25 Forgotten Poor Man Breakfasts From the 1950s That Nobody Makes Anymore

There was a wind up alarm clock on the shelf above the sink, wound down and still set, and what it was set for is the reason this video exists. Forty years of clearing houses across the Midwest, and I will tell you the first honest thing. I was not there. I was born after all this. What I have is the tail end of it at my grandparents' place, because a farm morning did not change much between nineteen fifty and nineteen seventy, my mother who was a girl in it, and a few hundred kitchens I have carried out the door. So here is the part that makes the whole list make sense. On a working farm the day ran backwards. Breakfast was the biggest meal of the day by a long way. Dinner at noon was second. Supper at night was the smallest thing they ate. The exact reverse of how you and I eat now. The reason is simple. You eat before the work, not after it. Everything on that table at five in the morning had to be burned off between then and the noon dinner bell, by hand, outdoors. Nobody was loading up at eight at night to go to bed on it. Once you have that, all twenty five of these stop looking strange. I sort every one of them three ways as we go. The fuel, which is fat and starch and was built to get a man to noon. The leftover, which is last night's supper turning up again at five in the morning, because nothing got thrown out and the stove was already hot. And the sweet. And the sweet is the one you are not going to believe. Pie. Cold pie, out of the pie safe, at five in the morning, and it is not a joke and it is not rare. I will tell you exactly why. I will also tell you which of these were good and which were simply endured, because some of it was dull and some of it was grim and the people who ate it said so. One thing I am not going to do is tell you this food was better for you than what you eat now. It was sized to a day that does not exist anymore. That is the whole story. Tell me in the comments what time your people got up, and what was on the table when they did. I read every one.