 Kate Krader (@kkrader on Twitter) is Food & Wine's restaurant editor. When she tells us where to get our grub on, we listen up. You’ve heard it before: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Many chefs around the country have heeded the call and are now serving morning meals. Still, that doesn’t mean all their dishes get a nutritional thumbs up. Take breakfast sandwiches, the Homer Simpson of A.M. food service. Some chefs have created awesome versions that aren’t all available at their restaurants. And many nutritionists will say, thank goodness for that. John Currence, Big Bad Breakfast, Oxford, Mississippi Tim Love, Lonesome Dove, Ft Worth Texas Ryan LaRoche, NoMI Kitchen at Park Hyatt, Chicago Shaun Hergatt, SHO Shaun Hergatt Restaurant, NYC And now it’s time to hand out the award for the most outrageous breakfast sandwich. We’re thrilled to give it to Stephanie Izard (Girl & The Goat, Chicago) and Ming Tsai (Blue Ginger, Wellesley, MA) who created a pretty remarkable dish at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen a few years ago. Faced with the challenge of using up leftovers, they took cold pizza, cooked lobster and crisp bacon and - piled them on top of each other (no, the pizza didn’t get heated up). It was served with a fried egg on top. “Genius,” recalls Dana Cowin, F&W Editor in Chief, who judged the dish. “It includes almost every food group you’d want to have in the morning. Especially if you’re a college student.” More from Food & Wine © 2011 American Express Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. 
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For a tasty breakfast sandwich on a biscuit, go to Peels in NYC on Bowery. They have a Build-A-Biscuit option and you can choose ingredients from types of cheese to fried chicken. Here is a photo from my blog http://chekmarkeats.com/2011/07/06/peels-bowery/. Also, try the croissant egg sandwich at Penelope with Pesto here: http://chekmarkeats.com/2011/08/17/penelope-murray-hill/
I hate breakfast. It means I got out of bed.
and not one mention of exercise. you can't blame this countries weight problems on the occasional monster sandwich. and the article didn't recommend having one every morning. have one and then run around the block a few times.
I'm gaining wait just /reading/ this!
One of the best breakfast sandwiches I ever had was several years ago while on vacation in Mexico (when it was still safe to go there....). A little cafe served a BLT on the most delicous bread but they also added a fried egg and a slice of cheese. Really simple and really delicious. Thinking back, I don't know how I never came up with such a delectable combination myself. I will sometimes make one at home but it isn't as good as the one from that little Mexican cafe.
For this story it's mainly just BEWT amusing himself (or herself). I suppose if he/she gets a few giggles about saying "pooh" then maybe slow claps are in order; that's hard to do past the age of six!
What about the Micheal Moore-on Obama Breakfast sandwitch, it is filled with government cheese and pork. Also, the guy behind you in line gets the bill for your food.
Now I am absolutely famished. I'll take one of each. Oh and before you sunshine hating, nothing better to do a-holios has something even more ridiculous then your social lives to say... forget it. Save your breathe. That all sounds delicious and you can lie to the rest of us, but you know that fat girl/boy in you is drooling! ;-)
Who ever has leftover lobster and bacon. I tend to eat it all.
Okay, so where are all those idiots that complain about McDonalds and all the fast food places...... Huh ??
If you pull out the greasy meat it won't kill you to eat them more often and you'll stay slim. My weekend treat is a toasted jalapeno bagel 2 slices of cheese and egg.
Is there anything besides Cannabis that makes one hungry. For some reason food just grosses me out lately and literally cannot eat more than a light meal a day. My mom is making me eat those meal shakes but even then she has been finding half cans in my room. I am not worried about getting fat either...I just cannot stand eating, I truly was the kid that played with food at the table. My anthropology teacher said it's false that breakfast is even important. He also told us that our bodies are NOT designed to eat every day and that it is a myth. I love him...
Honestly I'm retching just reading that. What garbage! Most normal people wouldn't want those concoctions at any part of the day, much less just waking up! No wonder we are starting to look like a nation of whales and hippos!
Can I have another animal choice? I'd prefer to be a peacock. They have pretty feathers.
"Most normal people ..." Wow. Do you know THAT many people? You certainly get around! How 'bout stopping over at my barracks after work and see me, too, honey.
