than I was anticipating

[mister d]

But < $10 for breakfast for a full work week is cheap, right?

[rass]

But < $10 for breakfast for a full work week is cheap, right?

Look out bronto, the Swamp's Psaki has checked in.

[mister d]

Probably closer to $15 for this guy if he needs a 4-6 ounces of cream as a chaser.

[P.D.X.]

steel cut oats or gtfo

[sancarlos]

I eat a bowl of a mix of Grape Nuts and Trader Joe’s’ version of Cheerios ($2.99 for a big box!). Cheap and good!