The Adventures of Krystal Kid: Yummy.. breakfast!

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Yummy.. breakfast!

Do you remember, as a kid, waking up on Saturday morning and wandering into the kitchen, while rubbing the sleep out of your eyes. You were flooded by the delicious aroma of bacon and sausage. And there was your dad, spatula in hand, asking "how do you want your eggs?"
Well, when you get to be my age, you pretty much give up any hopes of that happening anymore. If I want a delicious bacon smell in the kitchen, I have to cook the bacon. No one asks me how I want me eggs, because I know I'll be cooking my own eggs. Growing up kinda stinks. Where's the rewind button on the VCR of life? (I guess by saying VCR of life I am sort of showing my age, as well, eh?)
Anyway, if you long for the days of having someone cook breakfast for you and actually ask you how you want your eggs, there's no need to fear. Krystal has ya covered.
Normally when I have breakfast at Krystal I am on the way to somewhere else, usually work. So it's Sunrisers, or rarely the Scrambler. But with my goofy work schedule lately I am finding myself up at freakishly early times in the morning on Saturday and Sunday. We're talking 4:30 or 5am. When you wake up that early and you're hungry as a bear, there's really only one option:

This is the #8 breakfast combo. It's a lot of food, for sure! Now you do have to go in to get this one, they wont serve it at the drive through because your eggs are cooked to order. If you MUST go thru the drive through they do have the "express breakfast" which is essentially the same thing, but the eggs are scrambled. I do wonder, though, how someone could eat fried eggs while driving, anyway.
When you go to other places for breakfast, you pick whats on the menu or you go away. Go to McDonalds and ask for 3 fried eggs, a biscuit, and 2 strips of bacon and you'll most likely have to speak to a manager. At Krystal they ring it up and ask what you'd like to drink. Hard to believe these days that a "fast food place" would "slow down" for breakfast. But then again, homemade breakfast has been a cornerstone for Krystal since they started. And come to think of it, homemade breakfast has been a cornerstone of mine ever since I started, too!
Just a small editorial note: this week KrystalAdventure will be featuring a mini-series on our delicious little friend, the pig, in honor of Charlotte's Web and it's award winning actress, Dakota Fanning who also happens to be from Conyers, GA, where I grew up. I'm A Krystal Lover