"beer soup was common"

One copacetic thing about being a long-term expat in South Korea, or Asia, is that since I'm not into Big Western Breakfasts I never really encounter them unless I'm staying in a hotel.  What I'm trying to say is, American Breakfast is elitist bullshit:

"American breakfast begins in Europe, which provided the food norms imported by early colonizers. There, the day’s first meal had emerged from centuries of prohibition under the Catholic Church. 'There was a period of time in England and western Europe where eating breakfast was sort of tied to gluttony,' says Heather Arndt Anderson, the author of Breakfast: A History. That all changed with the Protestant Reformation, when morning sustenance became more broadly permissible, if not all that exciting, or even distinct from everything else people ate. Lack of refrigeration meant the meal was usually sour and tepid. In Germany, beer soup was common.

In early America, breakfast remained a matter of convenience for most people: bread; preserved meats; repurposed leftovers; and things, like eggs, that were easy to prepare and regularly available to rural families, Arndt Anderson says.

According to Krishnendu Ray, a professor of food studies at New York University, that’s consistent with how much of the world still approaches the day’s first meal. 'Poorer people everywhere, especially in places like India and China, eat the same kind of food for meal after meal,' he says. 'The strict differentiation of meals is partly an American thing, but partly a thing of upward mobility.' Breakfast food, as a concept, is a luxury. As colonial America developed into a more robust culture with distinct class markers, breakfast started to change with it."

I do miss blueberry or chocolate chip pancakes on very rare occasions.  I'm not a monster.