How Two Guys are the Reason We Eat What We Eat for Breakfast

[@TodayIFoundOut]

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[@purplealice]

Any of the meal kits I've seen are quite a bit more expensive than buying the ingredients separately and learning how to do the prep work yourself, and learning a few basic principles of cooking.

[@RikDog91]

Does this work for Australia too?

[@RikDog91]

@@purplealice I see it as a good starter thing, as I'm changing up my own cooking now and like these services as they introduce me to new meals.

[@RichardIresonMusician]

Code doesn't work in the UK!🤔

[@toddellner5283]

More expensive than buying premium ingredients at the store. The recipes I tried aren't all that great. This is for people who didn't master kitchen basics and don't have a decent cookbook.

[@hashtag415]

A recent study has shown that humans eat more bananas than monkeys. It must be true because I've never eaten a monkey.

[@cascanicoff5763]

That's a good one 😆

[@drtm1718]

The women in your life must have been terribly disappointed.

[@KEVMAN7987]

Don't eat monkeys. That's why HIV exists today.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

Sound logic.

[@tedarcher9120]

Monkeys don't eat bananas actually, so that is true either way

[@Cydonia2020]

“Good thing they can’t manipulate me.” I say going back to my Quaker oatmeal with Sunkist raisins and Maxwell House coffee.

[@sleazybtd]

Don't forget to light up a Lucky Strike afterwards to aid in digesting that breakfast.

[@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937]

Just eat and drink what you like, make sure you’re getting enough protein for your body weight, eat as many carbs or fat as you want, drink enough water and hydrating liquids and make sure you get your micronutrients from a source that your body can use while staying at maintenance calories if you’re eat a healthy weight. That is it. Pretty much no food is healthy or unhealthy. Everything else is pseudo science. Brands don’t matter at all lol

[@FourOf92000]

you are not immune to propaganda -Garfield

[@laurabustos6560]

@@sleazybtd turning the tides with our torches of freedom!!👌🔥👌

[@TheSultan1470]

Exactly.

[@ggrriissoomm]

I went to South Korea once and my friends mom made me spaghetti every morning because she heard Americans eat special food for breakfast and spaghetti was the only American food she'd ever heard of (I know, I know). Had heart burn every single day I was there.

[@nurgle333]

R.I.P.

[@jakepullman4914]

Her heart was in the right place.

[@dustbowlhammer7119]

That sounds incredibly sweet.

[@AlakaxamM]

"😰I heard Americans have special diets! What do I feed it?? ☺️I know..." 🤣 She was so sweet. Americans get a bad rep for not understanding other cultures, but it's honestly everyone lol

[@TheSultan1470]

Jesus

[@autumnalvoid9646]

"Changing the package is too expensive, so let's re-program how a whole nation perceives a colour." - "Wait, what?" - "Yeah... people are that dumb... You'll see... Green..."

[@craigcrawford6595]

Ever read Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard? More truth to what you said than many realize. .

[@lordgarion514]

If someone is dumb enough to not use something, just because of the package color, then they're already 10 times dumber than needed to change their minds.

[@craigcrawford6595]

@@lordgarion514 And if you don't think you buy things merely because of color then you lie to yourself. Because if you buy only for practical purposes then color wouldn't be an issue but I bet your car is particular color you like and was probably a major factor in buying it. .

[@lordgarion514]

@@craigcrawford6595 That's not remotely what I said. Reading comprehension isn't that hard. I've owned several cars in colors I didn't care for, because they were a damn good deal. Like I said, and I'll type it slowly for you, if someone is dumb enough to not use something because of the color...... In other words, if you love everything about something except the color, and you say screw it, you're an idiot that's going to be easily manipulated. My long sleeve work shirts are light grey, and I hate grey. Why? Because the Amazon seller had a 6 pack of just the grey on sale for what 3 of any other color cost.

[@ethanhayes7038]

@@craigcrawford6595 Cars are valued personal belongings lasting for many years, and out in the open for all to see. Any rational person will care more about the color of their car than a piece of cardboard that'll be stowed away in a bag or pocket most of the time and disposed of within a week. It's not a good comparison.

[@jmchez]

In any cause or endeavor, always remember that the difference between being involved and being committed is like a breakfast of eggs and bacon. The chicken is involved, the pig is committed.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

This is both funny and thought provoking

[@markmcadie354]

For the Chicken a days work, but a lifetime vocation for the pig...

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

Good perspective

[@toddnolastname4485]

Not with those new miracle meats.

[@tsawe6246]

Okay greys anatomy

[@davidsigalow7349]

Americans are not the only ones whose "traditional foods" became "traditional" through the efforts of marketing agencies. In Britian, the "ploughman's lunch" - bread, cheese, onions, pickles to start- became a popular pub lunch in the 1950s due to efforts of the Cheese Bureau to increase the consumption of cheese.

[@therealchayd]

Ha, didn't know that about the ploughmans, damn those cheese marketers.

[@killgoretrout9000]

@@therealchayd Blessed are the cheesemakers

[@viciousyeen6644]

I love the thought of a „cheese bureau“ like businessmen and Secretaries working on typewriters, just cheesy

[@therealchayd]

@@viciousyeen6644 Pretty Monty Pythonesque I thought.

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Plus the supposed American origin of the fried breakfast is a lie.

[@MythicalPhoebe]

"Time is an illusion. Lunch time, doubly so" -Douglass Adams.

[@MythicalPhoebe]

I've never seen breakfast time or dinner time as serious parameters. I eat whatever Is available. Sometimes I eat leftovers for breakfast.

[@zappawench6048]

Much better than the long, dark teatime of the soul...

[@kevinfreeman3098]

@@MythicalPhoebe whatever whenever

[@sadjupiter9462]

never ask the ground to be your friend -whale

[@Nilguiri]

"Douglass Adam's"? WTF is the matter with you?

