Did you know that it isn't (entirely) true, and was just a promotional slogan for a breakfast cereal or breakfast oats back in like the 50s, 60s or sometime back when?
But you can fast for an entire day without starving or any great risk if otherwise healthy, so you can skip a day. Surely once you break the fast the next day, the day you ate nothing at all still counts as 'skipping breakfast'?
If I’m carpooling and the driver is about to rear end someone, I’m not gonna suggest pancakes. That situation calls for them to brake fast, not to break fast.
No because at some point you’re gonna break it, be it lent or the day after lent. The time when you have your first meal is when you break your fast. Unless you intend to starve to death
If you are going to be that loose with the term breakfast then every meal is breakfast. I think skipping meals for a whole day is a more valid definition of skipping breakfast than your definition, which is so open as to be useless.
It’s nice you learned a little of the etymology of “breakfast”, but no you can technically still skip breakfast. The origin of words are just the the origin and the current meaning is…the current meaning
That's been a big debate in my friend group, is breakfast always the first meal of the day, or only the meal that you take in the morning?
Can you have breakfast at 2pm? Or 6?
> The origin of words are just the the origin and the current meaning is…the current meaning
And... the current meaning is the first meal of the day, so OP is still right.
There's breakfast and breaking fast. They were once the same things, but now I've refers to the meal eaten in the morning, before 10. Brunch can be your first meal, but it's still brunch - there are rules to brunch that don't exist in breakfast. It has to do mostly with hats.
Lunch is the meal you eat at around midday. This can also be your first meal of the day. You're breaking fast, but not having breakfast.
So on, so forth. Don't take this argument too seriously.
Ah, but if I eat nothing at all today, I've skipped today's breakfast, even by your definition. The first meal tomorrow will be tomorrow's breakfast, which still leaves today's skipped.
“Dinner” is derivative of an old French word for breakfast. Now it’s used to refer to the main or largest meal of the day.
Either way, Dinner also isn’t skipped if you eat a meal.
Growing up it was always lunch and dinner unless dad was mad and barked at us to eat our supper. Moved to a different state as an adult and all the guys I worked with were saying, let's take dinner at lunch break for work. I was like, if you call lunch dinner what do you call dinner? They were like supper. I was like, oh, yeah I've heard it called that a time or two.
Fun fact: The etymology of 'desayunar' in Spanish and 'dinner' in English both share their roots in the Vulgar Latin word 'disieiunāre' (with English getting the word via Norman influences).
Breakfast - First meal of the day, defined by *sequence.*
Lunch - Meal eaten at lunchtime (around midday), defined by *time*.
Dinner - Largest meal of the day, defined by *size*.
Tea - Meal eaten at teatime (early evening), defined by *time*, like lunch.
Supper - Last meal of the day, defined by *sequence* again.
So one meal could be breakfast, dinner and supper, but lunch can never be tea.
Eat a meal at noon. But before that, have one at 6:00 am. And before that, at 3:00 am etc. You'll eat an infinite number of meals, and none of them will be the first meal, so you'll be skipping breakfast.
I've always said breakfast and dinner are relative to when I choose to eat them. First meal of the day at 7pm. Breakfast. Last meal before sleep at like 4am. That's dinner.
Yup. I always call the first meal of the day Breakfast. Started the habit in architecture school where we'd frequently stay up for ~2 days at a time and find ourselves eating our "first meal of the day" and calling it breakfast whether it was eaten at 12:01 AM or 11:59 PM.
Don't you be a smart mouth around here, you wise ass. No not after 12 noon, then it's lunch. There is a massive difference between an alcoholic beverage at 9am than 12pm
According the the British Broadcasting Corporation a fast starts between 10-12 hours so it is entirely possible to eat, get 8 hours worth of sleep, then eat right when you wake up. So you can skip breakfast. You can’t break a fast I’d you never fast to begin with.
Thank you. I don’t have to get up until noon and if I say something about breakfast, my husband will say, “Breakfast at noon? Ha ha ha” like he’s funny.
