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What Breakfast Gets You Going?

Posted by Cliff on from the first-thing-in-the-morning dept.

Crash McBang asks: "Apparently many are foregoing the morning coffee for something sweeter, according to a recent article in RedOrbit. 'There is nothing better than the feel of Coke on the back of your throat in the morning,' said McKinsey, a morning pop drinker since the 1970s, savoring the cold, stinging sensation that coffee drinkers just don't get. What gets you going after waking up?"

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  1. Sugar addiction by Idaho · · Score: 3, Informative
    The reason why it works even if you drink soft drinks without caffeine, is because the sugar will give you a quick energy boost.

    It seems that having soft drinks for breakfast is quite unhealthy, lowers your attention span, etc.


    A Finnish study of 404 10-11 year-olds showed that withdrawal, anxiousness, depression, delinquency and aggression were twice as frequent in those consuming 30 per cent more sucrose in the form of ice cream, sugary snacks and soft drinks.
    [..]
    Over the longer term, yo-yoing blood sugar levels are also associated with low mood, behavioural problems, lower IQ and poor academic performance.


    Here's the source (but I'm sure there are many other sources that say the same thing).
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  2. Porrigde by Bromskloss · · Score: 2, Informative

    It keeps you from getting hungry to fast again.

    1 dl of oatmeal
    2 dl of water
    a couple of pinches of salt
    Mix and put in micro, full power, for two minutes. Serve with jam and milk. Smooth to your tired body and soul.

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  3. Re:Fruit! by Malenfrant · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hmm, as an Irishman I feel the need to reply to this. First off, no Irishman I know drinks more coffee than tea, and secondly Irish Coffee is NOT made with Baileys, it is made with Irish Whisky, and has cream floating on top. There are several English versions of Irish Coffee, but in my experience the English often mess with recipes from other countries, creating something quite different. There's nothing wrong with this per se, but it bugs me the way they then claim that this is how it's supposed to be made.

  4. Irish Coffee by Phil+John · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry to nitpick, but Irish Coffee is actually neat Whisky mixed with Cane Sugar, after which Black Coffee is poured on. Finally the mixture is topped with Double Cream whipped till slightly thick. This makes a lovely looking glass with half the liquid almost black and the other half almost white. When you drink it the two parts start mixing.

    Interestingly it's also a relatively new invention, not much more than 50 years old.

    Ruination of good Coffee and good Whisky as my dad always says ;o)

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  5. Re:Fruit! by autocrawler · · Score: 2, Informative

    A cup or two of green tea, a sandwich and some fruit. It's healthy!

  6. Gracie Diet by j_kenpo · · Score: 2, Informative

    My breakfast consists of an alternating diet of

    1: Take 4 -5 apples, core them, and run them through a juicer. Take 3-4 bananas. Mix the whole thing in a blender. Drink.
    2: Take 3-4 Bananas, put in blender, add milk until they are covered. Blend and drink.
    3: Juice 4-5 oranges (no pulp). Drink
    4: Take half a pound of grapes. Juice and drink.

    Works great, have plenty of energy for the day, and I've lost like 50 pounds (with exercise of course) doing it.

  7. Re:So much for MY morning coffee... by psicic · · Score: 2, Informative

    He-he.... that's good, I can climb down off my high-horse now.

    Irish have the highest per head consumption of Tea in the world (according to news reports about two or three years ago). We consume about 3kg of Tea each a year(1996-1998 period).

    Here are some stats for those who are interested: http://www.tea.org.au/world/sub2.html

    Oh...and when pouring it's tea first, then milk. Any expert who talks about chemical bonding when coming to tea are either talking out of their South of England hole, using very delicate cups or using milk at the wrong temperature.

    (yes...I like tea, and am talking about Assam-based blends mostly.)

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  8. Re:So much for MY morning coffee... by Gromius · · Score: 2, Informative

    The other really odd thing about the English tea drinking is that the tea in England is terrible. Its absolutely disgusting, it need to be smothered in milk and sugar to drown out the horrible bitter taste of it. I love tea (I'm British) but I'm one of the few people I know who actually appreciate nice tea. Actually I find it easier to get nice tea in the US (well, in principle nice, at a restaurant, when I ask for a cup of tea, I get a lovely box with a fantastic selection of really nice looking teas and a pot of water which used to be hot, arrggh).

    Also Whisky is how the Scottish spell it (I'm also a Whisky buff). If its spelt with an 'e' then its not Scottish. The Americans and Irish spell it with a 'e' although I've seen the occasional 'Whisky' spelling over there. As far as I'm concerned, both spelling are correct Whisky is the fine Scottish dram while Whiskey is the related Irish and American spirits. However occasionally North American whiskeys misspell their name as whisky. Btw the way I like it in a article "What Breakfast Gets You Going", we're already talking about whisky :)