Is a banana at 11am breakfast? Settle a sisterly dispute.

[noitsasnack]

Sister says that I do eat breakfast.

I say I eat a snack and that breakfast cannot be eaten after 10.30.

Yeah that's your breakfast, but why does it matter what it's called?

It’s breakfast

A banana is not a suitable breakfast (or any other time) item.

Definitely breakfast! 🍌

McDonalds serve breakfast until 11am which is in line with your sister's thoughts but I think you had tea for breakfast and a banana for snack.

How big was the banana?

If it’s the first thing you’ve eaten that day, then it breaks the fast since your last meal the previous day. Hence “breakfast”. Even if that’s 7 at night :)

It is breakfast.

Breakfast simply means break the 'fast'. Meaning you could be a shift worker and sleeping all day, wake up at 5:30pm, and you first meal is breakfast. Maybe not to day workers (day people? Non-nocturnal people, people on normal time zones?) but to shift workers. It is simply breaking the fasting. There are no rules that breakfast has to be in the AM. It is just the first meal of your day. When your 'day' begins has determines when you break your fast.

Approaching the argument from the definition of the word "breakfast" is not really the point. If you got up at 10:30 and had the banana at 11:00 it would be your breakfast because in normal everyday use of the language it's what we eat shortly after getting up, not the actual definition of "breaking a fast". Because you got up so early it's obviously not your breakfast but a snack in everyday language use of what people understand breakfast and snacks to be. Actual definitions of words become less meaningful when a modern understanding of the word is usually used.

A banana is a snack and shouldn't be classed as a meal- unless it's covered in ice cream, cream, chocolate and a cherry on top- then it can be considered desert.

It’s a snack. You don’t eat breakfast.

@janeymacaronie

Approaching the argument from the definition of the word "breakfast" is not really the point. If you got up at 10:30 and had the banana at 11:00 it would be your breakfast because in normal everyday use of the language it's what we eat shortly after getting up, not the actual definition of "breaking a fast". Because you got up so early it's obviously not your breakfast but a snack in everyday language use of what people understand breakfast and snacks to be. Actual definitions of words become less meaningful when a modern understanding of the word is usually used.

This.

If you ate it straight after getting up it's breakfast, that much later and it's elevenses.

I would say it's breakfast

Hi energy snack to get you going? Sounds like breakfast to me! Enjoy!

Breakfast = break fast, breaking your fast from your rest period of sleep. Usually over night. It’s your first meal of the day. But as pointed out above, if you work various shifts, waking for your day at unusual times, your first meal would also be breakfast even if it were 6pm. I also don’t think someone would be having a roast dinner upon waking for the day.

Turning to the question of the bannana at 11. If it’s fairly close to your waking time abd is your first meal (though skimpy), it’s your breakfast. However, if you’d been up hours, had a cup of tea or coffee but didn’t eat anything skipping breakfast and you ate a banana at 11, I’d consider it a snack (elevenses)

Breakfast literally means breaking your fast. So it’s breakfast.

@Pipandmum

If you got up at 10 and had a banana then that's your (mean) breakfast. If you've been up since 7 I'd say you skipped breakfast and are having a snack.

This.

Definitely not breakfast it's a mid morning snack.

But UABU not to eat breakfast when you wake - most important meal of the day....

I view a banana as an alternative to a pudding with a main meal, or as a snack.

As for the time of breakfast, don't care so long as you avoid calling anything brunch, something from the US that should never be mentioned in the Uk ever.

I wouldn't call that breakfast due to the time you get up.

Yes that’s what I had yesterday.

I've just had a banana for breakfast, only because DD decided she wanted a banana, peeled it and then changed her mind.

I'm feeling very virtuous.

Can be breakfast, yes, and not a bad one either. Would be even better as a smoothie with yoghurt, milk and honey or maple syrup.

Agree to disagree! I would say a banana a couple of hours before lunch is breakfast imho