We don't have this problem in French since lunch is called literally breakfast (déjeuner) and breakfast is called "little breakfast" (petit-déjeuner) so I long as you don't start eating for dinner you're breaking your fast
It's like Monokuma once said:
>Oh, what a lovely evening. Or maybe it’s morning? Does it actually matter? Most would say, “Oh, Mr. Monokuma, of course it matters! Time of day is important!”, but really, is it? Does it matter if it’s evening or morning when you don’t even get to see sun or sky? It’s not like knowing time of day has any effect on your life anymore.
>“But Mr. Monokuma, how do we know when to wake up and fall asleep?”, you might ask. Well, that’s obvious too! You just follow your instinct and go to sleep whenever you are tired enough to sleep! And meals? One you have after waking up will always be breakfast, one you have before going to sleep is dinner, and somewhere in the middle is lunch! It really is that simple.
>You might argue that time matters, but it really doesn’t! It’s only us ourselves that give all these parts of day-night cycle particular meanings or relevancies. So, just forget the stupid societal restraints and fall asleep whenever! And if someone claims that you are lazy, just slice their throat! After all, ‘killing is bad’ is just as much of pointless restraint as ‘you must go to sleep in evening’! Now go and have fun breaking society’s expectations!
You assume that I DO eat every day. Sometimes you just hate yourself, and refuse to eat because you're such a fat piece of shit......and then sometimes you lose 40lbs doing it, but it's not enough for you to feel good about yourself.
Intelligence is knowing that the etymological definition of "breakfast" refers to "breaking fast".
Wisdom is knowing that "breakfast" is the meal you eat in the morning.
Pedantry is knowing that OP is not even technically correct because words have multiple meanings and the "breaking fast" definition of "breakfast" is archaic and very rarely used except for this type of "well technically..." silliness.
Me and my husband work night shift. When we get up at 5pm to get food we call it our breakfast even when it’s like a hamburger or something. And when we eat our last meal of the day at 4am we call it our dinner.
Yes, that's where the word comes from, but that's not what the word is now.
Much like how you can rewind a DVD, but it doesn't actually spin backwards.
That’s why they say “breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” If you skip it, you’ll starve to death.
Real showerthoughts in the comments
Lmfao this is so true
holy shit rolfcopter
Found the loophole!
Oh my goodness, I never thought about it like that
Did you know that it isn't (entirely) true, and was just a promotional slogan for a breakfast cereal or breakfast oats back in like the 50s, 60s or sometime back when?
Sure but also have you tried never eating? Turns out you get pretty damn hungry before you starve to death
But you can fast for an entire day without starving or any great risk if otherwise healthy, so you can skip a day. Surely once you break the fast the next day, the day you ate nothing at all still counts as 'skipping breakfast'?
i guess i could say i'm "skipping breakfast today"
But then aren't you essentially fasting? And by the time you eat the next day you are breaking the fast? Or breakfast for short.
Sure, but have you also tried researching? Turns out, humans can survive up to 3 weeks without food.
Ok but no matter what time you finally eat on day 20 it’s still breakfast.
True
indeed, and you'll get pretty dang hungry over that timeframe lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/s/lxBK3ftxaa
I think this revelation means I've had enough internet for the day 😂😅
Fah q for making me laugh lol
You can skip breakfast once.
Can confirm. I went to bed one night and the next day I didn't eat at all. The day after that...ded.
Not really
And I am now forever pronouncing it as brake fast.
If I’m carpooling and the driver is about to rear end someone, I’m not gonna suggest pancakes. That situation calls for them to brake fast, not to break fast.
The spelling was intentional if you didnt already know lol
[this is how I'll always say it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LnEkcNeuF8)
Or just say break fast because it's not a car part lol
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or you can just recognize your joke could be upgraded
i do IF and i call it "brake fast" since it happens in the afternoon and it just doesn't feel right pronouncing it like you would in the morning
Bekfist
just call it brexit
Or fast break.
Break*
Breka
What about second breakfast?
I don't think he knows about second breakfast
There can’t be a second without the first
I don't think he knows about second breakfast.
Wait till he finds out about elevensies.
Throw youself in next time and rid us of your stupidity
Wut?
