After many friends being shocked that I'd never been to a Cracker Barrel, several years ago my daughter and I gave it a shot. I'm always wary of "country cooking" when not in "the country", and this Cracker (and her kid) lived this wary moment when we pulled off the 101 and into the Home Depot/Camarillo Outlets parking lot that fateful afternoon.
We were immediately met with an unexpected collection of home decor in a variety of themes - Biblical, "country", and holiday items one might find at a dollar+ store littered the shelves, along with Christian affirmation books and even clothing. You could also purchase bedding, candles, and snacks. It was like the opposite of Disneyland - you had to wade through the store in order to get to the ride.
Finally, with the faint scent of pumpkin/floral/cookie on us from the candles, plug ins, and people spraying "body spray" on their way out, we made it to the "big show".
The dining room was chock-a-block full of what I assume were travelers, many of whom had never seen the sun, a vegetable, or possibly a toothbrush. Even the staff looked stark. We ordered fried chicken and something else from a paltry lass who looked like she never ate there mostly because why eat when you can do meth, and after looking at the other plates, I vowed to stop for Pepcid on the way home.
Which I gladly would've done had the chicken been fried within the last 30 minutes before it was served. Mashed potatoes were also an issue, as you could taste that homemade chalky goodness coating the roof of your mouth, almost as if they boiled the entire box of instant, box and bag included, in a giant vat of not enough water for way too long.
There were also side salads, which amounted to 4 pieces of iceberg lettuce, a single carrot shred, and a gravy boat of ranch dressing.
Needless to say, we and our pumpkin/floral/cookie AND NOW old frying oil-saturated clothing with empty stomaches and a lighter bank account, couldn't get out of there fast enough.
If it weren't such a thing, I would probably never have even noticed the logo change.
There are two kinds of people; those who only order breakfast at Cracker Barrel and return, and those who order off the dinner menu and vow to never come back.
Matt remembers a bar, Michael remembers audio book rentals, others remember vague ideas of food, of Americana, of our childhoods.
Is it a real place or just a shared American dream space created by our collective unconscious, a nostalgia for a place we all remember in slightly different ways but have never actually been to?
Have we all been “Inceptioned” about the existence of Cracker Barrel?
This lucid awakening dream state seems awesome and I don’t want to wake up from it. I’m suddenly outraged by whoever tried to maliciously manipulate this subconscious American Utopia.
I'm curious after hearing the short discussion of Glenn Loury with regard to The Manhattan Institute. I have listened to Glenn's podcast for a several years (mainly for his discussions with John McWhorter. I'm not a paid subscriber. It appears to me that in conjunction with his change on Israel-Palestine, he has also swung more to the left on other issues (despite his being a Trump defender in the past). Is this just because of the war in Gaza? Is it the influence of his wife who he acknowledges is very progressive? In a way it reminds me a little of Shadi Hamid, who I used to listen to, but I think he lost his mind over Gaza. I also suspect that Hamid, from things he had said in the past, is Muslim Brotherhood adjacent.
Loury has referenced several people whose opinions on Israel I really don't like (and I will readily admit my pro Israel viewpoint) such as Daniel Bessner, Omer Bartov and Ilan Pappe. Pappe I find especially distasteful. He was also on Tucker Carlson's show.
When Loury spoke about his firing from the Manhattan Institute, he said it by email from Reihan Salam, and that there was no process or opportunity for appeal. IDK if Manhattan or Salam responded to this but it appeared to be pretty cold and unpleasant. I do think that the issue of Israel and Gaza has been a defining point for Glenn, as it has been for a lot of people who have grown increasingly uneasy with the conflict and the way certain personalities and media groups (like the Free Press) have behaved.
Maybe some day the gang will invite Reihan to the show and discuss these things. It would be enlightening, but I sorta doubt it. I've been listening since 2018 and it feels like the quality and quantity of guests have been in decline. My shitty opinion
I was working on the Hill for the 1995 Hooters March on Washington, led by mustachioed Vince "The Hooters Guy" wearing the tank top and short orange shorts, protesting EEOC demands that they hire male waiters. We received at least 10,000 orange Hooter's frisbees signed by Hooter's patrons as part of their grassroots campaign. Aside from the "notch babies" postcard barrage, the Hooters protest was the most successful of my time on the Hill.
