I grew up in France having hot chocolate and bread&jam for breakfast. It’s only when I moved to the USA that I experienced people eating eggs&bacon for breakfast, which I still find weird. So my experience is completely opposite from “Americans eat dessert for breakfast”.
Americans also eat donuts, pancakes and maple syrup, cereals like cinnamon toast crunch, french toast, waffles, croissant, etc. for breakfast.
Now that probably doesn’t mean everyone in the US only eats sweets, there are people who avoid sugar and eat healthy food.
Eggs and bacons were promoted by the food industry as the essentially American breakfast in the 20s, to increase pork sales. Edward Bernays was responsible for that, and he basically invented Public Relations, which he called propaganda in the 20s – before there was a bad connotation. But it really explains what they’re doing, so maybe that’s also why they changed the name.
Eggs are a very good source of nutrients (good proteins especially for small caloric intake), but bacon is pretty much useless in human physiology.
As I don’t live in the US I don’t know how the breakfast has evolved over time, but looking at the aisles in supermarkets they have a hundred different brands of cereal so I assume it’s quite popular. Many fast food “restaurants” also offer breakfast options, with Mcdonald’s offering theirs only in the morning. Not sure if you can get the IHOP “breakfast” options after noon lol.
I grew up in France having hot chocolate and bread&jam for breakfast. It’s only when I moved to the USA that I experienced people eating eggs&bacon for breakfast, which I still find weird. So my experience is completely opposite from “Americans eat dessert for breakfast”.
Where is the author from?
Americans also eat donuts, pancakes and maple syrup, cereals like cinnamon toast crunch, french toast, waffles, croissant, etc. for breakfast. Now that probably doesn’t mean everyone in the US only eats sweets, there are people who avoid sugar and eat healthy food.
The author is from Washington D.C according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Harris_(journalist)
Eggs and bacons were promoted by the food industry as the essentially American breakfast in the 20s, to increase pork sales. Edward Bernays was responsible for that, and he basically invented Public Relations, which he called propaganda in the 20s – before there was a bad connotation. But it really explains what they’re doing, so maybe that’s also why they changed the name.
Eggs are a very good source of nutrients (good proteins especially for small caloric intake), but bacon is pretty much useless in human physiology.
As I don’t live in the US I don’t know how the breakfast has evolved over time, but looking at the aisles in supermarkets they have a hundred different brands of cereal so I assume it’s quite popular. Many fast food “restaurants” also offer breakfast options, with Mcdonald’s offering theirs only in the morning. Not sure if you can get the IHOP “breakfast” options after noon lol.