Breakfast vs. Dinner

Mmm, now really. Is there anything better than a short stack of buttermilk pancakes drizzled with warm, pure Vermont maple syrup, gathered below a healthy pat of butter alongside a thick slice of brioche French toast, grilled to cinnamony-ginger-sweet, eggy perfection, sidled up close to a hot, gooey, cinnamon roll topped with orange glaze frosting washed down with ice cold (soy) milk in a bowl of acai-berry Nature's Own granola and a grapefruit slightly sweetened with Sugar in the Raw, all with a baby-sized cupa strong chai and buttery scrambled eggs on the side? No, there isn't.

Unless you're of the mind that a meal starting with the light tease of spinach and strawberry salad, brushed over with raspberry vinaigrette and mellowed out by a few cool slices of cucumber, quickly followed by wild Alaskan salmon, grilled subtly--supple on the inside, exterior just shy of crispy--under a glaze of honey, a splash of extra virgin, lemon juice, and cracked peppercorns, sharing the plate with a fluffy helping of garlic and mushroom risotto, seasoned ever so delectably with sage and basil and teamed with a crisp, cool glass of demi-sec Vouvray is more your speed. And if it is, I wouldn't blame you.

So which is really the mightier meal? My mouth doesn't care, but they're gonna settle it out.

BREAKFAST
+ Starts your day off right (unless you eat prunes, in which case it starts your day off running)
+ Always smells good
+ Often tastes like dessert

DINNER
+ Friends with your television
+ Regularly over-consumed by inefficient dieters
+ Often comes before dessert (how selfish!)

Round 1
The Most Important Meal of the Day (Breakfast) throws a pancake.
The Main Meal of the day (Dinner) throws a wishbone.
- Robeaucop rules that a pancake resembles paper, wishbone resembles scissors.
- Wishbone cuts pancake; Dinner wins.

Round 2
Breakfast throws a biscuit (rock).
Dinner throws a roll (soft rock).
- Draw
- Breakfast calls a time-out, drinks a mimosa, gets tipsy; Dinner drinks more wine, gets downright drunk, turns up the Lionel Richie.

Round 3
Breakfast burps discreetly, throws another pancake.
Dinner gets violent, throws television, threatens divorce.
- Pancake covers television (figuratively); Breakfast wins.

Breakfast now has the right to call itself not only the Most Important but also the Mightiest Meal of the Day! You go, Breakfast! [vid]

Winner (Breakfast) receives: special booth at IHOP.
Loser (Dinner) gets: wine club membership revoked.