Breakfast Food
Written on Mar 23, 2026
I am a breakfast person, and I like to eat traditional American breakfast food. Although I can eat that type of food at any time of the day, I prefer eating it in the morning. Even though I can cook for myself, I prefer not to.
My wife, Josie, cooks for me, but not every day and not for every meal. Even though she is Filipino by birth, Josie cooks American food better than many Americans. I am very picky, and she knows it. Fried eggs, for example, have to be fully cooked.
As an American descended from six generations of Americans, since before the American Revolutionary War, there are certain kinds of food I like to eat. There are many I will not eat at all.
I like eggs, ham, sausage, bacon, hash browns, and toast, but that is only the short list. When I want something light, I will eat oatmeal. I stopped eating cold cereal years ago.
Breakfast Burritos
Josie creates breakfast burritos on occasion, and she will make sufficient amounts to last me three or four days. She uses flour tortillas, scrambled eggs, hash browns, cheddar cheese, and two or more forms of meat.
She will use bacon, luncheon meat, or beef franks. All I have to do is heat the leftovers up in the microwave. I will sometimes eat them with salsa, if we have any.
Breakfast Sandwiches
Josie worked at a couple of fast-food places after she first moved to the United States, more than 40 years ago. Not for long each time, but long enough to know how everything was prepared. She copies the "Sausage and Egg McMuffin" from McDonald's and the "Breakfast Jack" from Jack in the Box.
There are times when she goes to the public market area in the Philippines in the morning to get fresh fish and vegetables, and she will sometimes get me a couple of Sausage and Egg McMuffins and hash browns at the nearest McDonald's. It does not happen often, and I am okay with that.
My Standard Breakfast
There are times when either of us will cook my breakfast without it being a specific kind of dish. One example is fried or scrambled eggs, beef franks used as sausages, and garlic rice. I actually enjoy that combination more often these days.
I do not like cooking eggs, so I scramble two or three eggs in a microwaveable cup and microwave it on high for two or three minutes. One minute per egg, I assume.
Josie will cook a full package of beef franks and store the leftovers in glass containers. I dislike the pork franks or "hot dogs" sold in the Philippines. We use rice that has been in the refrigerator overnight, cook it in olive oil, while adding fresh chopped garlic.
Restaurants and Buffets
In the United States, I have eaten at restaurants specializing in breakfast meals more times than I can remember. I can remember Denny's, IHOP, Shoney's, and Waffle House. I have eaten at breakfast buffets. I can remember Sir George's Royal Buffet, Home Town Buffet, Golden Corral, and King's Table.
In my corner of the Philippines, there have only been two American-style restaurants focusing on breakfast meals, but I have only eaten at one. It is called "Sit-N-Bull" and there are three locations that I know about: Olongapo City, the Clark Freeport Zone, and the Subic Bay Freeport Zone.
There are, of course, more American-style restaurants in the Philippines that I cannot mention. They either do not focus on breakfast meals or they do it badly.
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