Editing Breakfast (section)

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{{Main|British cuisine}}

[[File:British breakfast.jpg|thumb|A [[Full breakfast|full English breakfast]] with [[fried egg]]s on [[Toast (food)|toast]], [[sausage]], bacon, mushrooms, baked beans, [[hash browns]], and tomato|alt=Beans, sausages, hashbrowns, mushrooms, tomatoes, various meats, and two eggs sitting on toast.]]
In the early 16th century, some physicians warned against eating breakfast, because they said it was not healthy to eat before a prior meal was digested.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lind|first=L. R.|title=On the Care of the Aged; and Maximianus, Elegies on Old Age and Love|year=1988|isbn=0871691825|publisher=American Philosophical Society|location=Philadelphia|page=247}}</ref> By the 1550s, however, there were multiple sources that claimed breakfast was an important meal. For example, in 1551, Thomas Wingfield stated that breakfast was essential. In 1589, Thomas Cogan stated that it was unhealthy to miss breakfast in the morning. He was one of the first to claim that it was healthy for those who were not young, ill or elders to eat breakfast.<ref>[[#Albala|Albala]], p. 25</ref>

The [[full breakfast]] is a staple of [[British cuisine]], and typically consists of [[bacon]], [[Sausage#Britain and Ireland|sausages]] and [[egg (food)|eggs]], often served with a variety of side dishes and a beverage such as [[coffee]] or [[tea]]. Prior to 1600, breakfast in Great Britain typically included bread, cold meat or fish, and [[ale]].<ref name="Mason" /> Tea, [[chocolate]] and coffee were introduced to Great Britain in the mid-1600s, and in the 1700s coffee and chocolate were adopted as breakfast drinks by the fashionable.<ref name="Mason">Mason, Laura (2004). [https://books.google.com/books?id=9rFIyN1OWfQC&dq=breakfast%2C+drinks&pg=PA34 ''Food Culture In Great Britain'']. pp. 34–35. Greenwood Publishing Group. {{ISBN|031332798X}}</ref> Tea eventually became more popular than chocolate as a breakfast drink.<ref name="Mason" />