Pie for breakfast?

Why not? Friends think I'm strange or, if they're trying to flatter me, daring, all because I occasionally like a slice of pie for breakfast. My question is simply: where is it mandated that eggs, cereal, or bacon are Breakfast Foods to be eaten only first thing in the morning, while pie is a Dessert to be consumed only after stuffing oneself on Thanksgiving turkey (or meat loaf on an ordinary weekday night)?

Look at it this way: a generous helping of boysenberry pie at Coco's or rhubarb pie at Berry's is a fine wake-up food. Fruit (well, sort of, in the case of rhubarb) plus the crust for a carb. Really gets me going!

What's more, I'm happy to be served carefully scrambled eggs* with LOTS of bacon for supper. Mom did just that when I was a kid and the school lunch ladies have long since discovered that their charges get a big kick out of "breakfast for lunch days".

While I'm on the subject of us Americans and our food weirdnesses, let me pass along the anthropologists' method of determining which are our countrymen at an international conference banquet. Wait for the dessert course; if it's pie, you will note that only Americans carefully turn the pie so that they can eat it point first; all other folks start right in on the pie however it landed.

*Carefully scrambled means done s-l-o-w-l-y over a low flame, a la Nero Wolf.