Originally Posted by
MinnMan
There is this B.S. that we've heard for years. "Eat a good breakfast, it's the most important meal of the day."
Maybe for school children. But for the rest of us, it isn't. It's totally expendable in a normal day.
But if I'm headed out for a significant ride in the morning - you know, above 50 miles - no way I'm going out on an empty stomach. A century without a solid breakfast? That's just asking to bonk.
Possibly the best-ever example of marketing becoming "general knowledge" or, even worse, "accepted science"
It comes from Grape Nuts cereal ads in 1944.