Who Invented Bacon and Eggs?

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Q: In America, bacon and eggs is a part of the hearty breakfast of champions, as American as apple pie right? When, how and whom was responsible for our fried-filled breakfast?

A: According to a story on NPR, bacon and eggs were introduced to Edward Bernays by none other than Sigmund Freud. Supposedly during thier hikes together, Freud told his nephew the value of a hearty meal. When Bernays reached America many years later, he landed a PR job, one of the first of its kind, for a bacon company. He then polled physicians about the benefits of a hearty breakfast and voila! an American tradition was born.

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  1. […] on Earth did scientists scrounge up some kind of proof that we’re born to eat stuff like this when we wake up? By running experiments on mice, of […]

  2. I’m sorry, but the Freudian invention of bacon and eggs isn’t correct. I guess I should tell NPR, but who is going to care? My proof: In book 2 of Don Quixote, written in the early 1600s, a meal of bacon and eggs is prepared as a special treat for someone. There is rather much detail about the meal, so it is definitely bacon and eggs they are talking about. I probably put you to sleep with that bit of extreme trivia, but maybe you’d want to know.

  3. Good grief, ‘who was responsible. . .’ , not whom!

  4. Aw, this was a very nice post. Spending some time and actual effort to create a
    top notch article… but what can I say… I put things off a whole lot and never
    manage to get anything done.

  5. Hey there! This is my first comment here so I just wanted to give a quick shout out and say I
    really enjoy reading your blog posts. Can you recommend any other blogs/websites/forums that deal
    with the same subjects? Thank you!

  6. https://www.englishbreakfastsociety.com/full-english-breakfast.html sorry us brits were eating it b4 us was discovered

  7. Bacon and eggs as American apple pie?
    And here’s me thinking they are from England and long before the USA was born.
    Are apple’s, pigs and chickens native to the USA?
    No.
    Apple’s were introduced into England by the Normans.


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