[@allyourcode]

I love learning about how deliberate marketing invented all sorts of "common sense" preferences. Diamonds, pearls, mouth wash, and now bacon & eggs. This topic could be a channel all it's own. (I would totally subscribe to that.)

[@axiomshift4666]

Pancakes waffles and oatmeal were always a bigger breakfast food for my family but I like bacon for burgers and grandma would make it with her pancakes. I prefer sausages though.

[@sweetie_chu]

Don’t forget Santa. The current image of Santa was a big marketing ploy by Coca-Cola

[@churblefurbles]

early cosmo mag writer later admitted they wrote fake glamorous stories of life in the big city to sell women on a consumerist life style as single women consume more. sex and the city later on fictionalized even the writer part of the equation.

[@jennagrace1534]

I think there is a podcast called “under the influence” that goes into marketing and advertisement trickery.

[@cerveza2297]

Trends, be aware of them don't follow them.

[@myplane150]

Oh, man. I remember mom "making" orange juice from concentrate back in the 70s (12:07). It was a thrill to get a teaspoon of the icy concentrate for a small treat! Loved it!!! ☺

[@EverlastingHobnocker]

I remember that too. Haven't even thought of it in so long, now wondering if it's still a thing

[@joannekerr3]

My mom did this as well....in the late 90s-early 2000s

[@cherrywilliams5739]

The beginning of the video, you state that the agricultural community ate hearty breakfasts that included bacon and eggs. So, the pr campaign was not the beginning.

[@ScottTancock]

The Anglo-saxons were the beginning: serving large, hearty meals to those who visited them in the spirit of hospitality. This became the Full English, which has been with America since before independence.

[@stevethepocket]

Yeah, what I want to know is why certain foods are considered "breakfast foods" and it's weird to eat, like, a sub sandwich or fried chicken for breakfast.

[@curt2742]

@@stevethepocket I would guess it is because these traditional foods predate refrigeration. When you wake up and prepare your morning meal, you reach for the easiest things to make that wouldn't spoil overnight. Cured meats, cheese, eggs, grains, etc. Fresh killed meat would come later in the day.

[@thehorseformerlywithoutana2522]

As I understand it that was a traditional rural breakfast as that’s what people had lying around on the farm. When people urbanized they drifted away from that tradition, and the sales dropped accordingly. So they threw a huge ad campaign to “remind America of its roots.”

[@gorkyd7912]

The PR campaign was the beginning of the tradition. Before the PR campaign it was not a tradition it was just a convenience for some people working in rural settings who would start work at 6am, skip lunch, stop work when the sun goes down, and maybe have a small dinner before bed. It wasn't a tradition it was just the habit of eating adapted to that work schedule for some people.

[@lunarwuffy5299]

Leftover cold pizza and warm beer. Breakfast of champions!

[@zalphinian]

Change the warm beer to flat root beer and you have my favorite breakfast as a teen.

[@paulherman5822]

Folger's crystals and milk. Breakfast of ex-champions.

[@andymofoincross]

I read an article recently where a nutritionist explained how a slice of pizza is technically a "healthier" breakfast than the average breakfast cereal. So if Wheaties are the breakfast of Olympians, then pizza really is the breakfast of champions.

[@Rex-ii2yz]

Thats what my home is fueled by.

[@nealhoffman7518]

Cold fried chicken also

[@raydunakin]

This video is making me sooooo hungry!

[@fanboy8026]

🍔🍕🌭🍲

[@Floninjalo]

That’s just your tapeworm, bud.

[@knday]

I just really want orange juice right now.

[@craigrainbow7674]

Just wanna make a hello fresh shout out for that honey thyme pork tenderloin. 10/10

[@fairwaywoods]

I want pancakes.

[@krisfrederick5001]

Fun Fact: It was not until the 15th century that "Breakfast" came into use in written English to describe a morning meal, which literally meant to break the fasting period of the prior night. Yes, I copied that.

[@JohnVKaravitis]

Do you know Sp0ns0rBlock?

[@Matty06001]

My grandkids find it difficult to remember what the name of any particular meal is. I keep calling it break the fast. Eventually, I suppose they’ll get it.

[@elaineburnett5230]

Well I am happy someone thought of breakfast...and I am indebted to those who thought of bacon and eggs as well!

[@jaklumen]

I've been observing 16-hour intermittent fasting, so... I could call the noon meal "breakfast", since I skip the morning one. But considering the other names of meals, it seems a lot of names are arbitrary- "dinner" might be in the middle of the day, or it might be in the evening.

[@deewesthill1358]

@@elaineburnett5230 I'm a vegan, and I say no need to break eggs to break fast.

[@savageman7047]

I just had meatloaf mashed potatoes and collard greens for breakfast

[@twentypdrparrott694]

My maternal grandmother's standard breakfast consisted of the following: eggs fried or scrambled; oatmeal with cream; bacon; sausage; fresh home made buttered biscuits; coffee. Served between 6:30 and 7:00 every morning.

[@larapalma3744]

Did she live to be a teenager?

[@somekid6718]

@Green Mamba Games I believe his distinction is that in a scrambled egg the yolk is broken and mixed with the white

[@claustrum5534]

I'd need to go back to sleep after a breakfast like that

[@KatjeKat86]

That sounds about right for the older generations of my family who were dairy farmers and were up for hours before they had breakfast working.

[@JordanKetterer]

Ok did I miss something. You just had a whole video saying that bacon and eggs weren't traditional, bit then explain the reason it is was because the dwindling of bacon and eggs as the traditional American breakfast. So it is in fact a older and very traditional breakfast then isn't?

