I was shocked at my first business breakfest with a American customer a number of years ago. At 7am while I drank coffee, he was guzzling down Coke. It was the first of the 4 he had each day. He usually cut himself off after lunch he said.
To answer most of your questions, it’s Casey’s breakfast pizza (bacon/sausage, egg, and cheese), it’s delicious. No, soda (some of us call it pop) for breakfast is weird even for us. The lot is huge cuz a ton of people here have large trucks, RV’s, etc. And yes that medium soda is huge
Yeah, would’ve made a lot more sense for that to be a coffee, not a pop.
But, at least you can compensate the amount of sugar you drink by filling the cup with a ton of ice!
Yeah, I don’t drink a lot of soda, but I love the big 32 oz cups, especially if the ice is very small or chipped. You fill it all the way with ice, then put in some lemonade or fruit punch, if it collapses any ice refill with more ice then continental filling. You now have a drink that will last you the whole day, with like 7 oz of sugar water in it.
Yeah, I’m from EU but love to do that when visiting family in US (in midwest…). The best is the ice from Sonic. Combine that with a corn dog, and you can again have hundreds of upvotes with a picture showing something Europeans don’t understand.
My diabetes forces me to drink the sugar free options though, drinks with sugar are the worst poison for my body. Dr Pepper Zero was the best when I visited this autumn. And, to be honest, I never drink soft drinks when I’m back in EU…
I’m fat because my oversized truck is so big.
I don’t follow but ight
Everything wrong with this:
- “Breakfast Pizza”
- Pepsi for breakfast
- “Medium” 64 oz drink
- $4 for not a lot of value
What did breakfast pizza do to you! It’s delicious!
It’s also a monstrosity which should only be enjoyed as leftovers from dinner pizza.
Nothing like spiking your blood glucose first thing in the morning.
The hardest part to wrap your European head around would be four servings of sugary soda for breakfast, but how many people do you know that drink cups and cups of builders tea that is more sugar and milk than tea?
Neither side is right, humans can just be gross dopamine chasers in different ways. Compare the ‘pizza’ to a sausage roll, or whatever buttery monstrosity the French enjoy.
The hardest part to wrap your European head around would be four servings of sugary soda for breakfast
Don’t worry, it’s 90% ice
Butter is better than whatever industrial oil is used in that “pizza”
The only pizza for breakfast I would accept is a cold leftover one after a night of heavy drinking.
There is a thing called breakfast pizza that uses sausage gravy as the sauce. Pizza is topped with chopped bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, and cheese. It’s incredible. Bonus points if there is frank’s red hot nearby.
That sounds like a recipe for cardiac arrest.
Literally regular breakfast, but arranged in a pizza shape.
Sure, if your regular breakfast is cardiac arrest.
Try biscuits with sausage gravy and tell me it’s not worth a slightly shorter lifespan.
No offence intended but it´s old news to the world that a lot of Americans consume horrible trash food and drinks every day until they become morbidly obese and worse. It´s in fact one of the most commonly known stereotypes about the USA. So there is really nothing on the picture a euro mind could not comprehend, more like the contrary.
Behold, the Euroslave, uncomprehending of what real freedom looks like.
I bet they would object to all the unnecessary preservatives that enhance the flavor, too.
/S
I had to add the /s because there are clearly people that don’t understand humorous statements around here. Six of them at the moment.
Real freedom is dying of a heart attack at 30
Live fast die hard 🦅
You haven’t really lived though until you’ve survived at least one heart attack and live with debt collectors at your back for all the medical debt you’ve incurred. THIS is the real American dream. Also diabetes.
… while rolling coal
I automatically downvote any comment with /s because it shows the person doesn’t understand how sarcasm works.
Ok. /s
That is a reasonable attitude. /s
There are still some things to unwind here. Breakfast pizza, dirt cheap “meal”, advertising “mega” for what appears to be a normal sized slice.
4$ for a slice of pizza and a drink is dirt cheap ? I get the whole pizza for twice that in eu excuse me wtf
This appears to be a Casey’s gas station. Caseys is known for having pretty decent pizza and being in every tiny town dotted across America (plus being open very late/early if not 24 hours). By memory the pizza is priced at $3-4 per slice. Sure you can buy a $3 frozen Jacks pizza but it won’t be as good.
