Poetic Breakfast Gifts

Muse/Museli

'Before I order breakfast, which way is it to the 'International Bathroom of Pancakes'?'

"I'd go with French Impressionist. It evokes the burnished golds of autumn leaves and the bittersweet regrets of lost love. It's also on special."

"She's losing a lot of cream cheese. We're going to have to cut her open."

'How do you want your eggs, too hard or too soft?'

Starving Philosophy student grappling with the question of the toast in the machine.

"Hurry, I've been waiting for you."

'Is this the new product?' - 'Yes, a rocket filled with cornflakes.'

'Vitamins A, B, C, D...Hey, Mom! - this cereal has all the recommended daily allowance of alphabet in it!'

'Now do you believe me?'

Toast with faces popped up from toaster.

Moral Fruit and Fiber Cereal

"Mummy's a bit grisly in the mornings. But after something to eat and a little nap, she's quite pleasant."

"None of this news seems 'fit to print' to me!"

Humpty Dumpty is sitting on a wall, Below is a man with a boiling pot waiting for him to land in it, Man is licking is lips, he has napkin on and is holding a knife and fork,

"I got the bagel less everythinged, and that has made all the difference."

'Sometimes I think you don't listen to a word I say!'

Fatalism and the Seeds of Doubt

"I kind of miss that morning newspaper you used to hold in front of your face."

You're late!

'The newspaper strike hasn't affected you at all, has it?'

"Dad's half asleep. He was using the fly swatter to flip the pancakes."

'You think I don't like oatmeal predicated on the fact that I haven't had it in forty-seven years but there is no substantial reason based solely on breakfast choices I might have made in front of or to you for you to make that assumption.'

I brought food!

A child sitting at a table with a beanstalk growing on his food. Caption: 'Magic Beans on Toast'.

Atlantis Missing

"Omelets?! Are you crazy? Pete's Pancake Palace didn't get where it is today by diluting its brand!"

Life before cereal

An awareness of the human condition momentarily held up the breakfast preparations.

"Say the egg didn't come back - then what?"

'.....sunnyside down.'

"We decorated the eggs, the bacon and the toast."

Generally newspapers are indicators of breakfast food or the possibility of feces...but I know there was some sort of rolled up clause in here.

"If I don't escape now, I'm toast!"

'It's the darnedest thing -- last night I dreamed I was eating shredded wheat.'