The Truth About Winston Churchill's Favorite Breakfast

[@mikenixon2401]

Interesting how some of the most influential people of history, and I suspect today, all have some sort of oddity about them.

[@christineparis5607]

Almost all gifted people have several personality traits that are extreme...

[@CFLsurfr]

We all have traits considered odd by someone. "Oddity" is probably not the right word; maybe eccentric is better. I agree, most brilliant people are eccentric.

[@Idahoguy10157]

Churchill became so well known for his cigars a type of large cigar is named as a Churchill

[@mikehoare6093]

no shit, sherlock !?

[@JustAGuyProduction]

He lived to the age of 90. Explain this vegans!

[@Gohliath]

The tea. It has got to be the tea.

[@matttherrien9608]

@@Gohliath black pudding. Yummy! One of my favorites.

[@jondstewart]

Yet the star of Black Panther was a vegan and died of colon cancer at 43. Go figure.

[@John_Rogers]

@@jondstewart - I figured. Carbohydrate consumption promotes cancer. Cancer tumors and their growth are fueled by glucose. Alcohol consumption is a big factor in Colon cancer development.

[@BBaldwin]

Lots of red meat and whiskey!

[@dpelpal]

For Americans who don't like tea....try it the way the British drink it next time you're there. It was a revelation to me when my Irish roommates made me tea with skim milk and sugar. It's good and actually gives just as much of a buzz as coffee!

[@lucialamprey2690]

I discovered the same thing on a trip to England many years ago. A cup of tea with milk is a fantastic pick-me-up.

[@MacJaxonManOfAction]

I take mine with a fairly generous splash of semi-skimmed milk, but no sugar. Tea is my petrol!

[@Digglerdirk79-l4y]

If you get a buzz from coffee your a girl

[@jondstewart]

I’m amazed, Winston Churchill was portly, love his cigars, and definitely loved his alcohol, but lived to be 90. I don’t think he was an alcoholic, just loved to drink, but not in copious amounts.

[@BRIANDER100]

he was an alcoholic

[@Paratus7]

@@BRIANDER100No he wasn’t. But then I bet you think everyone is.

[@BRIANDER100]

yes he was....i think people who drink a lot like winston are alcoholics are. but your an expert on alcoholism so what do i know @@Paratus7

[@SimonTBam]

@@Paratus7 Churchill was most definitely an alcoholic. He was however a functioning alcoholic. He used to drink champagne at breakfast, in Pol Roger One Imperial Pint bottles. Something which are now being revived now the UK has left the EU. He would then drink Scotch throughout the day, and beer, wine and brandy. There was an experiment of two American gentlemen who copied Churchill's diet of food and alcohol for the day, needless to say they felt extremely drunk by the end of the day, and quite ill the day after. It is clear that Churchill merely became accustomed to the amount of alcohol he consumed over time. He must have just had a strong metabolism that could cope with his excesses.

[@Swindle1984]

He drank several glasses of watered down whiskey in the morning, a glass of wine at breakfast, a full magnum bottle of champagne and a glass of cognac at lunch, several more glasses of watered down whiskey during the afternoon, and then another magnum bottle of champagne at dinner, with another glass of cognac for a night cap. He absolutely was an alcoholic. He also averaged 8 cigars a day.

[@lucialamprey2690]

Great story. Although I doubt Churchill's tea came from a bag.

[@dexz8721]

I'd totally have breakfast like that every day if I had a giant workforce to cook and serve for me.

[@MOOSEDOWNUNDER]

This is such bollocks. Firstly, in those days the English breakfast was never served to a Gentlemen, he would help himself in a buffet style. Eggs, one rasher of bacon, toast and condiments constituted an "English breakfast", possibly a kedgeree or kippers and brown toast if staff are in residence but never all together. He would mix his morning red label with 90% tonic to cleanse the water and himself. Remember Sir Winston was 65 years old when he became PM and famous to the Empire. Before that, Lord of the Admiralty, writer, reporter and soldier. His diet changed massively in his later years but the constant booze intake remained, which was common in Whitehall, then and now I might add.

[@lorddaver5729]

First Lord of the Admiralty, not Lord of the Admiralty.

[@mikeheap7978]

That looks a lovely breakfast, what a wise man. Not many of us please ourselves everyday, no wonder he rose to the very top.

[@jondstewart]

I figured the typical English breakfast was his favorite. The BRITs are the only people in Europe that eat breakfast the way Americans do, but on most of mainland, Europe, a roll, or a croissant with butter and jam or pastry and coffee is sufficient for them. Very common in Spain, France, Germany, and Italy.

[@Mojo-IRE]

Ireland also has the Full Irish Breakfast. Also to be fair the Germans can sometimes have a big breakfast too. Lots of salamis and cheese to start the day.

[@trequor]

Well when you arent burning so many calories it doesnt matter

[@lynnhubbard844]

Americans do not eat breakfast like that anymore...maybe some do occasionally on a weekend day

[@BBaldwin]

@@lynnhubbard844Correct. I get the sense people from other countries assume we eat bacon, eggs, pancakes and donuts every day. Not all of us Americans are fat asses, slothing around on motorized carts at Wal Mart!😂

[@smithgorrilugum4574]

Fried eggs, pastries, huge amounts of alcohol, cigar smoking;...and he lived to the ripe old age of 90. If he had listened to the health scolds, he probably wouldn't have lived to see the end of the war.

[@jamiepalmer5691]

Sometimes people drink to get messed up and sometimes people drink because of an astronomical task that needs to be accomplished and it gives them the ruthlessness and courage to see it through. Cough Cough WW2

[@rakovsky3901]

I have no idea how he did a whole glass of white wine at breakfast. It slows me down.

