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The Most Important Meal Of The Day
- Hello everyone and welcome to the Toddcasts. As always, I'm your host, Todd McManus, on this yet another cold Louisiana day. It's just cold. (laughs) That's all that's happened, you know? There's not really much going on, but what you can see from the title of this episode is that you could probably assume what is that, you know? And so many people have asked themselves, what is the most important meal of the day? You know, there's dinner that you could have in the evening times, preferably around six, seven, eight or nine PM, anywhere between six to nine, I assume, is dinner time. Or you could consider it lunch. You know, lunch for some people could be 10.30, or it could be one o'clock. I consider lunch to be anytime between 11.80 to about one to 1.30 PM is lunch time. There are those weird times in the middle, like three, if you eat a meal at three or four work, or what is that? It's not either an early dinner or a late lunch. But what most people consider the most important meal of the day is, of course, breakfast. Breakfast could be any time of the day for you, or any time of the morning, I should say. Some people can eat it at five or six in the morning, and some people wait until maybe eight or nine, depending on how your day goes. And if you work, or if it's a weekend day, or whatever day, I'm not that big of a fan of eating right in the morning, you know, whenever I get up, excuse me, whenever I get up in the morning. As soon as I get out of the bed, my first thought isn't, oh, I need to go immediately start cooking pancakes, and eggs, and hash browns, or whatever. My thoughts not immediately, oh, I'm hungry, I wanna go ahead and cook. As soon as I take one step out of the bed, my thought, usually, when I get up in the morning, is that I gotta run to the bathroom, or I'm not gonna make it and explode all over the floor. So, my immediate thought process, when I get out of the bed, is not. I'm going to start cooking, because if some of you probably know this, but all of you probably do not, that I'm not that big of a fan of cooking, you know? Whenever I cook food, I usually am not like, "Man, this is great, and awesome, I'm flipping food, "and I'm getting the season, and then I'll put the salt on it, "and all that kind of stuff." I'm not like that. Me, whenever I cook food, is normally that I am mad, because this food has taken four freaking ever to actually cook, because I cook food, because I'm hungry, I don't cook food to have fun. Okay, that's why I am a big fan and a big believer of just going to get food, because they cook it, I buy it if I got the money at the time, and I eat the food. And it's usually pretty dead gum good, and unless you go to like McDonald's, or somewhere else, that's kind of iffy, it's here and there, you know, or one of those restaurants where you had seafood one time, and you just threw it all up outside in the parking lot. That has happened before, so I will never go there again. But, I'm not that big fan of cooking food, but I do like breakfast food. I love eating food, I'll eat, I'll try any food at least once, but breakfast food I do like. I will eat that for lunch or dinner, you know, I usually only eat about two meals a day every day, but I would eat breakfast food for lunch or breakfast or dinner. One of those is always good to me. So, I do, you know, I am a fan of pancakes, I like me some eggs, I'll eat eggs with anything, you know, but the big question that we're going to answer today is what is the best breakfast food? Whenever you think of breakfast, whenever you wake up in the morning and you're like, man, I am hungry, I want to actually make myself some breakfast. What is that first thing that pops in your head? Is it scrambled eggs? Is it an omelet? Is it some hash browns? Is it sausage, you know? We're going to go ahead and decide that right now because this is the official breakfast tier list. So we're going to be ranking different breakfast items on the rank scale from S, A, B, C, D, and F, and we're going to go ahead and start with a big one that doesn't actually involve any cooking at all. This is a big one for many people because you just get in the rhythm of eating this and there's no cooking, like I said, this is cereal. Now, of course, there are a million different cereals out there. You got your frosted flakes, your cinnamon toast crunch, which is my personal favorite. You got your honey nut Cheerios, tricks, lucky charms, cookie crisp, the mini wheats, a special K, and all the others, the cat and crunch. You have so, so many different cereals. I was a fan of Apple Jacks when I was a kid too. So I never really, I mean, like I said before, I don't hardly ever eat breakfast food in the morning because