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You’re not American, are you?
People here eat some absolutely atrocious shit that I wouldn’t even feed to pigs.
We have things like Wendy’s Baconator flavored Pringles and churro and Poptart cereal.
Americans have absolutely atrocious taste in food as a society. Not all of us- but as a society, yes.
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Why can’t she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
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I suppose studies exist of regional and demographic breakfast trends. I’m too lazy to look.
I won’t be surprised if Kraft produces Breakfast Pizzas for the college crowd.
Will that come in a kit, so you make it each morning?
I really hope Kraft had pizza kits (dough mix, tomato sauce and cheese sprinkle, just add water) in countries other than Canada so this makes sense.
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My sister in-law would feed her kids oreos and milk for breakfast ‘because they are just as nutritious as sugar cereal.’ Once they grew up, she praised her oldest as a ‘chef’ because he would spray canned whip cream into a container, flavor it, freeze it and call it home made ice cream. These would be considered Satanic acts in my foodie household.
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Gen X supposedly normalized “cereal for dinner”, so no I guess the Millennials are trying to normalize “mac and cheese for breakfast”.
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Pizza, for sure. I’m a big fan of breakfast salad, myself. YMMV.
@Simon_Clift: I’m sorry you are missing Kraft Dinner. We never had that in the US, and could never figure out Canada’s fondness for anything Kraft. Wait…“President’s Choice”?..isn’t that a Walmart house brand? You don’t have presidents in Canada, why would you ever buy something with that brand name?!?
@dculberson: Donuts should never taste like cardboard, but they do at US Timmy’s. Bummer that the cancer spread back to the home base.
@raines:
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/MadeupIdleIggypops-small.gif
@RandomDude: Yet we’re not allowed such good things as ketchup chips.
@bluehenbear: as a firmly Gen-Xer, I have no idea what you’re on about. Back in the day, we had dinner for dinner because our parents were Greatest Generation or Boomers.
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“President’s Choice” is a hiuse brand for Loblaw’s here in Canada, though maybe some of it trckles to the US as a regular product.
It’s not named for Obama, it’s to imply the President of Loblaw’s (I guess really it’s for a company that own’s Loblaw) carefully picks these products.
The line covers a wide range, low end things like “Kraft Dinner”, but fancier things like cheesecake and gourmet frozen meals. Some items are designed by the company, but others seem to made by other companies but badged by Loblaws. So they used to sell PC bolagna like vegetarian slices that seemed identical to Yves product. But tyey also had things that don’t seem to have a match.
Loblaw’s also has another house brand, “No Name” with the distinctive yellow packaging. This is cheap and generic, no attempt at gourmet. Though oddly, there is a No Name “Kraft Dinner”.
when my niece was a child she loved Corn Pops, but she persisted in calling them “Porn Cops”. Being a good Uncle, I was not about to correct her
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This will be perfect for “breakfast for dinner” night
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Please tell me this wasn’t a result of market research focusing on new eating habits created by sheltering-in-place.
@Simon_Clift: I’m sorry you are missing Kraft Dinner. We never had that in the US, and could never figure out Canada’s fondness for anything Kraft. Wait…“President’s Choice”?
As @Michael_Black noted… it was Dave Nichol, President of Marketing for Loblaw’s. He was also the front man for the yellow “no-name” stuff in the 70’s, made the grocery equivalent of car dealership commercials; they were so bad that you couldn’t forget them. He got better at it, though, and his “President’s Choice” house brand came up with a really good line of cookies and ice cream that cemented him in the Canadian psyche as a pitch man you could trust.
They tried putting the actual President, Gaelen Weston Jr., in a few commercials lately and… um… let’s just say that he doesn’t come across as a “man of the people”.
So, it’s nothing to do with the train wreck in the White House.
Why is it going to take 5 or more months?
Yes! We had those when I was growing up, in the U.S.
Hmm, that could explain it—I grew up in Western New York, and there was actually a Loblaws in my home town back then, that my family shopped at. (It looks like there aren’t any in the U.S. anymore?) I guess we’ll need input from folks who didn’t grow up near the Canadian border.
When you work 3rd shift, breakfast is pretty much anything.
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There’s a pretty neat trick if you want to have something for breakfast that you don’t usually have for breakfast: Have it for breakfast.
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Back when I still did a lot of long distance backpacking it was not unknown to have mac-n-cheese for breakfast-- for long burning energy it was the ideal food, fat and carbs. Combined with a big cup of sweetened coffee it was rocket fuel for getting up and over a ridge early.
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