breakfast blogger

I have no idea why this Comfort Inn location is referred to as the “Taj Mahal”, but I don’t really care - it just seemed to me to be a part of the United States of America’s global appropriation strategy. I was in Vermont for 1 night, with my mom, and we just needed a place to sleep. And then of course have breakfast!

Our stay at the lovely “Taj Mahal” Comfort Inn in in sleepy St. Johnsbury, Vermont included complementary continental breakfast. I was a little confused at the geographical contradictions implied by the hotel, seeing as the wikipedia entry on breakfast, subsection 4.5.1, defines continental breakfast as “an institutional meal plan based on lighter Mediterranean breakfast traditions”. We all know (I hope) that the “Taj Mahal” is in India. A South Asian breakfast would have been pretty cool, but instead we would have to settle for a Mediterranean-themed start to our day. Life could be worse.

Of course, I was in the United States of America, where excess and obesity is the norm (even in Vermont!), so this was a actually more of a breakfast buffet - with no Mediterranean theme in sight. Besides a bowl of slowly rotting apples, which was the almost the only healthy food in the room, there was a dispenser offering unlimited quantities of cereals such as some sort of generic Kaptain Krunch, pictured below:

I passed on the cereal once I saw that there was a Do-It-Yourself waffle machine, which is so highly-regarded by the Comfort Inn people that they have a waffle pictured on the main page of their website. After pumping a generous amount of batter into a cardboard cup from the waffle-batter dispenser,you pour it into the waffle machine, flip it, and start the timer.

Exactly two minutes later you get your waffle - W A F F L E T A S T I C ! !

I shared a waffle with my mom and also had a stale roll with a dimple in the middle, otherwise known outside of Montreal as a bagel.

I had mine with a sliced hard boiled egg. MMMmm….

I was tempted to have 15 or 16 doughnuts for dessert, but I decided to hold off until later.

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