WHAT IS A GOOD BREAKFAST?

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1288, 25 August 1914, Page 4

WHAT IS A GOOD BREAKFAST?

What makes a good breakfast ? asked the Daily Mail recently. The question arises out of the refusal of twenty attendants at an asylum near Liverpool to start their work one morning because they were served with porridge instead of meat. From enquiries made it is evident that British breakfast tables of all classes are firmly knit together by a common bond of bacon. Many prominent men support bacon. “A cup of coffee, a little bacon, and some marmalade, is the ideal breakfast for the business man with large interests and much work to get through,” said Mr H, Lawrie, manager of Whitley’s, Limited ; ‘‘it is neither too light nor too heavy.” ‘‘Bacou for the brain-worker,” says Mr Charles Garvice. “I always have toasted bacon and a baked apple, sometimes a little fish. Porridge and other farinaceous foods are generally unsuitable (or the brain worker ; not one literary man in fifty can eat porridge.” A prominent Scotland Yard official said that, while he himself always breakfasted off some dry toast and weak tea, the police force, with a hard day’s work before them, generally breakfasted substantially. Bacon, of course, but for some reason policemen are very prone to sausages, ‘‘A suitable breakfast menu for the brain-worker,” said % doctor on tne staff of a great London hospital, ‘‘would be something on these lines: A little fresh fruit, one or two soft-boiled eggs, some hard, thoroughly-cooked toast with butter, one large or two small cups of tea.” ‘‘Very light breakfasts, are a latter-day fad which has no scientific justification,” said another physician. A third physician took quite the opposite view. “Breakfast is a habit, and a bad habit.”