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waxy dan
08:26 / 06.06.03
I'm bored, and on a posting frenzy. It'll wear off soon I'm sure. How do Barbelithites start their day?

Me this morning: double espresson, bowl of porridge, seabreeze, bacon, and some spinach fried in butter. Woke up early and figured I'd treat myself.
 
 
Unencumbered
08:29 / 06.06.03
I rarely feel hungry first thing in the morning but I can't do anything much until I've had at least one cup of tea.
 
 
waxy dan
08:38 / 06.06.03
Tea? That's gotta be just us western Europeans, right?

You yankees still on coffee and cigarettes?
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
08:42 / 06.06.03
Lots of tea at the moment. My tummy’s a bit delicate this morning; I may try and eat a banana later.
The excitement never stops in the Panarchy household does it?
 
 
Bear
08:47 / 06.06.03
Usually with a wank but not today, ho ho

Crunchy nut cornflakes and fresh pineapple juice yum yum, I feel much better now after trying that atkins diet and eating heart attacks for breakfast..

Usually never have time though, I'm not a morning person.
 
 
Ariadne
09:13 / 06.06.03
Toast and tomato. I'd eat toast and tomato for every meal if i could. And tea. And a multitude of vitamins and oils to make up for the toast and tomato diet.
 
 
Ganesh
09:16 / 06.06.03
Smoothie maker novelty still not worn off, so a glass of whatever blended concoction's on tap. This morning, blended strawberries, raspberries, nectaries and bananas in apple and cranberry juice. Mmmm...
 
 
Mr Messy
09:28 / 06.06.03
Coffee is a necessity. Always. Usually I take cereal, though I've not really found one that I'm satisfied with for long. This morning I left early for a run and the gym. I am currently being sickeningly fit, and I don't think that its a phase - I'm not the person I used to be.

After all of that activity I have to stuff my face. This morning I happened to have 3/4 of a loaf of tomato and onion bread handy, which went down very nicely. More coffee. Always more.
 
 
waxy dan
09:33 / 06.06.03
Smoothie maker sounds like a sterling idea! Except for the cleaning, which I know I wouldn't be arsed doing.

Nobody else turned to booze this morning then? .. I'm feeling really out on my own here..
 
 
The Strobe
09:52 / 06.06.03
At the moment I'm sleeping in and not eating breakfast.

But in proper term-time, especially before exams, breakfast religiously consisted of:

bowl of cereal, glass of milk, cup of tea, cooked breakfast comprising beans/sausage/bacon/two hash browns/fried egg.

Mmn. Sets you up good and proper. As it is, at the moment, I tend to be a little hungrier than usual.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:05 / 06.06.03
At the moment I'm working nights, so I start my day (end my night) with beer. Lots of beer. Then whatever's easiest (usually buying chips or pizza or something).

When I'm not on nights, and can afford it, I really like going to a caff for brekky. 2 eggs, beans and chips'll do me just fine. It's not so much the food (though that is actually necessary for life)- I just really enjoy sitting eating a fryup and reading the paper without a care in the world. (And the cholesterol helps the hangover like a motherfucker.)
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:38 / 06.06.03
I'm going through one of my agoraphobic phases, so anything that happens to be around - muesli and yoghurt, ideally. Coffee - two cups. A glass of water and a vitamin supplement. In the olden days, a cigarette on the way to work.

Jesus, do you know what I *really* miss? Bacon. Frying bacon. The delicious smell, the sound of the oil, the way that the warmth of it permeated the whole kitchen, on a knackered, warped old pan, bread under the grill and everytihng just being *lovely*. Although there are many things about college I regret profoundly, fryoing bacon is definitely not one of them. Except on behalf of the pig.
 
 
waxy dan
11:05 / 06.06.03
It really is the best. The vegetarian in my flat has finally given in to the occasional slice. tee hee hee

Sandwich for work: avocado and fried bacon. Yah
 
 
Bill Posters
11:37 / 06.06.03
Tried giving up coffee for a few days recently but it was a joke. So as per ever, my day starts with a banana and enough coffee to get me up and running (i.e. enough to induce major indigestion and a mild case of speed-dick). If I am feeling especially health conscious, I may have milk in my coffee.
 
