Phrase Encompassing Pancakes, Waffles and French Toast
I'm looking for a phrase that suggests and encompasses such breakfast items as pancakes/crêpes, waffles, and French toast. Essentially any batter- or dough-based foods typically associated with breakfast.
I can't think of much that would be appropriate here. "Fried breakfast food" could refer to fried eggs or sausages, and "fried dough breakfast" just sounds bizarre.
I am aware that the vast majority of people will simply fall back to "pancakes, waffles and french toast", but I'm wondering if there's anything better I can use.
Most of the menus I've seen that categorize pancakes, waffles, and french toast use a phrase with the word griddle in it: griddle items or from the griddle or just griddle as a heading.
Now, waffles are technically made in a waffle iron (though it's occasionally called a waffle griddle), and eggs and sausage and such are probably made on a griddle, too. But that's the way many restaurants classify things (probably because everything else made on the griddle easily fits into an obvious category, like "breakfast meat" or "eggs").
Some examples:
- Bob Evans breakfast menu has a heading "Griddle" which includes Crepes, several types of Hot Cakes (AKA pancakes), Belgian Waffles, and two kinds of French Toast.
- The menu for Chew Chew's Diner includes a category "From the Griddle" which includes three types each of pancakes and French toast
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Omni Hotels' Prado Restaurant's breakfast menu also has a heading "Griddle" consisting of pancakes and French toast; the description of their "Full Breakfast Buffet" includes
Chef’s Daily Egg Selection / Chef’s Choice of Griddle Item / Breakfast Meats / Breakfast Potatoes
And a couple of caveats:
This doesn't actually cover all breakfast foods that are batter- or dough-based, since it will exclude prepared-ahead items like pastries, toasted bread, muffins, and donuts. If you want to include that kind of thing I think you're going to have to go for something wordier and/or less precise, like flour-based breakfast foods or bready/doughy breakfast stuff. Note that these phrases would also include toast.
Also, the examples are all North American restaurants (Chew Chew's is Canadian, the other two US) so I don't know how well this phrase would be understood elsewhere. On the other hand, I'm not entirely sure other folks would even consider these foods an obvious "category". (I remember the French exchange student who stayed with us when I was in high school thought French toast for breakfast was hilarious: to her, it was something like a dessert, not a main dish for breakfast. I don't know what she made of pancakes and waffles.)