People born 1917-1921 (the "notch") whining about not getting exactly the same Soc Sec COLA as those born before or after. Why the notch? Bcs the fed gov is whacked and does screwy crap.
Seriously dudes, we Southerners need to introduce you to the wonders of Waffle House. It is a revered institution. There is nothing like a pecan waffle and hash browns scattered, smothered, and covered after a ball game. Take your kids there once, and they will be hooked for life.
After Katrina hit in 2005, my wife and I made close to 12 trips to the gulf to help in rebuilding. We were mostly in D’Iberville, Mississippi. It was a real humbling experience. My first trip there was about a week after the hurricane and Waffle House was a savior.
Sometimes at an interchange, there would be two of them. Each serving a different exit.
I’m increasing willing to entertain the possibility that Republicans don’t care about what will happen when they’re out of power because they don’t intend to be out of power.
I think that's an unjustifiably cynical and ahistorical take.
Prior to 2020 I never thought there was a chance that the President or majority party in Congress, whoever that happened to be, would fail to peacefully give up power.
Yeah. I imagine you can say that before Nixon no president would ever take all his private conversations out of paranoia especially after winning like 90% of the vote.
I never thought a president in the 1910s would screen “birth of a nation” or resegregate government jobs.
I’m sure people never thought a president would run for an unprecedented third and fourth term while using radio and back room
Deals and political pressure to maintain the power during a war.
I never thought a sitting president would be censured until 1834. The scandal!
My point was that no party ever thinks they’ll be out of power. If they did they would act differently.
While I'm sure there have always been zealots among the base and the rank and file who believed that they *finally* found the secret to permanent electoral success, I think the leadership of both parties have always known and accepted that they'd go back and forth between being in power and in opposition. They act the way they do because there are incentives to do as much they can when they have power -- even if much of it will be fleeting, it satisfies their bases, and there's always a chance a few things stick. The consequences are for another day.
But Trump and his supporters have a well established track record of refusing to accept election results, Republicans are doing everything they can to shield themselves from the consequences of Trump's bad policies, the obsession over immigrants and voter fraud give them an excuse to involve a massively beefed up ICE in the elections, and the DOD (sorry, DOW) is going to train specialized military units to "quell civil disturbances".
Maybe I'm just being paranoid and suffering from TDS, but I don't know how anyone can look at the totality of the situation and not be at least concerned.
It’s a good watch but the short version is that historically politicians and political parties do not think long term. If they did they would act differently. The growth of the power of the president has been slow. But accelerated since the internet.
Clinton expanded the power thinking that “the next guy won’t abuse this”. (Or more likely not thinking it). Then bush did by a lot. Then Obama expanded that power by a lot. Now Trump and Biden are taking turns expanding that power.
They all should have thought past their term. But they didn’t. That’s the par for the course of politicians. They don’t think like that.
I don’t think it was accepted that power would go back and forth. I think both parties think it’s a blip whenever the other side wins. Keep in mind that before the recent past. 1994 actually. Democrats had 40 straight years of a house majority. And during that 40 years had senatorial majority for a lot of them. And I don’t think they’ve ever gotten over losing that.
I agree on how bad Trump is. He is. But he’s also playing with a loaded deck that generations of politicians filled with cards they never thought people would actually play.
I think every group governs as if they’ll hold on to power. The problem
Isn’t that they do or don’t. It’s that it erodes the safeguards put in place.
Then they freak out when someone else gets elected.
Personally I think trumpism
Will run its course in a similar way to Reaganism (itself a reaction to a lot of crime, and war but also stuffed with Puritanism which eventually jut bugs people). It will be messy. And it would help if democrats were even remotely competent. That’s the biggest problem. Not that republicans are bad. They are. It’s that the other party is so incompetent they can’t get out of their own way.
A famously unlikable woman candidate whose biggest political accomplishment was that she married a politician.
A very very old man who even before his age was known for saying incredibly stupid things and being relatively unable to articulate. And whose greatest political accomplishments include the 94 crime bill, the patriot act, and being the white guy who helps Obama carry a few 50/50 states.
And a terribly inadequate former prosecutor from California who’s also never really accomplished anything extraordinary, is a terrible interview, and worked for the cops.
Those are the bulwarks that the Democratic Party allowed to stand up to Trump.
I don’t like Trump but he wins in spite of himself.