 
Persephone
11:53 / 06.06.03
When I first get up, I drink water. Then when I get to work, I have black coffee and a slice of whole wheat bread with peanut butter. Which would be whole wheat toast with peanut butter, but my boss is too paranoid to have a toaster at work. *darkly* Can I be pyrokinetic, please? I promise to only use my powers for toast.

Toast with tomato sounds good... is that just a slice of toast with a slice of tomato, then?
 
 
Ariadne
11:57 / 06.06.03
It's a slice of toast with four bits of tomato and some salt. Or sometimes Marmite. Yum.

Like you, I don't have a toaster at work but it's probably just as well, because it makes me branch out on what I eat for lunch. Though today I had a roll with tomato so I'm not branching very far!
 
 
Baz Auckland
12:02 / 06.06.03
Half a pot of coffee, and usually a ham and salami sandwich, or peanut butter and nutella sandwiches.

Coffee is essential for life... except when travelling, when I discovered that when it comes down to it, Red Bull can be an almost equal substitute.

I gave up coffee for a week last year. My sister made me promise never to do it again. (I was a tad grumpy)
 
 
Persephone
12:06 / 06.06.03
Mmm, in about a month I'm going to have tomatoes up to my hips... Husb loves nothing better than his tomato plants. He may be planning to take over the world with tomato plants.
 
 
Sax
12:06 / 06.06.03
Nothing when I first get up. Two Marlboro Lights on the drive into work. Then a pail of crap coffee from the machine (it's got a picture of a load of coffee beans and a nice white mug on the front, but it lies). Then a banana.
 
 
waxy dan
12:17 / 06.06.03
Worst I had was in Slovenia last year. A friend of mine and myself, being total caffiene addicts, began to get pretty damned grumpy and borderline hysterical when the power went out in the campsite. We tried to pass the time playing cards. Eventually gave up, as the guys we were hanging out with thought I was getting strangely quiet and she was starting to spout grumpy gibberish. We ended up walking (in our shorts and sandals) 2 miles through the alps, in a thunderstorm, to the nearest cafe.

Got odd looks when 2 soaked & bedraggled foreigners come squelching into the cafe and ordered 4 double espressos each. Then 10 more to put in the flask for the walk back.

Best damn coffee I've ever had.
 
 
grant
13:09 / 06.06.03
Persephone: Which would be whole wheat toast with peanut butter, but my boss is too paranoid to have a toaster at work. *darkly* Can I be pyrokinetic, please? I promise to only use my powers for toast.


Just lift the glass out of a scanner or xerox machine, wrap the bread in tin foil, and run a few copies. About 20 for a light brown, 50 for dry, dark toast.

Ganesh: Smoothie maker novelty still not worn off, so a glass of whatever blended concoction's on tap. This morning, blended strawberries, raspberries, nectaries and bananas in apple and cranberry juice. Mmmm...

This is a joy that, for me, is only reserved for weekends. And not lately. Sigh.

Workday mornings, it's a granola bar, a 6 oz can of pink grapefruit juice and a raw carrot in the car on the way to work. Today, two carrots, no granola or juice, and a lot of water once I got here.

I'm a commuter. A commuter who loves carrots.

Pers again: Mmm, in about a month I'm going to have tomatoes up to my hips... Husb loves nothing better than his tomato plants. He may be planning to take over the world with tomato plants.

Mine, alas, are withering in the heat. Tomatoes are a winter crop down here. I've got yellow pear tomatoes, some nice plum tomatoes and a plant that just sprouted in my backyard that I noticed & started nurturing and has thus far produced three full-sized, lovely tomatoes. In a week or so, I'll need to cut them back to survive the summer.
In the old house, they grew right beside the car, so a very ripe, very fresh pear tomato would be a common adjunct to breakfast. Or a quick snack before opening the front door upon returning home.

I suddenly feel very counter-revolutionary.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
16:51 / 06.06.03
For breakfast this morning I had a cup of blackcurrant Lemsip and Vol. 1 of the Invisibles (to read, not eat). Generally I skip breakfast as I only get up in time for lunch.
 
 
Linus Dunce
17:14 / 06.06.03
Fill and switch on kettle.
Piss.
Put three heaped tablespoons of Asda "Golden Roast" ground coffee and approx. one mug hot water into a cafetiere.
Eat one bowl of Kellogg's "Bart Simpson's 'Eat My Shorts'" cereal.
Pour coffee, add two sugars and milk.
Drink coffee, roll and smoke cigarette.
Shit, shower and/or shave.
Put clothes on, grab bag, open front door and go.
 
