As I was going through the breakfast category of my blog, I noticed something weird. Even though I dedicated some posts to breakfast, I never mentioned what and when breakfast is. Everyone knows that when you wake up and you eat your first meal, you’re eating your breakfast. But what if you skip breakfast and head to work without eating at home, can you still have breakfast?
The word breakfast can be split into two words. Break and fast. Breaking means ending something, in this case ending the fast period. People at Wikipedia say: “Fasting is the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food and drink for a period of time.” While others put it more simply and say the fast is the period of time from when you last ate the evening before until your first meal in the morning. So the first meal of the day is your breakfast, but most people don’t count it as breakfast if the meal is after 12 o’clock.
To get back to the question I asked in the introduction of this post. Does it still count as breakfast if I skip it at home and eat it at work? The answer to that is yes, as long as it’s before 12 o’clock. I hope this clears up a thing or two.
May 26th, 2008 at 11:43 am
I always wonder… if you wake up at 12 o clock and you have something at eg. 12:30… is it still breakfast?
May 26th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
And why’d you wake up at 12.30? Lazy bum
May 30th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Hey hey, I’m not lazy! I’m up at 6 oclock on workdays!! =P
May 30th, 2008 at 12:58 am