[@larryroyovitz7829]

@@weplaywax Coka Cola of course.

[@derekirish5121]

No, that’s exactly what you saw. It’s scary how many people missed the circular reasoning.

[@KalonOrdona2]

Yup, I noticed this as well

[@stevenscott2136]

He very clearly said they were traditional farm foods, went out of fashion among the urbanizing population, and were then brought back by Bernays.

[@randomobserver8168]

@@stevenscott2136 Agreed, and that's a valid frame for it, it's just not how the video started off.

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

It's so nice to live life knowing where certain customs or cultures came from. Thanks as always!

[@jasatotakouzeno4674]

Hold on... is this the first itteration of the “9 out of 10 experts recommend X”?

[@noway234]

I always wonder what that ONE Dr had to say!

[@malenotyalc]

I smashed the like button. Now my cellphone is broken. My brother is an attorney and he says I'll own Simon by the end of the week for this.

[@lyrix9753]

So what you're saying is that a greedy person used a woman's issue to make them buy their product (talking about the cigarettes). But it does sound familiar when looking at companies being "virtuous"

[@ameliarosealdridge6468]

It still goes on to this day, many companies will gladly fly rainbows and outwardly express support for LGBTQ+ and say "no" to racism people and then within the company internally, actively discriminate against these groups. They are just a market for these corporations, they don't actually care about you or what's right, many will say whatever they must to appease the press, but then knowingly use child labour to make their products.

[@Gappasaurus]

Corporate America: “The people aren’t consuming enough nicotine, cholesterol, and fat!” 😭 Edward Bernays: “Challenge Accepted”

[@nameremoved4010]

Nicotine fights Covid. And cholesterol and saturated fat are good for you provided they aren't transfat or seed oils.

[@dadillen5902]

Bernays - Hold my Bacon flavored peanut butter.

[@dadillen5902]

@@nameremoved4010 So, it heart disease or lung cancer and ash tray breath wanna choice. Win-Win.😯

[@IQTech61]

Yes, nicotine is bad for you. Cholesterol comes from fat and the fact is, the cholesterol hypothesis has been completely debunked. Read "The Great Cholesterol Myth" by Bowden and Sinatra.

[@nameremoved4010]

@@IQTech61 I agree tobacco is bad but it is also bad for the 'virus'.

[@momstermom2939]

“Don’t get saucy with me, Bernays.”

[@skiporbit]

Oh that comment was too rich.

[@kaleblundberg7479]

"Oh, Pissboy!"

[@kevinwheesysouthward9295]

I paid for them, theys are mine

[@ruel9961]

Count the money. Count the money.

[@largefishsmallpond5393]

Classic

[@bigfan9805]

Delicious Bacon has no time restraints, any time of day is a good time to enjoy Delicious Bacon.👌🏻👍🏻

[@jonnunn4196]

It's more common for me to eat Bacon at lunch (as part of a Cheese Baconburger)

[@morrigankasa570]

Exactly Bacon is one of the greatest meats ever. In fact a breakfast I love is Bacon, Fried Eggs, Hashbrowns and the Eggs and Hashbrowns cooked in the Bacon grease. It is fantastic.

[@jameshuggins4300]

As I watch this im eating bacon and eggs at midnight 😋 😆 🤣 😂

[@erichan6985]

@Robert Sears can’t argue that .

[@erichan6985]

Bacon is very special . Very .

[@rosepearl7092]

"partnered with the American Aluminum company to sell fluoride..."?! Please, more on this!

[@bernardherman9887]

IIRC Fluoride was a byproduct of aluminum production, and was expensive to dispose of. Enter a medical study showing that fluoride helped prevent tooth decay and viola! Alcoa started making money selling a waste product to municipalities. Of course General Ripper would say it was a commie threat to sap our precise bodily fluids.

[@zapkvr]

@@bernardherman9887 correct. Or in the case of Australia, fertilizer companies

[@gorkyd7912]

People who worship science can be convinced to dispose of a deadly manufacturing byproduct by drinking it on the grounds of a single fraudulent scientific paper.

[@dragonhealer7588]

@@gorkyd7912 So the numerous meta-studies between the 1940's and now are all fraudulent? Citation please.

[@mikecsernyik7360]

@@gorkyd7912 I like your comment, but honestly I would propose to change "science" to "established scientific institutions" because to me, true science is the scientific method of deriving conclusions from your own observations.

[@yotaiji012]

Betty crocker add an egg...that worked? Hahahah omg

[@stevenscott2136]

I know many women of the "I want to be a good wife... but I don't want to spend any time or energy on it" mindset.

[@BTheBlindRef]

This was one of the big culture shocks to my wife who is from Thailand. She couldn't figure out why we had specific "breakfast" foods. When I asked her what they generally ate for breakfast in Thailand, she was like: "food".

[@Simonsvids]

That would be so boring to an European to live like that. A dreary boring life. No wonder she married you. Still it's 'white mans burden' to civilise these people.

[@2403373]

@@Simonsvids wtf is wrong with you?

[@BTheBlindRef]

@@Simonsvids Not sure I get whether you are being sarcastic or funny or observational. It was a revelation to ME to realize that not every culture had a designation between types of food to go along with different meal times, since that was all I had ever known. I had always assumed each culture had "breakfast foods" and "lunch foods", etc. I had a similar WTF moment when I learned that peanut butter was an almost exclusively US thing. I had assumed it was a common food amongst most of the western world until my Eastern European coworker expressed how much she disliked it, and she explained they didn't grow up with it, and that even if they WANTED to find it in her country (which they rarely did) they would generally have go to a specialty store to find it. Just stuff I took for granted.

[@claustrum5534]

@@Simonsvids so edgy. Congrats.

