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Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by lambda »

mekdoonggi wrote: post #147

Eggs benedict calls from the abyss, humanities' metabolic Voyager 1, speeding into the unknown.

Are we counting butter as milk? Because hollandaise sauce is an emulsion of egg yolk, butter, and lemon juice, so no milk directly unless we count butter.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by lambda »

kibwen wrote: post #2

I suggest that the forbidden breakfast is tantamount to an eggs benedict, but with the hollandaise sauce replaced by a roux.

Oh, I do frequently have biscuits and gravy topped with fried eggs, though the biscuits and gravy would definitely pull it further towards the flour end of the spectrum, maybe not quite in the dark region.

Also, hollandaise is pretty integral to eggs benedict, I've had lots of variations but the traditional with poached egg, canadian bacon, english muffin, and hollandaise is really by far the best.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by mylifeandtimes »

noduerme wrote: post #12

Haha. I'd suggest that what's missing in the um "latent space" here, is that the triangle should be a pentagon involving some form of bacon/sausage, and some form of potato. This cracked me up, because I had a fantastic dream the other night where I had a tour through a donut factory. But the best thing I had (in the dream) was something I'd never tried before, never seen, and which I intend to make at the earliest o…

so, a pentagon, you say. hmmm. Yes, or more properly a pentacle, a protective glyph around the sacred meal.

yes, a much better vector space. Thank you, Noduerme, you are one of the faithful.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by beAbU »

batisteo wrote: post #119
moultano wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Bacon

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by skipants »

JackFr wrote: post #18

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…

A bit of a tangent, but I just want to say how, as a Canadian, I'm getting a lot of joy reading about this restaurant. It's a hilarious facsimile of a Canadian restaurant for a couple reasons:

- There's nothing Canadian about a pancake house. We love pancakes but they aren't really ingrained with our identity. Maple syrup on the other hand, is EXTREMELY important to a lot of Canadians. Serving table syrup instead of real maple syrup is an affront. I found a Reddit thread[1] where a user espouses "tons of free syrup" you were given at RCPH. That's NOT a good thing if you ask me!

- In Canada (and I assume other British Commonwealth countries) you aren't legally allowed to have "Royal" in the name of your business without Royal consent from the Governor General of Canada[2]

Just a bit of Canadiana sparked by your comment I thought I'd share. I always get a kick of the small but conspicuous cultural differences between Canada and USA. They give me that Ingluorious Basterds "number 3" moment.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/newyorkcity/comments/1ajujhi/who_re...

[2] https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/royal-sy...

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