No one ever skips breakfast because breakfast literally means breaking the fast. Therefore, those who say they skip breakfast actually eat it later in the day and call it by another name.
No one ever skips breakfast because breakfast literally means breaking the fast. Therefore, those who say they skip breakfast actually eat it later in the day and call it by another name.
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Do you think every country in the world use the word breakfast?
So every meal is breakfast, then. Maybe 6 hours between lunch and dinner, but dinner would be breaking the fast, right? So dinner is breakfast?
You do realize other languages exist? The world is not a bubble.
So you’re telling me I can eat pancakes for dinner
Words don’t mean whatever their etymological origins are
The most important meal of the day is the next one.
Plot twist : Breakfast isn’t a meal, it’s a mindset
The trick is to never stop eating. Can’t break fast if you never fast in the first place.
Eventually, everyone skips breakfast… once.
incorrect. that is valid for English speakers but not all languages. in German it’s called “early piece” so it’s a restriction based on time not the last time you ate
The origin of a word and its current meaning can be two different things. For example, bastard originally meant someone born out of wedlock, and gay originally meant happy, but if you were to say those words these days, almost nobody would take them as the original meaning. Likewise, if you say “breakfast”, most people will understand that to mean the early morning meal.
Only if you’re speaking English (and possibly some other languages with the same meaning)
But can’t every meal be called a breakfast also cause you fast between each one?
That’s where the word comes from.. not what it means.
To expand upon this, one could think of death as the great unskippable breakfast
What if I don’t fast
So technically, brunch is just breakfast in disguise, lurking in the shadows with mimosas.
Then, technically, every time you eat it’s breakfast. The length of the “fast” may be relatively short between some meals, but it gets broken when you eat again.
I guess you’re right 😀
Fasting all day may be the exception
Hmmm, I guess I actually eat breakfast every day. Well nearly, I occasionally am so busy that I really don’t end up eating at all.
Ah yes, because the entire world speaks English and structures their meals around a linguistic quirk. Guess I’ll go tell billions of people their morning meal doesn’t count unless they call it ‘breakfast.’
okay buddy good for you
You’re always fasting when you’re not eating. Thus, every meal is a breakfast.
Technically the truth
In French, déjeuner (“lunch”) also literally means end-fast.
Well in danish it’s called “morgenmad”, which translates to morning food, so people can say they skipped eating “breakfast” in danish.
That’s just etymology. Meals are primarily named for the time of day they are consumed. They can also be named for the type of food being consumed (see all-day breakfast menus). It’s true some people will say “this is my breakfast” when eating their first meal, but that doesn’t invalidate other people saying “I skipped breakfast” in the same circumstances. Humans are not uniform in their use of the words.
You can break your fast by drinking something, then eat actual food later in the day that doesn’t actually break a fast
What if you don’t eat a meal at, all in a 24 hour period. They might break the fast, but they might not do it on the same day?
Calling that meal the ‘Fastslow’ would be my vote
If you don’t eat that day, you’ve skipped breakfast.
I read a formal definition of Breakfast as being a meal that meets at least two of the three criteria: First meal of the day. Eaten before noon. Consisting of traditional breakfast food.
So if you eat pizza at 7am you had pizza for breakfast. If you sleep till 1pm and eat cornflakes then you had breakfast in the afternoon. But if you sleep till 1pm and eat pizza then you had pizza for lunch and skipped breakfast.
Well, I call it Frühstück, which literally translates as early piece. So if I miss it, then I’m certainly not one of those early birds that catch all those worms.
Breakfast is a type of food not a meal time.
No, breakfast means morning meal. The fact that it originates from the words “breaking fast” doesn’t stop it being a morning meal.
That’s either second breakfast or elevensees.
Unfortunately not really. The current oxford english dictionary definitions call breakfast: a meal eaten in the morning, and lunch: a meal eaten in the middle of the day. So it’s a cool thought but idk that it fits current definitions
Doesn’t dinner mean to dine
People who fast for an entire day skip breakfast. 😛
So what about when one has to fast and have to drink water to prep for a colonoscopy…? Water and taking those shitty meds aren’t food… so it’s possible for everyone to go a few times in their life without eating breakfast… and some even do it purposefully for longer.
Just saying…
Bro trying his best to come up with a shower thought
Breakfast doesn’t mean the meal that breaks the fast. It’s the meal eaten in morning.
In the first half of sentence i was expecting some big science but then …..
how about those of us who don’t really fast, and wake up 3 times in the middle of the night for a snack? what would you call breakfast then?
This is why I call my first meal of the day ‘breakfast’, even if I’m eating it at 10pm
I always thought it meant a fast break… like a very short break
It all makes so much more sense now
Intermittent fasters sometimes do 36 hour fasts. So some days no breakfast.
Calling my poor eating habits “intermittent fasting” lol
orlando zapata skipped breakfast.
there are others.
People that eat one meal a day in the evening are having brinner every day!
But the fast never begun if you’re always referencing the last meal
Please don’t actually skip breakfast, it can lead to obesity and/or other various health diseases.