It’s worth remembering that fountain sodas cost next to nothing for businesses. It’s just flavoring syrup, water and a big bottle of CO2 to carbonate the water packaged up in a semi-automated self-serve machine
I think it’s worth noting that the pizza I’m mentioning in eu is a oven made one, not a frozen anything A whole pizza, for like 10-12$ converted in €
You can get a whole pizza for that price in the U.S. too. Less even. Just not at Casey’s.
I’ve got to ask, seeing as it’s an U.S. pizza - is it ACTUAL pizza, or the usual cardboard with pepperoni on top your country seems to love?
It may be shitty pizza, but it’s our shitty pizza.
I don’t know how to answer that.
You don’t even get ice in your drinks, you can’t compare. And $12 is 3x that price and I’d have to pay for water in the EU
You never pay for water in most of EU, but ok
I’ve never been given free water anywhere in the EU and I’ve been to a large number of the countries. You are high as fuck if you think they aren’t charging for water. One of the many reasons I hate Western Europe, but certainly not the only one.
In the EU you’d also get REAL pizza, as opposed to cardboard with fake 3rd rate meat on top.
It’s funny how you think all pizza in the US is from Pizza Hut.
You do know the US food culture and depth of quality dwarfs whatever country you are from, right? That’s the problem with so many Europeans. They don’t understand the size of the US. You can’t grasp the fact that just one of our fifty states can be more diverse than your entire country. Even the largest EU member is smaller than Texas, just one of the states.
Yes but do you get a gallon of delicious corn syrup drink?
So what’s England’s excuse, then?
Idk, maybe that most of the western food supply is owned by a select few conglomerates that have an interest in getting you to buy a ton of product and make it as addictive as possible? That’s my guess.
Excuse for what, their “food”? That stuff is a war crime and can not be excused.
My visit to London a few years back showed me that Englishmen eat bad food, but not unhealthy food. Did I miss something or is it just London?
They’ve got a lot of obese people over there too.
Scottland and Northerners love anything greasy, from what I know. Even deepfried butter.
They eat beans on toast for breakfast. They have no say in this matter.
Obesity rates in Europe are catching up. Especially in Britain. California is leaner than most of Europe. It’s definitely not all skinny in Europe and all fatties in USA. It’s regional.
Obesity rates in Europe are catching up
Yes, thanks to americanisation and food imports from the US
That’s on you. If you don’t want it, don’t buy it.
Oh I don´t but most people are too unconscious about what they eat to protect themselves from the food industry, as you might know.
Lol this has to be the silliest take I’ve seen.
“The Americans made us fat!” Like there’s an American sitting behind you with a riot stick, tapping their hand with it menacingly…“eat this shitty food you imported and no one forced you to buy, or else I’ll whack you in the head!”
Are seriously calling the idea that introducing dozens of american fast food chains into a society, will increase average body weight and unhealthy eating habits a silly take? Please elaborate how that is a silly take.
It’s silly because it has been widely known how terrible the food is for you. Just because a bunch of rich assholes dangle fast food in front of y’all doesn’t mean you have to eat it. No one is force feeding you, so stop blaming Joe Schmoe from Arkansas because y’all don’t have the self control to consciously eat healthy. If anything, it just proves the opposite of the lazy American stereotype: everyone is lazy given the option to be.
You seem to assume that everyone is always making exclusively conscious decisions about everything. I think you severely overestimate the ability of people to make conscious decisions. Are you not aware that companies have been systematically lying to consumers for decades? That they are using psychology based advertising, to manipulate consumers into buying things that are bad for them? I certainly don´t believe everyone is that smart and conscious about what they are doing all the time.
“Catching up” in the same sense that a baby is “catching up” to Usain Bolt when it learns to walk.
Europe Britain
badgood news buddy
The United States of Diabetes.
The pizza-thing is fine, but gaving pepsi for breakfast is pretty vile.