I’m not in very far into the episode but already felt like chiming in. Just before Barrelgate, I read an article about the (apparent) resurgence of Chilis. It was pretty interesting and talked about lot about the decline of the entire industry. I looked it up because our teenagers kept asking to go there…which seemed strange to say the least. From a distance it kind of seems like Cracker Barrel was pulling a Bud Light - thinking the way out of their decline is to appeal to a completely different demographic even if it alienates their existing base.
No idea how accurate that is because I just don’t care nearly enough about this issue, or Cracker Barrel in general, to cut through all the noise on this now. I can say that my experience in corporate America tells me that executives who are so detached from their own brand and culture that they lean into disastrous approaches like those are a dime a dozen. Most people have no fucking clue what they’re doing, and know they’ll land on their feet no matter how disastrous their previous results were for a company under their management.
It’s good to see that the White House has a balanced approach to adopting totalitarian polices. The CCP has taken partial control of so many Chinese companies over the past few years it is funny.
Matt I’m surprised you guys haven’t discussed what’s going on in the UK with the people rising up against the mass immigration. Not just that, but the authorities are frowning upon any bit of patriotism and have threatened at banning the flags of 🏴 and 🇬🇧 as symbols of, I don’t know, white supremacy or racism, something like that. “It will offend the immigrants” is basically the attitude. As a result there have been massive marches of British, waving their flags.
You all bring up Nixon a couple times like he’s some uncrossable line in the sand. If only we can make Trump like Nixon THAT’ll show them.
But he’s already broken so many deeply engrained norms with zero push back from his followers that it’s clear this is a worthless strategy.
Plus there’s the new MAGA line that Nixon was actually a good guy and it was all a hoax. If you think I’m making this up listen to Chris Rufo on the most recent episode of Real Time.
It’s kind of a crazy coincidence you all are throwing this argument out mere days after that, but to be fair I’d never heard the “Nixon was a good guy” line before then. I don’t even think Roger stone argued Nixon was good. Rather he embraced his heartlessness in his quest for power
I’ve been a partial Nixon defender for a long time.
Even if you view Nixon positively, and he had some real positive accomplishments in office, Trump will come up short. He has few of Nixon’s positive traits - intelligence, discipline, a positive vision for his presidency, concrete goals - and more extreme versions of his worst - resentment, paranoia, and so on.
Richard Nixon is a fascinating figure. So intelligent, driven, a deeply introverted man who wanted to be the President of the United States, the most public facing role on the planet. He had some amazing achievements in foreign policy - China, operation Nickel Grass, but was undone by his own paranoia in an election he won by a landslide.
FFS can the condescending Moinyhan take a break from trying to tell everyone who they should find funny. Trump isn't funny he's a douche. It's embarrassing, much like selling out to go on Megyn's shit show.
I've never heard any of the boys saying who SHOULD be found funny, just who they think is funny. I think Trump is a douche and worse. He's also funny. Life is funny.
Nothing makes me feel so alienated from my fellow Americans as their passion for “breakfast” foods. Do you know what’s a nice breakfast? Last night’s dinner. Or failing that, Breakfast Triscuits (unsweetened plain shredded wheat).
I'm with you. I love eating out, but do not get excited about going out for breakfast. Mainly because I'm pretty competent at making most breakfast staples at home. Why would anybody pay for 300% for coffee, toast, bacon, and a fried egg that could be whipped up in 10 minutes?
After many friends being shocked that I'd never been to a Cracker Barrel, several years ago my daughter and I gave it a shot. I'm always wary of "country cooking" when not in "the country", and this Cracker (and her kid) lived this wary moment when we pulled off the 101 and into the Home Depot/Camarillo Outlets parking lot that fateful afternoon.
We were immediately met with an unexpected collection of home decor in a variety of themes - Biblical, "country", and holiday items one might find at a dollar+ store littered the shelves, along with Christian affirmation books and even clothing. You could also purchase bedding, candles, and snacks. It was like the opposite of Disneyland - you had to wade through the store in order to get to the ride.
Finally, with the faint scent of pumpkin/floral/cookie on us from the candles, plug ins, and people spraying "body spray" on their way out, we made it to the "big show".
The dining room was chock-a-block full of what I assume were travelers, many of whom had never seen the sun, a vegetable, or possibly a toothbrush. Even the staff looked stark. We ordered fried chicken and something else from a paltry lass who looked like she never ate there mostly because why eat when you can do meth, and after looking at the other plates, I vowed to stop for Pepcid on the way home.