[@footbroke]

@@Simonsvids based

[@advisingbob]

Fast food logo colors chosen by what colors make people feel hungry or gambling mechanics in some video games, psychology in marketing lays human instincts to bare.

[@Bookmite1]

Hello Fresh: We want you to advertise us. Today I Found Out: Great, can't wait to try your stuff. Hello Fresh: Sorry, we don't deliver to your area.

[@toastnjam7384]

A Virginia Slims commercial from the late 60's emphasized that the suffragette movement gave women the right to smoke. It's on YT.

[@redstateforever]

I can’t imagine living in the days when everyone smoked, everywhere, all the time. I’m old enough to remember smoking sections in restaurants, we always sat far away, lol. I guess you just became “nose blind” to the smell, like how you do with perfume, you can barely smell it after awhile, meanwhile others think you bathed in it. I imagine it was like that for body odor in the days before cheap soap and deodorant. Yet another reason to be glad you’re alive today!

[@faithlesshound5621]

I remember a tennis player (who was more a model than a sportswoman) causing a stir in the 1980's (or 1990's ?) when she turned up to play at Wimbledon in a dress that looked exactly like the packet of a brand of cigarette heavily promoted to young women.

[@christinescreativitycabine280]

The Betty Crocker story is an urban legend. Yes, cake mix sales were bad at first, and yes, there was market research that said that women were reluctant to use convenience foods such as cake mixes, because they thought it made them neglectful housewives. And yes, cake mix sales did go up once they were reformulated to add eggs. But the real reason cake mixes were changed to add eggs was because of taste. Early, just-add-water cake mixes had powdered eggs in them and they just didn't taste all that good as a result. Once they started reformulating cake mixes to add fresh eggs, the resulting cakes tasted a whole lot better, and that led to increased cake mix sales. This is a rather complicated case of correlation not equaling causation. Also Occam's razor.

[@EvilSSP]

Almost everything that's considered healthy about food/meals is wrong and it's almost all due to marketing and companies making money.

[@nahor88]

He's talking bullshit about orange juice though; I wanted to smack the man for spreading lies. A glass of orange juice is NOT like a can of coke... he's likely thinking of the Great Value shitty orange juice, pulp free and from concentrate. The GOOD orange juice you find in the refrigerated section has less sugar and still contains the natural vitamins found in oranges like vitamin C. It also contains the natural fibers of the orange if you get some pulp or lots of pulp. Secondly, part of the reason coke is so bad is that the sugar comes from HFCS, the worst possible sugar for your body. Natural fruit sugars should be consumed in moderation, but they're not nearly as bad as HFCS.

[@conservativeguitarsingerjs7937]

No it’s not you’re just a left wing Marxist who hates capitalism. Or doesn’t like capitalism or criticizes it or thinks it incentivizes more bad behavior than good. You probably Have no idea about nutrition and what is a healthy vs unhealthy food or what even cause fat gain.

[@DBT1007]

LOL it's half. 50:50. 1. EVERY FOODS ARE HEALTHY. It's unhealthy depends on your diet, your lifestyle, and etc. For example, the juicy multilayered burger is rich in nutrients so it's healthy especially for ppl that need some weight mass. And if you eat too much beans, it's bad. As we know.. we can fart a lot. That means something happen to our digestive system. 2. There are some food propaganda like vitaminC propaganda, milk propaganda, etc. We actually dont need these stuffs. For example, milk. OUR ANCESTORS, MAJORITY OF THEM, DONT CONSUME MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS. ONLY EUROPEANS & MIDDLE EASTERN PPL(including subcontinent Indians) THAT CONSUME DAIRY. Look at Africans there. They're stronger n taller than Europeans that they being used as slaves even since long time ago. And it's not because of MILK and other Dairy products. We can get vitaminD, iron, and calcium from other sources. Spinach, tomato, meat, etc.

[@haveyougotyourtowel]

@@nahor88 Nearly all refrigerated orange juice comes from concentrate--even those claiming otherwise--because local oranges are cheap but only ripe very briefly, while imported oranges are relatively expensive. (Grocery stores eat much of that cost by spreading the loss across the entire year.) The main difference between those that claim to be fresher is that some are mostly flavored by the peel and orange oils, since the juices lose flavor in such long-term storage.

[@nahor88]

@@haveyougotyourtowel Wrong; they store they non-concentrated juice in vats so they can sell the juice even in the offseason. You're not wrong about the necessity for flavor packs, but it's still nothing like drinking coke.

[@MrTryAnotherOne]

And of course, the same method is still being used ... for political campaigns.

[@Zraknul]

It's being used for everything people are trying to sell you on.

[@andrejg4136]

@@Zraknul The knowledge that we base things on may have changed, but the human brain hasn't changed significantly in a thousand years, probably longer.

[@jarchibald74]

I choose to break my fast at noon. I don’t usually get hungry before noon.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

I have been keeping myself busy enough in the mornings that I often don't get around to eating anything until around noon. Then, my breakfast may be a calzone cooked in the oven, a banana, some sort of pot pie over a slice of bread, or an English muffin with PB and J. At that point in my day, my final cup of coffee may also be somewhat spiked with a shot of whiskey and / or rum. This is all taken out on the porch and followed up with a bowl of homegrown happy weed...

[@Actionronnie]

During my work week, don't have breakfast or lunch, other than a glass of milk, tea or a Coke. I have no problem having a coke before work while everyone has their coffee with so much sugar and cream,it makes my Coke look healthy 😂 If I eat I'm done for the day and very unproductive. On weekends I eat what I want when I want. Everyone's body is different,and reacts different to meals.

[@gorkyd7912]

If I'm working in an office, coffee for breakfast works for me and sometimes I miss lunch also. If I'm outside doing physical work I will be staggering around like I've lost a few pints of blood by 1PM if I don't have a big breakfast or lunch.

