What Breakfast Gets You Going? 365
Crash McBang asks: "Apparently many are foregoing the morning coffee for something sweeter, according to a recent article in RedOrbit. 'There is nothing better than the feel of Coke on the back of your throat in the morning,' said McKinsey, a morning pop drinker since the 1970s, savoring the cold, stinging sensation that coffee drinkers just don't get. What gets you going after waking up?"
Breakfast? (Score:5, Insightful)
Kids (Score:4, Insightful)
This revives a faint memory of the time when I didn't have kids yet. Oh, how I miss those days, when nobody used to jump full speed right into my groins in the middle of the sweetest REM phase...
Anyway: Kids DO get you going in the morning, whether you're ready or not. And forget about those extra 15 minutes of sleep.
Re:A very common breakfast (Score:5, Insightful)
Indeed. I'd go so far as to say it's common world round.
On the other hand, the question is a bit dumb. What works for breakfast has to be taken in context with what happened before breakfast and what routinely happens after breakfast.
If you're accustomed to eating 3 full meals a day, your body will expect (demand, actually), a full breakfast when you wake up. If you do the cigarette and coffee routine (with or without the traditional croissant, beignet, etc., and/or a shot of something to help you start your day), a full breakfast will make you feel nauseous for most of the day. And that's irrespective of whether you work the land or sit in a chair and stare at a computer screen.
Personally, I think the Italians, etc. have it right. Eat a light breakfast and set aside 2-3 hours for a large lunch. Note that beverages manufactured from corn-syrup aren't part of the equation. Asking a food question from those who haven't been taught or discovered what it is for themselves is entertaining at best.
Re:Coke for breakfast? (Score:3, Insightful)
Whilst I'm not shy when it comes to dissin' our cousins over the pond, I have to say, I seriously doubt it's being lazy, more a lack of time.
Re:Coke for breakfast? (Score:4, Insightful)
Of course, these days both Coke and Pepsi own bottled water operations - which are much more profitable on a per unit basis than the soda pop they also sell.
Still, it's interesting how a huge company can change a society when it sets its collective, corporate mind to the task.
Re:Fruit! (Score:3, Insightful)
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper
See, that actually makes sense to me. That way you get all day to digest and get the energy from your breakfast.. rather than have a big dinner giving you energy and a whole ton of digestive work when you don't want it!
I'd be interested in the scientific aspect of this. Doesn't it make more sense to 'fuel up' and then use that energy.. rather than work all day and THEN fuel up?
Re:Irish Coffee (Score:3, Insightful)
That's why I use the cheap stuff for my breakfast. Coffee and whiskey you wouldn't deign to drink straight turns into the elixer of the gods when you mix 'em. Throw in a quarter ounce of good, unadulterated tobacoo and I'm good to go for the day.
Interestingly it's also a relatively new invention, not much more than 50 years old.
A coincidence that it arrived just in time for my arrival? I don't think so.
In any case the Irish have always been pretty good at making stuff up yesterday and tommorow calling it an ancient tradition. Bumpy Jumpers (Irish sweater for the Yanks; not to be confused with a lumpy jumper, you might acutally want one of those; and they do look good in bumpy jumpers); little more than an early 20th century marketing gimmic as a way to bring some money into Aran. The "traditonal" Irish outfit? Designed out of, ummmmm, whole cloth by nationalist commercial fashion designer about 1920. The traditional Irish music of my youth bears almost no resemblence to the "traditional" Irish music you hear today. Who let the 'zouks and goatskins in anyway?
As an aside I showed up for a gig as a traditional Irish fiddler once and the folk nazi promoter got all bent out of shape because I wasn't wearing the prescribed native peasant dress for the music. I was wearing a nice, gray suit and a tie.
Look at some old photographs. A nice, gray suit and a tie is the traditional clothing of the 19th century Irish farmer/fiddler. Just because it's "normal" don't mean it's not ethnic. The suit is the ethnic clothing of the Brits; which they spread to the world at the point of a gun. Indians are now prone to call their own clothes "ethnic."
Anyway, so maybe I'll have an apple or a bannana at breakfast as well. It's no surprise that an apple wakes you up better than coffee; coffee is just a stimulant. Glucose is the fuel your brain runs on. Rule of thumb, carbs when you want to be alert, fats and protein when you want to just veg out/go to sleep. Think about it, Chinese food and an hour later you're hungry again and looking for more food, Christmas goose and you fall asleep on the sofa while trying to watch the game.
KFG
Re:Fruit! (Score:3, Insightful)