Taylor ham, egg and cheese on a hard roll.................check mate
You have to be from the Philly area.
@Biddle Jersey, on the good side(NYC)
So here's my problem: I have to pay for the people who are obese and who smoke and who get so unhealthy due to lifestyle choices they can't work. SSDI. It was meant for disabilities, not obesity. Now with national health care, it's really going to affect my earnings. If you want to eat this every day, fine, but I do NOT want to pay for your medical bills because you can't control yourself. If I didn't have to pay for it, I wouldn't care, but since I do, I absolutely have a right to b*tch about what other people eat (and smoke and drink and inject).
Fear not, I am sure that any day now, Obama will be appointing a "dietary nutrition czar" of something to tell us all how to eat, what to eat and in what portions.
If *I* have to pay for *your* medical bills, *I* should get a chance to say what *your* treatment is. Including diet if that's why you're under medical care that I am paying for.
(I don't mean your = truth.)
Dream on.
I like a bowl of lard for breakfast. Especially after humping all night long without using birth control.
Hey everyone look at me and listen. Do everything in life with moderation, including moderation. Now if you need me to expand on that for you, it means make smart choices, but its OK to sometimes spoil yourself. Think about a time when you knew you did something that wasn't good for you but felt so good (don't go down that road perv, stay with me). I think most people know they need to make smart choices about food but if you don't hey that's your deal. Overall enjoy life, don't preach to others or judge their decisions. Get the hell out there and enjoy life and try things. Don't get addicted, but don't bullshit yourself either and become some boring nob in life.
++++ Agreed (and love the Oscar Wilde reference, however intentional)
If it don't have Vegemite, I ain't eating it.
Everyone of these sounds revolting. I am not a Health-nut by a long shot but everyone of these is not healthy. Breakfast should give you energy. Each of these do the opposite. I am surprised none of them are served with a side of deep fried butter.
Maybe I don't want energy on a Sunday morning after a night of heavy drinking.....
First round is on me!
Good to know, thanks.
I do think that is these places want to make the good food then so be it. And if I or anyone else want to join me in eating it well so what too. It is my business what I eat no one elses. It is like the bars they are there if you want to drink then you can if not stay away. Same thing with food..eat it if you like and if not stay away that wil leave more for someone else to eat. And who care if someone if fat if that is the way they want to be. People keep butting into business any more that is not theirs to butt into. Sweep your own door step and leave others a lone
Newsflash, we are all going to die, sooner, or later, I can promise you that. That said, you libtarded, vegan, treehugging, bunny humpers need to get a grip on reality.
Ok dude, we will, as soon as you get your head out of Bill O's kiester....
if you want to know why you're fat, it's because you eat these huge sandwiches first thing in the morning
makes me sick just thinking about it
Confusus is good here, but the idiot narcissist elitist better than thou I hate Americans demoncrats are the best, they play their stereotype and cliché even better than a snookie plays the demo guidette ones.
It makes them feel so enlightened and superior to trash Americans and talk about how any place else is better than America. They really do know how obvious they are with their self confidence, and hate issues. Think about what you are supporting when you support a party that is ran by and caters to such horrible scumbags. If you still don’t get it then spend some time in ultra blue America, just take out a life insurance policy first if you are going to be driving amongst ‘dem.
BTW, the people in Texas are the best people on the planet, so kind, honest, decent, and fair. IT would be a perfect world if all could at least attempt to have those values.
texas executes mentally disabled criminals who don't even understand what they did
moral paragon for sure
While liberalism is a mental disease, it really isn't a valid excuse to get off on murder.
Seriously, stop blaming fast food, CNN, and everything else BUT the culprit. The only thing you blame the obesity epidemic on is the AMERICAN PEOPLE. It is THEM who choose to live the way they do. People need to start taking responsibility for THEIR poor choices!
Well said, Francis. KUTGW.
I love you!!! (I hope you are female or this could be a bit embarassing)
*blushes* no Pen15 here!
This is why I want a big government to tell me what to eat. I NEED a big government to tell me what to do. I am incapable of making my own choices. I NEED Michelle Obama to put me on a government sanctioned dietary plan.