[@randomobserver8168]

The larger theme of what different cultures eat for breakfast, or whatever their first meal is called, whether it's a large or small meal, hot or cold, and whether it is or includes foods specifically assigned to that meal, is one of the more interesting questions in food culture.

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

I woke up this morning feeling awful, threw up a few times and was ready to throw in the towel for the day. Now it's around lunch time, i started watching this video, and i'll be Damned if i don't want some Breakfast right now. Like my tummy is growling i still have No clue as to why i was getting sick but i feel hungry and somewhat better just from looking at that Wonderful picture of Bacon, Eggs, Toast and Juice. Thank You 👍

[@IamSnowbird]

My mom was a believer of bacon and eggs for breakfast. She also wanted my brother and me to drink a glass of milk at every meal.

[@Laladust]

So did mine and I started puberty at 10....My children and I eat plant based and my 11 year old isn't close to puberty.

[@faithlesshound5621]

Thanks to the Milk Marketing Board, who are probably responsible for the increase in abdominal tuberculosis before the war (before tuberculin testing of dairy herds).

[@locomotivefaox]

Ah yes, 2-Guys, the predecessor of Five Guys.

[@tsartomato]

husbands of two girls with a breakfast cup

[@smith2781]

@@tsartomato 😂🤣😂🤣

[@PeachysMom]

Two Guys was a Kmart-type store when I was a kid.

[@JoshuaWillis89]

I appreciate that Bernays actually put in real work to undo the harm he caused. I would hope he wouldn’t have promoted smoking had the evidence of its harm been clear at the time, but who knows.

[@ZippoX05]

This episode is brought to you by magic spoon, get all your breakfast needs from a box of $10ish cereal

[@fernandoloyola3413]

Someone needs to give this man a raise. All of his videos are excellent

[@domhamai]

He works for himself 🤷‍♂️

[@raymondtan2415]

The product promo part was ridiculously long, I thought I had clicked on the wrong video.

[@tombstone1055]

If only there was a way to skip or fast forward 🙃

[@eatadick6969]

What promo? I don't see it...

[@PShawtx]

This shows how easy people can be controled by companies.

[@carneeki]

> Americans have been eating this breakfast for hundreds of years except they haven't. Later > breakfast which included bacon and eggs were common for farmers. Starting to think the writers didn't have a good breakfast before writing this episode.

[@LRM12o8]

So, ALL Americans were farmers, doing hard, manual labor with their own hands (opposed to slaves) until a hundred years ago? I Doubt it...

[@fiveoctaves]

@@LRM12o8 Sometimes people hear only what they want to hear.

[@kevinfreeman3098]

@@LRM12o8 that's just a stupid, juvenile attempt at winning an argument by creating an all inclusive category which could never possibly exist and everyone knows it, but here you are trying to propagate it like it's the cumulative knowledge that was lost in the Library of Alexandria. Elevate yourself and try again like a real adult.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

@@LRM12o8 you're just putting words in others mouth and removing all context. I understand you wanted to people to think you were intelligent and interesting, but making things up and trying to bully people is not the way.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

I also noticed that rather glaring contradiction.

[@robertgraybeard3750]

at 8:36 "add and egg" yes, that makes it "cooking". Indeed, as you say in a few seconds, "This guy's a genius."

[@greatleader4841]

Think about instant ramen, some aren't in premade bowls or cups because of the fact that you feel like you're cooking it by putting it in a pot or in one yourself and adding hot water and the packet. there's no reason they can't all be like cup of noodles where its all premixed and in a styrofoam cup. it's just so you feel like you cooked it.

[@benistingray6097]

Video starts at 1:49

[@thomaslong8401]

That it’s easier to change peoples attitude towards a product than it is to change the color of the packaging is rather scary.

[@theflashhobbyist]

This is extremely terrifying, my god we were so screwed by Marketing over the last 100 years but you’d never know. Combine that with the nonsense of the food pyramid, it’s hard not to see why we have an obesity issue. My idea to find the longest heritage of food habits and follow that is probably the best idea.

[@189Blake]

The same with diamonds bro. They are actually common, but a publicity campaign brainwashed the whole world to make you think that it's the only appropriate stone for a wedding ring.

[@epauletshark3793]

@@189Blake not useless, diamonds are incredibly hard, diamond tipped saws are quite useful.

[@epauletshark3793]

Yes, food pyramid and myplate is pretty dumb.

[@SpacemanXC]

@@189Blake Diamonds are common, but not useless. Most manufacturing wouldn't be what it is without diamonds since they're used in a lot of tools. Also the future of electronics might be carbon, not silicone and copper. Carbon can take a lot more heat before it starts to break down. Meaning far more robust hardware for everyone.

[@189Blake]

@@SpacemanXC Oh well, my point was that they shouldn't be expensive at all because we have plenty. I edit.

[@TymP321]

Having been raised in Japan and Germany, I'm not really into American breakfast ideas and frequently do "breakfast" as a dinner meal.

[@owenshebbeare2999]

By the standards of many traditional cultures, the American tendency to pigeonhole certain foods to certain times of the day is exceptional. Other cultures do it, but rhe US reasons are almost universally ad-based.

[@michaels2007]

He’s been getting too American lately 😂 In his speech especially

[@ShinigamiInuyasha777]

Yeah, i mean his a british guy living in Czech republic. How the hell that happened? Is his wife from the US?

[@kevinfreeman3098]

@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 it's because he is catering to those that really matter. 🇺🇸😉😂

[@ShinigamiInuyasha777]

@@kevinfreeman3098 Im sure there ks a wide audience

[@kevinfreeman3098]

@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 it's an OG inside joke man...