 
Trijhaos
17:25 / 06.06.03
Depending on the time of day, I'll take a few minutes to shove a handful of cookies or potato chips down my throat. Sure, I'd love to have a decent breakfast and when I feel ambitious I'll fix something up, but half the time I just can't be bothered.
 
 
Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey
18:13 / 06.06.03
I'm on nights, too, so this morning I had a Bombay Sapphire and slimline tonic. Well, when I say 'a', I mean two pints.

I also had a small joint of some ridiculous, sticky, stinking grass that a friend of mine has grown in his loft. It was my first spliff in about 3 years and, combined with the G&T, sorta lifted the roof of my head off and whisked my brain, making me forget why I'd just walked into the kitchen and other unforgivably stoner things like that.

Tomorrow morning, it'll just be coffee & cigs. I feel like crap now but am faced with a 12 hour shift before the 30 minute drive home.
 
 
Cosmicjamas
18:49 / 06.06.03
Cigarette. Tea. Cereal. Bleurrrrgh!!! Please don't even suggest cooked food to me before midday. Thanks.
 
 
gingerbop
18:52 / 06.06.03
Get up. Shower. Get dressed.
Go downstairs. Grunt at anyone trying to communicate with me.
Honey nut Cheerios/porrige (if it's made.)
Orange/apple juice/ tea.
Get on the bus. Doze.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
19:30 / 06.06.03
Weekdays: fags, strong coffee, Greggs chicken and bacon sandwich soon as I hit work.
Weekends: banana, lime, pine nuts and coconut milk smoothie (assuming I've shopped for the necessaries). Or brunch at Questo in Romilly St, Soho (all you can eat for £4.50).
 
 
Mourne Kransky
19:32 / 06.06.03
with more fags and much gingerboppy grunting at the ****ing world.
 
 
Jack Fear
19:45 / 06.06.03
We gots one of those fancy-dancy coffee-makers that's got a timer, so the brew is hot and ready by the time I emerge, bleary-eyed, from our cave of nakedness and stumble blinking into the kitchen. I usually put away a half-a-pot's worth before going to work, with skim milk and lots of sugar.

Anything solid? Depends on what the kids are having, to be honest. Four or five mornings out of seven, D and/or I will cook—pancakes, waffles, pseudobacon (turkey—pretty lowfat and surprisingly tasty), omelettes—ostensibly for the kids, if you're making small batch of pancakes for them, you may as well make a full batch and have some yourself.

But if the 6-year-old is having cold cereal and the littl'un's got applesauce, then no: I'll bring along some fruit or a couple of raw carrots in my lunchbucket and take a break at 10:00 AM or so.
 
 
agapanthus
19:54 / 06.06.03
Two strong, milky, sugary coffees, and about five cigarettes, while I read the local broadsheet on line and search in the dark for work uniform, and toss up whether or not a sicky is called for - maybe due to too much coffee and smoking.
 
 
fidrich
20:09 / 06.06.03
Cornflakes. Always cornflakes. For the past few years I've had a rather unhealthy love of this innocent breakfast cereal, and I eat it for my main meal whenever I can.

Not today or tomorrow though. We've ran out. No more cornflakes. I was forced to eat toast for breakfast this morning, and no doubt I will have to make the same sacrifice again tomorrow, unless I can pick myself off my arse anytime soon... oh, fuck, it's past ten. No cornflakes for poor wee fiddy.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
03:14 / 07.06.03
Today, being a Saturday, I started with a Farmhouse Breakfast from the miraculous Bar Baba, next door to where I live. Poached eggs, fuck-off-sized piece of toast w/butter, really salty bacon, grilled tomato, italian sausage and two pots of Earl Grey.

Woo yes.

Normally, though, it's a piece of Turkish toast with butter. And a vat of tea.
 
 
My Mom Thinks I'm Cool
03:25 / 07.06.03
around 7-8 AM I have to get up and shut all the windows so the construction guys redoing the foundation don't prohibit all further sleep.

around 11 I get up and have cereal or toast. real cooked breakfast is better but only on weekends. the diner 1 block from my house has biscuits and gravy for about $2 every sunday and they've fixed many a hangover.

still haven't tried beer for breakfast but there's always tomorrow...
 
 
Bill Posters
09:21 / 07.06.03
Turkish toast? What this?
 
  

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