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Sunday, January 23, 2005

Introducing the "Sweet and Sour"

Today I went to breakfast/lunch (yes, some would call it "brunch") with Nemo, who was visiting, and Jascha. We went to one of my favorite places, the Melrose Restaurant. It is a diner with particularly good food. Plus, I live close by, so parking is never an issue. Anyway, this time, as with anytime I eat breakfast food at a diner, I can never decide whether I want sweet or salty. If I enter the restaurant with a sweet craving and order, say, french toast or chocolate chip pancakes, I get through half the meal and really crave eggs benedict or the lox sandwich. The same happens if I have a salty craving, though not with the same intensity. I can usually finish my salty foods, only mildly desiring a piece of cake. With sweet foods I can't finish more then two thirds before I absolutely cannot eat another bite unless I have an egg with cheese (Those same people who call it "brunch" would call this an "omelette,"bourgeois bastards). My first question is, am I alone? Do other people have this same afliction? And if people do suffer this same problem then I pose a second question. Why not make a platter called "the Sweet and Sour?" You could choose from either a small french toast or pancake platter of your choosing (ie chocolate chips, coconut, marshmallow) and then a small egg, lox, or other platter from the saltly genre. Eggs benedict, biscuits and gravy, peanut butter covered hash browns, they would all be options. That way you get the best of both worlds. The Melrose has a 2 by 2 plate that has two regular pancakes (boring) with an egg side, but frankly, that doesn't wet my palate. Jascha ordered this meal and I was really unimpressed by both the presentation and his enjoyment level. With so many delicious options at your finger tips, I really think the Sweet and Sour would be huge. Pacific Ocean huge. Mt. Everst huge. Anna Nicole Smith boob implant huge. You get what I'm saying.
PS, liquid all wheel drive rules.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good idea. But the name might confuse the unintelligent masses. Being they would think it was some sort of Chinese breakfast. How about the "S&S" (Sweet and Salty, or Sodium and Sugar)?

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4:01 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I agree with you--definitely more so with the sweet than the salty order. Peanut butter covered hash browns?!!? Never heard of them. Never even imagined that. So would you put peanut butter on a baked potato?

colly

12:29 PM

 
Blogger Me said...

That's a good question Colly. Can you put peanut butter on a baked potato? Well, Colly, the answer is simple. You can put peanut butter on whatever you want. Whether that's hash browns, a baked potato or a motor home, everything tastes better with peanut butter (I like the chunky, but that part is totally up to you.)

3:56 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i am a new reader of your new blog, so i've been catching up, and YES, i constantly have the sweet vs. salty problem. my two favorite brunch foods are sweet pancakes and salty hashbrowns, but the two don't always come together. personally, at MY diner, i'd have the entire thing just be a la carte.
keep writin! -christy nemo
p.s. what nationality is your boyfriend? i'm dying to know. well, not DYING, but that's a strange name. i wanna know if i should welcome you to the interracial dating club. :-D

12:54 PM

 
Blogger Me said...

christy nemo, you are on to something...a la carte. I think that is an excellent idea. That way, whatever you were craving, or anticipating craving, you could order. Just like sushi. If you want something different, no problem, just place another order for a taste of something new and there it is in two minutes.

As for your inquiries about the jash man, he is in fact a big whitey. The name throws you off a bit, doesn't it? When I first heard his name I thought he was czech (its a long story). Alas, no interracial dating club for me (though thanks for the open arms). He is a white boy from the ATL. He is, however, a self described "freakishly tall jew". But I guess me also being a jew doesn't make that interracial. Unless a tall person dating a shrimpy one is interracial. Which it isn't.
Anyway, thanks for reading!

1:44 PM

 

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