what do the words break and fast have to do with eating in the morning?
2007-04-22 08:04:46 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dining Out ➔ Fast Food
no real meaning, someone just came p with it. same thing with "lunch" and "dinner". Why did people start calling ducks ducks? no one knows a reason why. How about an alligator?
2007-04-22 08:07:58 · answer #1 · answered by john s 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Fasting is when you go for a period of time without eating.. After you eat your last meal of the day/night and go to bed you body is not getting any more nutrition and is therefore fasting. When you get up and eat you break your fasting.. and there came the word to break your fast or breakfast. Eating breakfast is very important. It kick starts your metabolism. So eat a sensible breakfast every day.
2007-04-22 18:41:49 · answer #2 · answered by lifen21 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Traditionally, the hours between the last meal of the day and the first of the following day was called a "fast". Fasting is when you don't eat or (depending on how you view fasting) drink. The original wording was "breaking the fast" or breaking my fast" which became breakfast.
2007-04-22 08:09:27 · answer #3 · answered by Holly R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because you supposedly don't eat all night like a fast. Then you break the fast in the morning and eat. Hence, breakfast!!
2007-04-22 09:46:39 · answer #4 · answered by luckford2004 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its called breakfast because you're breaking the fast of not eating since dinner by eating breakfast.
2007-04-22 08:18:36 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well all night long you did not eat. Therefore you fasted all night. When you got up you ate your morning meal thereby breaking your fast. So you celebrated breaking your fast with your breakfast meal.
Now why you call the noon meal lunch and the evening meal either dinner or supper, or why you have a snack at other times is entirely another question. I don't have a clue.
2007-04-22 08:17:47 · answer #6 · answered by Ronald J 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From the time you go to sleep at night until you wake in the morning you aren't eating. When you don't eat for a long period this is known as fasting, or a fast. So when you eat again in the morning you are breaking this fast,
2007-04-22 08:08:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You fast all night (go without food) and then break that fast and eat a meal. The meal is now called breakfast!
2007-04-22 08:07:42 · answer #8 · answered by MJ 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Breakfast is a meal, often light, usually eaten in the morning. The name derives from the concept that you have not eaten while sleeping, i.e., you are fasting during that time, and break that fast with the meal. It is therefore a calque of the French déjeuner or petit déjeuner and the Spanish desayuno. The German Frühstück, the Danish morgenmad, the Esperanto matenmanĝo, and the Chinese záocān (早餐) meaning "morning meal."
2007-04-22 08:08:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you sleep, you fast for however long you sleep. When you wake up, you have to get your body going and energized- so you eat. There-for: Breaking the Fast, other wise known as: Breakfast (or Break-Fast broken down)!
2007-04-23 00:40:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you don't eat, it's called fasting.
Most people don't eat after dinner and eat again in the morning. So they are breaking the fast and therefore, you have break fast.
2007-04-24 08:29:56 · answer #11 · answered by momma mia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