Reasons Why American Breakfasts Are the Way They Are

Weird History Food is serving you some breakfast. When you think of American breakfast food, what comes to mind? For many, it's likely things like cereal and milk, toast, eggs, and coffee. On weekends, there might be more elaborate dishes like French toast or pancakes accompanied by a tall glass of orange juice. When we step foot in a diner, we know what the menu will look like - to the point we might even tell the host we don't need to see one. But what is less known is how American breakfast food came to be.

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[jovanweismiller]

I grew up on the farm. Our breakfast usually consisted of bacon, ham, sausage, or occasionally steak, eggs fried, boiled, or poached, toast, and cereal (hot oat, corn, or buckwheat porridge in the winter & cold cereal in the summer), all washed down with perked coffee. Of course, we'd already put in a couple of hours of work by the time we ate it.

[erikk]

A lot of people overlook the fact that Captain Crunch has three stripes on his shoulder, making him a Commander.

[clav]

My mom still makes old-fashioned doughnuts from a recipe passed down for generations. Most people think of doughnuts as basically being a mini-cake with frosting or glaze, which make the old fashioned ones look boring. But a warm, homemade old fashioned doughnut is amazing! Warm, soft, subtly sweet, and can be sweetened with powdered sugar. It's sort of like fried dough at the fair.

[Ryan-wrfx]

Oatmeal with banana, peanut butter, and cinnamon is fire. It's a good meal to fuel my morning workout

[chrishill]

Note that Texas was briefly a French colony in the late 17th century. So for a brief window of time, Texas Toast was also technically French toast.

[NewMessage]

"But what about SECOND breakfast?"

-Pippin, getting hungry again.

[LREHAnimation]

Pancakes, waffles, French toast, biscuits and gravy aren’t what we eat every day. At least in my family, those were saved for rare-ish occasions when we had an excuse to make a nice family brunch. Usually on Sundays.

[catreese]

Please do a follow-up on the different/unique breakfasts that are served around the world and how they came to be. Like why biscuits and gravy along with a bowl of grits make up a Southern breakfast while an English breakfast has baked beans, mushrooms, and tomato as part of the meal.

[king_h.]

Even though I am Indian, I was always fascinated with American Breakfast, I liked this small history lesson on American Breakfast.

[mixemyth]

I think I remember learning that Dr Kellogg had taught that cold cereal helped to inhibit the libido and would help youngsters to focus on their studies at school.

[jessicag]

People tend to view the classic English breakfast as a bit much but the whole point is it's either something you eat after a heavy hangover OR a treat

[JillWhitcomb]

I was in India a few years ago and traveling with a friend. He is a citizen of India, and I'm American from North Dakota. I just had to laugh when I noticed what he was eating for breakfast one morning from our hotel breakfast buffet: orange juice, toast, and a bowlful of Corn Flakes with milk. I had Chai tea, sambar (a vegetable stew), idli (a cake thing made from rice), and fresh fruit. He was eating the typical American breakfast, I was eating the typical Indian breakfast : )

[TheWoWisok]

Love this guy's voice. It's so soothing to listen to

[Nieszpieg]

I'm Polish - yes Bagels are originally called "Obwarzanki" - from Kraków and mounthains areas. They're great so worth trying it while visiting Kraków :)

[JossCard]

In olde England it was in style to have a large, hearty breakfast, regardless of what kind of labor you were likely to undertake. This was in stark contrast to the 'continental' countries that preferred to have a small pastry or fruit instead of a heavier meal. This is also where we get the term 'Continental breakfast' which is where I'd wager we also get 'French Toast'.

[tyneishalewis]

Another Weird History Food Sunday! Just watched this video while having pancakes for breakfast lol. Would love to see more videos about breakfast

[carlocacho]

I love vintage sounding documentaries like these. Charming and nostalgic voice over

[TitaniumAnjolras]

Lesson of the video: if you want to make something popular in the US, make it as industrialized and mass produced as you can

[btetschner]

A+ video!
Really clarifies the history of those breakfast foods in a way that is easy to understand.

[Start.a.curvolution]

In Germany we call French toast Armer Ritter - that means poor knight in English and it is made when you have some harder bread you have to eat to not waste the food