I'm never hungry or if it's a weekend, I'm sleeping in. I'm not waking up until like eight or nine, you know? So cereal is weird because there are really good cereals and there's some crappy cereals as well. So I have to rank cereal as just a whole, just cereal, broad term, all of the cereals, and how well is that a breakfast? Well, it's very sugary, I don't think any cereal is that good for you, other than special K, making you have to go to the bathroom and move your towels while eating that cereal. We're not special K, that's fiber one that does that. But there's definitely some good cereals, like I've said, and then some cereals are just not that good. Cinnamon Toast Crunch is by far the best cereal, but it's, you know, cereals, the only breakfast food items you could eat for breakfast every day and still get somehow get diabetes. And then you wonder, oh, how am I getting it? Well, it's because you're eating sugary, you know, there's more sugar in the cereals than there are in some desserts you can make at home. I'm pretty sure there's more sugar in a box of cereal than there is in like a cake. You might as well just eat cake for breakfast and I definitely would do that. But I would probably rank cereal just in the A tier. You know, I don't think it's the best it deserves to be an S. I think it deserves to be an A because it's not that good for you and usually anybody you ask who would like to have actual food that is cooked for breakfast, they would say, well, if I got up earlier, I would actually make an omelet or if I got up earlier, I would make some pancakes, something like that. Nobody, I don't think actually just straight up pick cereal as their dominant breakfast food item in the morning. You make cereal because all you have to do is pour it into a bowl, pour some milk in it and eat it. And then that's it, you're done, you know, you're done. It's the only breakfast item you could take with you and eat on the road if you just stick your hand into the box of cereal. That's a real thing because you're not gonna go over there and eat on the road, trying to eat some eggs. That's just not gonna happen. But I think cereal deserves to be an A tier just because it's the easiest to breakfast item to have. No cooking involved, like I said, you pour it, you pour it into a bowl and you're eating normally cereal is eaten with milk. So it's basically a soup and there you go. You just have breakfast as your is this cereal. So with that out of the way, we're going into the actual foods that have to be cooked. So let's see here. How about we go ahead and go into the eggs because eggs is a very big part of breakfast. Just the entire breakfast genre is kind of dominated by eggs. I would say eggs and then some type of bread would be dominant over breakfast. So first off, we're going with scrambled eggs. Now scrambled eggs is a juggernaut. It is, in my opinion, scrambled eggs is definitely top three or maybe even number one on best ways you can cook and eat eggs because scrambled eggs is normally like a side. Like I wouldn't get up in the morning and have scrambled eggs by itself. I mean, sometimes I probably would, but scrambled eggs by itself is kind of more of a side. Like you might have biscuits and scrambled eggs or, you know, sausage and scrambled eggs. You know, you don't usually just have scrambled eggs. So, but in my opinion, there anything you cook with eggs is so flexible and what it can be and what it can taste like because scrambled eggs that I like to cook and have eaten is, you know, I put some salt and pepper in there and I like to put cheese. I like to do some shredded fiesta blend cheese into the scrambled eggs and that's what's great for me. So I would put scrambled eggs in the S tier. The only bad thing I guess you could hold to get scrambled eggs is that just sometimes it's hard to get the perfect scramble because there is a perfect scramble. You just can't cook an omelet with just egg and nothing else and then just cut it up and boom, you have scrambled eggs. You have to scramble it while it's cooking. That way it can be the little bits of egg. That way you can have it like that. But I would still put it in S tier because you can, you know, do anything with eggs and like a lot of these other breakfast foods that have eggs in them, it's just so, you know, it's hard to go against them because whatever you put on the egg, that's what the egg tastes like, in my opinion. I don't really know what egg tastes like. If you eat something that has egg in it, you can be able to say, oh yeah, this has egg in it. But I can't just tell you right now, what does an egg taste like? If I just eat a cooked egg, plain, no seasoning, nothing else on it, it's not really gonna have much of a flavor to me. 