So here's a question. Without knowing anything else, if you are offered a breakfast choice of waffles, pancakes or french toast, which one do you pick?
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sep 12, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Ooh! I'd pick french toast, as simply my favorite of the three.
sep 12, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles. More work so I'm less likely to make them.
sep 12, 2025, 6:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Also, oddly, harder for a restaurant to screw up.
sep 12, 2025, 6:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I had no idea. Would you be willing to explain why?
sep 12, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Just in my experience as a customer! I've more often gotten soggy pancakes or French toast. Possibly because waffle irons have timers?
sep 12, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
French toast!
sep 12, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
This is a fixin's dependent question. Waffles if there is fruit and other stuff to fit into all the square holes.
sep 12, 2025, 12:48 pm • 2 0 • view
French toast
sep 12, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
French toast
sep 12, 2025, 12:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Embracing the power of AND, here.
sep 12, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
French toast
sep 12, 2025, 12:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Since I'm gluten free I would refuse the breakfast
sep 12, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Pancakes. We make french toast for dinner periodically and no one else’s can compete with my husbands.
sep 12, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles! Mostly because I don’t make them as often as I’d like due to laziness.
sep 12, 2025, 4:12 pm • 1 0 • view
French toast is an obsession of mine so this is an easy question. 😂
sep 12, 2025, 3:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles.
sep 12, 2025, 7:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Mood and topping dependent: fist choice would be between pancakes and waffles, followed by French toast. It really depends on whether I trust the waffle will be GOOD. Pancakes over bad waffles, but GOOD waffles win.
sep 12, 2025, 12:46 pm • 2 0 • view
And if it is, say, on a buffet, I’m going for the eggs first because I will want the protein. Then followed by whichever looks least floppy/terrible, so likely pancakes.
sep 12, 2025, 12:49 pm • 5 0 • view
I'm a lot pickier now that I own a Mickey Mouse waffle iron and have sourced Golden Malted mix, so I can make my own Mickey waffles at home.
sep 12, 2025, 9:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Why must I suffer this cruel choice?! 😭
sep 12, 2025, 8:37 pm • 1 0 • view
This is a very high-risk decision. The French toast could be eggy. The waffles could be soggy. The pancakes could be tough. I have to glean information from my surroundings. Am I in a diner? Pancakes. A fancy hotel? Waffles. Grandma’s house? French toast.
sep 12, 2025, 12:55 pm • 5 0 • view
Waffles
sep 12, 2025, 12:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Right this moment the answer is pancakes.
sep 12, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Depends on what I want today?
sep 12, 2025, 10:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles!
sep 12, 2025, 1:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Pancakes. I’ve had soggy waffles and French toast that was basically scrambled eggs, but pancakes are harder to screw up.
sep 12, 2025, 4:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Likely default to waffles but realistically I would likely ask some clarifying questions instead (like "real or Eggo?"), and my answer might change if we had waffles the day before.
sep 12, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
French toast because you always go for the thing that takes mucho effort to get right if doing it yourself. See the rule of making croissants from scratch.
sep 12, 2025, 12:46 pm • 8 0 • view
Pancakes for me, though that’s a pretty tough choice 😄
sep 12, 2025, 1:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles. Less likely for a waffle iron to have mammal meat contamination than a griddle.
sep 12, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Pancakes because I can make French toast myself. Waffles can be too dry.
sep 12, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles, if I know nothing else. Because I'd have to ask what kind of bread they're using to make the french toast.
sep 12, 2025, 8:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles. Because I lack a waffle iron at home.
sep 12, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Pancakes unless I know what sort of bread is used in the French Toast. But I much prefer eggs for breakfast.
sep 12, 2025, 1:34 pm • 2 0 • view
French toast
sep 12, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
EVERY. DANG. TIME
sep 12, 2025, 3:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Waffles are just pancakes with abs.
sep 12, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
French toast, although preferably a savoury version rather than sweet
sep 12, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Pancakes is the safest move, but I’ll go with waffles because I can tolerate soggy waffles and the upside they are good to excellent is there. French toast has the highest variability in quality but also the most potential to be outstanding.
sep 12, 2025, 1:40 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't care it's not bacon.
sep 12, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Pancakes
sep 12, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Think in this case I gotta go pancakes, but no more information makes this a very fraught choice (as I'm the kind of guy who usually knows what I'm ordering before I walk into a restaurant...)
sep 12, 2025, 1:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Pancakes without hesitation.