Which I gladly would've done had the chicken been fried within the last 30 minutes before it was served. Mashed potatoes were also an issue, as you could taste that homemade chalky goodness coating the roof of your mouth, almost as if they boiled the entire box of instant, box and bag included, in a giant vat of not enough water for way too long.
There were also side salads, which amounted to 4 pieces of iceberg lettuce, a single carrot shred, and a gravy boat of ranch dressing.
Needless to say, we and our pumpkin/floral/cookie AND NOW old frying oil-saturated clothing with empty stomaches and a lighter bank account, couldn't get out of there fast enough.
If it weren't such a thing, I would probably never have even noticed the logo change.
There are two kinds of people; those who only order breakfast at Cracker Barrel and return, and those who order off the dinner menu and vow to never come back.
Ya, skip Cracker Barrell and go to Waffle House instead.
Are we sure that Cracker Barrel actually exists?
Matt remembers a bar, Michael remembers audio book rentals, others remember vague ideas of food, of Americana, of our childhoods.
Is it a real place or just a shared American dream space created by our collective unconscious, a nostalgia for a place we all remember in slightly different ways but have never actually been to?
Have we all been “Inceptioned” about the existence of Cracker Barrel?
This lucid awakening dream state seems awesome and I don’t want to wake up from it. I’m suddenly outraged by whoever tried to maliciously manipulate this subconscious American Utopia.
So many Sunday pancakes with so many tiny bottles of syrup. After church as the good Lord intended
I'm curious after hearing the short discussion of Glenn Loury with regard to The Manhattan Institute. I have listened to Glenn's podcast for a several years (mainly for his discussions with John McWhorter. I'm not a paid subscriber. It appears to me that in conjunction with his change on Israel-Palestine, he has also swung more to the left on other issues (despite his being a Trump defender in the past). Is this just because of the war in Gaza? Is it the influence of his wife who he acknowledges is very progressive? In a way it reminds me a little of Shadi Hamid, who I used to listen to, but I think he lost his mind over Gaza. I also suspect that Hamid, from things he had said in the past, is Muslim Brotherhood adjacent.
Loury has referenced several people whose opinions on Israel I really don't like (and I will readily admit my pro Israel viewpoint) such as Daniel Bessner, Omer Bartov and Ilan Pappe. Pappe I find especially distasteful. He was also on Tucker Carlson's show.
When Loury spoke about his firing from the Manhattan Institute, he said it by email from Reihan Salam, and that there was no process or opportunity for appeal. IDK if Manhattan or Salam responded to this but it appeared to be pretty cold and unpleasant. I do think that the issue of Israel and Gaza has been a defining point for Glenn, as it has been for a lot of people who have grown increasingly uneasy with the conflict and the way certain personalities and media groups (like the Free Press) have behaved.
Maybe some day the gang will invite Reihan to the show and discuss these things. It would be enlightening, but I sorta doubt it. I've been listening since 2018 and it feels like the quality and quantity of guests have been in decline. My shitty opinion
Re: the quality and quantity of guests being in decline, I share your shitty opinion.
Do it! Buy Hooters!
I was working on the Hill for the 1995 Hooters March on Washington, led by mustachioed Vince "The Hooters Guy" wearing the tank top and short orange shorts, protesting EEOC demands that they hire male waiters. We received at least 10,000 orange Hooter's frisbees signed by Hooter's patrons as part of their grassroots campaign. Aside from the "notch babies" postcard barrage, the Hooters protest was the most successful of my time on the Hill.
Hooters is dead, long live Ojos Locos!
So what you’re saying is that you have a type.
I don't live close to the border for nothing.
"Notch babies"?
People born 1917-1921 (the "notch") whining about not getting exactly the same Soc Sec COLA as those born before or after. Why the notch? Bcs the fed gov is whacked and does screwy crap.
Matt, WWN was great for pre-Intertubes air travel.
1. If someone saw you carrying it, you’d probably be left alone, and;
2. They always had a great crossword puzzle.
Bat Boy lives!
Seriously dudes, we Southerners need to introduce you to the wonders of Waffle House. It is a revered institution. There is nothing like a pecan waffle and hash browns scattered, smothered, and covered after a ball game. Take your kids there once, and they will be hooked for life.
