Biscuits and Gravy

[swestrup]

Its time for breakfast. I went to bed last night with a wicked craving for potato chips, and when I asked my body this morning what it wanted for breakfast it immediately answered 'Potato Chips'.

When I asked for a second choice, it sulked and came up with 'Biscuits and Gravy'. This is strange and appauling in that

1. I've never had Biscuits and Gravy, so how is my body craving them?
2. I'm probably at least 1000 miles from the nearest place that serves them.
3. I'm not even sure this is a breakfast dish. I'm not that up on southern American cuisine.

I'm almost afraid to ask it for a third choice...

Edit: for those I've made hungry, it seems that the closest Cracker Barrel where one can get a Southern Breakfast is in Watertown, NY, about 250 km from Montreal:

Watertown, NY
I-81 , Exit# 46
I-81 & SR12
1289 Coffeen Street
Watertown, NY 13601-1821
Located off I-81
(315) 782-2460

Comments

[xipetotec.livejournal.com]

I can attest from eating at a Hampton Inn breakfast buffet last year, that Biscuits and Gravy ARE indeed served for breakfast.

[swestrup]

Yeah, I just found a Wikipedia entry that claims the same thing.

[tcaptain.livejournal.com]

As to 3. I've had biscuits and gravy at Denny's south of the border. They're very heavy, but indeed unmistakenly breakfasty. The gravy they had was a southern white gravy rather than brown beef based type of thing.

To comment on 1...I don't think it's that unusual to crave foods we've never had. It happens to me now and again. It could be based on what we imagine about the food...

Now you've got ME craving biscuits and gravy damn you!

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

All my life I'd heard of this magical combination.

Then yes, I tried it. In two different places. Both times it was a most upsetting experience.

Thick gloppy white paste should never be called gravy.

[pythonian.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I've ever had a "craving" for a food that I've never tried. Certainly, I've wanted to try something either after having it described to me or by falling prey to some exceptionally clever advertising (rare but it happens).

I have had cravings for food that I do know. One example for me is chocolate cake. Every now and again I get a craving for it. Not chocolate chip cookies, not chocolate cream pie, not even a bar of chocolate would do. Only chocolate cake. In the past, I almost sulked when I realized I was not going to be able to satisfy that desire. I wanted the texture of the cake in the mouth as the flavours excite my taste buds. The pleasure was all in the mouth and not in the digestion of the stimulants and other goodies, at least not consciously.

What I can say about such cravings is this: The reality almost never lives up to the fantasy induced by the craving and if it does, it's usually satisfied after two or three bites.