Monday, March 30, 2009

i wish i knew how to quit you, peanut butter toast

I am not exaggerating when I say that for years I ate three slices of fake Canadian bacon nearly every day for breakfast. Years. And then one day I grew tired of fake Canadian bacon and cast it aside like it meant nothing to me.

After that I played the field for a little while, finally settling down this past fall with peanut butter toast. Almost every morning this winter I've gotten out of bed, toasted a piece of O'Bread whole wheat, spread it with Teddie all natural peanut butter, and eaten it while I waited for the water to boil for my tea.






We've had a good thing going, me and peanut butter toast, and I really am a one-breakfast woman. But lately I've been fantasizing about other breakfasts: berries and Greek yogurt, a soft-boiled egg eaten eaten right out of the shell with a tiny spoon, even wheatberries and scallions.

Things are not over between us yet; I'll probably string old peanut butter toast along until the strawberries are in season, but the writing is on the wall: We're growing apart and I want to start eating other breakfasts. I hope we can still be friends.

4 comments:

  1. Ever do rye pb toast? Totally delicious. (Must be seeded rye, if you ask me.)

    Or, if you want to throw caution to the wind -- grilled peanut butter on rye. Make it like a grilled cheese sandwich, with butter in the pan. Not exactly nutritious, but I'm telling you -- it's v.v. good.

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  2. God, the buttery grilled version sounds delicious. When I first started running around with the peanut butter toast I was buttering and peanut buttering it, but decided that was a little excessive, sort of like a deep-fried Twinkie.

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  3. I think you should have a fling with Diet Pepsi. I had me some of him every morning as soon as my feet hit the floor until I was, oh, twenty-five.

    Other Southerners would recommend pairing him with a piece of pie, but that kind of decadent three-way is where I draw the line.

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  4. Honie, are you telling my you've quit the DP? Did not drinking it make you sick? I remember the morning I picked you up in C-ville and realized it was your own personal breakfast of champions.

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