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AnSionnachRua · 4435 days ago · link · · parent · post: Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Have we always eaten them?
One thing that always strikes me is the nature of the "Irish breakfast"; it wasn't until the past two or three decades that any typical Irish person could afford to eat so much meat in one meal, and certainly not for breakfast. The "full Irish" is a modern invention. In fact, in my grandfather's time people were so poor, and eating meat so exceptional, that people would eat what was called "potatoes and point". They'd eat a big feed of potatoes, and point the potato on their fork at the piece of meat hanging from the kitchen ceiling, as if to symbolically imbue the potato with the meat's sustenance.