What do you foreign type people eat for breakfast?

[mongers]

Taking the replies as a whole, not enough fibre (roughage) and a bit too much processed read meats ?

Eating cereal was invented by Will Keith Kellogg to prevent masturbation and leapt upon to support the farming community. Breakfasting on meat and eggs happened for centuries beforehand and has recently been proven to result in weight loss due to feeling fuller so not snacking, and reduced cholesterol.

I eat something different most days. I had a bacon omelette on Saturday, boiled eggs and toast on Sunday (I only eat the yolks) and cereal (Oatibix with milk and honey) today.

A few times a year I'll go out for a full English - two bacon, one sausage, fried egg, toast, fried mushrooms, grilled tomato and baked beans. Usually swiftly followed by a lunchtime pint.

I believe baked beans are considered a vegetable rather than a breakfast item in other parts of the world. I remember it horrifying one American friend.

And which of us is the fitter one ? 

The Kellogg anecdote is a good story, but people have been eating grains in one form or another for rather a long time, the Scots and oats spring to mind. 

Besides, my point wasn't about manufactured breakfast cereals, but about insufficient roughage in the diet and the over consumption of read meats 'our' diets.  Are these not real issues ?

[MadImmortalMan]

Sadly my usual breakfast is a sugar-free Rockstar. On the weekend I get creative though.

[Brazen]

And which of us is the fitter one ? 

The Kellogg anecdote is a good story, but people have been eating grains in one form or another for rather a long time, the Scots and oats spring to mind. 

Besides, my point wasn't about manufactured breakfast cereals, but about insufficient roughage in the diet and the over consumption of read meats 'our' diets.  Are these not real issues ?

Define "fitter" (in any way other than cycling a long distance)

RED meat, and indeed eggs, were demonised for their effect on cholesterol, but it has since been found that trans fats and sugar have a far more detrimental effect. Naturally existing cholesterol in food does not enter the blood stream and clog arteries.

Fibre is better consumed through fruit and veg which have loads of other nutrients than cereals, and tend to be consumed in meals later in the day.

[Iormlund]

And which of us is the fitter one ? 

The Kellogg anecdote is a good story, but people have been eating grains in one form or another for rather a long time, the Scots and oats spring to mind. 

Besides, my point wasn't about manufactured breakfast cereals, but about insufficient roughage in the diet and the over consumption of read meats 'our' diets.  Are these not real issues ?

If anything, our body should be better at dealing with meat. We've eaten other animals for all our existence while agriculture has been practiced for a fraction of that time.

You can certainly live off an animal-based diet. I'm living proof of it. Haven't been able to eat vegetables or fruits for almost 5 years now -- first due to inflammation, then because I've got a bowel diameter of just 3-4 mm at the scar left after surgery, so any tiny amount of fiber can send me to the ER with a blockage.
Yet despite that blood work results always land within norm. I don't follow any special diet nor take supplements and I'm missing a chunk of small bowel.

[Grey Fox]

And which of us is the fitter one ? 

The Kellogg anecdote is a good story, but people have been eating grains in one form or another for rather a long time, the Scots and oats spring to mind. 

Besides, my point wasn't about manufactured breakfast cereals, but about insufficient roughage in the diet and the over consumption of read meats 'our' diets.  Are these not real issues ?

Define "fitter" (in any way other than cycling a long distance)

RED meat, and indeed eggs, were demonised for their effect on cholesterol, but it has since been found that trans fats and sugar have a far more detrimental effect. Naturally existing cholesterol in food does not enter the blood stream and clog arteries.

Fibre is better consumed through fruit and veg which have loads of other nutrients than cereals, and tend to be consumed in meals later in the day.

Plus there's new reports saying that Trans fat is actually not that bad.

[DGuller]

Plus there's new reports saying that Trans fat is actually not that bad.

Oh, FFS, just make up your mind, people. 

[Grey Fox]

Plus there's new reports saying that Trans fat is actually not that bad.

Oh, FFS, just make up your mind, people. 

I also read one that claimed that Whole Grains aren't good for us either.

[PDH]

Research provided by the Trans Fat Institute.

[mongers]

And which of us is the fitter one ? 

The Kellogg anecdote is a good story, but people have been eating grains in one form or another for rather a long time, the Scots and oats spring to mind. 

Besides, my point wasn't about manufactured breakfast cereals, but about insufficient roughage in the diet and the over consumption of read meats 'our' diets.  Are these not real issues ?

Define "fitter" (in any way other than cycling a long distance)

RED meat, and indeed eggs, were demonised for their effect on cholesterol, but it has since been found that trans fats and sugar have a far more detrimental effect. Naturally existing cholesterol in food does not enter the blood stream and clog arteries.

Fibre is better consumed through fruit and veg which have loads of other nutrients than cereals, and tend to be consumed in meals later in the day.

Bye whatever yardstick you care to name. 

The major issue with processed red meat is the increased cancer risks, and at quite low levels ie above 1 lb of it per week.

[mongers]

Research provided by the Trans Fat Institute.

Yuk, obese gender-conflicted people. 

[viper37]

So this morning Princesca and I were eating breakfast and I mentioned that I thought it might be neat for us to experiment with different ethnic breakfasts... we've done plenty of experimentation with international cuisine for dinner, so much so that a number of favorite dishes have made it into our 'usual' meal rotation--examples include feijoada (Brazil), turos czusza (Hungary), frappe coffee (Greece) and cafe cubano (Cuba).

I started with wikipedia and although there are plenty of articles about ethnic cuisines, many of them make no mention at all about breakfast.  So I figured I'd try polling Languish.

Oh, and if anyone is interested, for breakfast I had bacon, fried eggs, a hash brown, scrapple (which if you've never heard of it, is kind of like white pudding with cornmeal instead of oatmeal), and coffee with almond milk.

half the time, I don't eat.
The other half, usually 2-3 toasts with either natural peanut butter, sugar free jam or cretons.
If I eat outside of the house, it will be bacon&eggs (turned).
On Sundays, if I eat, it will usually be bigger: bacon, eggs, sausage, ham and meat pie.