Cereal?!?!?! Eat a REAL breakfast - hard tack and coffee!
Oct 08 '01
The Bottom Line If you are tired of your cereals, there are many other low nutrition alternatives, including traditional ethnic foods.
If you are looking for a breakfast with a high sugar content and low nutritional value that is really bad for you, look no further than this traditional Hawaiian fare. Saloon Pilots and Coffee have been a mainstay of the Hawaiian breakfast since the days of the great whaling ships.
Hard Tack, in Hawai`i known as Saloon Pilot Cracker and known in Alaska as Pilot Bread, and their varients are found in places where the tall sailing ships of yore off-loaded their wares. Hawai`i was one of those places. Local bakeries were created to supply the ships with hard tack. These easily stored, compact wafers of carbohydrate became popular with the locals and quickly extablished themselves as part of the local cuisine.
In my, and many other local families, breakfast frequently consisted of two or three pilot crackers smashed into a bowl. Sugar was then scooped onto the crackers and hot coffee poured in. Then a little milk was added.
This was allowed to soften a bit and then eaten for breakfast. DELICIOUS!!! I still eat it when feeling a little "blue." It is considered Hawaiian "comfort food."
In lean times, the poorer families just had the cracker with black coffee.
Carbos and caffine - what a way to start your day! Who needs cereal when there is Hard Tack?!?!?!
Anyway, the Hawaiian islands did not grow any significant cereals in ancient times, so we were never blessed with a frosted flake industry, though a lot of flakes live in some of our more "interesting" areas and some of them seem to have gotten pretty frosted.
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