sep 12, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles
sep 12, 2025, 8:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Pancakes. For me it's the safest choice to get something I'm willing to eat.
sep 12, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Hmm. Waffles are the most topping dependent, so they're out, even though the waffle itself is the hardest to fuck up. Mediocre pancakes can usually be salvaged by the application of concerning qualities of butter and maple syrup, but we don't have any guarantee those are available. So, french toast.
sep 12, 2025, 7:58 pm • 3 0 • view
This was precisely my thought process too
sep 12, 2025, 7:59 pm • 2 0 • view
I guess it says something about me that I am happier at the thought of choking down bad french toast that simply could not be salvaged than pancakes that COULD be improved if only the appropriate equipment was to hand.
sep 12, 2025, 8:00 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't eat eggs, so French toast was the first off my list. Way too easy to make it into scrambled eggs stuck onto bread.
sep 12, 2025, 8:14 pm • 2 0 • view
See, I eat eggs and toast so that is not great but manageable; the too wet variant is less palatable but usually slithers down the throat fairly quickly, unlike overly thick, dry pancakes.
sep 12, 2025, 8:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Pancakes. I want to say French toast because I prefer that, but I've had it too often where the egg cooked and tasted metallic.
sep 12, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
French toast
sep 12, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
With just this information, French toast now, French toast tomorrow, French toast forever
sep 12, 2025, 1:34 pm • 14 0 • view
I remember when you invented "Return of food twitter". At least for one thread, I seem to have invented "Return of food Bluesky"
sep 12, 2025, 4:29 pm • 3 0 • view
So satisfying
sep 12, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
correct
sep 12, 2025, 3:04 pm • 3 0 • view
Is it weird that I like my French toast eggy? Like omelette or scrambies are my first choices because protein but French toast for me is the eggier the better
sep 12, 2025, 4:22 pm • 5 0 • view
My favourite piece is usually the last one that I pour the leftover eggy milk mixture over top of.
sep 12, 2025, 7:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I like the full range from lightly eggy French toast to "this is basically a custard with some bread in it," so no, I don't think you're weird for this.
sep 12, 2025, 4:32 pm • 5 0 • view
We were having a similar conversation last night. I like all of them, but I can't usually eat more than 2 or 3 bites. They're too filling. If I had to choose, though, I'd probably go with French toast.
sep 12, 2025, 10:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles (so long as we're talking about waffles made fresh in a waffle iron, and not frozen ones that go in the toaster).
sep 12, 2025, 2:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Pancakes. Dont like waffles and French Toast has such wide variation.
sep 12, 2025, 3:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Pancakes
sep 12, 2025, 12:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Pancakes are the hardest of the three to fuck up badly, at least in my estimation. Nothin beats some really good French Toast, but it's a tall hill to climb.
sep 12, 2025, 12:48 pm • 4 0 • view
Waffles - better texture.
sep 12, 2025, 12:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Scrambled eggs. Gluten free is a MFer at breakfast...
sep 12, 2025, 1:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Probably French Toast. (Do you have real maple syrup?) 🙃
sep 12, 2025, 1:11 pm • 5 0 • view
that is outside the bounds of the question, but personally, since discovering the goodness of real maple syrup, I can't stand sugar syrup.
sep 12, 2025, 1:12 pm • 4 0 • view
It spoils you forever, & you haunt Costco until their jugs arrive. Another choice? A thin smear of local honey. Honestly, most of the time I would not take any of them if I didn't know the place. Kerby Lane in Austin? Gingerbread pancakes. My place, you want French toast made with oatmeal bread.
sep 12, 2025, 1:14 pm • 5 0 • view
We have marionberry syrup but I can’t have much.
sep 12, 2025, 1:16 pm • 2 0 • view
due to my allergies, I have to be careful around a lot of berries (so I did not try them when I was in the PNW)
sep 12, 2025, 1:17 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m sorry. We do have a lot of nice berries here.
sep 12, 2025, 4:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I said French toast initially but y'all are reminding me that swedish pancakes with lingonberries exist.
sep 12, 2025, 4:23 pm • 3 0 • view
You can put lingonberries (whole or in a jam) on French toast, too. Actually, add a bit of salt & pepper and you've got some French toast JJ-style. patrickjohanneson.com/2017/01/19/m...
sep 12, 2025, 4:33 pm • 4 0 • view
Oh yeah i put lingonberries on lots of things. Swedish pancakes are especially good, tho.