'Cause the yolk is where a lot of the other flavor is. So that's why scrambled eggs are so good because it mixes it all together. But the next form of egg is sunny side up. Now, in my opinion, these are really good. I don't think I would eat them by themselves. I really prefer this type of egg cooked and put on like a burger at a restaurant, you know, like at walk-ons, they have a, I think they're one of them that have a breakfast burger. There's another, there's other like local restaurants that will do breakfast burgers where you just get a cooked egg on there and then the yolk pops and then you get all the yellow yolk running down on the burger. It's just so good. It's just very, very good. I would probably put, still put them in S just because I wouldn't eat it by itself. I would still put this probably as a side, but you could mix things with it and it just is gonna be so good because eggs like take other foods to their next level, in my opinion. That eggs, you know, you eat something and you're like, oh, that's good. But then you eat it with an egg and you're like, wow. You know, this is a whole lot better. I'm gonna eat it like this every time. That's the way it is for me and that's just how I see it with the eggs. So I would put sunny side up in S as well. Um, we have boiled eggs as an egg. I don't even know if I've had boiled eggs. I wouldn't put, I would not put this as a breakfast food. And honestly, I feel like that'd be a little weird if I saw you eating a boiled egg for breakfast. And be like, oh, what'd you have for breakfast? Well, I had cinnamon toast quench 'cause it was so good. And what do you have, Joe? What'd you have for breakfast? Why eat a boiled egg this morning? I don't know what's going on in Joe's life, but something must be going on for him to be eating straight up boiled eggs in the morning that, you know, Joe needs a pay raise. That's what it's getting down to, that Joe is gonna need a pay raise because if you're just boiling some eggs in the morning, that has got to be the most dull and sad thing to cook for breakfast to just put some eggs and some boiling water and then that's it. There's nothing else to do there. I would put boiled eggs in C-tier because they're probably good. It's been a long time since I've had a boiled egg, but I mean, come on, breakfast, you know, wake up in the morning and eat a boiled egg. That doesn't work. That's just not gonna work. So yeah, boiled egg is a C-tier for me. All right, let's see here. Next up we have is the omelet. I mean, I think without a doubt, there is no question about it that the omelet isn't S-tier because the omelet is, you know, you cook an egg, you mix it around and you basically cook it like a pancake 'cause well, how I do it. And then you can mix anything in there. You could put any kind of meat you want. You could put any vegetables you want. You could put a bunch of different cheese. Like there's so many ways, like it's an infinite amount, you know, of combinations in different ways that you can eat an omelet with so many different other food types to put in the omelet, you know? So omelet is easy S-tier just because of how it's another slice, just like the other eggs. It's flexible, it's malleable. It has the ability to be whatever you want it to be, you know? You know, when you were a kid and the teacher or whoever asked you, what do you want to be when you grow up? You had so many other, so many choices and so, you know, so many opportunities. That's the way you can think about when you cook eggs for breakfast or with anything. That there's so many opportunities and so many just different combinations of cooking it. That's why like those three versions of egg just deserve to be in the S-tier. Now, the next one we have is eggs benedict. Now, I've had eggs benedict, I think only once that I can remember, I may have had it more than once, but it's okay, at least the only time that I can remember having it, it was okay. I would put this in B-tier. If I had it again, I might like it, you know, because it's been a while since I've actually tried it and I think I only had like one bite and I was like, eh, whatever, you know. But I would put it in B-tier just because it's a, it's an okay one, it's an okay breakfast item. All right, let's see, I think we're done with the eggs for now. The next item on this list is, of course, a legendary breakfast food item, which is, of course, the pancakes. Now, you can go down to the eye hop and get you some pancakes and they're pretty good sometimes. You know, I've had pancakes for my hop only twice. I think I've eaten burgers more at high hop than anything else. I did have an omelet there one time and that thing, it must've took a dozen eggs to make that one omelet. 