Why do we eat garbage for breakfast?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Let's blame it on marketing rather than hundreds of years of agriculture, right?

The big American breakfasts is a direct descendant of the American family farm. You ate a big breakfast to get you going for the day. What's common a farm? Eggs. Lots of eggs. And bacon. Lots of bacon. Farms had smokehouses and bacon was cured and lasted forever. Did you think the Victorian and colonial farmers were daintily eating fresh blueberries imported out of season?

The wealthy and affluent middle classes in the western world always ate a stupendous amount of meat, even more meat than we do today. It was a class symbol. The breakfast tables of Victorian and Georgian Britain and America groaned under the weight of meat of all sorts. Even cold roast beef would be served for breakfast. And even beer in the earlier days! Outside coffee/tea or porridge that might have sugar in it, breakfasts were decidedly more savory than sweet, while jams were preserved for afternoon treats or tea, although regional variations did exist. The cliched stereotype of a Yankee farmer was that he always had pie on his breakfast table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

What’s the traditional Japanese breakfast?

[Anonymous]

I lightly fry tuna each morning

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Let's blame it on marketing rather than hundreds of years of agriculture, right?

The big American breakfasts is a direct descendant of the American family farm. You ate a big breakfast to get you going for the day. What's common a farm? Eggs. Lots of eggs. And bacon. Lots of bacon. Farms had smokehouses and bacon was cured and lasted forever. Did you think the Victorian and colonial farmers were daintily eating fresh blueberries imported out of season?

The wealthy and affluent middle classes in the western world always ate a stupendous amount of meat, even more meat than we do today. It was a class symbol. The breakfast tables of Victorian and Georgian Britain and America groaned under the weight of meat of all sorts. Even cold roast beef would be served for breakfast. And even beer in the earlier days! Outside coffee/tea or porridge that might have sugar in it, breakfasts were decidedly more savory than sweet, while jams were preserved for afternoon treats or tea, although regional variations did exist. The cliched stereotype of a Yankee farmer was that he always had pie on his breakfast table.

This, farm work is grueling, and what you eat for breakfast carries you through hard physical labor from 5 AM until whenever you could break for lunch. Snacking wasn't a thing, and the farm day leans early, so it has to carry you through 7 or so hours or brutal work.

Funny enough, I was raised on a hobby farm in Virginia and on regular days we'd eat cereal or fruit/toast, but on days when we got up early to do a big "farm" project on the weekends, we'd do a big farm breakfast before heading out to work on the project.

[Anonymous]

Why do you care what I eat for breakfast? When you start sleeping with me I might listen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lightly fry tuna each morning

HaHa. I remember that!!

[Anonymous]

You mean this?

[Anonymous]

Reading this made me crave breakfast foods. Making myself a nice bacon, egg, and cheese on a bagel for lunch now. Mmmm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Let's blame it on marketing rather than hundreds of years of agriculture, right?

The big American breakfasts is a direct descendant of the American family farm. You ate a big breakfast to get you going for the day. What's common a farm? Eggs. Lots of eggs. And bacon. Lots of bacon. Farms had smokehouses and bacon was cured and lasted forever. Did you think the Victorian and colonial farmers were daintily eating fresh blueberries imported out of season?

The wealthy and affluent middle classes in the western world always ate a stupendous amount of meat, even more meat than we do today. It was a class symbol. The breakfast tables of Victorian and Georgian Britain and America groaned under the weight of meat of all sorts. Even cold roast beef would be served for breakfast. And even beer in the earlier days! Outside coffee/tea or porridge that might have sugar in it, breakfasts were decidedly more savory than sweet, while jams were preserved for afternoon treats or tea, although regional variations did exist. The cliched stereotype of a Yankee farmer was that he always had pie on his breakfast table.

This, farm work is grueling, and what you eat for breakfast carries you through hard physical labor from 5 AM until whenever you could break for lunch. Snacking wasn't a thing, and the farm day leans early, so it has to carry you through 7 or so hours or brutal work.

Funny enough, I was raised on a hobby farm in Virginia and on regular days we'd eat cereal or fruit/toast, but on days when we got up early to do a big "farm" project on the weekends, we'd do a big farm breakfast before heading out to work on the project.

Beer for breakfast was not meant to be indulgent. It was safer than drinking the water. It was also low alcohol.

My favorite thing to do when flying into/out of Germany is to have beer with breakfast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, crepes, that staple of every American breakfast!

Peddle your crap elsewhere. Most people don’t eat a stack of pancakes with biscuits and gravy and a side of scrambled eggs everyday. Obviously OP knows this.

If you eat fish for breakfast your house reeks.

Fish for breakfast would literally make me vomit.

[Anonymous]

Well, don't French eat pastry for breakfast? And many Europeans have bread with butter and jam on for breakfast too?

[Anonymous]

My typical breakfast is plain Greek yogurt with berries and flax. Occaissionally I switch to eggs or oatmeal (unsweetened)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lightly fry tuna each morning

[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

Go away, you eating disordered person!
I am thin and I eat 2-3 eggs, a portion of porridge with raising, ( no sugar) and even some potatoes if I except a psychically demanding day a work. So, please speak for yourself and not for "anyone!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

What’s the traditional Japanese breakfast?

Something along these lines: