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Dave Wilton

24 Oct 2023 • 4 min read
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A breakfast plate containing two eggs, sausages, bacon, baked beans, and fried bread

breakfast / Continental breakfast / English breakfast / second breakfast

17 April 2026 Breakfast has a very straightforward etymology. It is a compound of break + fast, that is a meal eaten after period of abstention from food, usually while sleeping overnight. The word dates to at least the mid fifteenth century, but exactly what food a breakfast consists of has
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