Quitcher job, go on welfare and you'll get all the heart-stopping gubmint cheese you can stand. Bet M.O. sanctioned that, too.
And you wonder why all you American are FAT. Brutal. Have another fast food item, make it a biggy.
Man who drive like hell, bound to get there.
Shame on you CNN for encouraging the obesity epidemic in the U.S. And shame on all of you commenters who eat this way and think it's OK – it's not and you are driving up the cost of healthcare in this country. Stupid and selfish.
Shame on you for being stupid.
Great.
CNN doesn't stand for Control Nation's Noshing. Just because you read about it doesn't mean you have to eat it.
Lighten up, Francis.
Here Dee, let me make you muy favorite breakfast sandwich.
2 large Pancakes, 8 inch or so.
1 can of spam
1 12 oz jimmy dean sausage roll
1 lb bacon
1 lb of cheddar cheese
coated with 1 quart od syrup and a lb of butter
Barf.
I hate to admit it but I simply LOVE McDonalds Sausage, egg and Cheese McMuffin. I don't know why, I know it's all crap but man I love them after a few beers the night before.
oh. my. GOD. Would all of you sad little people complaining about how unhealthy this is and how bad a heart attach that will give you.
The title of the article is "BIG BAD BREAKFAST SANDWICHES" not "the just enough to get you by breakfast"
These are for those saturday and sunday mornings you wake up after a night of being blasted off your ass and you wanna sit down and just dive into something that's good, plain old good, hearty awesome breakfast.
Stop the complaining about how fat America is on this thread, because this isn't an article about that, trust me, I'm pretty sure most of the country know's its fat.
Man who run in front of car get tired. Man who run behind car get exhausted.
I think this type of food is worse than any issues we have in our country related to gun violence, smoking, murders etc. This food is killing everyone, not just a specific race or culture. It is poison to everyone's bodies.
War does not determine who is right, war determine who is left.
Hopefully to you too, 'Matt'.
And to this day we still ask "why are american's getting fat"..deep fry PB&J...ambulance stretchers and becoming larger to the point that they needs ramps and a pully system to lift them into the ambulances...go to any Wal-Mart and all you see are people riding in scotters because they cannot walk around the store...kids sitting in the house all summer playing Playstation instead of being in the pool....go to any store and try to find a regular size in clothing...try again...usual size x-large and up for men and a starting size of 12 for women... and the list goes on
Man who fish in other man's well often catch crabs.
Yea you don't get out much do you?????
Like I said before.... This is NOT why America is fat. We all choose to eat what we want to eat, and live the way we want to. Some choose fast food for breakfast lunch and dinner, some choose sugar-laden cereal every morning.
And THAT Jamie is why the fatties will go first when the zombies attack!!!
I did a facebook quiz and it said I would survive the zombie apocalypse!!!!
Because I don't need to. NOBODY should go on a diet. People don't need diets, they need to change their entire way of living.
@ JamieinMN (fat-arse apologist, apparently): Chaging one's diet is normally included in changing one's lifestyle, there, Skeeter. Just an fyi...
How is the Monster Biscuit from Hardee's not on here? I understand that it's fast food but come on, sausage, bacon, ham, eggs, and a couple slices of cheese on their fresh buttermilk biscuit! It has your daily value and then some of basically everything that's bad for you!
Now THIS is my breakfast sandwich and it packs a punch and a half:
Take a giant piece of french toast (Texas toast bread) then layer the following and top with a second piece of french toast. You'll need a fork or a hell of a lot of napkins
Picture the stack, come on you can do it, just like the old school video game Burgertime
French toast
4 sausage patties (don't bring that link crap here)
2 fried eggs
3 slices of pepper-jack cheese
4 slices of crispy bacon
2 friend eggs (yup more eggs, that's right)
A healthy dose of Franks Red Hot (feel the burn!)
Chopped onions and peppers that have been grilled
3 slices of Canadian bacon
Another layer of the pepper jack cheese
The second piece of French toast.
Pair that with a spicy Bloody Mary and you have yourself the start of a great day. Eat these everyday and you'll cause health insurance to raise nationwide, but once in awhile these are reallllllll nice. Nothing but the best!
Man who scratch ass should not bite fingernails.
This is just more reasons why Americans are so FAT.
