Your fast food day starts early and peaks before most people are properly awake. You know the breakfast cutoff at every place nearby, you’ve made it with ninety seconds to spare, and you consider a hash brown a complete thought.
You like mornings done properly: the same sandwich, the same drink, the same order you could place half asleep. Warm muffin, crisp hash brown, coffee strong enough to count. Breakfast gets your full attention because it deserves it.
Lunch is fine. Dinner happens. But nothing on the rest of the menu quite matches that first order of the day, and you would happily see breakfast served until midnight. Every time a rumor about all-day breakfast goes around, you allow yourself to be cautiously hopeful.
Your copycat move: make breakfast at home on the days you miss the cutoff. Copycat breakfast sandwiches, burritos and pancakes are some of the easiest dupes to get right, and most come together faster than the morning line moves. Cook a batch on Sunday and the cutoff stops being your problem.
