Fat and sodium for breakfast

[Jeunemaitre]

At a restaurant near where I grew up, the manager's special consisted of a pound of bacon and a pound of potatoes: twice as much food as this microwave breakfast

That reminds me of a great little place (okay, a shack on the side of the road with 5-6 tables and 3-4 seats at the counter) in Syracuse, NY, called "Mothers' Cupboard." They were open 3AM until 10AM on Weekdays, and 12AM to 10AM on week-ends. They had two famous dishes, the Frittata (literally a pile on your plate of everything remotely breakfast, available in 2 sizes: super gargantuan and 1/2). They hung your picture on the wall if you were able to finish the full portion. The second dish is the "Foot-Wide Pancake." They say what they mean, and they mean what they say: the footnote on the menu under this one was something like "a traditional pancake, just bigger. Don't try to eat two, you'll hurt yourself. :blink:

We used to go there after parties. Anybody that was left at the house was welcome to join the residents for breakfast. It was a good excuse to go home and collapse the next day, because you'd best not stray too far from the house. God I miss that place...