Not just FAT, but 25% are morbidly OBESE.
Gene and Charlie....both complete idiots.
I may be an idiot... however, I am a 72 year old idiot, with a BMI of 19 and vibrant health.
Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement.
American tastes are so juvenile. That is why your country is the world's laughingstock. Eat more like Europeans do. Maybe you can then skip the obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Man with one chopstick go hungry.
Keep them coming, you're cracking me up!
No thanks, I strive to NOT be a follower.... :-D
Oh look, it's Patrickk with two K's again. If you've done anything in your food posts, you've convinced me that you've never been to Europe (or you'd never had referred to England as "the continent") and are sitting behind a computer in your dreary middle class house somewhere in the midwest desperately hoping *someone* will read your posts and think you sophisticated.
Why pick on the midwest?
Hey, when you're stabbing in the dark, any hit's a good one.
Crowded elevator smell different to midget.
Hey, me too!
Man who fart in church sit in own pew.
Those sandwiches sound disgusting! Stop shoving fat into your mouth America!! I had a green smoothie this morning...spinach, banana, apple, and grapes...blended with ice and water. Delicious!
It's okay once in awhile to set aside the blender and break out the fry pan.
You're disgusting.........
It take many nails to build crib, but one screw to fill it
It's not the rich food available to Americans that makes some heavy. It's the "all or nothing" mentality. Come to find out, there's a whole wide world of healthy between the sizes of Hollywood's 00 and the Biggest Loser's crowd. Those who have learned to balance end up far healthier in the long run than those who always indulge or always abstain. But keep that nose up in the air, at least you can feel superior in your own little world.
LOVE that video! I think Bewt fits it nicely......
If you are getting hungry and have a while before you eat, DO NOT READ BELOW :P Tastyness ensues...
Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.
I must say the fried pb&j sounds delicious. Oh yeah, I almost forgot.......Dana Cowin, the F&W Editor in Chief who judged the dish..........Dana, you are obviously a complete moron! College students? For real? First of all, there is no such thing as left-over pizza when your in college. Second......even if your college cohorts didn't maul the last of the pizza, I guarantee there wouldn't be any cooked lobster laying around for them to pile on top. Maybe the course "How NOT to look like an incoherent dumb@55 101" was dropped from the curriculum of your hoity-toity journalism school. Guess they shoudn't have been serving up all that lobster!
I'm a big fan of eggs benedict, but I put my own spin on it. Instead of hollandaise sauce, I make a smoked gouda sauce. I just make a roux, thin her down with some milk, and then add a nice giant handful of shredded smoked gouda cheese. Pinch of salt and some white pepper. In place of the canadian bacon, I use nitrate free bacon. If I drank more than 2/3 liter of vodka the night before, I add some thinky sliced fresh jalapenos.
Holy cow, that sounds wonderful.
Mmmm. That sounds wonderful.
My breakfast sandwiches begin with two maple waffles, with two pats of butter melted and a half cup of syrup melted into each. In the middle of those two waffles go two scotch eggs, each cut in half. Then four strips of bacon. A sausage patty. A kielbasa, cut into slices, of course. Three fried eggs. Then more kielbasa, sausage, and another four strips of bacon.
Anything less is just not a breakfast sandwich.
Incidentally, a deep fried slim jim makes a nice side. Doughnuts will do in a pinch.
Now you are talking!
that not funny bewt, diarrhea is bad.
I can't wait for these troll brat idiots to go back to school.
You are an adult posting this "crap?" Are you nuts?
@Bewt, you work?!!?!?! What are you, a greeter at your local Walmart?!?!!?!? Bwaahahahahaha!
This is one bad thing about summer.....no school.
Most of these sandwiches sound pretty disgusting...a loaded bacon burger with egg? Come on – I know it's Texas but wow.
The one from NY sounds pretty good though...
Heart attack on a plate. The breakfast of champions.
I make them quite well myself...
1 Garlic or Onion Bagel
Cream Cheese
1 Egg
2pc of Bacon
1 Sausage Patty
1/4 cup of Cheddar Cheese
Salt
Pepper
1. Cut the bagel and toast it. Then spread the cream cheese on both sides of bagel.
2. Make egg in pan and let cook flat until done and fold in half and half again.
3. Melt cheddar cheese on top of egg.
4. Fry bacon and sausage until cooked.
5. Add all cooked ingredients between two slices of bagel.
6. Stuff your face with the awesomeness...
You are a flamming idiot.
