A Little Meat with the Pancakes

[ACORN]

When I was young I made up a package of Rice A Roni and some chicken patties and sat to to watch Green Acres. I had eaten a plate and was starting my second when my sister called down, "Don't eat anymore Rice A Roni!" She brought down the reason. The Rice A Roni was full of meal worms!

 

[BillyMagg]

What's the Brand of frozen pancakes?
Southerner here, we lean toward Sorghum in a bucket!

Yep, no beating molasses

 

[glenwolde]

One of the very few things I'm known for is my scratch whole wheat pancakes. I am a legend in the minds of my grandchildren who account for 95% of the consumption of any given batch. While I do prefer the real maple syrup (due to actual sugaring experience in my teenage years) the grandkids hate it. Good Old Aunt Jemima Pearl Milling syrup for the kids. On the rare occasion there's leftovers I have found I can freeze them and they reheat in the microwave well if not overdone. Not as good as the fresh ones but better than the store-bought.

I've never had that ant problem, though I did find some bugs in the flour once. I learned from my daughter in law you're supposed to freeze your new bag of flour for a couple of days to kill off all the bug eggs that naturally occur in all flour. This is normal. The stuff grows in fields. Bugs happen.

 

[Riposte1]

Remember Pomac (spelling) it was a yellowish colored soft drink back in the 60s - it was fairly clear which is a good thing - a friends dad got one out to open and it had a mouse in the bottle!

He didn't open it, but took it back to the store - I never did here what the result was.

Riposte

 

[Pisgah]

I think frozen pancakes call for motor oil...

 

[bullmack]

Lots of protein gets ingested riding Harleys for 30 years.

 

[Dan W. Cady]

I found a brand of frozen pancakes that I really like. So one morning I fired up the microwave oven and heated up a stack of them. After applying the necessary butter and Geauga County maple syrup I sat down and prepared to dig in. Before I started cutting them up I noticed dark cylindrical bodies on the pancakes . Since they were multigrain I figured they were just grain hulls and scraped them off.

This morning I made the pancakes again. This time I took special notice that the pancakes were monocolored and did not have any different colored bodies imbedded in them. After eliminating the pancakes themselves and the butter as the source of these cylindrical bodies, I looked at the syrup. I started swirling the glass syrup pitcher and discovered that it was full of the cylindrical bodies of ANTS that apparently managed to climb in the pitcher when the pouring spout wasn't sealing well and ended up drowning in the syrup. The pitcher was dumped out and run through the dishwasher. The ants aren't helping to pay for the groceries so I'm just going to have to remember to put the syrup pitcher right back in the refrigerator after I use it.

Were they crunchy?

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

Better it be ants than mouse turds.

John

 

[kamloops67]

Remember Pomac (spelling) it was a yellowish colored soft drink back in the 60s - it was fairly clear which is a good thing - a friends dad got one out to open and it had a mouse in the bottle!

He didn't open it, but took it back to the store - I never did here what the result was.

Riposte

I once chugged a can of beer and something slimy hit the back of my throat I kind of half choked on it and ended up swallowing it rather than inhaling it
I tried to barf it up but couldn't make myself yack lol
My 20 year old brain probably didn't want to waste the beer
Drank out of bottles after that lol

 

[bgrafsr]

When I got stationed to Clark Air Base, PI, I found out that the little black spots in the bread were bugs that were in the flour. Attempted to remove them before eating the bread, but gave that up. Got used to them being in the bread and figured I was just getting more protein.

 

[Kinman]

Well sir...we eat bugs all the time and just don't know it. They once said that the average human eats a dozen spiders a year while sleeping. I told that to my wife and her face froze, yeah spiders. Not to mention all the very small critters in your mattress and pillow, sheets, etc. I have a personal issue with them very small "waterbear" critters that I noticed on my linoleum/vinyl floor in my bathroom. I couldn't see them before I got my cataracts fixed, now I see them and eradicate them whenever. They are very small and easily mistaken for a bit of dust or small speck of dirt, except upon close examination or while sitting on the throne, they move...ever so slowly. You need magnification to make out exactly what they are, they stand out well on a single sheet of toilet paper before taking a leisurely cruise down the toilet.

 

[M29since14]

When I saw the title, I thought this thread was intended to spur a bacon v. sausage v. ham conversation. I guess not. I'm not at all keen on eating bugs of any kind but if I don't know about it, as Kinman says, I'll probably survive anyway.

As for the more common protein choices to go along with pancakes, my vote goes to bacon first, then ham, and then sausage, in that order, but the bacon has to be cooked and drained properly.

 

[lihpster]

Ham, as a breakfast meat, is only good, not great. In fact, I prefer beef to ham. Steak and eggs will do nicely. Bacon and sausage however are on another tier altogether. And bacon wrapped sausage? Absolute pinnacle of post slumber protein.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Were they crunchy?

Frogs are crunchy.

 

[lihpster]

Frogs are crunchy.

Well yeah. If you leave the bones in.

 

[JohnRippert]

Ham, as a breakfast meat, is only good, not great. In fact, I prefer beef to ham. Steak and eggs will do nicely. Bacon and sausage however are on another tier altogether. And bacon wrapped sausage? Absolute pinnacle of post slumber protein.

Chicken fried steak and eggs, with the eggs over easy on top of a pile of hash browns with onions cooked in them.

 

[Golddollar]

Chicken fried steak and eggs, with the eggs over easy on top of a pile of hash browns with onions cooked in them.

What time is breakfast?

 

[ACORN]

What time is breakfast?

I like some garlic in my hash browns/ home fries.

 

[Onomea]

When I was five or so I had a pal, Johnny, who was famous in my family for being 1) a rich kid, and 2) a spoiled brat, always whining about something.

For some reason, maybe his folks were traveling. he stayed overnight with us once. In the morning, Mom was rushing to feed everyone before kindergarten, school, and work, placing our cereal bowls in front of us and cereal and milk on the table.

Johnny started up whining, "There's a mouse in my bowl!" He said this several times, as my mom and we kids, chowing down with vigor, ignored him, figuring he was just complaining as usual. Finally, I looked over and down into his bowl and, sure enough, there was a mouse in there!

When I announced that fact, Mom came for a look, and then told me to dump it outside. Gave l'il Johnny a new bowl.

She figured she conked it out when taking the bowls out of the cupboard in a rush.

 

[madmikeb]

I used to keep snacks in my desk drawer at work and happened to have some poptarts in there. One morning I grabbed a pouch and started eating, when I got to the other end I realized that a mouse had chewed through the pouch and had been eating from the other end.

I stopped keeping snacks in there.