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I've never tried this and don't particularly want to. I don't like eating in bed. Why is this held as a standard of plush luxury?

― andy --, Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

I love breakfast in bed. I'll get up, put on my robe, and make some soft boiled eggs and some toast and tea and then bring it back to the bedroom on a little platter with the paper. Then I get back in bed and fight the cats off, get warm again and pass back out.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

one time i woke up hungover to find chicken bones all over my floor, from what i assume was a drunken 4am food run. that was really the closest i ever got to breakfast in bed. michael and i lead very different lives.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 28 July 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Australian McDonalds breakfast (bacon + egg mcmuffin meal with coke instead of coffee and oreo mcflurry) in bed with dvd playing, preceded by a whole lot of codiene, is certainly some form of earthly heaven.

nb: oreo mcflurry can not be substituted. breakfast dessert rules!

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

HELS YEAH!!!!!!!!

― !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I tend to prefer supper in bed, cos once I've got up to make breakfast there doesn't seem much point hauling it back upstairs.

― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

When I think of bed, I think of loose strands of hair, spots of blood here and there, dried spit (or worse) on the pillow. It doesn't strike me as a particulary suitable dining area.

― andy -, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

What are you doing, dismembering bodies?

― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

dude, its not like yr spreading your grits out on the sheets. try plates.

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― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Looks like Andy likes to eat something completely different for breakfast. ;-)

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

andy, what motel are you staying at?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

What, do you guys sleep hovering on a sheet of virgin muslin? Beds are gnarly places, full of fluids and vermin. Don't eat there.

― andy --, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

I have a loft bed - it's up a ladder. Getting breakfast into bed is a rather precarious affair.

I highly recommend Soleros in bed though.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

My stomach is a gnarly place full of fluids and vermin.

― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

This is my secret pleasure when I stay in hotels for work. Get up early, order room service, eat breakfast and watch cable tv.

It's not worth doing at home, because I don't want to get my bed dirtier than it already is and because there's no tv in my room.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

The whole institution seems like a bad Hallmark ad too. Cute towheaded rugrats make a bumbling attempt at scrambled eggs to bring in to the folks on their anniversary... a note with lots of backwards S's and a drawing of the cat, etc. Domestic bliss makes me want to hurl.

― andy --, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I guess it's a good song. I should post my entire itunes playlist here and on ilm, I guess.

― Carol Stream (dymaxia), Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

(It's really happiness I hate... sniff.)

― andy -, Thursday, 28 July 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Beds are gnarly places, full of fluids and vermin. Don't eat there.

Well, it depends how often you change your sheets.

When I was a teenager, my mother used to make me breakfast in bed every day I was off school. I had to tell her to stop it, because it was making me feel guilty. She still gets my dad breakfast in bed whenever he's not at work, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 28 July 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

it makes for an awesome dusty springfield song

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

... and a crappy UB40 cover

― elmo (allocryptic), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

... and a crappy UB40 cover

Tautological.

― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Thursday, 28 July 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

i used to bring my mommy breakfast in bed on special occasions when i was a wee nipper. now i make my man bring me breakfast in bed... EVERY MORNING! he's well trained.

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

i used to do this for my parents when friends slept over. we made them disgusting things, but not on purpose. bless. (oatmeal with gummy bears, runny runny runny scrambled eggs, etc. etc.)

― ai lien (kold_krush), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

I have never eaten breakfast in bed. Even breakfast on the couch in front of the TV seems like an accident waiting to happen.

I used to enjoy oatmeal with gummy bears, but it was a kind of oatmeal that was sold with the gummy bears. I don't think adding normal gummy bears would have worked quite as well.

― Stan Fields (Stan Fields), Thursday, 28 July 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

ew crumbs in bed, TOTAL DUD.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 28 July 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

Crumbs in bed are dud but brekky in bed is awesome. I have very sweet memories of staying at my nan and grandad's house in Canberra when I was a kid as a weekend treat, and on saturday morning my nan's little head would peer round the door and trot in bearng a plate piled up with hand-cut thick toast spread with chunks of good, real butter. And a cup of tea or some juice. The bed was unnaturally soft and dreamy and it was just wonderful.

Hangover days I'll often have an in-bed recovery meal of codiene, a bottle of V and a bag of microwave popcorn, heh. I then spend a week fishing popcorn bits out of the sheets.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 July 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

i find eating in bed kinda revolting, but then i think watching tv in bed is revolting too. i'm not the sort of person to spend any time in bed unless i'm sleeping or taking part in sanctioned bedroom activities.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 28 July 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

yeah i get mega-bored in bed about 5 minutes after i wake up too. i'd rather be up and about and having my cup of tea and toast at the kitchen table. although i do have a telly in my room these days, but it acts as an electronic lullaby when i'm going to sleep (this takes a maximum of about 5 minutes) rather than something i actually 'watch' per se.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 28 July 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

I wish someone would make me breakfast in bed. I would love that. With eggs and beans and tatty scones. Instead I am going to wake up tomorrow to honey nut loops and not-quite-enough milk.