I personally see something like this to be an occasional treat, not an everyday meal. Even the country ham biscuit that I mentioned before was a one time thing on a vacation. The rest of the week I was away I had fruit and oatmeal (or grits, I was in Kentucky) and skim milk for breakfast. Still tasty (especially with a little brown sugar and cinnamon), but that biscuit sandwich was quite a treat.
Exactly. There are people who probably DO eat like this every morning, but personally, I don't. I couldn't, that's alot of food!
I personally cannot eat anything in the morning and have to force a couple spoon fulls of yogurt down my throat. I guess I only eat when I absolutely am hungry. I am also a college student who doesn't drink so I am never hung over. It is hard when school starts and I have to force myself half of a granola so I get some sugar in the brain before a test. I smoke the occasional high quality Cannabis now that I can maybe eat like a 12 year old. Anyone else has this problem...That eating is a huge pain.
How about a Taylor Ham, Irish Sausage, Fried Egg, Salt, Pepper, Ketchup, Hot Sauce, on a 12 inch wedge, and don't forget the Hash browns. It all goes down with two ice cold nesquick chocolate milks.
Nooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
YES!! Taylor Ham is the best breakfast meat. It is hard to find outside of jersey, but Taylor ham, egg and cheese on english muffin is my sunday religion.
Go BIG for Breakfast!!!
You Americans can learn a lot from Europeans. In France, we eat in moderation and drink the finest red wines and we are not overweight. Fecal injections are not recommended and not funny.
You are so correct, but keeping inmind the fact that Americans' tasstes are so undeveloped, what can be expected?
UGH... After reading that I think I'm going to be sick....
One thing for sure is..........you sure are speshal.
I cannot imagine eating something that OTT in the morning. I agree with Mildred - I prefer something basic, simple and easy.
A bet you will lose, genius.
You are a bulls azz.
BEWT sniffs bulls balls.
LOL!
I'll make a bet that you're a ruhtard.....Nuff said.
Did I miss something????? Was this titled, Big Bad HEALTHY Breakfast sammiches????? NO! And this is NOT why America is fat. We all choose to eat what we want to eat, and live the way we want to. If I want to indulge in a Big Bag SUPER UNHEALTHY breakfast sammich once every couple of months, I WILL!
WIN!
Exactly... it's the choices that make us, not the availability to make them.
@ JamieinMN: "And this is NOT why America is fat. We all choose to eat what we want to eat, and live the way we want to. If I want to indulge in a Big Bag SUPER UNHEALTHY breakfast sammich once every couple of months, I WILL!"
...and this will be our downfall: Living like the selfish pricks we are. Your two comments clash, by the way.
I bet you graduated at the top of your class.
lol, ha.
No wonder the scales are tipping in the USA! Not one of these is healthy eating. One of my favorite breakfasts is a piece of whole wheat bread [toasted], a teaspoon of natural, unsweetened peanut butter spread so it melts on the toast then add a teaspoon of jam. It's delicious, fast, nutritious, and it doesn't need to be deep fried!
This is your favorite? So out of ALLLL the other things to eat for breakfast this is your top pick?
How boring...
Obviously this article isn't about the healthiest breakfast sandwich. Get a clue health nut.
Yeah- I don't think this article was directed at you..
Rachel......you have described the sammich I have eating for 20 years! Melted peanut butter on warm toast w/ raspberry jam....love the little seeds in the raspberries!!
no wonder so many americans are fat. they all sound gross.
....beotch....
Cause god knows there's no place in Europe where they eat fatty foods. Germany? Nah, no delicious, fattening crazy foods there. Holland? Nah, dipping fries in mayo isn't fattening.
Wow. "Big and bad" breakfast sandwiches. Can't wait for my "big and bad" heart attack in 20 years.
F that! Nothin beats cold pizza and it's good for you too... ;)
I like to eat mcdonalds but i'm 5'2" and 240 lbs so my butt looks like i've been laying out in a hail storm
Are you BEWT?
