Breakfast Types

There are two types of people in this world: morning types and evening types. There are two types of morning types of people in this world: the breakfast type and the no-breakfast type. There are two types of breakfast types of people in this world: the poha-idli type and cereal-sandwich types.

I am a morning type and breakfast type person. But among breakfast types, I am ambivalent. I have taken one type for a while till I have replaced it. And every time, I have found it difficult to choose.

When I was in school, what’s for breakfast was an important question. I was the sandwiches type at that time. What goes in the sandwich was the choice to be made every day. One day it was bread and butter, another day cheese, then a chutney and on rare occasions even an egg.

I used to think that was a good breakfast, till I realised that it wasn’t. In college, I shifted to the idli-dosa type.  Down south, I realised that there were as many types of dosa as there were days in the week and didn’t mind having a masala dosa on one, a rava dosa on another, a pesarattu on another, and idlis and upma when none of these were made.

Later I moved north for my higher studies and parathas and pooris became staple breakfast. Initially I wondered how anyone could have such a heavy breakfast, but one cold winter made it easy.

When I started working, I realised that cereals were easy to make and seemed to have some sort of cool factor. Whatever the reason, they became my staple breakfast. Even in that I realised that there was a lot to choose. There were corn flakes, wheat, and rice flakes, choco flakes, and then muesli with various fruits and dry fruits got added to the mix.

But I got bored of them quite easily and didn’t care for the cool factor a few years later. I started travelling quite a lot on work and depending on where it took me, my breakfast changed. Croissants and pancakes started making their frequent appearance. I realised there were again as many types of croissants and pancakes as there were days of the week.

When I went east, I realised that people had noodles and dumplings for breakfast, sometimes rice too. Again the types varied based on what you mixed in them. I adopted that whenever I was there.

Eventually over the years, these travelling breakfasts didn’t suit me anymore and what was cool many years back became something to guard against while travelling. I started carrying packs from home even though it wasn’t cool.

Over the years, the types of breakfast have changed, but the fact that I am the breakfast type hasn’t changed. I still wonder what’s for breakfast every morning. But now I am more agnostic about breakfast – a believer but not ritualistic.

While it is important, I don’t really bother much about what it is. As long as it is there. And then I am ready for whatever the day has in store. Like this note that I wrote after breakfast.

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