sep 12, 2025, 4:51 pm • 3 0 • view
This does not change my initial answer tho. French toast stands a better chance of being good if you don't know anything abiut the cook. Like in cake vs. pie, good cake is the best but bad cake is exponentially worse than bad pie.
sep 12, 2025, 5:04 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh, sympathies. I love berries and miss them right now.
sep 12, 2025, 1:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, true berry syrup can be lovely. I like fresh fruit with maple syrup--just a couple of lovely thin lines cross the toast/waffles diagonally--and it's perfect. (I know people who like whipped cream, too, my Dad did.) He had a Mickey mouse waffle iron to make for the grandkids and all. :)
sep 12, 2025, 1:38 pm • 3 0 • view
Sugar syrup has its place, but that place is NOT on top of breakfast carbs.
sep 12, 2025, 8:28 pm • 2 0 • view
The Quebecer in me loves this conversation! Even when my wife and I were students on a limited budget, we still bought maple syrup. And real vanilla extract for baking, the artificial version just doesn’t pass muster.
sep 12, 2025, 1:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Ditto. Saved a&scraped for the real thing. For years, Adams made a double vanilla that was the rage for cookies, down south. It was a respected spice line. Ever tried a jar of real vanilla paste? Great way to get the real thing at a less than hysterical price. (Vanilla is labor intensive, so...)
sep 12, 2025, 1:42 pm • 2 0 • view
73 years old and TIL that vanilla paste exists! Thanks! 😊
sep 12, 2025, 1:55 pm • 1 0 • view
It did, I used to buy it to make sure baking was so worth it. Hope it still does!
sep 12, 2025, 1:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Pancakes.
sep 12, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
neither
sep 12, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
French toast followed closely by waffles, but also the other way around depending on the available toppings.
sep 12, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Waffles, but only because they're the one I don't make for myself.
sep 12, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles!
sep 12, 2025, 4:17 pm • 3 0 • view
If I can get all gluten-free, it depends on how hungry I am. French toast if I want something solid, otherwise probably pancakes. I wouldn't actually turn down a waffle and my whims may direct me that way but it's probably the least likely.
sep 12, 2025, 4:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Waffles if they're not Belgian. French Toast if it's well soaked.
sep 12, 2025, 10:04 pm • 1 0 • view
French toast for me, but I like them all
sep 12, 2025, 4:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Pancakes!
sep 12, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
In the US, it’d have to be French toast. The other two are considered dessert where I was raised.
sep 12, 2025, 3:13 pm • 1 0 • view
French toast because that the closest I can get to eggs. Carbs are not a good breakfast choice for me. I spin up like a top, crash, and am starving an hour later.
sep 12, 2025, 4:15 pm • 4 0 • view
Honestly, if the choice is carbs or fast till lunch, I’ll be in better shape fasting.
sep 12, 2025, 4:17 pm • 2 0 • view
This has been me since I was a kid. I used to describe pancakes as "they don't stick with you" before I understood white flour Luckily for me I've developed a taste for whole grains, including in pancakes and French toast
sep 12, 2025, 4:20 pm • 4 0 • view
If I have to do carbs, my preference is always whole grains, and that definitely cuts the edge, but I still get into trouble. I am very biologically programmed for protein and my blood work always looks much better if I stay in that lane.
sep 12, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, my breakfast ideal is eggs of some form, a vegetarian sausage, and sauteed greens (spinach or kale). I enjoy carbs and am by no means anti-carb, but if I don't have my carbs with protein I will be in trouble. Hypoglycemia is a symptom not a cause but apparently being prone to it is a thing
sep 12, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I used to run quite well on carbs, but since the Mounjaro, carbs cause me to get the sleepies. I also don't crave them like I used to. That drug is such proof that fat people's bodies literally don't work the same way as thin people's bodies.
sep 12, 2025, 8:26 pm • 4 0 • view
Bodies are so weird. I LOVE carbs, it’s just eating them as anything but an accent is genuinely bad for me.
sep 12, 2025, 9:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Genuinely bad for everyone in excess, really. I would eat so much sugar and my body was just like, "Great! Thanks for the energy, go eat more!" and I could go full tilt for hours. Meanwhile, my body was also saving all the extra on my ass because WHAT IF THE CARBS STOPPED?!?
sep 12, 2025, 9:36 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s not even in excess for me. Basically, any regular eating of pasta or noodle dishes or bread even in moderation is not great for me.
sep 12, 2025, 9:40 pm • 1 0 • view
French toast. I might change my choice if I have more specifics, but sight unseen it'll be French toast.