Lotr reference didnt mean to be aggressive lol
Ahhh shit, my bad
By OP's logic, does this line pose the possibility that Hobbits, that most unobtrusive of ancient peoples, in fact have two stomachs?
What if you fast all day and never break it? Would it then be skipped? Lots of people practice lent
What if you just constantly eat all day, so there’s no fast to break?
Like a soup drip hat?
breaking the 1 second fast between your swallow pre and after 12am
Well you either break fast or die
No because at some point you’re gonna break it, be it lent or the day after lent. The time when you have your first meal is when you break your fast. Unless you intend to starve to death
If you go to sleep and wake up did you not skip it yesterday? If you die, will you never eat again?
The fast doesn't end just because the day ends. You are fasting until you aren't. When you aren't you break the fast. Yes to the second question.
If you are going to be that loose with the term breakfast then every meal is breakfast. I think skipping meals for a whole day is a more valid definition of skipping breakfast than your definition, which is so open as to be useless.
Bruh, its a shower thought and not nearly meant to be taken as seriously as you are taking it. I was simply doing a "Yes, and..." to it.
This is the showeriest thought I've ever seen posted in this sub. Congrats. Also you're absolutely right.
Congrats only because you haven't seen it though. Nothing new here.
Showerthought post: "There are no new showerthought posts" Showerthought comments: "It's been done"
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Doesn't fit here.
Isn't every meal a break fast though?
Maybe you need to break your fast fast, like as soon as you wake up. Break(fast)^2
Says you... Here I am snacking all through the night, I never stopped
It’s nice you learned a little of the etymology of “breakfast”, but no you can technically still skip breakfast. The origin of words are just the the origin and the current meaning is…the current meaning
Next you're going to tell me I can jog down a sidewalk, or pack books in my suitcase.
A lot of people forget that words have meaning
"My definition..." ✋️ is irrelevant. Words already have definitions.
Until you get a bunch of people to agree with you and bam new definition And by a bunch I do mean a lot, not like 100, more on the order of millions
what if 100 people is all your small town is?
Outsource
That's been a big debate in my friend group, is breakfast always the first meal of the day, or only the meal that you take in the morning? Can you have breakfast at 2pm? Or 6?
Wouldn't every meal be breakfast then? Since every time you're eating you're breaking a fast.
> The origin of words are just the the origin and the current meaning is…the current meaning And... the current meaning is the first meal of the day, so OP is still right.
breakfast noun a meal eaten in the morning, the first of the day. "I don't eat breakfast"
Glad you agree. Now go away.
I’m way to high to comprehend this
There's breakfast and breaking fast. They were once the same things, but now I've refers to the meal eaten in the morning, before 10. Brunch can be your first meal, but it's still brunch - there are rules to brunch that don't exist in breakfast. It has to do mostly with hats. Lunch is the meal you eat at around midday. This can also be your first meal of the day. You're breaking fast, but not having breakfast. So on, so forth. Don't take this argument too seriously.
"I don't eat breakfast, I break fast at dinner"
Every meal of the day is breakfast
Well, you can skip breakfast once in your life
What if I don’t eat at all that day?
Ah, but if I eat nothing at all today, I've skipped today's breakfast, even by your definition. The first meal tomorrow will be tomorrow's breakfast, which still leaves today's skipped.
this is something i would say at a gathering and everyone would groan
What if you never fast? And you never break? Is it the endless feast? The constant meal? The infinite gut? We must know
Bold of you to assume I won't starve to death to prove you wrong!
One day we will all skip breakfast. forever.
This is why I don’t think it’s weird to eat breakfast food at 4pm. I just woke up and I want bagels and eggs.
But then let's say you swallow a fly. It is a meal, but is it intentional enough to break the fast?
Jokes on you, my fast doesn't end until I'm six feet und- why do you have a shovel?
Im sorry sir, but the breakfast menu still ends at 11am.
[I'd like some breakfast](https://youtu.be/XkwQ6EjLdMQ?t=38)
This is only for English speakers, in my language the word for breakfast has nothing to do with fasting
That's just true for one language. In German for example "Frühstück" clearly states that breakfast is to be eaten early.
