Why is breakfast traditionally devoid of veggies?

[Kirby]

Grits, bacon, sausage, 3 sunny side up eggs, and toast with homemade fig preserves. But that's once in a blue moon, I usually have a dip and that's it.

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

I usually don't have a big appetite first thing in the morning...a bowl of cereal is about all I can handle.

Same, or just a glass of chocolate milk or something

I dont know how people can eat that much right after waking up... I feel like my stomach is still half a sleep and stuff just wont go down

 

[ElFenix]

breakfast? what's that?

 

[crownjules]

Same, or just a glass of chocolate milk or something

I dont know how people can eat that much right after waking up... I feel like my stomach is still half a sleep and stuff just wont go down

You've just been asleep for 8 hours or so. While your metabolism does slow down some during sleep, there's no escaping that it's been at least that long since you last ate.

That's why it's called breakfast - you are breaking the period of fasting caused by our need for sleep.

 

[BoomerD]

I rarely eat breakfast as soon as I get out of bed. It's usually 2-3 hours after I get up. Like many here have said, I need some time to wake up before I break my fast.

 

[KMFJD]

Used to have blood sausage for lunch as a kid...damn that was good on a piece of bread and some mustard

 

[tcsenter]

My breakfast today:

 

[Genx87]

lol I forgot, the western world are lost on making tasty veggies. ()

Hey we can make them taste yummy. The problem is by doing so they are worse than a whopper

 

[skace]

When I was in Istanbul, every breakfast had vegetables. Fresh tomatos, peppers, cucumbers, olives and several things I didn't recognize at all...

 

[alkemyst]

When I was in Istanbul, every breakfast had vegetables. Fresh tomatos, peppers, cucumbers, olives and several things I didn't recognize at all...

Turkish Angora?

 

[BoomerD]

Turkish Angora?

I like Turkish pussy...

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

You know, why is it just always a bunch of meat, eggs, and bread? Why is it always some really heavy and greasy meal?

Mostly because you need to refill your stores after a long time of not eating.

Instincts are part of our evolutionary history which is why you don't crave a carrot and an apple when you wake up, you want bacon and eggs, some sausages, a steak, some Laphroaig and a Guiness adnafafkjaf... *drools*

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

I like Turkish pussy...

Comes with floss thread built in!

 

[I Saw OJ]

You want me to have eggplant for breakfast? Fuck that.

 

[kinev]

You mean the cherry filling in pop tarts isn't fruit?

Juice (typically orange)? Hash browns? Mix some veggies into an omelete? Cut some fruit and put it in your cereal or yogurt? I'm not sure what food group it would be in, but honey can serve as a substitute for fruit.

[Homer] "This one has purple in it. Purple's a fruit." [/Homer]

 

[fatpat268]

There is the other problem of in the US most people eat a pretty light breakfast or dont eat it at all, and eat a big lunch and a bigger dinner, so they dont really burn all the dinner calories off. Ive heard that breakfast is much bigger in other countries, and usually people have smaller dinners.

In germany (at least it was this way with my family), we ate a fairly light breakfast. Usually it was mostly carbs: whole wheat bread with butter and jam or some type of pastry.

Lunch was the main meal of the day. The meat and potatoes meal. Pretty much what is served for dinner here in the US gets served at lunch time.

Dinner is another typically light meal. Soups and salads are common. Maybe more.

 

[vi edit]

A lot has to do with your line of work too. My Dad does very grueling physical labor in some absolutely miserable working conditions. He has a huge breakfast a couple hours before he goes to work and while the temps are reasonable (in the summer). Then at lunch he'll have a couple crackers, an apple or something else light, take a 20 minute nap, and then back to work for another 4 hours. If he had a heavy lunch it'd kill him. He then goes home and has a heavier dinner to make up calories. There's millions of other physical laborers out there in the same situation.

In some parts of Europe don't they have a huge lunch and then go home and sleep for a couple hours? That'd have an effect in what you had for breakfast.

 

[zinfamous]

it's obviously b/c bacon is superior.

 

[Perknose]

In germany (at least it was this way with my family), we ate a fairly light breakfast. Usually it was mostly carbs: whole wheat bread with butter and jam or some type of pastry.

I spent a lot of time in Germany, and had breakfast with a wide variety of different Germans. In general, I would say it varied from just a usually hard black bread with butter and jam to also including ONE soft or hard boiled egg and a few slices of cold cuts (echt delikat essen ) and cheese.

In general, at just about every meal, Europeans eat far less than most Americans.

 

[Perknose]

There is the other problem of in the US most people eat a pretty light breakfast or dont eat it at all, and eat a big lunch and a bigger dinner, so they dont really burn all the dinner calories off. Ive heard that breakfast is much bigger in other countries, and usually people have smaller dinners.

While many modern Americans DO skimp on breakfast, it is our English colonial heritage which accounted for the traditionally MUCH fuller and heartier breakfasts.

Why do you think motels call those skimpy spreads "Continental" (as opposed to the English Isle) breakfasts?

 

[Perknose]

Traditional english breakfast is a fried egg, baked beans, sausage, back ("canadian") bacon, toast, tomatoes, toast & maybe hashbrowns. Black pudding is irish.

You forgot kippers, and that the tomato is often also fried, not raw. Also, I never sat down to a private breakfast in an English home that had both sausage and bacon.

It could also easily be a soft or hard boiled egg, in fact that was more common than a fried one, but you are correct, almost always only ONE.

Please never forget the black tea, with milk and sugar!

 

[Modular]

Brrrring! BACON

 

[pcgeek11]

I like my omlettes like that too. I totally wish they'd serve it like that at breakfast places.

They do. You are obviously going to the wrong places. IHOP...

 

[pcgeek11]

My breakfast today:

My god man! What is that Boiled Chicken, Broccoli and Maggots?

 

[bunnyfubbles]

My god man! What is that Boiled Chicken, Broccoli and Maggots?

looks more like broccoli, rice, and already chewed pieces of gum