• Does Hardee’s Serve Biscuits and Gravy at Night?

    One of the questions I got on this site recently was, “Does Hardee’s serve biscuits and gravy at night?” As I wrote about in Everything I Know About Breakfast, Hardee’s is the clear fast-food breakfast winner, but I didn’t actually know the answer so I had to look it up. I could not find this…

  • Everything I Know About Breakfast

    Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It’s named after the end to the pause most of take in eating overnight. This pause is called a “fast” and in the morning, the fast is broken, hence “breakfast”. Some people pronounce breakfast as “breafkast”, which is acceptable up until the age of 18 and after…

  • Today in 1994: A Story

    This is my attempt to tell you what I did on January 19, 2012 using only the language available in 1994: I woke up this morning at 5:20, a full 10 minutes before the alarm clock on my dresser was to go off. My wife didn’t want the alarm to wake the baby so she…