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Dept. of Questions Without Answers: Why is everyone so balled up about breakfast?

05.16.2011 by David Murray // 3 Comments

I don't eat breakfast usually. Why? Because I eat when I'm hungry—or sometimes, several hours after I start being hungry—and I'm not hungry in the morning.

I know: You're mad at me.

I should eat breakfast. It's good for the metabolism. It will give me energy. It's good for my what my mother used to call my corpsuckles. But it's not like not eating breakfast causes cancer. Nobody ever dies and they say, "She smoked three packs a day. And she didn't eat breakfast!"

And hell, there's probably a lot of stuff I should do for my health—physical, emotional and spiritual—lots of stuff we all should do.

Generally, we don't lecture each other, because we kettles black don't want to be lectured back.

But you're better off telling someone you eat children for breakfast than saying you don't eat breakfast at all.

Why is that?

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  1. Steve C. says

    May 16, 2011 at 9:24 am

    When healthy people wonder why I’m fat, they always say: “Do you eat breakfast? Because you know you have to eat breakfast.”
    And I say: “I never miss breakfast.”
    And they say: “That’s good.”
    Then I tell them what I have for breakfast: leftover Chinese food, liver sausage sandwiches, pizza, bologna and cheese rollups, and shit like that.
    So the question is . . .is ANY breakfast better than NO breakfast?
    Steve C.

    Reply
  2. Steve C. says

    May 16, 2011 at 9:24 am

    When healthy people wonder why I’m fat, they always say: “Do you eat breakfast? Because you know you have to eat breakfast.”
    And I say: “I never miss breakfast.”
    And they say: “That’s good.”
    Then I tell them what I have for breakfast: leftover Chinese food, liver sausage sandwiches, pizza, bologna and cheese rollups, and shit like that.
    So the question is . . .is ANY breakfast better than NO breakfast?
    Steve C.

    Reply
  3. Steve C. says

    May 16, 2011 at 9:24 am

    When healthy people wonder why I’m fat, they always say: “Do you eat breakfast? Because you know you have to eat breakfast.”
    And I say: “I never miss breakfast.”
    And they say: “That’s good.”
    Then I tell them what I have for breakfast: leftover Chinese food, liver sausage sandwiches, pizza, bologna and cheese rollups, and shit like that.
    So the question is . . .is ANY breakfast better than NO breakfast?
    Steve C.

    Reply

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