I'm serious. All the other meats are okay for breakfast. Chicken is a very popular meat not to make it to the breakfast table. Hell, we'll even fry up steak like we do chicken and serve that for breakfast.
I mean there’s chicken and waffles, that is pretty popular; fried chicken in a breakfast sandwich is like 20% of Pine State Biscuit’s offerings. I’ll look into it more; I bet there’s a reason it’s less popular than pig products. I wonder if it’s that chicken has traditionally been harder to store overnight than ham and bacon and other cured meats. Breakfast started out as a leftovers dish, and still is conceptually.
I think duck eggs are in some French breakfasts but only in the super fancy ones here, mostly because it’s hard to source 2500 duck eggs for Sunday brunch rush just to serve them to Americans who might not enjoy the taste as much as chicken eggs.
When I was 3 or 4 my parents got me a live baby duck for easter. I named it Rubber and it was my buddy for a month or two. Then my parents realized what the fuck are we going to do with a duck so we took to Laurelhurst park and let it go in the duck pond. Rubber had a home with other ducks. Happy happy. Then a few weeks later, the news was on during family dinner and the police had arrested a homeless guy catching, killing, and eating the ducks from the pond. Rubber was so friendly I cried knowing he probably had gotten eaten. RIP Rubber.