[@ShinigamiInuyasha777]

@@kevinfreeman3098 aw ok

[@mratkovich]

Today I found out that if you emphasize a different syllable in every word than everyone else you sound smarter

[@huntergray3985]

Go back on his videos, he has tried so many idiosyncratic ways of delivering the spiel written for him -some of them make the subject matter almost unintelligible.

[@felixgonzalez9776]

@@huntergray3985 wow accents are a thing!! /J

[@huntergray3985]

@@felixgonzalez9776 I am English (from the South of England), I speak received English with a middle-class accent -very much as Simon does. Not only does he introduce (or has in the past introduced) inane and ridiculous affectations to speech, but he also mispronounces words that any educated English person would not (I am not referring to his use of American pronunciations, which could be thought of as merely an affectation if the channel did not have an international audience.)

[@maxcryan810]

@@huntergray3985 shuddup

[@huntergray3985]

@@maxcryan810 Just don't read it if you don't like what I say. But I maintain that what I have said on this matter is true.

[@progamertwo-oh-oh-one890]

The best breakfast is a bug cup of coffee and a cigarette.

[@johnringwald955]

I dont have a bug cup. Can I use a tumbler, instead?

[@tremorsfan]

So what about the Full English Breakfast? Was that also created in the 1920s?

[@elaineburnett5230]

No, that came much earlier and as an An American I am proud to keep the British end up by eating bacon and eggs...heck maybe I will even add baked beans, why not?😂😊😉

[@owenshebbeare2999]

@@elaineburnett5230 Ahh, a learned lady! Mind you, baked beans are often associated with the British, but are most likely an American invention, though making your own is a million times better than canned too!

[@TheCoffeehound]

Don't get saucy with me, Bearnaise!

[@htpchtpc4140]

Yeah, he really SPREAD his influence.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

It was only recently that I learned that was a pun in History of the World. Never heard of Bernaise until then.

[@rezlogan4787]

Living in the US, I’ve needed to research traditional diets to properly plan my food intake for health. For my breakfast I’ve learned to enjoy sugar free oatmeal with herbs, nuts, and berries as well as a vegan stew made with cabbage, leeks, mushrooms, garlic, ginger, carrots, beets, and sauerkraut with pepper. For lunches I have 3 servings of fruit. Occasionally for dinner I’ll just have a can of beans with more oats if I’m tired from work. It’s amazing how much better I feel eating that way. The Western diet is literally killing people more than any other cause.

[@Bacopa68]

We eat bacon because of the Bacon Alarm Clock. Only legendary blazers will understand.

[@urobos1]

This kill someone and for that reason I’m out!

[@Slappaccino]

Funny that this video is in the recommended section from that video lol. That's how I got here.

[@forthexp8649]

Dave's not here man.

[@Bacopa68]

@@Slappaccino You are truly an alleged legend.

[@JohnVKaravitis]

Do you know Sp0ns0rBlock?

[@jacobkain4721]

That overlord's breakfast bit brought me to tears. "10,000 quail eggs, a WILD BOAR"

[@dudeinoakland]

"Eat the breakfast of a king, lunch of a prince, and the supper of a pauper."

[@resistingreader]

Great video, but a fact check for you guys: That bit about Bernays and instant cake mix is a classic marketing myth with no truth behind it. It was Ernest Dichter, not Bernays, who did that research for General Mills, and it was after sales flattened in the late 50s. The falling sales were more likely to do with the fact that fresh eggs made better cakes. Snopes has a great article on this.

[@justsomeperson5110]

Mmmm. Yum yum! Codfish balls for breakfast!

[@davegriffin9083]

I never knew codfish had balls! all these years catching them and I must have only been getting females!

[@DC_Prox]

OMG thank you for pronouncing "corollary" correctly! Every American science podcast host I listen to says it like the names Cora and Larry.

[@slinky6481]

If enough people begin consistently pronouncing something differently, then it will eventually become the "correct" form. That's how languages change over time. I'm guessing you don't say "antique" as though it rhymes with "frantic", or "ration" like "nation". Yet, these were both considered the correct ways of pronouncing these words not so long ago.

[@AppNasty]

Orange Juice is my fav thing to drink. I thought it was healthy. Now I'm just depressed.

[@elaineburnett5230]

😂🤣😎keep drinking oj, i hear it is good at relieving depression😁😂🤣😃😄😉

[@AppNasty]

@@elaineburnett5230 omg now I'm caught in an infinite loop!

[@728huey]

If you get actual fresh-squeezed orange juice with a little bit of the pulp in it, it actually is healthy. But nearly all of the orange juice sold in supermarkets today are industrially processed, with tons of oranges juiced and squeezed into large vats which have the juice pasteurized and vacuum sealed, which is why the flavor is essentially burned out. To repackage it into half gallon sized bottles and cartons, they throw in flavor packets filled with orange essential oils and sugar or high fructose corn syrup which is mixed into the juice. What is sold to us as orange juice is no different than soda pop except it isn't carbonated.

[@AppNasty]

@@728huey so then actual oranges from my orange tree is good for me. But super market stuff...not so much?

[@728huey]

@@AppNasty That's correct.

[@tanyawade5197]

We had one of those juicers when I was a kid. Seeing it brought up a bunch of fond memories. Thx Simon👍🏽.

[@BOWS3R]

Man hello fresh is neither cheaper nor more environmentally friendly than buying food at a normal, local grocery store, and cooking it yourself.

[@roots4x]

No one getting hello fresh is doing any of that. Stop criticizing stuff that helps at least some people make some small steps to learning how to cook. You’re a gatekeeper.

[@maenad1231]

I need a mini documentary explaining how I got hypnotized into looking forward to having avocado toast for breakfast

[@CaudilloSilovik]

Coffee! Talk about Coffee! ;-)

[@Laladust]

If you're Australian, by default your blood is already 50% coffee at birth.

