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The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#131

Someone else may have said this but strictly speaking breakfast is something like a cone in a vector space, unless you want to explain to me how to eat negative eggs.

> unless you want to explain to me how to eat negative eggs. I'm sure there's a good joke in there involving trans-dimensional vegans, but I'm still on my first cup of coffee.

Are you telling me this dimensional vegan is trans.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#132

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FYI, You may not have to travel to Sri Lanka to try one. You can get them e.g. in London UK: https://www.hopperslondon.com/

I've tried their Kings X restaurant, and while their food is delicious, and the decor is also really nice, its not particularly authentic, and I felt its a bit overpriced (tbf its an extremely central location). I don't live in London so can't suggest a better alternative, but I'm sure there are much more authentic restaurants.

> the decor is also really nice, its not particularly authentic, and I felt its a bit overpriced

That describes all of the restaurants in the Kings Cross newly built area. They are all different cuisines, but they all fit.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#135
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This article doesn't do it justice, but the Womelette at the short-lived Royal Canadian Pancake House in NYC lived in the dark abyss. https://www.eater.com/2015/1/26/7860903/amanda-cohen-royal-c... It wasn't just an omelette on top of a waffle (and both of them the size of a medium pizza). As you strayed from the edges toward the center it became difficult to see where the waffle ended and the omelette began. Such a…

The article you linked claims "any type of omelette", but the vast majority of omelettes[*] are semicircles, not circular, right? You'd have to cook the top and bottom separately or mostly separately to get a circular one. Hm.

[*] of course, here I mean proper omelettes, which are an egg shell around ingredients, not scrambled eggs with ingredients mixed in.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#136

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Wow! Great suggestion. Whether to count coconut milk as milk is a decision I had not yet had to make. My thinking at the moment is that I probably would not. It seems like further research would reveal a whole new region in the upper left, clustering with Dan Bing, of "asian milkless crepes."

What dimension would you add to make a tetrahedron?

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".

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#137

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> unless you want to explain to me how to eat negative eggs. I'm sure there's a good joke in there involving trans-dimensional vegans, but I'm still on my first cup of coffee.

Are you telling me this dimensional vegan is trans.

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Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#138
post #48

I feel like excluding French toast is a serious faux pas here! Breakfast burritos are also at least as important as quiche (as in, neither are as tasty without addins - just like omelettes).

Agreed, he’s added criteria for excluding French toast to fit his narrative. Gaslighting the world away from us French toast lovers.

And don’t get me started on breakfast burritos, top 10 food that’s just ridiculous if you’re ordering it after 3pm?

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

#140

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What dimension would you add to make a tetrahedron?

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".

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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