Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Combos
Photograph from Two Bites in Suburbia
Good morning, serious eaters. To start the day, I submit to you these bacon, egg, and cheese Combos. I have to say, I can't think of a better breakfast combo than bacon, egg, and cheese, but I'm groggily freaking out about these things. They're at once compelling and repulsive. I can't help but wonder if Ed Levine would consider replacing the baked potato chips in his ideal diet breakfast with these. Probably not. But that gets me thinking about weird breakfasts. The most unconventional breakfast I've done in recent memory has been cold pizza—though that's not really too far out there. Maybe the cold-pizza omelet I made on the advice of a friend? What's the weirdest or most embarrassing thing you've ever eaten for breakfast? 'Fess up!
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When I was a wee lad at sleepaway camp, our counselor snuck us in a meatlover's pizza as a midnight snack. We didn't finish it and tossed the rest in the trash. The next morning, it still looked pretty good, and we didn't see pizza very often at camp, so . . .
Phlipper at 7:57AM on 07/01/08
I have a bag of these... somewhere. 7-11 had a coupon for $.50 off of a bag of the BEC or cheeseburger combos with the purchase of any size coffee.
I've been meaning to get the cheeseburger ones, I'm curious if they are as creepy as the BEC.
ikimashokie at 8:02AM on 07/01/08
Too bad there's no maple syrup dunking sauce.
Raphael at 8:23AM on 07/01/08
Cold pork shoulder barbecue from Big Bob Gibson's on toast with barbecue sauce.
Ed Levine at 8:23AM on 07/01/08
Cold lasagna. And, I loved it!
Brownie at 8:29AM on 07/01/08
Have done cold dinner leftovers (think: lasagna; bbq chicken), standing with the fridge door open, stabbing at them with a fork and washing it down with a swig of oj straight from the carton.
moibec at 8:33AM on 07/01/08
veggies, salad, hummus and pita, cold pizza....it doesn't matter, ill eat anything in the morning that i would have for lunch. but mostly i stick to kashi cereal
deliciouslysimple at 8:34AM on 07/01/08
I don't discriminate too much between "breakfast" food and "non-breakfast food." In fact, there's a cold leftover chicken fried steak and a little gladware container of cream gravy calling my name right now!
rheogs at 8:40AM on 07/01/08
I made a frozen pizza and cracked an egg on top and broiled it to perfection. It was gooey and wonderful.
Sarajahii at 9:08AM on 07/01/08
Cauliflower and chick pea curry with basmati - before a long bike ride. I did have funky burps that day...
PeanutButter at 9:21AM on 07/01/08
During my time as a grad student living in Cambridge, pre 'diet' Frappucinos, my favorite breakfast was a medium (Grande) Mocha Frappucino with a maple oat nut scone, or barring the availability of that item a slice of their strawberry rubarb pie. And this was a regular thing, not a one time occurrence unlike some of the above 'hall of shame' brekkies. No wonder I gained so much weight and blew through my stipend so quickly.
HeartofGlass at 9:57AM on 07/01/08
An entire bag of Cool Ranch Doritos. Biggggg mistake.
cochon at 9:58AM on 07/01/08
cereal this morning, followed off by a few bites of leftover spaghetti. i convinced myself i needed the protein
_greenbean at 9:58AM on 07/01/08
I love scrambling an egg and putting on top of leftover pizza, and then melting additional cheese on top. Yum.
procraftinate at 10:20AM on 07/01/08
In undergrad, we were know to eat Ramen noodles with easy cheese an ketchup. Its a sure fire hangover cure, but I should still be drier than the Sahara after consuming that concoction.
AJ1280 at 10:33AM on 07/01/08
" I love scrambling an egg and putting on top of leftover pizza, and then melting additional cheese on top. Yum. ".
thanks for the afternoon snack idea!
billyjoe at 11:13AM on 07/01/08
I ate those very combos a couple weeks ago for breakfast. They are REALLY weird. Like, gross. I saw that they also make a cheeseburger flavor.
