What Makes A Meal "Breakfast"?

Venezuela
January 14, 2010 1:00am CST
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day but what makes a meal breakfast? Is it the first meal of the day? Sometimes I wake up at around 11am, if I eat something is it still breakfast? Or does it have a time duration, like from 6am to 10am. Does it have to do with what you eat?
5 responses
@Canteen (592)
• China
14 Jan 10
ok in my mink, breakfast means the meal at 6am to 10am. i'd like to eat bread with milk or noodles for breakfast. but usually i get up around 10 am. then i don't eat breakfast. i just cook for the lunch, tranditional Chinese food with rice. i call it brunch.
• Venezuela
14 Jan 10
Can you still call it brunch even if you didn't have breakfast? What if you're not going to have lunch anymore?
@TAZNEM (656)
• Philippines
26 Feb 10
well for me breakfast is the first meal of the day because you break you fast whether its 11 or afternoon i still consider it break fast if its my very firsts meal of the day
@caver1 (1762)
• United States
18 Jan 10
Breakfast is the first meal you eat each day. It means to break your fast. To "fast" from food means to not eat for a certain period of time. Of course it has come to mean certain types of food or a morning meal. Some times we say we are having breakfast for supper when we have pancakes or eggs for our evening meal.
@se7enthbird (8307)
• Philippines
14 Jan 10
hmmm for me breakfast is what you eat when you wake up. i wake up around 12pm for i work at nights so i guess when i wake up and thats lunch for others its breakfast fro me. thats why i think. though i can no longer catch a breakfast at mcdonalds for they only serve up to 11am for breakfast. maybe its the time duration.... but for people like me who works at night then i guess when we have meal when we wake up then thats breakfast
@MimiRemo (418)
• Philippines
14 Jan 10
I think breakfast means first meal of the day, and it is a morning meal. So I guess any time you eat your meal in the morning, it is still breakfast. There is also brunch, a meal that serves as both breakfast and lunch. I don't think brunch is with time reference, it is just for the purpose of both as a breakfast and lunch, two meals in one, but usually taken around 11 am or 12 noon.