Throwback Thursday: breakfast from the past? #TBT

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It's Thursday!

I grew up in Iceland and we mainly had cold cereal and milk for breakfast. Maybe a toast once in a while. But when I went as an exchange student to Arizona, in 1987, I was introduced to American breakfast: pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, French toast - the whole 9 yards! Quite a bit different from my experience in Iceland.

Picture from c.a. 1977. Me getting ready to chow down some food.

Soooo, what memories do you have from breakfasts of the past? What did you grow up eating for breakfast?

Let’s make it a great Thursday!
KGM

[Arkadiusz Wroblewski]

Potato Pancakes, Pierogi. And yeah, now I will be crucified, but we Polish people like to eat everything with garlic sauce or ketchup, even our daily bread 🥪 🍞☺️🤠

[Kit Friend]

UK breakfast growing up wasn't too thrilling BUT I distinctly remember the little cereal packs being a key element of being on summer holidays somewhere - the first 3 breakfasts being epic, and then you slowly work your way down to the one no one fancies...

This question immediately made me think of visiting my epic colleagues in Latvia whilst working together (using Jira!) back in the day and their always being kefir at the hotel breakfast :) 

[Dan Breyen]

Quick and easy breakfast I used throughout college.  "Pancakes in a bowl".  Take some pancake mix, put it in a bowl.  Add some water or milk, stir it up and through it in the bowl.  Cook it for a bit, take it out, stir it up, toss it back in until it looks not 'doughy' any more.  (It's not going to brown in the microwave).  Add butter & syrup and dig in!

[Dan Breyen]

@Kit Friend those little boxes were available in the US. The only challenge that once the 'good ones' were gone, you were stuck with "Corn Flakes" and the rest of the 'boring ones' for awhile.  :)

[Anne Saunders]

As a kid, my mom made us oatmeal with raisins or Cheerios pretty often. I still love both, but once I was old enough to make my own, I moved to microwave scrambled eggs and toast, which I have most days. 

[James Grahl]

Weetabix with a sprinkle of sugar and a cup of tea, every morning as a kid.  Still have the tea, just substitute with Cheerios now.  I can't find the Weetabix too much anymore (in the US anyway), I guess I could go for mini wheats (because the Weetabix cakes are kind of just those, but giant) for the same effect but eh, not the same.  

[Amanda Barber]

I remember having what we called "banana soup" for breakfast...sliced bananas, milk, and a little sprinkle of sugar. I'm sure it was when we ran out of Cheerios or something, haha!

[Anne Saunders]

@James Grahl I think you might prefer Post's "Big Biscuit" Shredded Wheat - Weetabix looks a bit like the offspring of big shredded wheat and a Nature Valley granola bar.

[James Grahl]

@Anne Saunders - I'll have to give that "Big Biscuit" a try, hadn't thought of that! Thanks! I did find some Weetabix some time ago and tried it again and while the nostalgia was real it didn't hit the same, not sure if it was the old "rose colored glasses" or the now lack of sugar I added.  Oh, who am I kidding? It was the lack of sugar lol.

[Matthew Sinclair]

Pretty boring - Just general Cereals you'd expect - occasional big breakfasts.

What I do remember is Dad's Sense of humor - always random weird. :)

Sadly I don't have anything coming to mind to call out - just fragments.

[shivain gupta]

Love this! Breakfast memories are such a window into our childhoods. I grew up with warm parathas and chai before school — the smell of my mom cooking in the kitchen is still the first thing I think of when someone says 'breakfast.' Funny how food carries our memories better than photographs sometimes. 😊 #TBT

[Charlene Freeman]

Waffles!

[Anwesha Pan]

In India, each region has their own breakfast menus which is so different from each other. My favorite weekend breakfast being Bengali was "Luchi with dum aloo"

Had to add this tempting photo 😁

[Trudy P Claspill]

Toast with butter, sugar, and cinnamon, and hot chocolate. Yum!