Because Carrie and I figured the rest of you were curious to know what happens when two high-powered civil rights attorneys use their finely-tuned analytical powers on important non-legal questions:*

Carrie:       where do children learn to put catsup on their eggs

Amy:         um, by osmosis by hanging around uncle tim?

Amy:         it’s disgusting, but it’s one of those great marital compromises . . .

Carrie:       lol

Amy:         for me it violates a sacred boundary:  between Breakfast Food and Not Breakfast Food

Amy:         now, you can eat Breakfast Food any time of the day

Carrie:       snort

Carrie:       i do put salsa on hashbrowns

Amy:         but you cannot mix Breakfast Food with Not Breakfast Food

Carrie:       so having leftover chinese food for breakfast is fine

Carrie:       just not if you add a bowl of cereal?

Amy:         yes

Amy:         for example, steak and eggs: wrong

Carrie:       i agree

Amy:         and scrambled eggs for dinner, also ok

Amy:         but scrambled eggs on pizza:  no

Carrie:       i agree

Amy:         ketchup is a Not Breakfast Food item

Amy:         putting it on eggs:  wrong

Carrie:       although we sometimes do have leftover donuts as dessert

Amy:         hmmm

Carrie:       but the dinner food is finished

Amy:         right!

Amy:         i think perhaps i need to refine the rule to say:  within any one course

Carrie:       plates cleared etc

Amy:         exactly

Amy:         you would not have, say, donuts covered with enchilada sauce

Carrie:       lol

Carrie:       because sometimes leftover donuts are not stale for dessert, but leaving for breakfast….

Amy:         excellent point!

Amy:         and i have no problem with cold leftovers for breakfast:  pizza; chinese; etc

Carrie:       right

Amy:         i bet people wonder how high-powered civil rights lawyers use their finely-tuned analytical powers on important non-legal questions…

Amy:         IOW, can I blog this?

Carrie:       snort

Carrie:       yes

Carrie:       non-leftover, non breakfast foods not acceptable for breakfast

Carrie:       unless it is a breakfast burrito

Carrie:       which has bacon or sausage

Amy:         wow – the breakfast burrito is right on the line

Amy:         yes you have to police it, though, to be sure it doesn’t have Not Breakfast Foods in it, like taco sauce

Carrie:       if bacon or sausage, it is breakfast

Amy:         yes

Carrie:       or chorizo

Amy:         if taco sauce + eggs:  wrong

Carrie:       hence, mcdonalds breakie burrito, wrong on many levels

Amy:         what does it have?

Carrie:       im not sure, but it comes with taco sauce

Amy:         blech

Amy:         wrong

Carrie:       plus from mcdonalds, wrong

Amy:         indeed

Amy:         but notice that we’ve isolated the actual tortilla itself as something that adeptly spans Breakfast Food and Not Breakfast Food

Amy:         hmmm

Amy:         further research may be required.

Carrie:       i think many bread items can be multipurpose

Carrie:       e.g. must be because I don’t go to the bread store often enough

Amy:         that’s true

Amy:         and rice porridge for breakie

Carrie:       true

Amy:         another starch that crosses boundaries

Carrie:       but eggs with rice, wrong

Amy:         agreed

* Lightly edited for order because, as I’m sure it will shock you to learn, Carrie and I constantly text over each other.