Otherwise, my breakfast habits are pretty normal and boring. Unless I'm hung over. Then for some reason breakfast burritos from under the heatlamp at quicktrip sound like manna from the gods...until i take a bite and remember...not so much.
ironstef at 11:14AM on 07/01/08
my two favorite breakfasts, which i dont eat very often, are homemade cold fried chicken or my mom's apple pie, also cold... so good!
agk685 at 11:19AM on 07/01/08
I just ate a cuban sandwich dipped in ranch dressing. It was really good. I am not ashamed!
brittj8585 at 11:43AM on 07/01/08
Shrimp cocktail. No shame!
aungeinphx at 12:16PM on 07/01/08
Last time I was in Japan, I was pressed for time one morning, and I ate a box of pancake-flavored Koala Yummies for breakfast. I figured if they tasted like butter and syrup, it was at least sort of similar to having a real meal...
hmlicata at 1:18PM on 07/01/08
i don't really like "breakfast foods" for breakfast, so almost every morning i'll have something shameful, ie curry and rice, tuna helper, beans and rice, etc. although i do love eggs in purgatory.
mlo at 1:43PM on 07/01/08
my favorite guilty pleasure breakfast is cookies and milk... reminds me of the Bill Cosby bit. "Dad is great! He gives us chocolate cake!"
also i always get an extra order of crab rangoon from my favorite Thai place for midnight snack/breakfast.
VioletCrumble at 1:48PM on 07/01/08
Ok, this was a really long time ago when I was very, very young. A can of cold Chef Boy-ar-dee meat filled ravioli. It's not my fault. My mother was a terrible cook.
ohmygod at 3:38PM on 07/01/08
Hahah. I think cochon and ohmygod really have the craziest BEC Combo-like breakfasts here. I think, like me, most other people have pretty non-embarrassing food that just falls into the category of non-breakfast-food breakfasts.
Adam Kuban at 5:04PM on 07/01/08
Fried rice, cold eggroll. Chocolate cake.
holdthemayo at 5:55PM on 07/01/08
i love eating "breakfast" foods for dinner (bacon, eggs, pancakes. . . ), so i don't really discriminate between breakfast and non-breakfast foods in the morning.
cold chinese food leftovers make a great breakfast. as does a twix bar with your coffee.
redhead at 10:34PM on 07/01/08
OK - I am pretty sure I'm not an idiot, but I legitimately do not understand this concept at all. The inside tastes like bacon, egg, AND cheese? All in a neat cheeze-whizesque package? How does this possibly make sense? Shouldn't the cracker at least taste like egg? I'm not hating on the Combo - it was good to me as a youngin', but why - why - why make the faux cheese taste like egg. What's next? Gefilte fish and horseradish? A congealed tube of Passover tucked within a neat little matzoh cracker.
Shelby at 11:03PM on 07/01/08
Dried up pizza. Even after microwaving it with a wet paper towel, it was... shall we say chewy?
Those combos are awesomely delicious, by the way.
noxturne at 11:12PM on 07/01/08
Can you really taste the egg? I am so unabashedly curious right now - I am just afraid that if I try them myself I am really going to like them and will have to eat both my words and my feelings.
Shelby at 11:52PM on 07/01/08
Ahh...yeah. I had Bagel Chips and a Budweiser one morning when I realized I had nothing in my fridge or cupboards. Breakfast of champions. I also recently heated up some leftover rice pilaf and mixed in some salsa, cheese and a Morningstar breakfast sausage patty...it was actually pretty good.
Tasty Morsel at 1:19PM on 07/02/08
I'm guilty of eating leftovers for breakfast, but my most shameful morning meal was probably the morning before i took my SAT's when i was a sophomore in high school. My mom wasn't big on cooking in the first place, but the school had sent home letters saying that test takers needed to eat a good, hearty breakfast before the test. Mom's version of a good, hearty breakfast? Corned beef has from a can, some Totino's Pizza Rolls (combination flavor, of course), a hardboiled egg, and some V-8 to wash it all down. How the hell was I supposed to concentrate on the SAT's after consuming that amalgamation of a breakfast?
herwittyreply at 2:08PM on 07/02/08
Nothing is "too weird" for me to eat for breakfast. I love leftovers. Pasta, chinese food, steak... bring it on. I really hate sweet food in the morning, though. Dried out pizza is preferable to a donut any day.
Last time I had a hangover, breakfast was a Fishamajig sandwich from Friendly's. I knew it would either make me feel ten times better or ten times worse. It worked out in my favor!
Kerosena at 3:17PM on 07/02/08
I fall into the camp of anything goes for breakfast, though now that I'm more into the routine of my day job, I've been making mini-stratas (think breakfast casserole in a muffin pan) that reheat well (enough) through the week, so lately I've been much more breakfasty, saving leftovers for my lunch.
That doesn't mean I don't love pad thai for breakfast or that I've totally forgotten my childhood days of two hot dogs with velveeta cheese (no bun), and ketchup and mustard nearly every morning. I think anorexia must have been a big concern then because my parents would say things like "we're just thrilled to see her eating SOMETHING in the morning!" despite their usual hatred of hot dogs.
joyyy at 3:30PM on 07/02/08