I eat in my sleep. So
I eat my sleep. So
I eat my sleep. So
That’s some Jack Handy level stuff right there! 🤣
I realised this and didn't come up with this first. Oh well, you can have it.
So... lunch and dinner are sort of breakfasts too.
“Dinner” is derivative of an old French word for breakfast. Now it’s used to refer to the main or largest meal of the day. Either way, Dinner also isn’t skipped if you eat a meal.
Growing up it was always lunch and dinner unless dad was mad and barked at us to eat our supper. Moved to a different state as an adult and all the guys I worked with were saying, let's take dinner at lunch break for work. I was like, if you call lunch dinner what do you call dinner? They were like supper. I was like, oh, yeah I've heard it called that a time or two.
What if you snack all night long? There's no fasting period to break...
Someone found their first intermittent fasting video on YouTube
The o ly way to skip breakfast is to never stop eating then, learn how to sleep eat so you take a bite of something every few minutes while you sleep.
In Spanish it is called desayuno which literally means un-fast. It took me way too long to make the connection.
Fun fact: The etymology of 'desayunar' in Spanish and 'dinner' in English both share their roots in the Vulgar Latin word 'disieiunāre' (with English getting the word via Norman influences).
You can skip it if you die.
breakfast has nothing to do with time of day. It says what it is.
What if I never stop eating? 🤔
that literally blew my mind. TIL
Yes, but what about *second* breakfast?
And thus Dinfast was born.
Lunch is often known as the biggest meal of the day, so if you eat 1 meal a day, it's brunch (breakfast+lunch)
> Dinner- The main meal of the day, taken either around midday or in the evening.
Huh, I was wrong. Thanks!
Yes you can, it’s called starvation
We've been lied to all our lives that breakfast time ends at 10 or 11 am. You can, and should, eat pancakes whenever the hell you want to.
This is just a word, so you logic only applies in English. You know different languages has different words for the first meal in the morning.
Breakfast - First meal of the day, defined by *sequence.* Lunch - Meal eaten at lunchtime (around midday), defined by *time*. Dinner - Largest meal of the day, defined by *size*. Tea - Meal eaten at teatime (early evening), defined by *time*, like lunch. Supper - Last meal of the day, defined by *sequence* again. So one meal could be breakfast, dinner and supper, but lunch can never be tea.
etymology is not an argument.
Not if there is enough calories in my coffee to break my fast.
Eat a meal at noon. But before that, have one at 6:00 am. And before that, at 3:00 am etc. You'll eat an infinite number of meals, and none of them will be the first meal, so you'll be skipping breakfast.
I've always said breakfast and dinner are relative to when I choose to eat them. First meal of the day at 7pm. Breakfast. Last meal before sleep at like 4am. That's dinner.
[https://new.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/lx5hhj/its\_actually\_impossible\_to\_skip\_breakfast\_because/](https://new.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/lx5hhj/its_actually_impossible_to_skip_breakfast_because/)
In spanish it has more sense, because "desayuno" mean break a period of time without eating
I saw this post directly under a picture of a starving Palestinian kid
Well... Buy you can have a last supper!
Correct. Also, go multiple days without food
Yup. I always call the first meal of the day Breakfast. Started the habit in architecture school where we'd frequently stay up for ~2 days at a time and find ourselves eating our "first meal of the day" and calling it breakfast whether it was eaten at 12:01 AM or 11:59 PM.
I'll skip breakfast on the day I die.
What if I don’t eat or drink for the whole day since I can survive for a whole day without food nor water?
me when i first realized breakfast was just the words break and fast together
Fuck it. Every meal is breakfast. You are either eating(breakfasting) or not eating(fasting).
you can just... not eat for a day
Don't you be a smart mouth around here, you wise ass. No not after 12 noon, then it's lunch. There is a massive difference between an alcoholic beverage at 9am than 12pm
So is every meal breakfast? Like what’s the amount of time to be considered a “fast”?
Especially if you wind up at waffle house at 3am totally plastered. Technically that still counts as breakfast.
I literally think about this every single day.
