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This shows the downside of Wikipedia. The "source" for this claim is a conspiracy-nut anti-fluoride essay in the Rothbard-Rockwell Report. Yet it's passed by Wikipedia--and then this article--as a fact.
Believe it or not, though, bacon’s association with the American breakfast is barely a century old I'm not sure why this would be hard to believe at all. In the 1920s, Bernays was approached by the Beech-Nut Packing Company – producers of everything from pork products to the nostalgic Beech-Nut bubble gum. Beech-Nut wanted to increase consumer demand for bacon. Bernays turned to his agency’s internal doctor and asked…
>Before this, the majority of Americans ate more modest, often meatless breakfasts that might include fruit, a grain porridge (oat, wheat or corn meals) or a roll, and usually a cup of coffee. Pretty hard to argue that bacon is really as healthy as oatmeal & fruit. Just for reference, fried eggs have a crapload of cholesterol ( http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fried+egg ) and bacon is pretty fattening and in gene…
A bit of hyperbole, but having married into an East Asian household and spent lots of time traveling around the world, I'm soundly convinced that a well defined breakfast meal, with its own traditions, foods and culinary style, is one of the greatest inventions of western civilization. I have to question this article because the American breakfast is pretty much just a local variant on the traditional full breakfast…
I can't remember off the top of my head, but it's amazing how many of our american "traditions" are a result of marketing. While there is nothing inherently bad about this, it definitely gives me a sense that something is not authentic when I come to learn it was the result of a marketing campaign. This bacon and eggs breakfast is just one example. Grilled cheese and tomato soup is another. Can anyone recall any othe…
...The Florida industry’s aggressive marketing of oranges and orange juice is a key feature of orange juice history, as it slowly developed demand for the product. In 1907 oranges became the first perishable fruit “ever” to be advertised. As crops expanded quickly, marketing became crucial to avoid overproduction. The growth of farmer cooperatives came largely out of a need to market the products. The Florida Citrus Exchange was organized in 1910 to market fresh citrus and also to do research on processing citrus. It created advertising programs and “built national and international sales organizations.”
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Uhhhh.... unless they don't make the bacon and eggs themselves. See: Denny's, McDonald's, Burger King, etc. This is not to say that bacon and eggs are solely responsible for the obesity epidemic, but I think it's kind of silly to say that the only people who eat bacon and eggs are those who cook it for themselves, or are more healthy.
A Bacon, egg, and cheese McMuffin has ~300 calories, which is a perfectly reasonable breakfast. The obesity epidemic has nothing to do with bacon and eggs, either home cooked or from McDonalds. They're so rich its hard to eat enough to blow your calorie budget. The problem is french fries (500 for a large order at McD's), soda (~150 per can), pasta, etc. Nobody would order their hamburger with a side of steak, but a…
And aside from the sodium and cholesterol that might be a reasonable breakfast. It's no bowl of oatmeal or banana, but it's not going to make you fat.
On the other hand, a sausage+egg+cheese McGriddle is going to be 500 calories, two hashbrowns is another 300, and an orange juice is going to be another 200. You've hit 1,000 calories, half your allotment for the day, and it's not even 7:30 in the morning.
I can't remember off the top of my head, but it's amazing how many of our american "traditions" are a result of marketing. While there is nothing inherently bad about this, it definitely gives me a sense that something is not authentic when I come to learn it was the result of a marketing campaign. This bacon and eggs breakfast is just one example. Grilled cheese and tomato soup is another. Can anyone recall any othe…
Can anyone recall any others? Diamonds, and the various "Hallmark" holidays come to mind.
http://theweek.com/article/index/237421/the-origin-story-of-...
I can't remember off the top of my head, but it's amazing how many of our american "traditions" are a result of marketing. While there is nothing inherently bad about this, it definitely gives me a sense that something is not authentic when I come to learn it was the result of a marketing campaign. This bacon and eggs breakfast is just one example. Grilled cheese and tomato soup is another. Can anyone recall any othe…
"Country" Music is an amalgam no more traditional than rock and roll - it's worth mentioning mostly because it gives much more of an impression of being traditional.
I can't remember off the top of my head, but it's amazing how many of our american "traditions" are a result of marketing. While there is nothing inherently bad about this, it definitely gives me a sense that something is not authentic when I come to learn it was the result of a marketing campaign. This bacon and eggs breakfast is just one example. Grilled cheese and tomato soup is another. Can anyone recall any othe…
"Country" Music is an amalgam no more traditional than rock and roll - it's worth mentioning mostly because it gives much more of an impression of being traditional.
A bit of hyperbole, but having married into an East Asian household and spent lots of time traveling around the world, I'm soundly convinced that a well defined breakfast meal, with its own traditions, foods and culinary style, is one of the greatest inventions of western civilization. I have to question this article because the American breakfast is pretty much just a local variant on the traditional full breakfast…
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Trust me, people aren't getting fat off of bacon and eggs. They're getting fat off of sugar water. The simple answer is satiety vs. calories. Bacon and eggs have a lot of calories, but you feel full for a while after eating them. Sugar water has almost as many calories, but you never feel full. So you drink 3000 calories of soda a day, and then you're fat. Basically, any premade food you find in the store is designed…
>Bacon and eggs have a lot of calories I don't disagree with most of what you said, but a lot of people don't realize that eggs aren't really that high in calories. A large egg is ~70 calories. 2-3 is the most you usually get in a restaurant, so you're talking 200 calories for a meal. That's nothing. Bacon on the other hand.... Anyway, let me just say that this thread is like stepping into some kind of bizarro world.…
Everything is relative, and I think the GP and I would agree that eggs are not unhealthy.