What a topic to click on when I'm hungry! Being, in fact, a hobbit in all but size ( ) minus the smoking I'd probably help myself to just about all of it. Specifically though I'd like some bacon, mushrooms, a few of Bilbo's cakes, more mushrooms, and perhaps a few tarts. After that I'd be ready for a brief break before the second breakfast.

I'd probably be a Took rather than a Baggins (though I've always liked the Brandybucks) since, much as I'd like to live in the Shire, the occasional trip outside would make for a refreshing change of pace.

Bacon, eggs, tomatoes, and mushrooms! Wonderful! I think I'll join you! Now, be a good host, and add a few thick slices of fried salt pork!---Oh, and don't forget a nice, strong black tea! With honey and fresh cream! And what about the scones, with softened butter!--Quickly! Get down the fresh blackberries and strawberry preserves!
Hurry now! It'll be time for second breakfast soon! For that we'll need cold cuts and pickles, and cold fried-chicken! With pork pie and fresh turnips, and fried potatoes and onions, too! We'll finish it with mince pie and cheese, and a few fruit tarts as well!
Damn! Too early for beer, but have it ready for elevenses! Thank you, Mr. Baggins, you are a most accommodating host!

BD

I'm not sure I'd ever eat hobbit, but if I did, I suppose I'd have my hobbit roasted if young, and boiled if old and tough like mutton! (For breakfast it would be minced hobbit in bubble-and-squeak, I think - or would that be hobbit-and-squeak?)

Odo

NB: I thought you were a dwarf anyway - or are you hiding something? There's something Freudian in your question. You're not a troll by chance? Come on, you can be honest with me. I won't tell anyone else on this site your dark secret - honest!

If you make the suggested name change, your cover will be blown!

(Your secret is still safe with me - for a small fee...)

Odo

"Vegan" Elves now? Probably Sindaran, I guess...? I couldn't imagine them being Noldor - far too bloodthirsty surely!

Anyhow, I'm off to take second breakfast...

Odo

Crispy Cremes .

Okay, I already revealed my fave Hobbit breakfast on the M.E. thread, so I'll go straight to Hobbit dinner: Main course--Roast Beef well done dripping with thick dark gravy and layered with bacon and sauteed onions and mushrooms, mashed potatoes, Shire Pudding (Yorkshire wasn't invented then , google Yorkshire pudding if you don't know what it is), Roast Potatoes, Carrots, Peas, Cauliflower (or broccoli), slabs of sweet "French" (France wasn't invented then either) baguettes with butter and Huntsman Cheese. A salad to start with Minas Tirith dressing (I'm guessing Minas Tirith is in the vicinity of modern Italy, hence Italian dressing), Clam Chowder as the second course.

To Drink with dinner: Sweet Apple Cider and Red Wine

For appetizers potato crisps (chips to Americans), carrot and celery sticks and onion dip, chunks of Sharp Cheshire cheese (or the Shire equivalent).

Dessert: Vanilla Ice Cream with chocolate swirls, strawberries, whipped cream and apple crumble pie.

Second Dessert: Chocolate Chip cookies, mince pies, jam and cream tarts.

Dessert Drink: Hot Chocolate topped with whipped cream spiked liberally with Kahlua.

Before bed: Hefty dose of Pepto Bismol

[b:17c4i1n8]GB[/b:17c4i1n8]

Oh I forgot, I don't think they have Pepto Bismol in England. It's basically like milk of magnesia, because that's what I'd need to settle my tummy after a feast like that .

I used to be able to eat like that when I was younger *wistful*. Nowadays, if I wanted to enjoy all that, I'd have start dinner about lunch-time and take nice long breaks between courses (which is what I do at Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year).

And yes, my love of Feasting is why I am sure I have some Hobbit in me, (well that and my short...erm...stocky stature).

Oh, Baggins, definitely.

[b:q0sknv0o]GB[/b:q0sknv0o]

Oh, Redbush (Rooibos) is good. I used to sell it while I still had a store.

Thanksgiving is an American (and Canadian) Holiday. It's basically a harvest festival. But the American version has a Mythology based on a supposed gathering of Native Americans and Pilgrims in harmony to celebrate the Native Americans helping out the Pilgrims after a bad harvest. Great Holiday, nice ideals--but the History of Colonial/Native relations is quite a bit different (and that's all I'm saying about that).

In any case, the Holiday includes Feasting, Merriment, Giving Thanks for bountiful harvests and good neighbors (hence the name). The basic concept is very Hobbity.

[b:qx0h0ybn]GB[/b:qx0h0ybn]

I like cornflakes but they don't have any. I think I would like seedcake. Do you know what they are made from?

Seed cakes are traditional english cake often eaten at festive times or for celebration.

Got this off a web site;


How to make Northamptonshire seed cake:
A popular, traditional cake that was often eaten at sheep-shearing time and any other special occasions.


