YY LovelyBoots. I don't know if it's a UK thing or what, but as well as the commonplace aversion to pulses and anything that is, in somecases, not heavily processed and full of sugar, there just seems to be a very widespread opinion that food should not take any effort at all.
You've probably already seen the Nesquick cereal thread, but a lot of posters are of the opinion that it is just not possible to have anything other than cereal or toast for breakfast because other things require, shock, cooking, or pissing about.
These other, massively difficult and time consuming breakfasts, of weird and expensive ingredients, are things like omelettes, or continental style, with slices of meat and cheese.
One poster who has suggested nuts, is told that in fact, it is she who is the nut.
Yet in other countries, people do this all the time. I believe that, possibly in eastern Europe, foragaing for nuts and berries is commonplace. Yet anyone who posts the suggestion that anyone does this on here is met with cries of derision.
Typical German breakfasts consist of slices of meat and cheese - I'm going to steal this idea, because it seems to be the perfect portable breakfast. If I'm not hungry first thing, I could put some meat and cheese in a tub, accompanied by cornichons, nuts and olives perhaps and will eat it later. To me that is quick and simple, but posters suggesting things like this are responded to with piss takey posts about having to get up at 5 am to fuck about with meat and cheese.
And normal everyday people in many other countries eat lots of lentil or chick pea dishes - it is just normal food to them. But here, it seems that pulses are only for people who are being excessively frugal, either by choice or necesscity, or it is some worthy middle class pursuit.