[@Ben_D.]

....and I paused the vid midway, and went to the kitchen because he just rattled off all of my favorite foods and my mouth is watering.

[@antispeedrun]

Ooh, I've been looking for a way to get more swords in my diet.

[@squeakymcbink9342]

I'm watching this at noon eating pizza for my "breakfast" in bed as I try to go to sleep for the night. 😂🤣😂

[@achecase]

If nobody told us what we like, we wouldn't like anything.

[@LRM12o8]

Well, that's very sad, but please speak for yourself...

[@HeWhoComments]

My mom has ordered Hello Fresh before and it’s really good, but kind of costly. More of a thing you can order once in a while unless you’re loaded. Would recommend 👍🏼

[@vilena5308]

Kudos, I loved being reminded how easily manipulated we are. Edit: You commenters, who are 'the special ones,' are just adorable.

[@hamiltoneuzarraga6546]

Our parents and grandparents

[@glenngriffon8032]

humans are animals, and we're smart enough to learn how to train animals, including ourselves. Even now today there are people so enthralled by capitalism they will defend tooth and nail their favorite corporate entities so they can have things to buy. Like people hopelessly dependant on the Matrix that will fight to remain enslaved to the machines.

[@robertcaseydavis]

That's a nice "we" you got there.

[@celebrim1]

Perhaps this video, reminding you how easily manipulated you are, is itself an example of manipulating you.

[@enemdisk6628]

Love the Edit.

[@neilbodwell9172]

Sunkist's main orchards are still in operation in the inland empire part of California. Some of they're orchards are almost right next to California Baptist University in Riverside CA. A fact that the local army reserve officer training corps instructors have in the past taken advantage of and taken many cadets on long early morning runs through. Good times. Always fun trying to keep pace while avoiding the mud of the irrigation setup.

[@vio_lin]

Before even watching the video I just want to say. I eat whatever I want at any time of day. If I wake up and want a sandwich, burger, or waffles, thats what I have. The only criteria for breakfast is that it's eaten when you wake up. Even if you wake up at 8pm because you work night shift. Having a type of food you're subjected to eat during certain periods of time throughout the day is a ridiculous concept that I'm sure will be mentioned in this video.

[@wildog47]

Hamburger is my favorite breakfast. Keeps me full so long. Had that today at 9 am!

[@ZyloxDragon1]

I regularly fry eggs and bacon for lunch or dinner. Never made sense to me to limit my choices of what to eat based on time of day.

[@jamesgarrett8833]

Hey Simon for a future video do the history and origin of wearing a cape

[@miomimomiro]

He needs a sponsor suitable for that kind of content first, ;)

[@ChaosTJC1]

How many donations do you need to make this video

[@ChaosTJC1]

Please do this video and eat your cereal

[@kobil316SH]

...why tho

[@ChaosTJC1]

@@kobil316SH useless random facts are the best

[@eduardosalas2640]

I remember drinking milk in school in the ‘50s. We would all drink together as the teacher counted to 5 on her fingers. 1st grade. We were pretty good little robots! 😂

[@stevechance150]

I stopped eating breakfast when the lockdown started and lost twenty pounds. I'm never going back to eating breakfast.

[@LRM12o8]

lol, I started eating breakfast when my employer sent everyone to Homeoffice. Before that, lunch brake was the first meal I had, now I have breakfast instead of lunch. I wouldn't call my eating habits healthy though. 'time-saving' and 'about sufficient' are more precise... : |

[@avinashprasad2535]

You'd be inviting stomach ulcers then. If anything you'd be better off trimming the lunch and dinner rather than cutting off breakfast completely.

[@sinisterthoughts2896]

@@avinashprasad2535 stomach ulcers are due to bacterial infection. Treatable by antibiotics. It has been proven, but all the myths and legends still persist. It's rather interesting apparently many doctors are not sure, because there is so much bad information out there, they are afraid to trust good information. It's worth looking into, it's rather interesting. At least that's what my research has taught me, as someone who used to have ulcers.

[@robinlaszlo]

@@sinisterthoughts2896 having ulcers does not make you the expert on ulcers. None of this info is valid because your source is yourself and no one knows who you are.

[@crystalm2460]

@@avinashprasad2535 why would skipping breakfast give you ulcers?

[@ladonnaburk4020]

Being from Oklahoma, toast isn't a standard ingredient with breakfast. Biscuits and gravy goes with our traditional breakfast. It is a weekend tradition in our house. We, also, add some type of potato, whether tator tots or hash browns.

[@infoscholar5221]

Let us then meditate upon the "Full English/Irish, etc..." Fry up...

[@marymoor935]

I could not live without bacon and eggs, with black pudding. Yummy 😁 Also this is a British food, the English breakfast, bacon, eggs, sausages, hash browns, fried bread, mushrooms, black pudding, grilled tomatoes and beans. The best hang over cure in the world.😀

[@TheQuickSilver101]

I can't even remember the last time I had bacon and eggs for breakfast. That's way more calories than I want in the morning.

[@catatonicbug7522]

I never have. I hate eggs in any other form but hard boiled, and the smell of cooking bacon makes me sick. The idea of biting into meat fat makes my stomach churn! No thanks!

[@FriedEgg101]

Your body adapts to the routines you set for it. So being able to eat 3 eggs for breakfast everyday is just a matter of practice :)

[@eurodoc6343]

Cod balls? Sounds absolutely delightful for breakfast.

[@OlafoWaffle]

While acidosis turned out to be a dead end, scurvy was made a thing of the past

[@tonyb2271]

Cabbage cured scurvy

[@enriquehartmann8642]

Is the samurai sword in the clip of Danny unpacking his Hello Fresh a nod to John Belushi's samurai skit from SNL?