sep 12, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles, then French toast. Pancakes probably have enough baking powder in their mix to trigger my acid reflux.
sep 12, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
If they're crepe-thing pancakes, I go with those. If I'm not allowed to know, then waffles. Waffles are the hardest to mess up.
sep 12, 2025, 3:03 pm • 10 0 • view
Crepe thing, You make my heart sing, You come with everything, And Nutella. . . .
sep 12, 2025, 3:10 pm • 6 0 • view
Crepe-thin! Darned autocorrect.
sep 12, 2025, 3:08 pm • 8 0 • view
To be fair, "crepe-thing" sounds entirely Wiswellian, and I'm more than half expecting it to feature in an upcoming novel.
sep 12, 2025, 3:11 pm • 2 0 • view
I think we need a crepe-thing story, John, I really believe that.
sep 12, 2025, 4:11 pm • 2 0 • view
For Crepe's sake, I think she's right, John
sep 12, 2025, 4:13 pm • 1 0 • view
CREPE THING COMES IN THE NIGHT CREPE THING WANTS TO KNOW IF YOU’D LIKE SAVIRY IR SWEET
sep 12, 2025, 3:10 pm • 9 0 • view
Pancakes. If nothing else it'll give me a strong hint as to which continent you've got me on.
sep 12, 2025, 1:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Pancakes (before I was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition that requires me to answer "none of the above.")
sep 12, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles, please
sep 12, 2025, 3:20 pm • 2 0 • view
In order waffles, French toast, pancakes But this is a list of my absolute fave breakfasts
sep 12, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Pancakes
sep 12, 2025, 12:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Pancakes without hesitation. Well unless the waffles smell awfully good, which can certainly happen
sep 12, 2025, 8:37 pm • 1 0 • view
French toast. Love French toast
sep 12, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
French toast.
sep 12, 2025, 12:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I'd say waffles. They're the most forgiving. I prefer French toast, but bad French toast is worse than bad waffles.
sep 12, 2025, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Easy. Pancakes, every time.
sep 12, 2025, 3:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles. Love a waffle. Even a disappointing waffle is pretty good.
sep 12, 2025, 1:44 pm • 1 0 • view
french toast from these three choices
sep 12, 2025, 2:56 pm • 1 0 • view
French toast. Reminds me of my grandma.
sep 12, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
French toast!
sep 12, 2025, 1:18 pm • 5 0 • view
French toast, absent other details.
sep 12, 2025, 4:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Waffles (though it's pretty close with pancakes). French toast only if I trust the person making it (Iove french toast, but bad french toast is awful).
sep 12, 2025, 2:58 pm • 2 0 • view
French toast.
sep 12, 2025, 1:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Team Pancake.
sep 12, 2025, 12:45 pm • 5 0 • view
And I know that if I pick waffles you will probably pick something else so we can share
sep 12, 2025, 1:56 pm • 5 0 • view
FRENCH TOAAAST
sep 12, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
French toast. Also I just realised I have everything for french toast right now.
sep 12, 2025, 7:18 pm • 1 0 • view
so you hate eggs
sep 12, 2025, 1:56 pm • 17 0 • view
and croissants
sep 12, 2025, 2:00 pm • 5 0 • view
And the porridge erasure is blatant.
sep 12, 2025, 2:17 pm • 6 0 • view
If you put porridge in a waffle iron it becomes waffles.
sep 12, 2025, 10:05 pm • 2 0 • view
And yet somehow, whether you wanted porridge or waffles, it'll leave you disappointed.
sep 12, 2025, 10:09 pm • 2 0 • view
I don’t know why I immediately started hearing that talking toaster from Red Dwarf asking, “Do you want some waffles?” In my mind. You win. What, I don’t know, but you win.
sep 13, 2025, 2:57 am • 3 0 • view
French toast
sep 12, 2025, 9:34 pm • 1 0 • view
youtu.be/eDU0CTDMk2g?.... 1. At first, I couldn't believe that no one had posted this yet. 2. Then I remembered that I'm old enough to be nostalgic for the early YouTube days of 2008-2009. 3. Waffles. All day, every day.
sep 12, 2025, 2:29 pm • 2 0 • view
If we're having candy for breakfast might as well have a Coke and a Snickers.
sep 12, 2025, 4:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Generally, no thank you lol 😅 But if I had to, pancakes.
sep 12, 2025, 1:00 pm • 2 0 • view