There are a handful of dads who are great cooks all around and who cook often in the household. For the most part, dads don’t cook, and if they do, it’s not exactly the best tasting meal that has been prepared. However, for some peculiar reason, dads are the best breakfast cooks and know exactly how to flip that pancake or how to add the extra pizazz to that Greek omelette. Moms can cook very well and leave you stuffed with a huge smile on your face after a long day but then there are also those who are so bad that they can burn water and leave the family complaining about the food.
It's much more difficult to prepare lunch and dinner since you have to deal with keeping a variation of style of foods so that the family doesn’t go, “ Ah, meatloaf…. again…” and so that you can keep surprising your family with their favorite dish or with something that they haven't had in a while. Furthermore, dinner and lunch takes a lot longer to prepare and it’s something that the family is already waiting and have high expectations for because they are either coming back from work, school, or a sports practice and can’t wait to fill their stomachs with a gourmet four course meal. Dads took all this information in and immediately knew they shouldn’t mess with this area of cooking, instead, they chose the better option, breakfast.
Dads were sneaky enough to perfect the art of breakfast, a simple and easy meal that for the most part you prepare while everyone is sleeping, hungover, or spaced out. Dads all over the world realized that when it comes to breakfast, people are already expecting either pancakes, bagels, bacon, bread, coffee, omelettes, fruit juices, or waffles, so the best they can do is stick to a simple menu and get creative with it instead of having to deal with a much larger pool of food that is seen in dinners and lunches.
Since most dads are working throughout the week and aren’t at home in the mornings, you can’t do much breakfast wise except to eat some pop tarts, cereal, and every now and then maybe a bagel from around town. However, since dad breakfasts mostly happen weekend mornings, it’s such a rare moment and it adds an element of surprise that makes the meal so much better than it is. Dads have practiced the art of breakfast ever since they were in their 20's because they realized the quicker they started, the better they would get once their wives and kids would start building a specific taste and it would benefit them when moms would run out of cooking ideas.
Personally, my dad and many of my other friends’ dads’ are the people you go to when you want breakfast after a rough night or when you just want a bomb breakfast. Waking up to a Nutella filled baguette with a Spanish omelet and a side of bacon and freshly squeezed OJ could not put a bigger smile on your face, and it’s such a simple dish.
Dads, you really took something that everyone enjoys and snuck up on the moms to beat them at breakfast. Well played, well played.