[@benstevinson764]

Victory ✌️ for Winston Churchill 🇬🇧

[@NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek]

Fascinating!!!

[@mystuffwontwork7453]

Winston Churchill had a very weak whiskey in the morning that was often called mouthwash. I think this is actually really interesting that he would drink alcohol so early and then run a country in war time. Their is a lot of stuff on his drinking habits and other war time leaders drinking habits that is really interesting.

[@SS33333]

I was looking for the same whisky drink he had in the morning.

[@peaceleader7315]

😡... it's Vodka.. or Southern Comfort and sometime it is Sakai..hmmmm

[@SS33333]

Sure it wasn't Japanese rice wine Sake (pronounced Sah-kee), Churchill was a pure Brit don't think he started his day with Vodka & Southern Comfort is just a brand. So either it was whiskey or brandy ......

[@peaceleader7315]

@@SS33333 yeah what ever... I guess it narrow down to just alcohol beverages.. hmmmm.. and don't forget he also worked on his garden after afew glass 🍸 as well..😁

[@lofivibes-techanimestudios281]

Yeah I also thought they were going to mention the morning Whiskey. I think the drinking habits of those war time leaders has a lot to do with keep the nerves controlled and mildly sedated so you don't have to think nervously, also maybe Medicines were not that easy to take or get. Remember the alcohol is an anxiolytic.

[@erockromulan9329]

I'm glad we got to the bottom of this. Let the truth out!

[@GrungeHQ]

What is your favorite breakfast?

[@nunyabizness9216]

Bacon, eggs, an orange and toast. Yummo!

[@michaelswinehart2788]

Shit on a shingle or over fried potatoes. Next in line cold pizza.

[@daveanderson3805]

Tea and cigarettes

[@eliotreader8220]

i have a English Muffin or toast with my mug of tea. i love a cooked Breakfast occasionally or a Bacon Sandwich

[@GideonMadu]

Pancakes with icing, waffles with a side of sausage, cooked and seasoned egg with two slices of bread, and cereal

[@kruger2035]

You forgot to mention he was a functioning alcoholic, and most people would start to have a hangover by lunch if they followed how much he drank and smoked through the day. Breakfast was pregaming, lol

[@BrainCandyforHamsters]

I was doing research on Winston Churchill after taking some gummies, and watched this shortly after they hit so I'm really stoned but this was the most boring history video on this channel that I watched all the way through 😂

[@lynnhubbard844]

it's also a crashing bore that you shared how stoned you are

[@marianparoo1544]

Teabags like in the illustrative picture? I don’t think so.

[@eliotreader8220]

I think they more probably made a pot of tea using loose tea leaves with the tea cup and a milk jug

[@peacefrogx5143]

This is a bit of a exaggerated version. He drank very watered down whiskey in the morning. A precaution to Malaria he had suffered from. As for breakfast I don't know but in Enoa boiled egg is your breakfast not a full English. Also reactioning effects were felt by even thr Royal Family so the pics seem excessive.

[@cosmicman621]

...no mention of his famous liquid b/fast..lunch and dinner.Whisky,brandy,champagne...

[@dennisvanthiel923]

I was tried to believe his breakfast was pervatin with whisky 😊

[@brianmacc1934]

Do a vid on the truth about his life

[@SS33333]

I thought a big drink of whiskey was part of his breakfast menu? I saw on Netflix....

[@ramsfan709]

While the country was on rations obviously he wasn’t

[@heyricksander]

Churchill's wife's name is pronounced, "Clemen-teen".

[@kodibassInsideoutboards]

I think he was a drunk Prev. Brit, That said he was the defacto Winner for the Brits. ( V )

[@Cba409]

Whiskey

[@sethhornaday5943]

I got some choice words

[@dodododes]

so british PM couldnt even make breakfast for himself ok

[@elderherrera2238]

Thats a breakfast. Mmmm. Did he like Marmite?

[@lorddaver5729]

Nobody in their right mind likes Marmite.

[@0954jamesa1]

How did he live until 90?

[@makinhotcoffee6230]

What a badass

[@Singh_shahab01]

Churchill the butcher of Bengal genocide

[@lorddaver5729]

The same old Indian lie. Why do you keep repeating it? Churchill did NOT cause the Bengal famine. If you do some proper research you'll find there were a number of reasons involving various competing groups, including rice distributors, and the Imperial Japanese Army, none of which involved a deliberate attempt by Churchill to starve the population of Bengal. And yet there are Indian sources that continually spread the lie that Churchill was somehow personally responsible, or that he could have halted the famine. Then how come there are respected Indian historians who say this wasn't true?

[@vegannations]

Dont oppose to the white wine in the morning but be smarter and eat as much vegan and oppose to obesity to hurt less living and few seconds before or just now a supernatural being wings on the metal bar outside telling me to head out ‘smirks’ should miss my unlawfully suspended KZbin comments on my other KZbin accounts

[@averoes4029]

Would have been better to set up his meal item per item and their nutritional values instead of just showing us pictures of any breakfast. This is really low level youtube work. Its a shame for such a channel

[@Space_Ghost_Hunter]

It was seriously confusing af I still don't know what he ate for breakfast

[@RossMoore777]

@@Space_Ghost_Hunter a full English breakfast is usually sausages, bacon, fried eggs, beans, mushrooms and fried tomato with toast. Sometimes also blood pudding.

[@annehat4833]

She fooled a lot of idiots !!

[@kellieeverts8462]

So funny...how they profused

[@d.bruckner3459]

Hey look ! Here's the loser who started a war he couldn't win on his own !

[@matttherrien9608]

Yes mein furor.

[@Admb09]

Imagine people caring about Churchil's favorite fucking breakfast

[@anthonygerace8926]

That was the breakfast that defeated HItler! (With a lot of help from the Soviet Union and the United States.)