Ingredients
4 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons caraway seeds
2 cups butter
8 eggs
1 grated nutmeg
(see measure conversions for more information)

Method
- Separate the egg yolks from the whites.
- Beat the butter to a cream.
- Add the sugar.
- Beat the egg whites and add.
- Beat the egg yolks and add.
- Beat in the flour, spice and seeds.
- Turn into greased cake tin and bake in a hot oven 220oc/425of/gas mark7 for 1 1/2 hours or until firm to touch.

Perhaps your mum will help you make some Henry- let us know how they taste if you do- I for one have never tried them before.

You are welcome. Might give them a go myself- if it weren't for the fact my cooking skills usually lead to the fire brigade being called out.

Those seedcakes sound very tasty. I used to eat cheese and dried biscuits and drink coffee while reading The Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings in bed. I pretended it was Beorn's cram cakes while going with Bilbo and the dwarves through Mirkwood. They were always hungry in the hobbit t seemed. Always losing their baggage in rivers. I often imagined what lovely food the Elves in Rivendell ate. I suppose nowadays we would frown on an after breakfast pipe on the doorstep though.

So be it. If kids ask about it parents can talk to them about the dangers. It was somewhere between about, what, a thousand and thirty thousand years ago! Let's not patronize and educate with this movie! Let the kids think. Let the parents do their job.

Imagine that. Henry asks us about seedcake and here we are getting all mature about grownup things! Unheard of! I hope he doesn't ask us how to make beer? Where would that lead?

Whatever the case, some of us have to go to work!!! Bye bye everyone.

Good choices GB- especially the porridge- everyone should eat porridge but tell me do you cook it with salt or like the uncouth English do you add sugar?

p.s whilst on this subject can any one tell me what 'grits' are- some sort of American breakfast I believe, but not a very appealing name I've always thought for a foodstuff- what is it?

I agree about Gandalf Beards breakfast, Hail Manwe. I only hope enough gets past him to reach my mouth and stomach, as apparently He is my Beard. Is it not so, dear Gandalfs Beard!? What a curious arrangement! But then again, this is known to be a curious forum, is it not!

You eat a lot for breakfast. You might get fat.

I don't eat like that all the time Henry, but I am a bit plump (sort of Bilbo shaped ).

[b:1u0dy4z2]GB[/b:1u0dy4z2]

Matter of fact, NOT eating breakfast can make you fat Henry. Since you don't eat breakfast, you tend to gourge the rest of the day because your so hungry, causing you to eat more, and thus, get fat
I would consider myself a Hobbit (though I'm MUCH too tall to be one...) simply because i eat eleventies and second breakfasts ALL THE TIME! Though, unlike Pippin, I'm more likely to grow upwards, not sideways

I don't know what is up with my body, but most days I go without eating breakfast or lunch. I have no hunger from when I wake up for about... six or eight hours and only have a nice and somewhat early dinner.

It's probably because I drink way too many fluids. So many fluids.

No breakfast, Durin? How are you meant to think clearly and happily without (at least) one breakfast? I am a creature of (good) habits. Nothing like surviving yet another Long-Dark-Night-of-The-Soul and fortifying one's Mental Reserves with a good old fashioned Brain-Enhancing fry-up - or at least a steaming bucket of porridge with sprinkled salt (or sugar if you're a bit of a nancy-boy!) and an apple (fibre, son!)

(I hope Henry is listenning too. Don't want him learning bad habits! )

[i:b1b2yty9]"Every morning and every night,
I pack my tum so very tight,
I eat until I nearly burst,
That's how I cope with life's foul worst!" [/i:b1b2yty9]

That's what I always sing at night to cheer me through the sleepless hours (or will from now on ). We're simple folk where I come from. Food cures every ill in Rushock Bog.

Are your sleeping (and eating ) habits your [i:mzek9hwr]work[/i:mzek9hwr]ing habits?

Err... what's a 'code monkey', pray tell?

I don't care what anyone else says, I would love to be called a Code Monkey. Wonderful term. Textured in meaning, too. Love it! I would steal it for use in one of my books, passing it off as an original idea, but sadly I would clearly be caught out. (Mind you, Wise Odo will no doubt find a spot for it. Wisey is a shameless channeller as you know!)

Anyway, does your Code Monkeyhood cause your peculiar sleep-eat habits, and perhaps be a bit of a catalyst for all this Spiritual-struggling you appear to be doing? (I am a Hobbit from Australia, Durin. Tell me to f#*k off if you feel I'm dragging your dirty (spiritual?) linen out into the public and don't like it! Telling me to f#*k off won't stop me doing such [i:1044hy4b]dragging[/i:1044hy4b], but it will certainly add a bit of drama to this Forum! As you'll probably guess, I will always place Entertainment before anyone's Mental (or Spiritual) Health! )