[@catatonicbug7522]

Then where did the "full English" breakfast come from?

[@h.s.levine2932]

From people that can stomach baked beans and black pudding first thing in the morning!

[@elizabethsohler6516]

England presumably.

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Pre-dates the American claim to bacon and eggs. As for baked beans, they are most likely an American invention, and most Brits don't go near black pudding, we leave it to the northeners.

[@GarrettMerkin]

It's 7:13am here and I just fired up the oven to cook up a sheet pan of bacon. Thanks for giving me the motivation. Bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich in a little bit.

[@flexygoo1295]

I work 3rd shift. This silly tradition holds no sway over me. I eat burgers at 7am. If I can find them....McDonald's won't serve one at 7am, but they'll serve their disgusting plastic breakfast all day now....

[@lq7777]

Whataburger. Sadly there aren’t any where I live now, but you could get a burger 24 hours a day and their lobbies were always open. Not many other places (save maybe Denny’s and I don’t like their burgers) where you could have a burger at 4 AM while sitting in the lobby.

[@chaosreaver3597]

I feel that. I have been a night person for over a decade now, I work as a night shift supervisor and finish about 6am. Now, plenty of places near where I work will serve hot food at that time, but it's always a breakfast menu, so for a couple of years it was a Full English Breakfast before I headed home or a ready-meal when I got home. But, some former night worker from the docks had a brain wave. He opened a 24 hour cafeteria which had two rooms, the main was like any other cafe, breakfast 3am till 10am, lunch 10am till 5pm, dinner 5pm to 3am. But the smaller room had a special menu 3am till 10 am. Proper dinners, want a Roast Beef dinner at 6 in the morning with all the trimmings and a beer or wine? Sure. Pizza, Pasta, Curry, Burgers, Pies etc. you got it. It was a bit more expensive than the typical menu, but so worth it. It always packed to the point the guy had to start offering take-out to satisfy demand. And it top quality too, my girlfriend about once a week will get me to bring take-out back because she works similar hours to me and prepping a full meal is just too much of a pain on some days.

[@jacksavage4098]

Skipping the OJ and putting a little Jack.

[@YoFreshWiggy]

Why does Deamon have a sword in his kitchen? Did Hello Fresh give him a sword? Can I expect a sword from Hello Fresh? lol

[@DrivermanO]

Looks like a full English to me. Its been tradional in England for as long as I can remember - that's best part of 70 years!

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Goes back way further. Definitely not an American invention, this bloke just popularised it there.

[@chrisbalfour466]

Daven unpacked the sponsor's product with a sword, and then painted his fingernails red before he started cooking. Highlander, samurai and fashionista.

[@protoculturejunkie]

I didn’t even catch that he painted his nails. I was too busy wondering why he had the sword.

[@mkshffr4936]

I don't do juice (too much sugar) but eggs and meat absolutely.

[@Souchirouu]

Just imagine if such marketing was used for the good of the people instead of the good of some CEO's wallet.

[@jdbjicase]

If they did that, people wouldn't buy things and the economy as we know it would probably collapse.

[@stevethepocket]

@@jdbjicase Sup, fellow _Calvin and Hobbes_ fan.

[@majacovic5141]

@@jdbjicase it wouldn't, we'd just be a less materialistic and consumeristic culture, with more free time and no bilionaires. Needs would be met easier if resources were not diverted to artificial desires.

[@jdbjicase]

@@majacovic5141 I believe you're referring to what Plato called the ideal plane. But that's not how the world works.

[@majacovic5141]

@@jdbjicase no, i just noticed that capitalism is killing the planet. This idea that the economy would crash without manipulation is - ironically - propaganda. If the systemm requiers manipulation, it is a bad system and needs change. Things would not be perfect, just not mass extincion bad.

[@dwashbur]

Later on, a restaurant chain took this and ran with it and redefined the word "breakfast" right before our eyes. Suddenly "breakfast" wasn't the first meal of the day any more, it was that specific set of foods. And they did it with one simple commercial campaign with the slogan "I like breakfast, and I like at 6 o'clock in the evening." A perfect example of linguistic change happening right before our eyes.

[@RedGandalf]

The big question here is, does the first order of Hello Fresh come with the sword for opening subsequent packages?

[@purplealice]

Townsends once prepared an 18th-century American breakfast consisting of homemade whole-grain bread toast, with a fried egg and a few slices of bacon on top of the toast. (Of course, during this time period, people still needed a hearty breakfast to fuel them for the day.) To me, breakfast *MUST* include bacon, and some kind of starch (anything from plain toast to muffins, biscuits, pancakes, waffles, French toast, popovers, cornbread, or other such homely fare. Add an egg and some OJ (or a banana) and you had an approximation of a balanced meal.

[@jasongrundy1717]

That's not a bowl of cheerios. What are you even talking about?

[@sailorbychoice1]

In the post-WWI housing boom era in USA he was approached by the book publishing industry~ they wanted to sell more books. Rather than starting a pro-literary campaign, as had been tried and failed in the past, he approached schools for architectures and instilled into their minds that _"No Modern Home Should Be Without Bookshelves and/or Book Cases."_ Soon nearly every home being built had shelves being built into living rooms and dens across the country. If you have bookshelves you need stuff to put on them, this influenced two major industries; the book publishing (as they had hoped), and the knick-knack industries. Now people had a place for small dolls, snow globes, ceramic figurines, and a slew of small gatzi-riggamaroles.

[@JarrodCoombes]

"Was the nephew of the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud" You definitely could have worded that better I had to listen to us a few times to realize you were not saying he was Freud's cousin.

[@XXDeathShadeXl]

that is because you mistake psychoanalysis for a profession instead of a scientific field, it was said properly...