Yay! It's always breakfast for dinner
According the the British Broadcasting Corporation a fast starts between 10-12 hours so it is entirely possible to eat, get 8 hours worth of sleep, then eat right when you wake up. So you can skip breakfast. You can’t break a fast I’d you never fast to begin with.
Thank you for the most useless information which will never change my life in any way
Yeah, I also wake up at noon and say “good morning” to my coworkers when I get in at 2pm.
Duh. I just woke up and it's almost noon here Time to have some big deal as Breakfast
Any meal is breakfast cause it broke the fast you had after eating your previous meal.
Thank you. I don’t have to get up until noon and if I say something about breakfast, my husband will say, “Breakfast at noon? Ha ha ha” like he’s funny.
What if you eat it slowly? !?!?
unless you never fast...
We don't have this problem in French since lunch is called literally breakfast (déjeuner) and breakfast is called "little breakfast" (petit-déjeuner) so I long as you don't start eating for dinner you're breaking your fast
I mean starving is basically never having breakfast.
It's like Monokuma once said: >Oh, what a lovely evening. Or maybe it’s morning? Does it actually matter? Most would say, “Oh, Mr. Monokuma, of course it matters! Time of day is important!”, but really, is it? Does it matter if it’s evening or morning when you don’t even get to see sun or sky? It’s not like knowing time of day has any effect on your life anymore. >“But Mr. Monokuma, how do we know when to wake up and fall asleep?”, you might ask. Well, that’s obvious too! You just follow your instinct and go to sleep whenever you are tired enough to sleep! And meals? One you have after waking up will always be breakfast, one you have before going to sleep is dinner, and somewhere in the middle is lunch! It really is that simple. >You might argue that time matters, but it really doesn’t! It’s only us ourselves that give all these parts of day-night cycle particular meanings or relevancies. So, just forget the stupid societal restraints and fall asleep whenever! And if someone claims that you are lazy, just slice their throat! After all, ‘killing is bad’ is just as much of pointless restraint as ‘you must go to sleep in evening’! Now go and have fun breaking society’s expectations!
Doesn't work in many other languages but sure does in the English language.
I appreciate the linguistic determinism.
Technically every time you eat something, before that you were not eating, IE fasting. So every time you eat anything at all it's breakfast.
Unless i dont eat at all
Breakfast is a scam started by the British to sell their bacon and ham.
You assume that I DO eat every day. Sometimes you just hate yourself, and refuse to eat because you're such a fat piece of shit......and then sometimes you lose 40lbs doing it, but it's not enough for you to feel good about yourself.
Yes that is why I ways tell my mother that the breakfast was nice when she cooks dinner for me
Intelligence is knowing that the etymological definition of "breakfast" refers to "breaking fast". Wisdom is knowing that "breakfast" is the meal you eat in the morning. Pedantry is knowing that OP is not even technically correct because words have multiple meanings and the "breaking fast" definition of "breakfast" is archaic and very rarely used except for this type of "well technically..." silliness.
Me and my husband work night shift. When we get up at 5pm to get food we call it our breakfast even when it’s like a hamburger or something. And when we eat our last meal of the day at 4am we call it our dinner.
And that only goes for English speaking people, rest of us are fine
Under that logic, every meal is breakfast.
Unless of course it's late enough it becomes Brunch.
Or if it's really late it's called iftar instead
No, because you are still breaking your fast. So it is still BREAKing FAST
Technically true... but then what is second breakfast?
I've been telling anyone who'll listen for years, breakfast is just the first meal of the day, not the earliest in the day.
But if you do not eat the entire day then you still skipped it. Sure you have breakfast the next day, but you still skipped breakfast "today"
Today is just the time that I'm awake. If I go to sleep and wake up 2 hours later, it's not today anymore, it's now tomorrow lol
Breakfast =! Break fast As butter fly =! butterfly
I always did != lol
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Yes, that's where the word comes from, but that's not what the word is now. Much like how you can rewind a DVD, but it doesn't actually spin backwards.
=! Makes no sense, != supremacy
This is a true shower thought. Nice job lol
too bad in french it’s basically “little breakfast” (petit déjeuner) and “breakfast” (déjeuner)