What breakfast looked like the year you were born
Its options might have changed over the years, but breakfast has long been touted as the most important meal of the day.
Breakfast cereal has changed massively. Eggs have gone back and forth between being considered good for our health and not. During the late 20th century, eggs became suspect as some scientific studies saw their cholesterol levels as too high, especially in the yolk. However, there has been a return to eggs in the past decade or so with countless ways to enjoy them.
Just as American life has changed over the decades, the definition of a traditional American breakfast has too. We relied on several sources including old menus, commercials, recipe books and the website Food Timeline to help us track down what constituted the typical breakfast from 1937 until the turn of the century.
