Have any of you ever had dinner for breakfast?
Sometimes I go to jack in the box and order 10 chicken nuggets, a large fries, bbq sauce, and a large coke at 9 in the morning.
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@Thunderfist, interesting, a lot of things I've not heard of though will bare it in mind if I come across a good tirkish place, albeit you did make me laugh when you talked about durrum in saudi, sinse Durham, up in north England is where I live myself and last I checked there wasn't a huge speciality community of middle eastern chefs up here . ,     . I can agree on fresh ingredients, especially rice actually sinse it changes drastically, the generic white dried stuff that's sold in mass produced packets over here isn't good, but a lot of places sell more speciality stuff, albeit I'll freely admit that sinse I live alone and don't cook for anyone but myself my cooking habbits are a wee bit lazy, stir fry or a curry is about the most elaborate thing I'll do.

I believe I had the spicy rolls your talking about in Egypt, though unfortunately I think they took down the spice level for us weedy westerners . I was certainly disappointed at the kofta, (which I'm probably horribly miss spelling), that is similar to a sausage but made of spiced meet, usually lamb I think, I know a chap who can make them properly  and they take your head off,  in egypt I think they skimped on the peppers .

Actually Thunderfist, if you've only been to London, you might have missed on the fresh stuff that is available elsewhere, particularly local butchers. My local butcher near to where my parents are is a perfect example, he cooks and cures all his own meets and when he makes a steak pie, it has huge chunks of beef! not just the mass produced rubbish, indeed a lot of British farmers regularly complain about such (a chap I went to school with was the son of a pork farmer and he'd always tell anyone at length about how much he disliked the european trading regulations that basically meant battery farms in countries where regulations were less strict about things like feeding pigs on random chemicals and keeping them in tiny cages were under cutting prices of British farmers, sinse such things are illegal over here).

As for me, I like many things, from propper steak, to a good roast, to a decent restaurant, generally anything cooked properly, although I'm much more a fan of actually hot, cooked stuff rather than cold salads, (it's a personal thing).

@Brad, that doesn't sound good, personally I don't bother with a gym sinse the nearest one to me is quite a ways, i just run each day for about 15 minutes, although I always tell people I'm an operatic tenor so I am allowed to be a fat geezer, ---- and eat lots of pasta! .
Seriously I do actually try to exercise, especially because of my singing.

@Datajake, I've had some pretty crazy meels at weerd times, especially when my sleep pattern decides to go bye bye, I've been known to cook a full meal at midnight or the like. aCtually there is a friend of mine who turns up, hits my kitchin like a bomb but always tries out random recipes on me for all sorts of things from venison stew with port, to beef wellington and even chilly. The problem is because he has the organization of a flee, our evenings usually involve him turning up at about 5 pm, the starter appearing at about 7, with perhaps some cheese and wine or similar at about 8-30. The main course he usually tries to plan to get cooked for 10, however it always ends up taking longer and has been known to turn up as late as half past one! we usually then sit around, listening to doctor who audios or just chatting and drinking port before coffee and some form of desert which can be any time between 2 and 4, with perhaps more coffee at 5.

Yes, my friend is a bit mad!  When I went to watch the 3rd hobbit film with him at christmas, he produced a bottle of port, plus two actual wine glasses, and some  bomaw wisky and a box of god knows how expensive chocolates!

Then again my concepts of breakfast are a little shaky anyway, mostly I have just a smoothy and some coffee and a banana, and some days just coffee, then I head to my nice sandwich place for brunch at around 10 Am and get myself an awesome toasty and one of their amazing cakes, usually withsome fresh juice, ---- well Reever needs at least a 40 minute walk and if that walk goes past the award winning sandwich place that was voted best in the northeast of England two years running, well that's not my! fault .

Get up at 4 5 or 6?  in Britain at least that is wwaaay too early and would probably cause you to drop out later. I don't know about countries that have a siesta in the mid afternoon.
Likewise I wouldn't personally fancy chocolate spread for breakfast, indeed most chocolate spread has usually been over sweet for me, and even when i've found one I like I prefer it on pancakes or brioche for a dessert rather than just on bread.

