To find the idea of a sausage roll for breakfast strange?

[Notgreggs]

Am not sure if it's just me tbh, so happy to be told AIBU!

I was out for lunch with my sister and she was telling me that her daughter (who has SATs) is being given a special breakfast at school every day and their choice for the breakfast was either a sausage roll or for vegetarians a cheese roll (ie. Cheese in pastry). I think there was a vegan option too.

Maybe it's just me but I can't imagine having a sausage roll /cheese roll for breakfast. But then I guess a cooked breakfast is sausage and bacon etc and I guess you get things like danish pastries for breakfast.... I guess I just wasn't expecting it! It's nice of the school to do that for them though, apparently my niece was looking forward to it (she was just a bit confused by the choice of food too I think which is why my sister was telling me the story)

Yes, sorry, sort of, except I have actually quoted the right person as well.

‘Distracted by a full tummy’ after eating one sausage roll?

Jesus Christ, Mumsnet is insane sometimes

I agree that a sausage roll isn’t going to ruin their chances.

It's very Mumsnet, isn't it.

Hunger is the actual biological trigger that causes distraction, but for the disordered eaters here, being sated is enough to cause panic.

I don't think there is ever an inappropriate time to eat a sausage roll. A really good sausage roll, with well-seasoned meat and properly flaky pastry, is a truly joyous thing.

This place 😂

I drive past a Greggs on the way to work. The queue is often out into the street. It's made up of men dressed for manual work and secondary age kids in school uniform. I don't think they're buying the little pots of grapes and melon.

The weird categorisation of foods by time of day is particularly a brrakfast thing isn't it? Lunch and evening meal are much more flexible.

Cereal is a relatively new thing we've been persuaded is breakfast-suitable. In the past kidneys and lamb chops would have been more common. Why the rigidity? It doesn't make any sense to me.

If it offers any reassurance, I got straight A grades at A Level and a high 2:1 from a Russell Group University despite eating nothing but shit for the best part of 5 years.

Maybe I’d have got a first if I’d laid off the leftover takeaway pizza for breakfast.

Seems normal to me. My secondary school used to sell them at morning break in the 1980’s. I am sure loads of people still buy one from gregs or the supermarket or petrol station hot counter as a breakfast/mid morning snack.

That is a very good point.

I don't like 'breakfast foods' - as has been designated somehow here -like cereals etc and very often just eat leftovers from dinner. More traditional European breakfasts of hams and cheeses on glorious bread is nirvana.

My now 75 year old mother talks fondly about how her childhood breakfasts consisted mainly cooked mince on buttered toast or lamb chops and peas.

I would assume that they were a breakfast snack. Most deli counters have them in the morning, alongside the usual fry up items.

@Notgreggs
OP I think so many have missed the point here and I’m quite shocked.
sausage roll in general isn’t too bad and can be had as a treat.
The morning of SATS week is ridiculous.
There has been so much research into how our environments and nutrition affects our brain function.
Eating high fat, highly processed foods before an exam is absolutely ridiculous. If the school offer a breakfast it should be nutritious and should be foods that have slow releasing energy.
I like a Greggs sausage roll as much as the next person, but would I eat it before an exam, absolutely not!
We’re so blindsided by the fact that children are getting a meal that we ignore whether it should be healthy or not.
A PP mentioned a breakfast in Korea. This is not a highly processed sausage roll but a nutritious meal with many food groups designed to keep you full and energised for hours.

Seems fine to me. But i’m not someone who thinks certain food is only for certain meals. My mum would be horrified at the thought of a sausage roll for breakfast.

The beans would add more preparation time and washing up. The school just want something they can buy, probably individually wrapped, and hand out. My school used to give out bananas (retired teacher) but I expect a lot of kids would prefer a sausage roll.

My now 75 year old mother talks fondly about how her childhood breakfasts consisted mainly cooked mince on buttered toast or lamb chops and peas. Wow! I'm 70 and this sounds like something from the Victorian era along with kedgeree and devilled kidneys. I had cereal or toast.

It’s not going to be quality meat, hmm fatty junk, toast and a banana would probably have been better!

The breakfast cereals companies really nailed their marketing!!

She was brought up in rural Australia. I should have said that because I am not sure it was a very British thing! Meat was cheaper there I understand. It's interesting really- she was actually from a very poor family yet they had meat 3 times a day. Meat and potatoes and tinned peas mainly. In contrast though my father who was brought up in an very urban multicultural part of Melbourne would have white toast butter and marmalade or porridge.

This is called being set in your ways.
It’s a sausage roll!
Time to be more flexible and open minded….

It’s not exactly setting them up for a good day, is it? A sausage roll will have minimal protein (9g), very little fibre, lots of fat. Likely to leave them hungry in an hour or two.

Didn't they? Getting what was previously animal feed approved as "breakfast-suitable" was a genius move. Lots of weird stuff in the history of cereal. Kellogg was trying to use diet to prevent masturbation. It's all very odd.

That's very interesting. I remember reading the memoirs of Clive James and he said it was a protein rich country where everyone had plenty of meat.

There are many children who arrive at school very hungry unfortunately. It might not be the most balanced diet (it's not intended to be) but not much worse than a Full English and it's good of the school and the Supermarket to offer something. It's certainly better than nothing at all.

The two are very different issues. Yes, it is tragic that children are hungry. But feeding them crap isn’t a solution. It’s not balanced at all.