An alternative American breakfast could be cereal with milk, juice, and toast or pancakes or waffles with syrup and butter, juice, and white milk.

Telling your friends that you're "addicted" to, say, waffle fries may feel a bit less funny after reading the latest research on high-calorie foods.

Tailors and shoeshine boys worked from the gutter, and the air was filled with the smell of roast sesame seed from freshly baked buns, pancakes and waffles.