Why do we eat garbage for breakfast?

[Anonymous]

If you think about it, typical food here in the US that gets pushed for breakfast is garbage. It's often like eating nothing more than dessert for an entire meal in the day. Waffles, pancake, crepes....? What is this trash? They're basically nothing more than rudimentary cake like batters that after cooked, you add a whole bunch of fat and sugar to - they're pretty much deficient of almost any nutritional value. Cereals? Highly processed trash that often contain tons of sugar. Bacon, sausages, biscuits and gravy, etc. combined with eggs.....cholesterol and fat bombs. Hash browns and home fries....mostly empty calories loaded often times with salt and cooked in tons of oil. You often feel very nasty after eating 'traditional' American/western breakfast foods. Why is it that we evolved to eat what are essentially desserts for breakfasts? No nutrition, high in calorie, high in fat/cholesterol/sodium meals. I remember going to Japan where they served traditional breakfasts consisting of a small piece of broiled fish, a little bit of rice, maybe some fruit, some kind of veggie, and a little bit of soup. So many other places in the world just treat breakfast almost like any other meal where you'd consume foods with actual nutrition.

[Anonymous]

You are allowed to eat whatever you want for breakfast. So enjoy your broiled fish and rice!

[Anonymous]

To be fair, most Americans also eat garbage for lunch and dinner, so in that sense they are not treating breakfast differently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, most Americans also eat garbage for lunch and dinner, so in that sense they are not treating breakfast differently.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are allowed to eat whatever you want for breakfast. So enjoy your broiled fish and rice!

+1. Eat what you want OP. It is entirely possible to go to a US hotel and still find a healthy breakfast. Oatmeal, hard boiled eggs, toast with nut/seed butter. Let people eat what they want to eat.

[Anonymous]

I heard the bacon and eggs thing came from marketing, although a full English has been around for a while so maybe it came from our English heritage. What did George Washington eat for breakfast?

I think that pancakes and sweet desserts are common in European countries as well, and the main difference is volume and not interspersing those with healthier things.

Personally I hate eating those things for breakfast, except eggs and toast. I would much prefer leftovers from dinner from the night before.

[Anonymous]

I remember as a teen arguing with my mom over whether it is ok to eat Chinese food for breakfast. She said it's not ok to eat that for breakfast and I told her that there are an awful lot of Chinese people and they must be eating Chinese food...

Anyway, I don't know, OP. Maybe because coffee is so prevalent and coffee tastes especially yummy with sweets?

Whatever, you're grown so eat what you want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, most Americans also eat garbage for lunch and dinner, so in that sense they are not treating breakfast differently.

+1

+2

[Anonymous]

I don't know anyone who eats any of that on a daily basis.

Cereal - sometimes, but more for a snack, not breakfast really.

Pancakes/crepes - rarely (once or twice per year)

Breakfast meat and potatoes - once every other month

Oatmeal/Farina - once every other month

Most days - just once cup of coffee and water, apple or other fruit mid-morning

[Anonymous]

It tastes good.

And we like sugary and/or junky comfort foods when we're stressed, in the throes of the morning rush, it's easier to placate picky (and slow eating) kids, much cheaper and more convenient, and the list goes on.

[Anonymous]

Processed foods are easy for manufacturers to sell, and all humans like sweet things. You still have the ability to choose for yourself when it comes time to eat, though.

[Anonymous]

I am part Japanese, and love the traditional Japanese breakfast. I also eat crepes, full British breakfasts, continental European breakfasts, etc...

It's all fun in moderation, OP.

Food production and transport is one of the main drivers of rapid climate change, so I agree with you that we have to rethink how we produce food, particularly meat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember as a teen arguing with my mom over whether it is ok to eat Chinese food for breakfast. She said it's not ok to eat that for breakfast and I told her that there are an awful lot of Chinese people and they must be eating Chinese food...

Anyway, I don't know, OP. Maybe because coffee is so prevalent and coffee tastes especially yummy with sweets?

Whatever, you're grown so eat what you want.

I guess it depends on what kind of Chinese food it is. I wouldn’t eat American Chinese food for breakfast, and that’s not what they’re eating in China either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember as a teen arguing with my mom over whether it is ok to eat Chinese food for breakfast. She said it's not ok to eat that for breakfast and I told her that there are an awful lot of Chinese people and they must be eating Chinese food...

Anyway, I don't know, OP. Maybe because coffee is so prevalent and coffee tastes especially yummy with sweets?
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Whatever, you're grown so eat what you want.

Interesting hypothesis...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know anyone who eats any of that on a daily basis.

Cereal - sometimes, but more for a snack, not breakfast really.

Pancakes/crepes - rarely (once or twice per year)

Breakfast meat and potatoes - once every other month

Oatmeal/Farina - once every other month

Most days - just once cup of coffee and water, apple or other fruit mid-morning

Who on earth do you know???