What do you do for breakfast on 1st Dec

[Myleakycauldron]

I know some people will go all out with the North Pole breakfast but wondering if there is a toned down version I can do on a Thursday before work?!

I may end up flinging their advent calendars at them in a rush to make it to school on time!

Older now so this is just for me but I’m guilty of putting blueberry eyes, a raspberry nose and pretzel antlers on my slice of peanut butter toast with the usual mug of coffee. Makes me smile.

Please please can I get off now?

Never heard of it more made up crap

(i hate xmas)

How long have people been doing this?

I ask because (after little bit of research) it seems to have been trademarked and marketed in the US from about 4 years ago, but there is the occasional poster on here saying “we have always done this”.

Certainly the first time I heard of it at all was last year.

I agree, also stuff like the BBC logos/idents in between programmes. Used to start a few days before Christmas and always felt quite exciting. Now they start on 1 December.

I love Christmas. At Christmas time!

same 😂

Advent calendar chocolate broken up and mixed in with Rice Krispies. Every year for 23 years and counting!!!

I actually feel really sorry for people who get so caught up in all this American / Instagram / fake / media - invented nonesense... You must either have a really empty boring life or be so completely obsessed with "posting photos" of every little "special" minute, while other people around you get on with their actual lives... I can't imagine living like this, constantly focussed on what new idiotic fantasy day I should be performing (and presumably photographing / videoing) next. But then I feel equally sorry for the (mostly mums) parents who then become aware of some last minute panic of what other people seem to be insisting is now a new tradition when it's not. It puts me in mind of being back in the upper fourth on a Monday morning and wandering into school only to be met with the sudden panic realisation that it's a physics end of unit test I forgot to revise for. But all the time, every day. These "special days" seem to be dropping up a lot lately. Crackers. Please think of the type of entitled human you are going to be sending forth into the world by bringing them up in such a bizarre way... Or maybe move to America? 😆 By the way, toast and Cheerios here I imagine!

I'm so glad my two are in their 20s and this nonsense wasn't a thing when they were little.
It gets more and more ridiculous every year.

Have you booked a choir?
I had a terrible time getting one this year, Dec 1st has become so popular.
Only available slot was 4 am. Can't wait to see my teenagers faces when they are woken up to glorious Christmas tunes on a Thursday (partway through DC1's GCSE mocks).
It's the little things.

Oh, come on. Enough now.

@Notanotherusername4321 😂😂😂😂😂

I have only heard of North Pole Breakfast from a friend who has always done it, our dc are 12 and she did it from when they were old enough to be on solids. I don’t know anyone else that does it or where she saw it to start doing it herself.

It kind of makes sense that some Americans might be keen to have Christmassy events right at the start of December though. They’re just coming out of thanksgiving, so it probably feels like a whole ‘the holidays’ thing to do
something that feels special on 1 December and to full the gap until it’s actually Christmas.

Makes less sense in the UK where it’s just a Thursday morning.

Each to their own but what ever happened to keeping everything low key for as long as possible before christmas. Feeling ancient !

Does anyone from the 1970s remember Kelloggs Rise and Shine drink? That was the highlight of actual Christmas morning breakfast.

Re ”North Pole breakfast”, we were watching a documentary series a few years ago and one episode featured Inuit people who lived in the far north. They killed a load of puffins in the summer and then put them whole in a seal carcass to ferment. The cold weather stopped them spoiling. In the winter they opened the carcass and ate the puffins without cooking them, beaks and all.

is that a “North Pole breakfast” cos TBH I’m behind on my puffin hunting and my hollowed seal carcass is already full.

The same as on 30 Nov and 2 Dec and every morning going forwards

Blimey the vitriol aimed at people that just want to have a bit of extra at breakfast time for one day is unbelievable

A lot of you certainly ain't on the nice list are you?

Come on now

I don't care what people do individually.

And FYI before anyone says I have a sad empty life mine will be having weetabix

Why are these ersatz 'traditions' springing up at a time when more parents than ever are struggling to provide even the basics?

What a lot of old wank. Heard it all now.
Fuck’s sake.

Don't blame us for this bullshit!
I'm American and I don't know a single person who does this here.
BUT I do know THREE different UK-based people who do.
Take that as you wish.

There’s so much extra stuff going on before, Christmas Day will be a let-down. The whole fun was that day for special everything, and waiting to open presents that appeared overnight. Yet MORE commercialism, more needless money spent, and more pressure on struggling families. Stop FGS.