Raise your hand if you occasionally enjoy breakfast for dinner. No?
Want to throw life a change up — stop being so predictable and politically correct. Enter a diner or restaurant after 5 p.m. and ask your server for the breakfast menu. Order the home fries and two over easy eggs with toast and coffee then enjoy the endorphins rush.
Endorphins, natural chemicals released during activities like exercise, eating, sex, and laughter, produce euphoric mental highs. Imagine if lovemaking started with a small section of baklava or apple pie. Wait a minute, Meg Ryan as Sally in When Harry Met Sally wants to offer an opinion.
Oh…Oh god…Ooo Oh God…Oh…Sally: Oh…Oh…Oh God…Sally: Oh yeah right there Oh!Sally: Oh…Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes…Sally: Oh…Oh…Yes Yes Yes….Oh…Sally: Yes Yes Yes YesSally: Yes Yes…Oh…Oh… Oh..Sally: Oh God Oh… Oh.
Ryan’s deliciously funny fake deli orgasm in When Harry Met Sally remains a familiar and popular scene in film history — especially when a female customer (Director Rob Reiner’s mother, Estelle) nearby tells her server, “I’ll have what she’s having.”
The idea for this column developed last November when a female friend, Laura, and my son, stayed in a hotel outside the entrance of Manuel Antonio National Forest, in Quepos, Costa Rica. Lodging offered an adventurous menu, including sweet rolls and other baked goods.
A life-changing event occurred during one breakfast that started with a delicious slice of chocolate cake. Even snapped a photo because the moment registered as epiphany, an understanding that life lists as an extremely, extraordinary, short experience and that humans should abandon normalcy occasionally — stop being so predictable.
The column gained momentum on Christmas Day when a woman named, Barb, texted greetings. “This is the day of rest after our wonderful Christmas Day. I’m having dessert for breakfast!!!! That’s my tradition!!,” she wrote.
Barb, a late-developing life friend, included a photo of her dessert cake topped with strawberry icing. Her text included a promised piece of cake the next time she baked. (She should sign a promissory note).
With New Year’s resolutions still in play for some, (did you know that most are given up on by February) just start anew. I double chocolate cake dare you to try something exciting in 2026. Step outside your comfort zone. Smile at strangers or diversify your circle of friends. Have your cake and eat it, too.
As the saying offers, a journey of 1,000 miles or 80 years begins with pancakes for dinner.
L.A. Parker is a Trentonian columnist. Find him on Twitter @LAParker6 or email him at LAParker@Trentonian.com.