'Cause it was the size of like a huge burrito that you would get at the La Fiesta down the road. Like it is so huge, it literally is. It's just a burrito, but instead of a tortilla shell, it's just egg. It's just a big egg wrapped around a bunch of freaking food that they shoved inside of it to make an egg breakfast burrito. It was good, but it was a lot. 'Cause if you eat too many eggs, you better have a bathroom close to you for the next few hours because good Lord, it will, you know. You thought Elon Musk was sending rockets to Mars. Well, that ain't nothing compared to eating a dozen eggs on a Sunday afternoon. I'll tell you what, you know. So, but yeah, pancakes are probably easily, I mean, they're definitely up there, you know, because it's just, you know, they're also kind of like eggs, in my opinion, where they're so flexible, where you can, you know, put chocolate chips in it, put blueberries on it, put the syrup on it with the butter, you know. So, I mean, S tier is where pancakes belong, just because it's so good. You know, it's just batter that you cook and then eat it. You know, or you can even let them cool down and just pick them up and eat them in your hands. So, I think pancakes are definitely S tier. The next one we have is biscuits. Now biscuits are really good. There are some dry biscuits, of course. There's some places and restaurants that do biscuits like Bojangles and Popeyes and Popeyes, they got a good biscuit. It can be, you know, drier than the Sahara sometimes, but good lore, that biscuit is good. I would put biscuits in the A tier, you know, I just, I would never eat a biscuit alone for breakfast. I would just, I would be upset almost if I had only a biscuit for the morning. So, I would put biscuits in A tier just because it's like, you know, it's a side, it's your bread for the meal, you know. The next item we got is muffins. I like muffins, you know. I've always been a fan of the occasional blueberry muffin. It's always good. There are some muffins that I don't really care for, but I would put muffins in the A tier as well because I could always get behind a good decent muffin, you know. The next item we have is hash browns. The shredded hash browns, like the style of Waffle House. These are also really good. They deserve to be in the A tier just because you could put cheese on them. You can make your own hash brown bowl with them. You can do many, many things with a good old hash side of hash browns for breakfast. It's just, it's really good. It's super filling as well. So like, you're not gonna be hungry for a while after you eat those. (gentle music) The next item we have on this list is avocado toast. Avocado toast. Now, if you take the avocado off, it would actually be pretty good. I would rather just eat dry plain toast than eat anything that has to do with avocados because I do not like avocados. I don't know what it is. I just, I just don't like it. I don't like the flavor. I don't like the texture. I don't like anything about an avocado other than I'm okay with it being green. That's pretty much it. I do not like anything else that has to do with a freaking avocado. It's just not that good to me. So I would put avocado toast in D tier. I will not put it in F only because I know a lot of people do like avocados and they're still a good quality about it because there is still some toast underneath all that avocado. All right. Next up we have is cinnamon rolls. Now, I didn't know until like a couple of years ago that people eat cinnamon rolls for breakfast. And have I had it for breakfast since knowing that? Yes, I have. But I was so confused when I saw different people eat cinnamon rolls for breakfast. And I was like, you eat cinnamon rolls for breakfast because that's the dessert. It's weird because breakfast is like one of the is, you know, whenever you think of lunch and you think of lunch food or food that you would eat for dinner, that's a super broad category because you can eat literally anything for lunch or dinner. But when you think of breakfast, there's only specific foods like these that would been going over your cereals, your eggs, your toasts, muffins, biscuits, hash brown stuff, stuff like that. You know, whenever I say, whenever I say, think of breakfast foods, you're not thinking of a pepperoni pizza. You know, you're thinking of biscuits, eggs, stuff like that. Cinnamon rolls was never on that list for me because I categorize cinnamon rolls as a dessert. I would eat a pizza at night and then have a cinnamon roll afterwards, you know. I mean, they might as well just put chocolate chip cookies on this list because what the heck, you know, they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Start your day off with a cinnamon roll. Now I'm not saying that that's a bad idea because I do like a good cinnamon roll. I'm just saying that with all of this different eggs and meat and stuff like that