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Bacon and eggs are breakfast food because of an advertising agency
Posted on 8/12/22 at 3:28 pm
Posted on 8/12/22 at 3:28 pm
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Have you ever wondered why bacon and eggs are considered breakfast food? Believe it or not, positioning eggs and bacon as breakfast was the result of a deliberate advertising campaign on behalf of a pork company.
In the 1920s, the Beech-Nut Packing Company, hired Edward Bernays, a public relations and advertising expert, to increase consumer demand for bacon. To do so, Bernays asked his agency’s internal doctor if a heavier breakfast would more beneficial than a lighter one for the American public.
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But because the doctor knew that it was in his best interest to support Bernays suspicion, he confirmed the theory and wrote to 5,000 of his doctors friends asking them to confirm it as well. This ‘research’ of doctors encouraging Americans to eat a heavier breakfast – namely ‘Bacon and Eggs’ – was published in several major newspapers and magazines to great success. Beech-Nut’s profits increased rapidly and we now eat bacon and eggs for breakfast!
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Posted on 8/12/22 at 3:35 pm to weagle99
Posted on 8/12/22 at 3:36 pm to weagle99
So if I eat bacon and eggs for supper tonight, can I still call it breakfast supper?
Posted on 8/12/22 at 3:36 pm to weagle99
The Brits eat beans for breakfast.
Like baked beans.
The Germans ate sausage
The Irish ate potatoes
The soviets ate nothing
Posted on 8/12/22 at 3:38 pm to weagle99
It’s also because bacon is awesome. It’s eaten at every meal.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 3:39 pm to weagle99
I'd eat bacon and eggs anytime of day..
Posted on 8/12/22 at 3:39 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Well, before the 1920s, most people, at least in North America, ate oatmeal and porridge for breakfast.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 3:41 pm to kciDAtaE
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It’s also because bacon is awesome. It’s eaten at every meal.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 3:48 pm to weagle99
Thin cut = bacon
Thick cut = pork belly
Thick cut = pork belly
Posted on 8/12/22 at 3:57 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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I mean, it's just sort of an abridged version of the "Traditional English Breakfast" which seems to have originated sometime around the 13th century
For centuries there have been farmers waking up hungry with no food to be found and no way to feed their family
Then they looked outside, saw a pig and several chickens.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 3:58 pm to Ghost of Colby
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For centuries there have been farmers waking up hungry with no food to be found and no way to feed their family Then they looked outside, saw a pig and several chickens.
Not in North America according to the article
Posted on 8/12/22 at 4:00 pm to weagle99
I could have Bacon and eggs morning noon and night 
Posted on 8/12/22 at 4:00 pm to weagle99
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Nut Packing Company
Posted on 8/12/22 at 4:04 pm to weagle99
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Well, before the 1920s, most people, at least in North America, ate oatmeal and porridge for breakfast.
That was probably more an issue of economics than nobody conceiving of the idea that bacon and eggs were "breakfast foods."
Something like bacon (yeah, American bacon is kind of unique) and eggs had been thought of as "breakfast foods" for centuries in the English speaking world.
The fact that pork producers were able to encourage ordinary Americans, with greater largesse, to start eating more breakfasts like that, does not mean that they invented the whole notion that they were breakfast foods.
This post was edited on 8/12/22 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 8/12/22 at 4:08 pm to fr33manator
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The Brits eat beans for breakfast. Like baked beans. The Germans ate sausage The Irish ate potatoes
The priest ate nun...........
Posted on 8/12/22 at 4:09 pm to weagle99
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quote:Well, before the 1920s, most people, at least in North America, ate oatmeal and porridge for breakfast.
I don’t even know what porridge is. The little rascals ate mush. Is that the same as porridge?
Posted on 8/12/22 at 4:12 pm to XenScott
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I don’t even know what porridge is.
Don't you even Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Not to be confused with Little Miss Muffet's curds and whey.
Posted on 8/12/22 at 4:12 pm to weagle99
quote:the hero we need, not the hero we deserve
Edward Bernays
Posted on 8/12/22 at 4:14 pm to fr33manator
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The Brits eat beans for breakfast.
Like baked beans.
But it’s much worse than our baked beans. Their beans are canned with tomato sauce.
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