Now, with chocolate I can talk with a little authority. Most commercial chocolate is usually very low in coco, we're talking about 4-7 percent. This is a shame sinse coco itself is extremely good for you, and the  rest is padded out with lots of crap such as gelatine and extra sugar, indeed propper chocolate shouldn't! be too sweet.
Coco is a very bennificial substance, it's good for your brain, it  acts as an anti depressant, and it reduces cholesterol, however the major problem is as I said, most usual chocolate contains so little.
Even a decent milk chocolate can be 40 or 50 percent coco, though they tend to be sweeter and contain more cream, however a really good, decentquality dark chocolate should be around the 70 or 80 percent mark.
it's not to everyone's taste sinse it isn't sweet, but for pure coco it's the best thing and far better for you, and provided you get from a good make such as hotel chocolate or green and blacks coco, you won't find it too rough, (lint, for all their advertising are waaaaaay too gritty and usually end up unpleasant).

I have stayed in some places that had awesome breakfasts, like of course the full english, bacon, sausage, eggs, (I prefer scrambled myself but other people prefer fried or poached), hash browns (which are crisped potatoes), mushrooms, tomatoes (though I'm not keen on tomatoes), or beans, plus toast and sometimes other things.
I am also very fond of smoaked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast, though I rarely get that, as smoked salmon tends to be a bit pricy and so I only have it on rare occasions or when staying somewhere good.

Of course, if you have a breakfast like that, you rarely need much for lunch, though i can say it's pretty awesome if your out all day being very active, I definitely appreciated such when I was on my vocal studdies course (sinse you wouldn't believe how hard days of singing are).

On the subject of spice, I do think in egypt they were trying to humour the tourists, or assumed people from Britain wouldn't appreciate the local spcies, but to be honest I don't agree and was quite disappointed as I said.
Personally if I am going to have something from another culinary tradition, I prefer having it as appropriately as possible, including the same levels of spice people from that tradition would have, it might not appeal to me, but I'd much rather try it done properly, indeed I remember a lovely recent experience where some very nice tirkish gentlemen treated me to a coffee made in the traditional method, which was awesome!

Similarly, I have tried deep frie chicken feet, at a very good local chinese, I can't say I cared for those, but I was willing to give them a try.

Sinse propper chocolate does not contain much sugar, it's just the mass produced commercial variety that causes the issue,  saying "honey is better than  chocolate" makes no sense to me, that's like saying "jam is better than cabbage" the two things are so incomparable that you can't really judge.

of course if your talking sugar content, then honey will always be an improvement, indeed I often take a spoon full of honey myself just for my throat (especially menooka honey), but as I said, don't confuse chocolate with sugar.

What do you mean it doesn't make sense? Let me give you an example. For example, if you take a spoonful of hunny or two, you'll feel energised. Believe me I've done it and the results were amazing.

Hi.
Wow, a topic on the thing I like a lot.
I have seen this but never had a chance to comment on it till now.
Obviously chocolate especially dark organic lindt or donovins I think.
Chilly, ginger, milk dark, coconut, rum, wine and anything unusual.
Ofcause I hardly buy chocolate never less that type organic dark especially at 80%-95% is not the cheapest thing to get especially organic dark ginger in a bag and they are so small.
Cake of all types all countries for the most part is ok.
Since we are talking international food since my ansestral home is indonesia and since my mum and aunt and grand parents and a couple uncles come from there.
Gado, gado, which is a salad but with egg, fried onions and peanut sauce as well as potatoes beansprouts and carrots is quite good.
umping, kindar, croopook which are like chips here I guess.
tofu, which again can be eaten as wet, dry, fried with abc which is sweet sause or in chip form.
We have our own chocolate and a fruite called durian roughly translated to custard fruit.
It has been known to give those that eat to much of it a totalled stomach for a couple nights.
pundun is a light cake of a sort which is steamed and is like chocolate there are also cakes made of rice.
sesame balls with red bean in and several other things like that.
Japanese sushi is good though from friends the real japanese non europian sushi is more fishy than we are used to over here in new zealand.
I like japanese stuff turkish stuff and things like fried squid legs if its done right.
Coreon food shops exist here and since its close enough to indonesian/ aisian food with things like chocolate sticks and stuff I do eat it.
I like most fruit porpor, mango, banana maderin, grape and some unusual fruits I can not spell.
munkeyson something like our manderan orange here.
salac something like an apple but taste like persimon ish.
chilly, meat of all sorts ofcause especially steak, salmon, standard fish and chips and the like.
Dark you may be interested to know that the english have invaded my country, many shops.
So I like things like jaffa cakes, bornville chocolate and fudge wallnut whips, and those crazy roast pork, bacon and other type of english chips and drinks.
Being from indonesia I also like a selection of teas and other things like that.
Indonesian coffee is not something I actually like but there is a lot of coconut based jelly drinks and desserts.
In singapoor which I visited there is a thing called hinan chicken and rice which is chicken and rice in sesame oil and then several sauces to dip in.
So many things to be honest.
We have dried meats for putting on toast and a lot of sate you would call it scuers on sticks.
Spring roles both normal and fresh and noodles rice and egg ofcause.
I have also tried tie food, my favorites are the pad tie, penang, musimon and red currys.
Anything unusual unless its something like salted licerish or something bad but yeah that is me.
The food invasion was not a big deal but 20 years back shops started coming and in the last 5 years there are loads of them.
Last year a english shop came close to where I live and a shop called wang mart which has almost everything a guy would want and then some.

