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What is the ‘Breakfast of Champions’?

The saying ‘Breakfast of Champions’ can result in several meanings. It had been in the beginning used from the promotional slogan for the Wheaties brand of breakfast cereal that was known for showcasing popular athletes on its packaging and declaring that they had the cereal for breakfast, suggesting that it helped them grow to be champions. It soon became a relatively symbolic expression or jargon for almost any food or drink that would be generally regarded as being unhealthy. This is especially the case if one consumes it for breakfast or early in the day frequently. By way of example quite a few people joke about a morning ritual as the Breakfast of Champions is one thing the daily early morning ritual of needing a few cigarettes and a couple cups of coffee to obtain the fix of nicotine and caffeine in order to face your day. For other people it might imply the regular eating of a similar breakfast every day, like bacon and eggs. Some suggest that they need their Breakfast of Champions to properly awaken each morning and to get their bowels moving ahead of facing the day ahead.

As opposed to that, the Breakfast of Champions is also a 1973 book also called Goodbye Blue Monday the American writer Kurt Vonnegut. The book is placed in the fictional town of Midland City and it tells the tale of two lonely, skinny, rather old white men on a planet which was dying. One of those males, Dwayne Hoover, is a Pontiac dealership owns a Burger Chef business who will become obsessed with the imaginary works of Kilgore Trout, taking what his science fiction writings for a actual reality. As the story begins, Trout goes to Midland City for a convention appearance where he meets Dwayne Hoover and Dwayne is inspired to run amok following that. It really is not that clear from the book what the title of the book has to do with the widely used use of the expression, breakfast of champions.