How about Fanta, it’s oranges right?.. I have no idea if this sort of place would serve Fanta.
Orangina for me, please.
In the US fanta is just fake orange flavor and corn syrup though.
If you’re gonna have orange and bubbles for breakfast it better be a mimosa than a fanta.
I think Fanta in the US is just soda, no orange juice. Different from Europe.
Everyone is focusing on the pizza, but how on earth is that a medium drink?
It’s s medium FOUNTAIN. That I can see
I like to buy child size.
And what sort of monster drinks pop in the morning?
Earliest I can bring myself to drink pop is like, 11:30 maybe
It’s more of an afternoon type drink, no?
In some parts of the US is fairly common.
Dr. Pepper instead of coffee in the morning is a thing in Texas.
Like, not everyone does it, but no one bats an eye at it either.
What the fuck.
I don’t drink coffee so soda is how my body gets it’s daily intake of caffeine.
Being raised Mormon like this gave me bad teeth.
Morning coffee gives me brown teeth. I can’t do all that sugar at the start if the day with pops though.
I drink energy drinks (basically soda) instead of coffee because coffee gives me super severe stomach cramps, and I still want caffeine in the morning.
Drink green tea, it has more caffeine than coffee.
Energy drinks are not basically soda, they contain, well, a ton of taurine and, well, caffeine, and are even more terrible (in fact, order of magnitude so) for your health, especially cardiovascular system.
That’s incorrect. Coffee has more caffeine than green tea.
Green tea: 30–50 mg
Instant coffee: 27–173 mg
Plain, brewed coffee: 102–200 mg
Espresso: 240–720 mg
Black tea: 25–110 mg
Yerba mate: 65–130 mg
Soft drinks: 23–37 mg
Energy drinks: 72–80 mg
Source:https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/caffeine-in-green-tea#TOC_TITLE_HDR_4
yerba mate is actually a decent replacement for coffee with the slight problem of it being more bitter than pure caffeine
Info appears to be varying wildly, but I acknowledge your point, thanks.
Still, tea can be used as an alternative source of caffeine, and it would certainly be better for your health than going all energy drinks.
Right? It’s almost the size of a car!
It needs ro be at least… three times smaller!
I know after ze club you would prefer something küül like a coffee und cigarette
Maybe invite your cigarette outside for espresso und watch the street life
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Casey’s pizza is actually really good. Their breakfast pizza is awesome, but I when I actually get it I’ll order a whole large and share it with the fam for dinner. Bacon or sausage would be the two options in the warmer. They are out of Ankeny IA I believe, but are in small towns all over the Midwest.
Americans eat fountains!?
No, they’re serving a fountain of cola. Fountain is a standard unit of measure here.
I’m disgusted but also intrigued by breakfast pizza…
warmed up pizza leftovers has been a breakfast staple for ages
Cold pizza is superior for breakfast if the quality is there already.
I’m weird, I know
It’s the worst parts of both breakfast and pizza
Whoa whoa whoa. That’s a strong statement to make as a generalization.
Yeah, it’s the 3 left over slices of pepperoni from night
Breakfast pizza is pretty great, cheesy base sauce, scrambled eggs, bacon and breakfast sausage bits. Good stuff.
The base sauce scares me a bit
I’ve never had one with a sauce. Breakfast pizza is super popular here. It’s just scrambled eggs mixed with cheddar cheese with your choice of toppings. It’s one of the few things I could eat for breakfast every day and not get sick of it.
Me too, but I’d be 100% down to replace the base with hot sauce (maybe I can use Tabasco to make a buffalo sauce, that sounds heavenly). I’m like 80% down to try a maple base (or drizzle) as well.
You could try replacing the base with a thick sausage gravy
OOOO yeee I like the way you think.
Casey’s breakfast pizza uses sausage gravy as the base.
Hello fellow midwesterner!
Good morning! It’s a horrible day as usual here in Terre Haute, Indiana. But Casey’s still serves a fine breakfast pizza.
Casey’s does not unless you custom order it. It’s a cheese sauce. Quik trip does the sausage gravy though
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Best response I ever read about this situation was:
Americans eat as if they have access to public health.