that you could have for breakfast that's very good for you. And then go to the complete opposite of the spectrum and have a freaking cinnamon roll that you're starting off your day with a cinnamon roll or even the next one. But cinnamon rolls I would put in BT or just because I love cinnamon rolls, but it's just not, I just don't see it as a breakfast. I don't know what it is. I just don't, you know. And same for the next one. I don't really know how this started as a breakfast food because this started out and being known as a breakfast food item for a long time now. And that's the donut. Donuts, I love donuts. Don't get me wrong. I love donuts. But I don't wake up at seven o'clock in the morning and think, wow, I'm hungry. I could go for a good old fashioned donut, you know? I think of donuts through the middle of the day whenever I'm like, man, I need something sweet to eat. I just, I'm craving, you know, some sugar. I want a donut, you know? I want a good iced donut or a good original glazed donut, you know, or one of those that are stuffed, one of those, not e-clayers. What's it called? The ones that are, they're not donuts because they're just big pastry and they're filled or whatever, they might be a call to e-clayers, I don't know. But like they're full of the cream or jam or whatever, you know? But donuts are great, I love donuts. I'm gonna put them in eights here just because I like donuts so much and they're, they're also very flexible because you could, you know, cover 'em, stuff 'em, you know, do whatever you want with a donut because it's, you know, you got the glazed, you can have iced with chocolate icing or strawberry iced, you can put sprinkles on 'em, you could stuff it full of cream, you know? But it sounds like a Saturday night, to be honest. Um, but yeah, I would put donuts in the eights here just because they're so good. But I just don't see, when you think about it, it'd be like, okay, well, when everybody keeps talking about, you know, body positivity and being healthy and eating more vegetables and eating, you know, healthier every day and being just in a healthier mindset, how did donuts become a breakfast? That's just what I'm saying is that I don't understand where did the dessert items start to become the first thing you eat in the morning? Like a donut or a cinnamon roll, I just don't understand. Well, the next food item is like a donut and I used to think it was a donut for a long time until I figured out it's a completely different thing but they look exactly the same. And that is of course bagels. And that's a true statement. When I was a kid, I used to think that a bagel was just a crappy version of a donut 'cause I had a bagel and I was like, man, this is a lot tougher than a donut and where's the glaze? Where is the good stuff? You know, like, you know, I want a strawberry iced bagel, you know? I never once thought bagels would just bread in a circle because they're so different. They look exactly the same as a donut but I used to just think that a bagel was a worse version of a donut and that tells you how I grew up knowing donuts before I even knew what a bagel was. I see a lot of people eat bagels. I've had a bagel sandwich before that was like a bacon, egg and cheese. It's really good, you know? Bagels are just another form of bread. I would probably never eat a bagel by itself. I know a lot of people like those, what's it called, the Everything Bagel. What's got all the seasoning and bird seed all on top of it. People love them things. I don't know what it is about it but people love that Everything Bagel, you know? But don't leave it outside because you definitely know the seagulls are gonna get after it. But yeah, I would put bagels in B-tier just because they are good. It's just I prefer it as like a sandwich more than anything else, so. Yeah, I'm not just gonna go eat a plain bagel. Same thing with English muffin. I don't think that's on this list but English muffins are also those things where it's like it's good but am I really just gonna sit down and just eat a plain English muffin without putting anything on it or in it? So next up we have is the croissant. I have had a couple croissants in my life, not many. I mean, they're not really that memorable. I put croissant in the seats here just because it's a good version of bread but that's pretty much it. The next item we got is bacon. That's right, who doesn't love bacon? That's the thing about bacon is just everybody likes it, you know? And it's true, you know? I mean, bacon's becoming more love than doing the Rock Johnson nowadays, you know? People love bacon around the world and especially in America. But bacon's good, there's no doubt about it. Bacon definitely is in the S tier. There's nothing you can really do that can change anything about