{"id":281,"date":"2017-12-31T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T23:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=281"},"modified":"2017-12-31T17:35:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T23:35:27","slug":"eggses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/31\/eggses\/","title":{"rendered":"Eggses&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-283 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/54409388-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/54409388-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/54409388-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/54409388.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Restaurants&#8230; breakfast food&#8230; conditioning.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s what it really is is conditioning.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no other logical reasoning.\u00a0 Pro-tip for restaurants:\u00a0 Not everybody likes eggs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to McDonald&#8217;s (or almost any fast food restaurant) and almost all options include eggs of some sort.\u00a0 McDonald&#8217;s even recently rolled out all-day breakfasts.\u00a0 Why is it so hard to to have a burger option or two for the rest of us?\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t have to be the entire menu, but a couple basic options would be appreciated.<\/li>\n<li>Go to almost any sit-down restaurant and pretty much every combo option involving pancakes or french toast also includes eggs.\u00a0 And this is one area where they are loathe to consider substitutions.\u00a0 Sure, I can order ala carte, but then I&#8217;m paying inordinately more for my meal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eggses, by themselves, are nasty!\u00a0 The notion of cutting up a lone fried egg and eating it alone is nauseating to me.\u00a0 Scrambled eggs, by themselves, need to be covered in ketchup&#8230; which says all that needs to be said regarding them.\u00a0 Now, I&#8217;m not wholly anti-egg.\u00a0 I will eat them in certain scenarios&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Omelettes:\u00a0 Eggs in the form of an omelette are quite tasty.\u00a0 Being combined with the other ingredients is what makes an omelette tasty.<\/li>\n<li>Over-easy eggs mixed in with harsh brown potatoes:\u00a0 Not &#8220;American fries&#8221;, but hash browns.\u00a0 Put the over-easy eggs on top, and cut them up and mix them in.\u00a0 (Mix in some link sausage, too, and it makes a nice meal.)\u00a0 This is something my Dad learned in the Air Force in the 1950s, and was something he taught my sister and myself, and is the only way that I actually like over-easy eggs.\u00a0 The whites must be trimmed away as much as possible, too.\u00a0 Egg whites are tasteless.<\/li>\n<li>Hard-fried egg sandwich:\u00a0 This is kind of an exception.\u00a0 A hard fried egg on toast.\u00a0 With or without meat and cheese, depending on my mood.\u00a0 Mayo is required.\u00a0 Usually salt, too.\u00a0 A scrambled egg makes a mice sandwich, too&#8230; no ketchup necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Over-easy cut up on toast:\u00a0 About once a year.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, and poached as part of an Eggs Benedict is a nice change of pace, as well.\u00a0 (A local restaurant here that I like stopped making poached and tries to pass off scrambled for Eggs Benedict.\u00a0 Blasphemy!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are about the only way I will do eggs.\u00a0 Hard boiled\/Deviled Eggs?\u00a0 *Gag!!!*\u00a0 Raw in a &#8216;healthy&#8217; drink?\u00a0 Do you really want to clean your shoes?\u00a0 My list of what is acceptable doesn&#8217;t seem so bad, but if you have caught the common theme so far is that they must be &#8220;doctored&#8221; to some degree, and\/or combined with something else, to be palatable.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line:\u00a0 People only eat &#8220;breakfast foods&#8221; at breakfast because they&#8217;ve been conditioned to do so.\u00a0 Someone told them that&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s supposed to be as a kid, and like a good little soldier fell into line and repeated that mantra for the rest of their life.\u00a0 A good burger for breakfast is perfectly fine, quite tasty in fact, and restaurants especially need to suck less and do better to accommodate us non-egg people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurants&#8230; breakfast food&#8230; conditioning.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s what it really is is conditioning.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no other logical reasoning.\u00a0 Pro-tip for restaurants:\u00a0 Not everybody likes eggs. Go to McDonald&#8217;s (or almost any fast food restaurant) and almost all options include eggs of some sort.\u00a0 McDonald&#8217;s even recently rolled out all-day breakfasts.\u00a0 Why is it so hard to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mornings","category-pet-peeve","category-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}