I love Waffle House!
And you might have dining room entertainment in the form of bum fights!
After Katrina hit in 2005, my wife and I made close to 12 trips to the gulf to help in rebuilding. We were mostly in D’Iberville, Mississippi. It was a real humbling experience. My first trip there was about a week after the hurricane and Waffle House was a savior.
Sometimes at an interchange, there would be two of them. Each serving a different exit.
Ya, the WH bigwigs treat what they do as if it is holy work bcs sometimes it is. And a WH on both sides of the exit is just what we do down here.
Thanks for helping those people. What an awful mess for so many!
Fun fact I used to live ½ mile from the national headquarters of Cracker Barrel
Been too long since we had a good Matt Welch long winding rant on government power.
I’m increasing willing to entertain the possibility that Republicans don’t care about what will happen when they’re out of power because they don’t intend to be out of power.
Tale as old as time.
I think that's an unjustifiably cynical and ahistorical take.
Prior to 2020 I never thought there was a chance that the President or majority party in Congress, whoever that happened to be, would fail to peacefully give up power.
Yeah. I imagine you can say that before Nixon no president would ever take all his private conversations out of paranoia especially after winning like 90% of the vote.
I never thought a president in the 1910s would screen “birth of a nation” or resegregate government jobs.
I’m sure people never thought a president would run for an unprecedented third and fourth term while using radio and back room
Deals and political pressure to maintain the power during a war.
I never thought a sitting president would be censured until 1834. The scandal!
My point was that no party ever thinks they’ll be out of power. If they did they would act differently.
While I'm sure there have always been zealots among the base and the rank and file who believed that they *finally* found the secret to permanent electoral success, I think the leadership of both parties have always known and accepted that they'd go back and forth between being in power and in opposition. They act the way they do because there are incentives to do as much they can when they have power -- even if much of it will be fleeting, it satisfies their bases, and there's always a chance a few things stick. The consequences are for another day.
But Trump and his supporters have a well established track record of refusing to accept election results, Republicans are doing everything they can to shield themselves from the consequences of Trump's bad policies, the obsession over immigrants and voter fraud give them an excuse to involve a massively beefed up ICE in the elections, and the DOD (sorry, DOW) is going to train specialized military units to "quell civil disturbances".
Maybe I'm just being paranoid and suffering from TDS, but I don't know how anyone can look at the totality of the situation and not be at least concerned.
I really do think the delusion has always been there. I really like this rant by penn Jillette. https://youtu.be/XE_qV5e_lJ0?si=olhlTjYbLorcQF8a
It’s a good watch but the short version is that historically politicians and political parties do not think long term. If they did they would act differently. The growth of the power of the president has been slow. But accelerated since the internet.
Clinton expanded the power thinking that “the next guy won’t abuse this”. (Or more likely not thinking it). Then bush did by a lot. Then Obama expanded that power by a lot. Now Trump and Biden are taking turns expanding that power.
They all should have thought past their term. But they didn’t. That’s the par for the course of politicians. They don’t think like that.
I don’t think it was accepted that power would go back and forth. I think both parties think it’s a blip whenever the other side wins. Keep in mind that before the recent past. 1994 actually. Democrats had 40 straight years of a house majority. And during that 40 years had senatorial majority for a lot of them. And I don’t think they’ve ever gotten over losing that.
I agree on how bad Trump is. He is. But he’s also playing with a loaded deck that generations of politicians filled with cards they never thought people would actually play.
I think every group governs as if they’ll hold on to power. The problem
Isn’t that they do or don’t. It’s that it erodes the safeguards put in place.
Then they freak out when someone else gets elected.
Personally I think trumpism
Will run its course in a similar way to Reaganism (itself a reaction to a lot of crime, and war but also stuffed with Puritanism which eventually jut bugs people). It will be messy. And it would help if democrats were even remotely competent. That’s the biggest problem. Not that republicans are bad. They are. It’s that the other party is so incompetent they can’t get out of their own way.
A famously unlikable woman candidate whose biggest political accomplishment was that she married a politician.
A very very old man who even before his age was known for saying incredibly stupid things and being relatively unable to articulate. And whose greatest political accomplishments include the 94 crime bill, the patriot act, and being the white guy who helps Obama carry a few 50/50 states.