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 29 July 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

It would be nice but it doesn't happen anymore. I'm up by 8:00 even on lazy days, and my wimmens sleep til 10 a.m. (or 2 p.m. in my daughter's case).

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 July 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

I think that the whole point of breakfast in bed is that someone else makes it for you. It's pretty silly if you get up, make breakfast, then go back to bed.

(It's different if it's Lazy Bad Dinner in bed watching TV. Which I usually do in bed. In fact, I do most things in bed. If I had my way, my whole room would be nothing but bed.)

I think it's viewed as such luxury because it's associated with the "now I have cooked for you... so now you must make the sex with me!"

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

That definitely isn't the case when it's your mother making it.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

Well, when she cooks it for you dad, it might well be!

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

My parents definitely do not have sex. The possibility that they do is too horrifying to contemplate.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

I think it's viewed as such luxury because it's associated with the "now I have cooked for you... so now you must make the sex with me!"

i thought the normally association is "now i've made sex with you, you should make me breakfast"?

i have never had the breakfast in bed but it sounds great (with or without the sex) because i'm lazy.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

We used to make my mum breakfast in bed every sunday morning - it was how I learnt to use the coffee maker (before I ever drank coffee). It became increasingly difficult for the whole family to sit on the bed and not spill tea, crumbs, jam etcetera everywhere though.

Therefore any association of breakfast-in-bed with sex is WRONG and SICK and I will not hear it.

― spontine (cis), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

especially if it's chicken congee for breakfast. yum

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

I've often thought that, should I have someone in my bed, it would be nice to get up, make us both breakfast, then get back in bed with them to eat it together.

The flaws in this plan are a) I am perennially single b) I'm not very good at making breakfast.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

There was no breakfast in bed in my family! That would be shocking and horrible! Breakfast in bed is all about your partner going out and getting the chocolate croissants as a courtship offer to make you mate with them. I will hear no disgusting Freudian family breakfasts!

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:20 (twenty years ago)

btw: if there's sex involve it really should proceed before the any breakfast is made. otherwise either plates get everywhere or you'd have to first tidy-up and by then you may as well get up.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

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― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

chicken congee == hangover breakfast of the GODS. but I would be too afraid of spilling it to eat it in bed.

― spontine (cis), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

and it seems strange that if you've already been in bed with them you still need a courtship offer before making the sex (i mean, being in the same bed as me pretty much already makes the sex irresistable to the girls *nudge nudge wink wink*)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

I wish someone would make me breakfast in bed. I would love that. With eggs and beans and tatty scones. Instead I am going to wake up tomorrow to honey nut loops and not-quite-enough milk.

This is a heartbreaking "wish I had lipstick on my shirt instead of piss-stains on my shoes" for our times.

Two flatmates of mine and I used to take turns to take tea and toast to each other's beds at the start of my second year at university. It was nice while it lasted.

This thread inspired me to wash my sheets last night.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

chicken congee == hangover breakfast of the GODS. but I would be too afraid of spilling it to eat it in bed.

oh yeah, you'll need a big bowl, and possibly a tray.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

Breakfast in bed should ideally involve slippery, gooey, sensual foods, so that you can start off eating sensibly but end up smearing all over each other's bodies in a frenzy of morning rampant-ness.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Sigh. I'm even less likely to get breakfast in bed than I am to get the sexing at this point. But a girl can dream, right?

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

i don't like eating in non-traditional positions.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

Kate, you're a hell of a lot more likely to get teh sexing than *I* am.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

I think having someone bringing you breakfast in bed is just about the #1 best thing about having a girlfriend, thinking about it.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I would like to be Amanda Platell's breakfast in bed...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I think you misspelled "kinky BDSM slave" there, Marcello.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

I never did post back to that kinkiest perversions thread, did I?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

I'm more likely to become a Naval Sea Captain than to get teh sexing any time soon. But then again, Captain Anderson had his very own galley, and his very own servant to make him breakfast, so he could have breakfast in bed any time he wanted.

Though it might be very hard to eat anything in a standard issue hammock:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/MinervaSnape/Jared%20Harris/0000303654-006.jpg

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

Given that noone mentioned Amanda Platell, clearly not ;-)

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I can imagine hammock sex being tricky too.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

EATIN BACON OFF YOUR LADIES ASS.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Blimey! I was expecting to get "your search, "Jared Harris" +breakfast returned no records, but instead I now have this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/MinervaSnape/Jared%20Harris/bbd83b89.jpg

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Will this madness never end?

Breakfast in bed alone is the height of pointlessness, as detailed above. Breakfast in bed with someone else is U&K. Since I love cooking for people ANYWAY, making breakfast for two, taking it up to my darlin' in bed, us both eating it, then making with the luv is one of the best things evah. You're right though, you have to be careful with eplates, and it does seem a lot of effort - it may be easier to get up, but not as fun.

