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I remember when I was a kid in the 80s, they would advertise cereal as being “part of this complete breakfast,” which was supposed to be cereal with milk, toast, a glass of juice and a glass of milk. And even as a kid who would eat a meal of practically any size put in front of him, I was like, “who is having all of that at breakfast?!”
Edit: I forgot! Also fruit! There would be like a whole banana next to the cereal bowl!
Yay, marketing. The nutritional value of the cereal is probably next to nothing, but if you ate everything else, you’d get all the nutrients you’d need. 1% of the total is still “a part” of the complete breakfast. Technically not false advertising.
Basically, the more food you see, the less nutritional value in the actual cereal.
Depends on the cereal. Granola based cereal with nuts and fruits are pretty healthy if they have low sugar content.
I can’t believe Frosted Flakes was/is legal to sell and advertise to kids with a mascot.
Frosted Flakes is savory compared to some of those other cereals. Froot Loops is like just pouring a sack of sugar in your mouth. It also has a mascot and, unlike Frosted Flakes, it comes in lots of fun colors to appeal to kids.
And all of this is legal.
And a sugar rush from the oj
See, the neat part was it was a complete breakfast without the cereal too!
The kids who had that kind of breakfast were probably the ones asking to go to the bathroom all the time.
Breakfast in real life: “why did I toast both poptarts?”
Or… Should I finish the box? I ate the five of them, seems weird to just let the sixth one sit here.
Is there any possibility this is done just to make it blindingly obvious to the viewer that Breakfast Is Happening™?
Seems like someone grabbing a couple breakfast bars and a canned beverage might plausibly finish the task quickly enough that a viewer may not notice, particularly if it’s not the foreground of the scene.
Or maybe it’s for the same reason anyone coming back from the grocery store will have a paper bag with celery stalks and a baguette poking out the top? No reason other than that it’s the conventional way of demonstrating the trope.
Could just as easily do like I do for my family:
“You wanted bagel with cream cheese, right?”
“I only have time for half.”
“Then take the other half with you, it’s hand-held food. The whole point is you can take it to go.”
“They don’t allow food on the bus.”
“Whatever, I’ll eat the other half. Have a good day. BOY! DID YOU FINISH YOUR WAFFLE WITH PEANUT BUTTER? I NEED YOU TO SIT ON THE POTTY SO FINISH YOUR BREAKFAST! Oh, hey, did you want toast or english muffin or something, Hon?”
“Nnnnnnhghh… just coffee…”
“It’s already out to cool down, there on the stove. I WILL THROW OUT THAT WAFFLE IF YOU DON’T FINISH IT WE HAVE TO GOOOO!”
I feel like that would get the “breakfast is happening” vibe out there.
“They don’t allow food on the bus”? Seriously? Has your family never snuck food into a movie theater before?
Just stick the bagel in a sandwich bag, and hide it under your coat or in your bag. Eat it at your destination. It’s not hard to pull off.
to make it blindingly obvious to the viewer that Breakfast Is Happening™?
True, its often used to signal that we have jumped to the next day in the same way they might use a rooster call in a rural setting.
Is there any possibility this is done just to make it blindingly obvious to the viewer that Breakfast Is Happening™?
I think it’s either that, or directors for major movies tending to be fabulously wealthy and not knowing what normal people have for breakfast.
make it blindingly obvious to the viewer that Breakfast Is Happening™
In others words “assume the viewer is too stupid to understand up cereal + day light + kitchen + after night time scene = breakfast.”
That’s one issue I have with a lot of newer shows and movies. Yes the older ones were guilty of it too, but now it feels like we’re being spoonfed every detail. “Did you catch the foreshadowing?? Here lets play it 3 times in slow motion, zoom in on it, and have a character say “oh look, that might be important later””
The just leaving it without taking so much as a bite like it’s no big deal is as hard for me to believe as the spread itself. On the face of it, it shouldn’t be, after all it’s entirely plausible and narratively sensible that the character doesn’t have time and technically it only reinforces the ludicrousness of the giant meal on a weekday morning but, if I was late in the morning but also someone had cooked me pancakes and bacon and eggs with orange juice and coffee and all these cafe breakfast dishes altogether on the table like that then work is just going to have to wait. I’m not spurning pancakes for anything.
I can see she is holding 7 flapjacks with a pad of butter. I am going to assume the yellow is a eggs. Glass of milk and OJ on the table. The dad has more flapjacks with bacon and eggs. What is the orange stuff in the kids plate and what are the multi-colored things in the bowl?
The multi-colored stuff is probably cereal.
The yellow could be homefries (cubed potato’s), corn flakes, or a big bowl of butter. (I like you egg theory)
The orange goop is probably oatmeal or one of these cereal that’s supposed to turn chocolate, but failed.
I was thinking cut up fruit for the multicolor given the heaped nature, but I also considered cereal.
Looks exactly like dog food to me
Breakfast isn’t a real meal, it was made up by companies selling breakfast foods. Death to breakfast.
Big Breakfast. We need to take down Big Lunch and Big Dinner too. No more meals!
Only kveldsmat! (Evening food in Norwegian)
I wish I could downvote twice.
However, I regularly make my family breakfast-for-dinner, so it’s more my love for all breakfast foods than when it’s eaten.
Edit: just kidding on the downvoting, I didn’t downvote for real. Just saw you were negative and didn’t want you to think I was serious.
It’s Big Breakfast trying to silence me!
Breakfast meals are perfect any time of the day. The only one I have trouble with is pancakes. It eliminates dessert as all that syrup is sweet enough. I understand that’s a personal problem for me. I gotta put a cap on that sugar intake.
Breakfast is delicious, but I can’t stand eating it in the morning (or any food, for that matter). Never understood how people can just wake up hungry. My appetite doesn’t kick in until around 2pm.
I wake up hungry, spend the day hungry, and go to bed hungry. I have two states: hungry and so full I am borderline nauseous.
Ding… dinner’s served