And a terribly inadequate former prosecutor from California who’s also never really accomplished anything extraordinary, is a terrible interview, and worked for the cops.
Those are the bulwarks that the Democratic Party allowed to stand up to Trump.
I don’t like Trump but he wins in spite of himself.
I’m not in very far into the episode but already felt like chiming in. Just before Barrelgate, I read an article about the (apparent) resurgence of Chilis. It was pretty interesting and talked about lot about the decline of the entire industry. I looked it up because our teenagers kept asking to go there…which seemed strange to say the least. From a distance it kind of seems like Cracker Barrel was pulling a Bud Light - thinking the way out of their decline is to appeal to a completely different demographic even if it alienates their existing base.
No idea how accurate that is because I just don’t care nearly enough about this issue, or Cracker Barrel in general, to cut through all the noise on this now. I can say that my experience in corporate America tells me that executives who are so detached from their own brand and culture that they lean into disastrous approaches like those are a dime a dozen. Most people have no fucking clue what they’re doing, and know they’ll land on their feet no matter how disastrous their previous results were for a company under their management.
I wonder if Chili's did some heavy Tik-Tokery, since my teen started going there last year....
That's exactly what they did, https://youtu.be/ECY7txi92dc?t=438
I don’t know - I do think better media was one of their key focuses though!
In Kabul there was a KFC: Kabul Fried Chicken.
It’s good to see that the White House has a balanced approach to adopting totalitarian polices. The CCP has taken partial control of so many Chinese companies over the past few years it is funny.
Matt I’m surprised you guys haven’t discussed what’s going on in the UK with the people rising up against the mass immigration. Not just that, but the authorities are frowning upon any bit of patriotism and have threatened at banning the flags of 🏴 and 🇬🇧 as symbols of, I don’t know, white supremacy or racism, something like that. “It will offend the immigrants” is basically the attitude. As a result there have been massive marches of British, waving their flags.
They're too obsessed with whatever Chris Rufo happens to be doing every second of the day that they seem to miss this kind of thing.
You all bring up Nixon a couple times like he’s some uncrossable line in the sand. If only we can make Trump like Nixon THAT’ll show them.
But he’s already broken so many deeply engrained norms with zero push back from his followers that it’s clear this is a worthless strategy.
Plus there’s the new MAGA line that Nixon was actually a good guy and it was all a hoax. If you think I’m making this up listen to Chris Rufo on the most recent episode of Real Time.
It’s kind of a crazy coincidence you all are throwing this argument out mere days after that, but to be fair I’d never heard the “Nixon was a good guy” line before then. I don’t even think Roger stone argued Nixon was good. Rather he embraced his heartlessness in his quest for power
I’ve been a partial Nixon defender for a long time.
Even if you view Nixon positively, and he had some real positive accomplishments in office, Trump will come up short. He has few of Nixon’s positive traits - intelligence, discipline, a positive vision for his presidency, concrete goals - and more extreme versions of his worst - resentment, paranoia, and so on.
Richard Nixon is a fascinating figure. So intelligent, driven, a deeply introverted man who wanted to be the President of the United States, the most public facing role on the planet. He had some amazing achievements in foreign policy - China, operation Nickel Grass, but was undone by his own paranoia in an election he won by a landslide.
Nixon seems like he would fit in in today’s politics.
Just like modern republicans even though they are winning they literally can’t stop talking about and being deeply afraid of the opposition.
No. Nixon was too smart and too ethical for this lot.
FFS can the condescending Moinyhan take a break from trying to tell everyone who they should find funny. Trump isn't funny he's a douche. It's embarrassing, much like selling out to go on Megyn's shit show.
I've never heard any of the boys saying who SHOULD be found funny, just who they think is funny. I think Trump is a douche and worse. He's also funny. Life is funny.
"Selling out?" How old are you?
Nothing makes me feel so alienated from my fellow Americans as their passion for “breakfast” foods. Do you know what’s a nice breakfast? Last night’s dinner. Or failing that, Breakfast Triscuits (unsweetened plain shredded wheat).
I'm with you. I love eating out, but do not get excited about going out for breakfast. Mainly because I'm pretty competent at making most breakfast staples at home. Why would anybody pay for 300% for coffee, toast, bacon, and a fried egg that could be whipped up in 10 minutes?
Sometimes I do 'breakfast for dinner' for my kids, because they like it and it's easy. <shrug>