Editing Breakfast (section)

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{{Main|Medieval cuisine}}{{Disputed section|date=June 2021}}[[File:Medieval baker.jpg|thumb|300px|A medieval [[baker]] with his apprentice. As seen in the illustration, round loaves were among the most common.]]
In the European [[Middle Ages]], breakfast was commonly eaten by working people, as well as children, the elderly, the sick, while the upper classes didn't speak of or partake in eating in the morning. Eating breakfast meant that one was poor, was a low-status farmer or laborer who truly needed the energy to sustain his morning's labor, or was too weak to make it to the large, midday dinner. Monarchs and their entourages would spend a lot of time around a table for meals. Only two formal meals were eaten per day—one at mid-day and one in the evening. The exact times varied by period and region, but this two-meal system remained consistent throughout the Middle Ages.<ref>{{cite book | last=Hammond|first= P.W. |title= Food & Feast in Medieval England |location = Phoenix Mill |publisher= Alan Sutton | year= 1993}}</ref><!-- The following needs checking; the paragraphs that preceded it wrongly spoke of breakfast having been viewed as 'shameful' by some medieval men, and was not supported by the citation next to it.

If it refers to Thomas Aquinas' ''Summa Theologiae'' as listing breakfast as one of the six ways to commit gluttony under 'praepropere', please note that this is inaccurate, as 'praepropere' referred to the sin of eating too soon after having finished a meal, *not* breakfast itself:

Noble travelers were an exception [to breakfast being a shameful thing], as they were also permitted to eat breakfast while they were away from home. For instance, in March 1255 about 1512 gallons of wine were delivered to the English [[Henry III of England|King Henry III]] at the abbey church at [[St. Albans]] for his breakfast throughout his trip. If a king were on religious pilgrimage, the ban on breakfast was completely lifted and enough supplies were compensated for the erratic quality of meals at the local cook shops during the trip.<ref>{{cite book | last= Spencer|first=Collin  |title= British Food: an Extraordinary Thousand Years of History |location = New York |publisher= Columbia University Press | year= 2002}}</ref>-->

[[File:Café na fazenda (1), N.ELAC.jpg|thumb|Breakfast in Brazil]]
In the 13th century, breakfast when eaten sometimes consisted of a piece of rye bread and a bit of cheese. Morning meals would not include any meat, and would likely include {{convert|0.4|impgal|L}} of low alcohol-content beers. Uncertain quantities of bread and ale could have been consumed in between meals.<ref>{{cite book | last=Hicks|first=M.A. |title= Revolution and consumption in late medieval England |location = Woodbridge |publisher= Boydell Press | year= 2001}}</ref>

By the 15th century, breakfast in western Europe often included meat.<ref>[[#Anderson|Anderson]], p. 11</ref> By this time, noble men were seen to indulge in breakfast, making it more of a common practice, and by the early 16th century, recorded expenses for breakfast became customary. Breakfast in eastern Europe remained mostly the same as the modern day: a "[[Breakfast by country#Continental breakfast|continental breakfast]]". The 16th century introduction of caffeinated beverages into the European diet was also an addition to breakfast; it was believed that [[coffee]] and [[tea]] aid the body in "evacuation of superfluities".<ref>[[#Anderson|Anderson]], p. 12</ref>