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breakfast of champions (Noun) An ironic appellation for beer, junk food, or other foods implied to be unhealthy.
An ironic praise for food or drink that is generally considered unhealthy, especially when one consumes it for breakfast or early in the day. Taken from the advertising slogan for Wheaties brand cereal, known for featuring prominent athletes on its packaging.
Wheaties is a brand of breakfast cereal by General Mills. Wheaties.
Product type | Breakfast cereal |
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Tagline | “The breakfast of Champions “ |
Website | wheaties.com |
Title. The title, taken from the well-known slogan for Wheaties breakfast cereal, crops up in a key scene late in the novel when a waitress, apparently ironically, says ” Breakfast of Champions ” each time she serves a customer a martini.
James Caleb Jackson
In 1934, Wheaties debuted packaging featuring baseball great Lou Gehrig, its first in a long line of boxes celebrating rising superstar athletes—from Olympic medal winners to champions in tennis, baseball, basketball, football and more.
I recommend beginning with one of these four: Cat’s Cradle (1963) I consider this to be the first (chronologically) of his best novels . God Bless You, Mr Rosewater (1965) Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Breakfast of Champions (1973) The Sirens of Titan (1959) Player Piano (1952) Jailbird (1979) Mother Night (1961)
Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios . The Big G stands for Goodness.
Jack Armstrong
This Is What Caused The Epic Downfall Of Wheaties In the 1960s, the iconic American cereal dubbed “the breakfast of champions” represented nearly 7% of all cereal sold in the United States. Today the General Mills owned brand has dropped to a mere .