LOL! You and me both!
My hangover cure is sausage gravy & biscuits, with hash browns and a GIANT glass of cold milk.
After a giant doobie, of course.
will you marry me? that is exactly my cure as well....sounds so phenominal right now
My hangover cure is a large glass of water or milk BEFORE going to bed. No hangover the next day.
For a great hangover breakfast, simply throw a raw egg into a well-prepared bloody mary (horseradish is a must).
Man who stand on toilet is high on pot.
He who can balance a tack hammer on his head, can head off his foes with a balanced attack.
Lol that pic looks gross! Wouldn't win YummyWar IMO
If you think that pic looks disgusting, you need a brain check up. You must be one of those vegan fanatics..
I must say, one of the best breakfast sandwiches I had was a country ham biscuit in WV. Nothing fancy- hot buttermilk biscuit with a grill slice of country ham.
Worth the week of cholesterol.
Now we're talking. A good buttermilk biscuit like grandma used to make, a thick slice of ham and a chunk of cheddar cheese. Breakfast doesn't get any better.
your grandmother used to make them...before she had a coronary...
Fred: my grandfather ate fried eggs, bacon, buttermilk biscuits, ham (all kinds of pork), smoked UN-filtered camels for over 40 years, drank moonshine whiskey, and chased women a lot, AND lived to be 93. I'll take some of that !! Life is a once-thru journey, no do-overs permitted. Enjoy.
I like that Mildred, but I say give me a good old scrambled egg, bacon, and cheese on either a biscuit or toast any day.
Turkey bacon of course and I use only one egg yolk with two egg whites or sometimes none at all.
I've never tried a fried PB&J....
I had this at the Texas State Fair a couple years ago. He uses grape jelly and also throws in bananas,then deep fries it,sprinkles on confectioners sugar,a bunch of napkins and it tastes fantastic.
Ok stop, you are making me drool....
I think that was Elvis' favorite sandwich
I've never tried deep frying it. I usually do it like a grilled cheese, but with PB and honey on cinnamon-raisin bread. Here's the really weird part; I LOVVEEE it with a big tall glass of ice cold V8. I know, right?
I think Elvis' favorite was a peanut butter and banana fried–with honey, I believe.
I sometimes make them as a treat for my kids. Not deep fried, pan fried like a grilled cheese sandwich. Make up the pbj and either butter the outsides of the bread or spray the pan with a nonstick spray. The peanut butter gets all gooey and warm. My son prefers it with honey to jelly. Either way, it's worth trying.
I actually tried a grilled pb&j on my own before this article. It did not turn out so well.
I'm going with the Tim Love sandwich–In Texas,Go BIG or go home.
I think that sandwich may define what's wrong with this country.
I can always count on people like you to ruin these fun articles.
Yeah, it's all fun and games until someone has a heart attack.
@Lanfear I figure I'm going to die one day anyhow. I might as well get some good eatin' in before I croak!
I do not believe sandwiches define what is wrong with the world. Sandwiches are sandwiches. An object manifested by people. It is the people the create it and the people that consume it. You are about as idiotic as the woman who sued McDonalds because she burnt herself on their coffee.
Our taste for white wine doesn't say much for this country either.
@ Chase, you know, the coffee was 180 degrees, and the woman suffered third degree burns on her groin, ouch >.<
There's nothing wrong with the sandwich. You don't get heart attacks from eating it once in a while, you get poor health from eating it everyday. It's not a problem with the food but a problem with the person's eating habit.
I think all sorts of over the top dishes are defining large waistlines!
I cringe at some of the piles of ingredients.
GLUTTONY!!
It certainly describes what's wrong with Texas these days. Seems like Texas attracts more crazies than San Francisco attracts Homosexuals. If something crazy shows up on the news, nine times outta ten it's in Texas. And to think the craziness in Texas all started with a bunch of wild and crazy coots at the Alamo. I bet they are all turning in their graves when they see what has become of their vision of a fine state.
It weren't my fault!!
Amen to that! :)
"I figure I'm going to die one day."
This is becoming such a generic phrase. If that's how you really feel, you might as well put a gun to your head and pull the trigger. I mean, you're going to die one day anyway, right?
You first, Francis.