This isn’t even a debate of connotation vs. denotation like most semantic linguistic debates. This is actually a debate of the archaic etymological history of a word across multiple languages vs. its modern definition in English, which is in itself fascinating, as the generally understood history of “breakfast” as an English word is a misnomer. The word you’re referring to was actually never known as “breakfast” in the English language. Old English used the word “dinner”, which was adopted from the Gallo-Romance term “desjunare” – “to break one’s fast”. This term comes from the Vulgar Latin (common Latin) “disjejunare” – “to undo the fast”. The Romanian word for dinner to this day is still “desjunare”. The Old English meaning of “dinner” faded sometime in the 13th century, and the meaning of “dinner” was established in English based on the Old French word “disner” – referring to the largest meal of the day, typically eaten at midday. The term “breakfast” appeared again in written English in the 1500s, at this point referring to “a morning meal” – what we still know it as today. The etymological changes to both “breakfast” and “dinner” as we know them in English vary vastly among different languages, cultures, and time periods – but this particular thought is actually based on one of the stranger etymological misnomers I’ve ever encountered.
Source: I’m a major linguistic/etymology nerd and this caught my attention as interesting.
You’re forgetting that words have multiple meanings, which is why there is distinction in the dictionaries with multiple entries for the same word.
If treating it as only having one, you could consider every single meal as breaking your fast since the last meal, technically.
Brunch just joined the conversation
Not a native speaker and after 20 years of speaking English I only just understood the root of the word breakfast
Etymology does not equate to meaning
What about when you die? You skipped breakfast first.
It’s cute when people make up their own definitions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/17p4pa0/breakfast_is_never_skipped_only_delayed/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/11rsb30/technically_you_dont_skip_breakfast_you_just/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/lx5hhj/its_actually_impossible_to_skip_breakfast_because/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/jbhc3n/you_can_never_really_skip_breakfast_after/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/269bzz/technically_its_impossible_to_skip_breakfast_the/
I take a bite of food at 11:59:50 PM and make sure I’m chewing it past midnight, that way I never start my fast in the first place.
That only works in English though
How cute you are finding out there is a history behind the meaning of words.
I’ve always just considered whatever I eat first after waking up as breakfast. Doesn’t matter to me what time it is, what I eat, or how long it’s been between waking and eating. Its breakfast lol
Fasting all night naturally makes mornings the perfect time to have a nice veggie/fruit juice. It’s very addictive once you start.
If I don’t eat for a day, then I haven’t broken fast that day, therefore I skipped it.
What if it’s literally called “morning meal” in your native language?
Also…. no food is breakfast food but all foods can be eaten for breakfast.
Colloquially breakfast means the morning meal. So yeah, you’re correct on a technical standpoint, but it’s also kind of pedantic and no one invites pedants to parties. Trust me, I’ve never been to a party.
english is not a language motivated by delcarative meaning; as such breakfast could be the first thing, or it could specifically be eating food at 4-9 AM.
depends entirely on what the speaker chooses to believe in, and how they choose to use the language.
I always call my first meal breakfast and boy do some people have a hard time understanding the joke/concept
People skip what is considered “breakfast” food. If I normally eat food at 7am, and one day I skip that meal and eat lunch at 1pm instead, then that is breaking the fast but it isn’t breakfast.
Idk. Washing my Ritalin down with a couple cups of coffee breaks my fast till dinner. Combined with my nicotine vaping, I’d say I’m on the millennial French girl diet.
No one ever skips this shower thought….
Breakfast literally means the morning meal. Breaking the word down doesn’t necessarily give you the literal meaning. In this case, it only gives you an old, outdated meaning from the word’s origins.
Unless you speak some other language, like Lithuanian. The word for breakfast is basically “morningsies”, specifically the meal that you eat in the morning.
The word for lunch is the same as the word for midday. It’s also the same word for South, because that’s where the sun is at that time of the day.
Dinner is “eveningsies”, appropriately.
We also have a word for midnight snack, which is basically “night lunch”.
Every meal you eat is breaking a fast.
Then I guess I been having breakfast at 2AM
I never eat breakfast
They’re skipping lunch/dinner then I guess
Intermittent fasting is just a fancy word for skipping breakfast
What do lunch and dinner ‘literally’ mean?
Jokes on you. I never fasted because I was snacking all through the night lol
that’s what i do, 10pm breakfast ftw
Every meal is a breakfast because you spent time not eating (fasting) before the meal
That’s what it used to mean and where the word came from, but it has evolved. We have more words to describe meals of the day now. Breakfast has evolved to have a common meaning something eaten between waking up in the morning and noon. If you eat the first meal of the day at 1pm, sure it’s still breaking your fast, but have evolved out language to have a more descriptive word for that. Lunch can also be the first thing eaten breaking your fast and has a descriptive time as eaten around noon time. We all know these common descriptions are true because that’s how we use the words in the English language.
Now this is a shower thought
True that, looking deeper into the reason for the word usage is wise it is
I never thought of that word break up like that in my 40 years of existence. Break plus fast. Jesus… My mind is blown.
I eat breakfast at lunch time