bacon just because it's very good. And I mean, come on, it's bacon. You know, you can put bacon on anything and you can eat bacon by itself and either way it's still good. So the next thing we got is beans. You heard me right, I said, beans. For some reason, one of these pictures is a bowl of bacon to beans. Now, like I said earlier about the boiled eggs, I, if I walk in somewhere and it's breakfast time and I see you cracking open a can of bushes, baked beans for breakfast, then I just might open my wallet and see whatever money I can give you because that is just sad. I have never in my life heard other than people in London and over there in England, where they don't know any different and they definitely don't know any better about eating baked beans for breakfast. Why, why on earth would you ever be like, you know what, I'm going to start off my day with a good old hardy bowl of beans. Well, you think you're going to fill your stomach full of baked beans and the only thing you're going to be filling is the dead gum toilet about an hour later after you eat those beans because good grief. Why, especially if you drink coffee too. Oh my gosh. That's, you know, just eating baked beans with coffee, gross. You are disgusting. You are, you are what's wrong with this country if you're doing that, okay. Baked beans, that's an F. That's not, that's not a breakfast item. Never has and never will be. The next thing we got on this list is sausage links. Sausage links are good. I mean, it's a good meat, I would put it in B tier just because it's good. The next one we have is sausage patties. Now, I think sausage patties is better than sausage link. I have no idea why it just tastes different. I would put sausage patties in the A tier just because it's a good breakfast item. The next one we have here is a weird one that I've never really thought of before, but it's steak and eggs. And I've had steak and eggs is like a dinner before, but I've never had it as a breakfast. So I would put it in the B tier because it is very good, but I would never wake up in the morning and be like, I'm just gonna cook a steak. Like, we all wake up in the morning and we're probably all like, man, you know, alive another day, you know, like we're not thinking, I'm just gonna cook a T-bone steak, you know? Like if you're cooking T-bone steak in the morning for breakfast, then it needs to be the opposite and you need to give me some money because there is no way in this world that you're gonna be cooking T-bone or ribeye or whatever in the morning at seven or eight o'clock in the morning, no, no way. The next item we have on this list is butter toast. That's of course the butter toast. Butter toast is a weird one because toast by itself, especially burnt toast is the worst food item probably ever in the world, but if it's cooked just a little brown and got some butter on it, man. That's the best right there. There's nothing you can beat with that butter toast. I put butter toast in the A tier. This is because, you know, it's pretty normal. It's like the go-to thing for some breakfast items, but yeah, I'd put it in the A tier. Let's see here. Um, let's take the hash brown from McDonald's, where I don't know what you would call that, but it's still called hash brown. They're good. I would definitely put that in A tier just because it's really good, especially the ones you can get from McDonald's. That's, you know, McDonald's in my opinion, their food is not that good. The only thing good there is some breakfast items and the fries. That's all they have going for them in my opinion. And that spicy Sprite. Good Lord, you could drink that spicy Sprite and you can, you know, cure cancer with it. So, well, I think that's actually it for this list of breakfast items. There's a few other things that I've just never had before, but I'm going to go ahead and go over the list of food items that I have ranked for my breakfast tier list, starting in the A tier as the worst item is beans that you could have in the morning for breakfast. The next item we have in the D tier is avocado toast. In the C tier, we have boiled eggs and croissants. In the B tier, we have eggs Benedict, cinnamon rolls, bagels, sausage links and steak and eggs. In the A tier, we have cereal, muffins, biscuits, donuts, sausage patty, butter toast and hash browns. And in the S tier, we have shredded hash browns, pancakes, sunny side up eggs, scrambled eggs, an omelet and of course bacon. And I think bacon and eggs can be crowned the kings of all of the breakfast food without a doubt. There's no, there's no debating that. So, well, I think that is going to do it for the breakfast tier list. And that's going to do it for this episode. As always, please write and subscribe. 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