I'm actually the same way. Bring on the burgers and pizza!

I actually agree. In fact I prefer  dark chocolate (or plain chocolate in the UK), mostly because it actually tastes better! than that sugar-loaded chocolate most people eat.

@Dark, I'm not that much of a fan of the mass produced stuff either. I don't really care for McDonald's because I actually think their burgers and fries tastes horrible. I have higher quality standards than that.

For example, there is a privately owned restaurant near here that sells the best burgers and fries you could ever eat. For one thing the owners of the restaurant buy all of their meats locally from local farmers, all the meat is butchered locally, so weather you order a nice big sirloin steak, some pork chops, or a hamburger the meat is going to be as fresh as humanly possible. All the buns for their sandwiches and dinner rolls are baked their in the restaurant  every morning so are fresh, and even the cheese for your burgers or the butter for their rolls is purchased from local dairy farmers as well. Meaning that the over all quality of the food is hundreds of times better than the processed garbage you are likely to get from McDonald's.

Even better yet it doesn't actually cost that much more than for a burger and fries from McDonald's but their meals are much bigger. By that I mean when the serving girls come out with your burger and fries they bring it out on a big dinner platter and it is not some rinky-dinky sandwich. The sandwich is probably a 1/3 pound sandwich, maybe 6 inches in diameter, and a good couple of inches thick. That's topped with cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, ketchup, and mustard. In short, a monster sandwich that will put the McDonald's Big Mac to shame. LOL.

Not only are their burgers bigger but they give you a lot of fries too. They aren't those skinny excuses that passes for fries at McDonald's. These fries are usually pretty long and are very thick. Not only do they taste better you get a huge pile of them on your plate. I think they just take a couple of potatoes, cut them into strips, and fry them like that so you end up with a couple potatoes worth of fries.

So as I said I have much higher standards than McDonald's when it comes to the all American hamburger and fries meal. Oh, I'll occasionally grab a burger and fries from Burger King, Wendy's, etc now and then but truth be told they aren't on my list of favorites because the quality just isn't there compared to what one can get from a privately owned family restaurant.

Come to that I agree cooking a burger at home is usually just as good if not better than anything you can buy out. For one thing as you pointed out you can choose the quality of meet which is a big plus when it comes to having a hamburger, and second you can grill it on the George Forman which means the hamburger isn't going to be as greasy as the big name fast food places. Add to that you can add your own toppings and you are going to end up with something superior to the McDonald's junk just by using higher quality meet, cooking it the way you like, and using your own toppings.

As for pizza as with burgers I am pretty picky how I have my pizza made. I can no longer stand most fast food pizzerias like East of Chicago, Pizza Hut, Domino's, etc because of several factors. Not only do they use a lot of processed foods they are very stingy with their toppings, their sauce, and do other things which takes away from the over all quality of the pizza. I can't say how many times I have ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut to get something that tastes like all crust with cheese on it and very little sauce and toppings. When I complained about it I have to order extra sauce and toppings which they made me pay for so I stopped getting their pizza. Domino's quality also has gone down since they started offering there $7.99 special from Monday through Thursday. Okay, I appreciate the fact it is a cheap pizza but if I order it I intend to eat it and I do not expect to get something with very little sauce, only a few toppings spread around, and gobs of cheese. To me that isn't pizza and I think it was a rip off.  So now when I go get a pizza I have found privately owned restaurants that make their pizzas from scratch are the best.

