Do you recognise yourself?

Dancelike although you've got a point about labne and flatbread.

I've not caught up with this thread, and you are all wrong about an ideal breakfast (which is leftover Chinese takeaway, obviously), but I am baffled at the idea that donor conception is new. Has the OP never heard of a pipette, a turkey baster or a spoon?

I think I identify as Brazilian - passion fruit sponge for breakfast! And given menopausal hair loss, sporting Brazilian grooming will be the work of seconds.

I love huevos rancheros for breakfast, well, brunch really, I can't eat first thing. And there's a Lebanese breakfast called mankoushe which has all my favourite things - labne, haloumi and flatbread with zaatar.

Weetbix with mashed banana is weird. Not as weird as asking complete strangers for descriptions of their conception processes, but weird. Less likely to lead to living in a cave without friends though.

Me miss!!

Oh and there are millions of people who believe the Virgin Mary had a virgin birth.

Just saying.

I'm just going to leave this here.

CAT WEDDING!!!!

No it's pineapple to aid implantation but apparently it changes the taste of sperm - many online articles on this more research designed to encourage women to enjoy oral sex

It's pineapple for sperm I think.

Cabbage boiled isn't very pleasant, is it? Boiling it milk sounds a bit like putting sprouts in chocolate.

Don't bananas have potassium which is good for sperm?

Is cabbage boiled in milk pleasant, Rufus?

I think it’s incredibly problematic that you lot don’t seem to be taking this thread seriously. Clearly the increasingly widespread breakfasts consisting of lukewarm weetabix and mushy bananas are causing sperm rates to plummet.

Its just the plain madera type they do...any excuse not to prepare anything

But brazilian might be good

I've had some lovely breakfast cakes in Brazil and often they were specially made the night before. Fruit flavoured (like passion fruit or pineapple) sponge.

Although have you seen all the articles recently about falling sperm rates? Apparently supply is reducing! And this is apparently very concerning! Even though surely it’s not actually anywhere close to being a risk to human populations

I am totally flummoxed by OP's bafflement over lesbians getting pregnant before official donor programs were invented.

Semen is hardly a substance in short supply around the world. And generally the method of introducing the semen where it needs to get is straightforward enough not to need a high trained medical team :D

The idea that human reproduction is very complex and you can't tell who has what bits and what goes where and how you make babies seems to have got a very strong toehold

Mind you, the cabbage does put me in mind that daft nonsense about cabbages being secretly covered in plastic on YouTube the other week. Because they smelled funny when the person lit them with a match...

I am rethinking my late night snacks as I type. Feel quite queasy now.

I was on a small island off fiji for 3 days

Vegetarian at the time and had been very very ill so had very little appetite

Got there for lunch and my lunch was two sweet potatos and cabbage boiled in milk...a quarter

Ok ate what i could...looked forward to dinner

Dinner arrived...two sweet potato and a quarter of cabbage boiled in milk

Didnt eat much...hopefully eggs or something for breakfast

Breakfast...two sweet potato and a quarter of a boiled cabbage

I pretty much stopped eating and for the next two days i swear to god they served my up the same two fucking potatos for every single meal

Floral given that quite often someone nearby would be eating durian, rotting dhal wouldn't be far off the mark!

Bet WBH seems more appealing now

I have tasted what seemed like 100 year old egg for breakfast before now.

Dont the Chinese have something called 100 year old egg

Its not actually 100 years old...but it tastes like it is

Melanippe I'm reading without my glasses and I thought you said you had rotting dhal for breakfast. Which I thought was probably pushing the boundaries of good taste at any time of day, let alone breakfast.

I know the thread has moved on but wow, that is not a good or thoughtful article at all.

Just don’t recognise the independent (or the guardian) anymore. WTF.

See i could get on board with that mela

So ive got

Full English
American
French
Indian
Mexican
Venezuala sounds nice from my link
I think i need to look at spain as well
Thailand?
Maybe Switzerland

I think dh and i woukd like turkey...but maybe not the children