Breakfast Nostalgist Gifts

Life before cereal

"And the cheese in your omelette? Cheddar, Brie, aged Gouda, Morbier, Torta del Casar, Double Gloucester, Époisses, Shropshire blue, or American?"

Non-Power Breakfast

"When I was young, we personally prepared all the food for each and every meal!"

The Paper Route

"Business is so bad even my hotcakes aren't selling like hotcakes."

Tuna Salad, Meat Loaf, Cheese Omelet and Bean Soup

"Sir, we serve pancakes 297 ways. We don't do plain toast."

Quadruple dark hot chocolate. Whoa, everything all right? Sure, yeah, great. I'm a journalist and writer in an era in which the printed word has been totally devalued by free distribution of information on the internet. Can I pay in prose? Point taken.

'Gary freaked out a bit and went way off the griddle.'

"A votre sante!"

"It's my family's special recipe, passed down through generations on the cream cheese package."

"It's magically delicious...especially when you sprinkle...Halloween candy on it!"

"Would you like me to warm up your eggs?"

The benefit of an old-fashioned newspaper.

'Oh no! You're obviously smaller than me, Joy!' 'You're not fat, 'cause those pants were tight on me too Verl.'

AI Toaster: "What's Einstein's famous equation?"

'You said you wanted to start reading the newspaper online.'

Munch Master.

Room service.

Cafe society / Nescafe society.

"I dreamed that butter and sugar and eggs came back, and we all made cookies."

"Now carefully flip one side of the omelette..."

'That's strange -- there seems to be a pop-tart in your disk drive.'

'Welcome aboard, Peterson. I understand we're going to be working together!'

'Tomorrow morning I would like breakfast in bed.'

Bed or breakfast.

"The wrangler within wants pancakes."

"He wouldn't have rolled over and over in agony on the bombed-out cinder pitches we had to play on!"

Instead of that CD, how about feeding me a nice bagel for a change?

'Village store and Food museum'

"I'm sorry, but you have to be here the minute the doors open if you want worm."

'If you smiled in the mornings, you'd come up in the ratings, too.'

'You still have breakfast and lunch on your dinner menu.'

'The breakfast meeting, can you spot the deliberate mistake'