As far as your problem with soft fruits I'm sorry to hear that. I personally do love fruit, and due to my medical condition with my mouth I have to eat a lot of soft foods. I particularly eat a lot of soft fruits because it is getting to the point where I can't eat anything too hard and  can't chew a lot of solid foods. So my doctors have me on a diet of softer foods. One thing I can eat is soft fruits like peaches, pairs, tomatoes, etc. So I'm not sure where I'd be if I had your problem of upchucking any soft fruits since that makes up most of my diet these days.

@Dark, prices for pizza are definitely expensive over in the UK. Here in the States an average pizza should not cost you more than $10 from most of the big name chains. They  are always running specials which puts a large pizza well below
$10 on any given day. Pizza Hut usually has a box special which gives you a large two topping pizza, some bread sticks, and so forth for about $10. Domino's has their $7.99 deal where you can order a large two topping pizza anytime Monday through Thursday for only $7.99. Little Caesar's always has a $5  special where you can walk out with a large one topping pizza for only $5. So if one is willing to eat the mass produced pizzas they can get it fairly cheaply. The problem is, as I have stated above, those usually come at the cost of less sauce, less toppings, and they aren't always as fresh as they should be.

As far as Papa John's goes I love their pizzas. Only problem is there isn't one near me any more. So I rarely if ever get a pizza from them. However, back in the day when I was in college I use to order from Papa John's at least twice a month as their pizzas are much better than the competition.

As for buying more food than you actually need I find a lot of US restaurants are like that. It is cheaper to buy more than to order less. I suppose some people try and eat it all, but I don't. What I do is eat what I want at the time and take the rest home for lunch the next day. In short I will take a large meal and split it into two reasonably sized meals.

For example, there is a place in Coshocton called Hardee's I frequently eat at. One of the reasons I go there is they give me a pile of food for a decent price. On the weekends they have what are called their $5 bag lunches that comes with two sandwiches, a large order of fries, an apple pie, and a drink. Although, that is more food than I can eat in one meal I just go through and split it up into two meals. One sandwich and half my fries will be eaten their at the restaurant, and the rest I'll put in a carryout bag and take home and eat it the next day for lunch. So I end up with two meals for $5 rather than one.

Well pizza hut stuff is full of fat.
The wood fired designer pizzas you can get at most italian and other places are quite good or can be.
I once had a curry chicken pizza.
ok it was so messy half of its top went on my shirt and pants but it was quite nice.
The best pizza I have had is a salmon, saulted lemon, caper and olive pizza with pepperoni and other veges.
Its at a place close to me and well its nice.
Ofcause it does cost a lot and you need 2 people to eat it because its so large.
Usually we have 1 pizza with a side of squid, chips and salad and devide it up between 3 or 4 of us maybe we get 2 pizzas, and its enough.
Ofcause it costs a bit.
@tward, on the sandwitch front there is a place in the local art gallery me and my dad lunch at once a year.
Its top notch food and tourists go to it.
The price for coffees, cake and a meal is around 40-60 bucks so we only do it once a year.
UUsually at the start or end of summer.
We take the fairy to town and then walk round.
There are other places in that ariea including a bridge over to another ariea with a lot of boats which has potential for good eating though we havn't ventured out that far.
From the place we catch the fairy there is a caffee which sells home baking and other things, pies  and cakes with interesting fillings.
camonbare and cramberry spinich pies.
curry lamb and chicken pies and jam tarts as big as waggon wheels well double the sizes if you have had waggon wheels before which I have had.
for 3 bucks.
There is also a place where they sell sea food chouder with a long scuer with seafood scalops and prorns on it and various other things.
We don't go there often because like a few other beaches it can get really windy.
The only time we bother with that place is in summer because in winter its a total mess.
Though sometimes we do that if we don't ant the city and its hustle.

Hi,

I sometimes have my rice cold. My Father can also cook good tandir kebab. Again, inquire in a Turkish restaurant. Do any of you like lazanya? I personally do. Especially when it has the cheese on top.