Pizza, Pickles, and Apple Pie: The Stories behind the Foods We Love
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The Sad Boring World Before Breakfast Unless you're reading this book at the crack of dawn you've probably eaten breakfast already Maybe you poured yourself a bowl of cereal or scarfed down some scrambled eggs I'm having leftover mashed potatoes Hold on Have you pooped this morning In medieval times in Europe physicians warned that eating breakfast was dangerous They believed it caused digestive problems to mix food you just ate with the food you hadn't pooped out yet don't worry this isn't true So WHAT HAPPENED You might be surprised to know that for centuries nobody ate breakfast not as we think of it We have olives nuts salad raisins or cheese 1 How did we start eating certain foods for breakfast We'll start with the history behind what 90 percent of kids eat to start their day And wash it down with wine People who worked hard all day did need a morning meal to keep them going Even then this might be just a hunk of bread and cheese and not our typical breakfast foods BREAKFAST CEREAL
Have you pooped yet today You might need to eat a bowl of cereal Hey Keep my butt out of this
I BREAKFAST CEREAL Grains became a large part of people's diet because of the rise of agriculture which allowed people to eat what they could grow rather than what they could gather A steady food source was now nearby However in Europe people did enjoy large breakfasts with meat and baked goods Ham pies biscuits all could be found on the breakfast table beseech you bring more food 3 Ancient Not Quite Breakfast Cereals People ate grains all over the world to start their day for centuries But they didn't come in boxes and weren't shaped into flakes or fun shapes No marshmallows either For example Iroquois hunters started their day by eating grains to sustain them throughout the day Breakfasts grew larger And British colonists brought these mighty breakfasts with them to the New World
