The Working Man's Breakfast

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A theme on our channel is trying to understand what people ate regularly. In the comments section, you folks ask us what “common folks” had for meals almost every single day. Sometimes we hope that their meals were very unlike ours today, maybe they were wildly bizarre, or perhaps very plain and boring. This is what we have found to be the working man's breakfast.
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26 авг 2023

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Комментарии : 3 тыс.

@townsends

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@dustinsmith2021

Apparently I need to drink more beer.

@Tiger74147

Love that line at the end, "whether it's today or 300 years ago." We need to be reminded that people of the past were people just like us.

@joshuascott1434

“Why would peasants eat bread, cheese and beer for breakfast?”

@fleischi93

We really need to make breakfast beers a thing again

@remaguire

In Ireland, oatmeal made with water used to be called "stirabout". With milk, porridge.

@clee5653

Back in high school, I usually ate Quaker insta oats original in boiled water for breakfast. No milk, no butter, no sugar or salt. It didn't taste good, but it didn't taste bad either. No idea I was into historical cooking so long ago.

@KhanhTheLearner

I grew up in Vietnam and I grew up on sticky rice, so the idea of having oatmeal for breakfast, even though it feels weird, when I really think about it, it's similar to my little sack of sticky rice I used to have every breakfast.

@ZoryaDanis

My grandfather and uncle were miners. For breakfast they ate fried potatoes, fried eggs, sausages, cutlets, and soup. They had lunch in a deep mine and it consisted of a couple of sandwiches with coffee or tea.

@LillibitOfHere

This was strangely comforting. I only ever have black coffee, toast with peanut butter or oatmeal in the winter for breakfast. My ancestors were all farmers and miners. It’s nice to know I could have comfortably shared a breakfast with them.

@meganlalli5450

I often have oatmeal for breakfast. Filling and easy to cook. Some things don't change with time.

@imflyingoverclouds

I'm Turkish and I can confirm you about oatmeal, butter, eggs and cheese was pretty typical breakfast selections. In very busy days boiled milk and a little honey in it was my grandfather's breakfast. Also sometimes he was just smoking and having coffee if previous day he ate a lot. Usually he was having his coffee around noon after lunch with some chicken/ lamb and rice pilav and salty pickles. He was not drinking alcohol due to his religion but at night many people was drinking beer, wine or raki with a little meat and cheese as "meze". The Turkish breakfast promoted today only existed in high class as a way to show off and for common folk it was like that on important days like wedding, some friends gathering, soldier ceremony or some islamic feasts.

@Hagg-o-tron

As someone from the UK. The thing that separates gruel from porridge is that gruel is thinner but it's also savoury. The fat or "drippings" from the last night's meal is added to the pot. Many of us in the north still enjoy lardy toast. Which is re-heating all of complex animal and vegetable remnants from a Sunday roast at the bottom of yesterday's roasting tin and dropping in bread that's gone hard over the weekend. It sounds gross but trust me... it's amazing!

@therothschilds4986

Every word he says about the name of the food, just makes me hungry. Milk, bread, bacon, eggs.. Lord have mercy.

@gamecarnival2024

Biscuits and gravy. Love eggs and sausage, but as a southerner, Biscuits and gravy is a gift

@g1998k

I am somehow surprised they did not mention or consume honey. It was still cheaper than cane sugar and was already popular and widely used by then and goes extremely well with oatmeal. Honey did not require special storage conditions. Honey cakes were popular since ancient Greeks and Roman times.

@Pieces_Of_Eight

Wonderful and informative. There is something comforting in connecting to the simplicity in the daily lives of those who came before us. Charming music as well, cheers!

@christopherwhitney2711

My dad as a farmer had what I consider to be a working man’s breakfast most every day. Around 5am before going out to get the cows in for milking he would have a couple of sandwiches of bread and jam or peanut butter and a hot drink, then after finishing the dairy he would have a cereal like Weetbix or porridge and another hot drink. Very simple but enabled him to continue heavy work or activities through the morning until lunch. Sometimes morning tea break as well. Good show as always and very enjoyable, thanks