M: Hey, Rory, thank you for your answers! Yum, yum, yum. Dear listener, are you hungry?
R: Ugh, I am now.
M: So we say like we eat something for breakfast. Okay? Or we have breakfast. Like I usually have eggs for breakfast. Do we normally use an article? Like I don't have a breakfast, I don't have breakfast?
R: Not normally, no. It's without the article.
M: Yeah. So you can say I don't usually have breakfast. Well, I usually, I always have breakfast. And Rory skips his breakfast.
R: I don't skip my breakfast. I just don't have anything solid.
M: Rory has a protein shake every morning for breakfast. Okay? So protein shakes count as breakfast. And you can say, for example, like, oh, I don't normally have breakfast, but I drink a glass of water, hopefully that counts. This is my breakfast. A glass of water.
R: Well, some people wake up with a glass of water. In the morning, which is apparently supposed to be quite good for you.
M: Yeah, it should be like warm water with some lemon, you know? It's definitely a good idea to start off the day with something. So start off the day with a good breakfast, right? Or start of the day with some food, or, again, a glass of water. But Rory is not convinced that it has to be a full meal. A meal is like breakfast, dinner, and lunch, like a proper meal. You can say like, okay, I'm not convinced that it has to be a full meal. I disagree with Rory. I think I am convinced that breakfast should be breakfast. It must be a full meal, you know, like coffee, fried eggs, you know? Bacon, yum, yum, yum. Some, you know, fried tomatoes. A full English breakfast is for us for a reason, dear listener, okay? It's beautiful. What is a full Scottish breakfast? And how is it different from a full English breakfast?
R: As far as I know, I think it's got haggis with it and black pudding, which is kind of a blood-based product. And I can just double-check because I've not had one in quite some time. Yes, it's got black pudding, haggis and scones made from potatoes and a Lorne sausage. But all of these are meat products which, or vegetable products, which come in a slightly different form in the English breakfast. So really it's the same thing.
M: Delicious, dear listener. You can talk about something traditional in your country. What do people normally have for breakfast? What is a traditional breakfast in your country? And what do you call this thing that many people have for breakfast in Conan Doyle's novels, Sherlock Holmes had it for breakfast.
R: What did he have for breakfast? I have no idea. Tea? I don't know.
M: No, this like healthy thing.
R: Well, that's not narrowing it down.
M: It's made of oats.
R: Oh, porridge.