The Theory of Breakfast Similarity states that: "Although most people want variety in their midday and evening meals, for breakfast they are content to eat the same thing day after day after day after day after day."
From a survey conducted by mini-AIR, which asked: Do you like to eat the same thing for breakfast day after day after day after day after day?
The result:
YES 52%
NO 47%
NOTE: 7% of "YES" respondents, and, oddly, the same percentage of "NO" respondents specified that their answer applies only to weekdays, and that for them the opposite answer applied to weekends. Several individuals sent in insightful observations, and a few others sent in observational insights. Here are a few of each:
"Yes. Since without a breakfast most people have a limited ability to think (at least I have), it is too hard a challenge to think up some nice meal early in the morning. It is thus logical that most people rely on food that has proven itself in the morning as the best strategy to getting booted up quickly." (Investigator Ferdinand Peper)
"Your question confuses what we like with what we do. Do I like to eat the same thing for breakfast day after day? No. Do I eat the same thing for breakfast day after day? Yes." (Investigator Marc Auslander)
"Cooked rolled outs with dried fruit, nuts, bran and acidopholus yoghurt, topped with 'single malt' honey from the Leatherwood tree (endemic to Tasmania -- the worlds greatest honey) for 25 years and counting." (Investigator Simon Baker)
"I do not like to eat the same thing for breakfast day after day after day after day after day. But I do like to eat the same thing for breakfast day after day after day after day. (There are, after all, limits.)" (Investigator Leslie Lamport)
from:
mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR")
Issue Number 2003-10 October, 2003