Also, does anyone else get backache if they sit up for too long in bed? If it takes 20 mins to eat a good breakfast and drink your mug of tea, then that's 20 mins of your back in a really uncomfortable position, which, quite frankly, isn't worth any amount of sexxxing.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't really mind if I'm alone in bed eating as long as it is brought to me. I guess that makes me a wanker.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but that's why I have so many pillows on my bed! You've seen the sheer ridiculous number of them that I have!

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

You do have an awful lot of pillows. I suppose if I was being propped at a conveniant angle it would be fine, but I have limited number of pillows on my bed (you haven't seen my bed, have you?) because otherwise they get in the way of my tossing and turning.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

No, actually, I don't think I saw your bed. No fair! Get some more pillows already. That's what they're for. Also, when my housemate saw my propensity for being in bed no matter what I was doing, he got me a padded headboard which makes it even more comfy.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

anything that gets in the way of tossing in bed is a bad thing

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but you can chuck pillows about with abandon as you thrash! Even better, if you are feeling like the world HAAAATES you, you can hug pillows as you sleep. Which I usually do.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

aw, i do love hugging pillows, although lately (since the weather is warm and there's no need for covering with duvet) duvet hugging has been even better, more cushin for the pushin

also a padded headboard is clearly an offering in exchange for oral sex

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

I have breakfast in bed every morning! But only because my flat is cold.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

t's different if it's Lazy Bad Dinner in bed watching TV

Haha I had a great time with this once. I was playing SimCity on my laptop in bed, and I got up and made myself a huge bowl of gooey mac n cheese (homemade!). I sat back down on the bed, lost me balance, and upended the entire bowl of goo all over myself and my doona :( Luckily it all missed the laptop! But not my lap :( Wot a mess.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

My housemate is recently married!

Also, well, he's a nice enough bloke and all, but... ugh!

No, I don't think so. The Welshman put it up for me. Before he stole my shoes and I hate him for that.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

I take my man breakfast-in-bed every single morning (though it is not exciting breakfast in bed, only coffee and toast) because he cannot wake up properly otherwise. He's really extraordinarily bad at mornings, and needs all the help he can get or else he'd never get to work at all.

Lovely lazy Sunday morning proper breakfast-in-bed is fabulous though, and worth the risk of the occasional stray toast crumb in the sheets. Heaven.

― C J (C J), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

i don't like eating in non-traditional positions.
-- lauren (warmleatherett...), July 29th, 2005.

i'm reading nothing into this.

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 July 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

one of uncle monty's complaints in 'withnail' is against "breakfasts that set in". i'm not entirely sure what he means, but i agree with him.

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 July 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

My lady and I take it in turns to make breakfast for each other and we always have breakfast in bed with The Today Programme - but then again we don't really have anywhere else other than the bed or sofa to eat on.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

dinner in bed whilst watching In Bed With Me Dinner. c/d

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

(also kebab in bed whilst watching In Bed With Ma Doner, obv)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

i'm not a fan of eating while reclining, i suppose. it's uncomfortable and it feels like i'm not digesting properly. also, i don't like the balancing act involved.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

i totally agree -- it's kind of hard with nowehre to put stuff, dealing with condiments...

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 July 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

In Bed With Me Dinner - see Bob Mills, eat dinner twice.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 July 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Breakfasts that set in: breakfasts that splurge messily and cholestrol-ridden all over the morning and merge into lunchtime, I presume.

On occasion Matt brings me breakfast in bed. I am a fan of the gesture more than the reality - because I'm very very picky about how I like my tea, my toast, my cereal, my eggs... everything in fact. I would make it for him more often, but his breakfast of choice is porridge made with water, something I can hardly bear to look at, let alone prepare.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

i always imagined breakfasts that set in to be some sort of leaden wholegrain health cereal/porridge.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Aha, maybe! Just like Matt's disgusting porridge then really.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

also i just realised my most frequent breakfast is sweet sweet instant ramen, which pretty much guarentees to splash everywhere when eaten in bed. although the bowl/chopsticks situation is easier to do than plate + knife and fork. (bowl one hand, chopsticks the other)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Porridge made with water is OK, but the best porridge is made from water, but with lots of ginger added.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

I put a pinch of garam masala in my porridge. But it is made with oats and with milk.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

i think a breakfast that sets in involves the bloated modern sunday paper, excessive food, a lost morning. i don't even eat breakfast beyond coffee -- *maybe* toast. i had coffee in bed today, maybe that counts.

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 July 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

My ex used to bring me coffee in bed, most mornings. (At least the days I wasn't working.) OK, he had his uses. The pointy-nosed, beardy bastard.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I can see how garam masala would work rather well in porridge. Milky porridge is a bit too fatty for me, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

haha i make coffee for the missus, maybe i am not *so* bad...

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 July 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

how pointy is your nose?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 29 July 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

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