Why would you have to wash your face before eating? Or brush your teeth? You can do it after.
I suppose you don't HAVE to. But I find it unhygienic to eat before brushing my teeth as soon as I wake up. Might just be my personal issue. 🤷♂️
that's like wiping before you shit
Wait... That's not normal? I wipe my whole body down before hand.
I was told by a dentist to brush my teeth before eating. So at least one dentist would disagree with that I guess?
That's the 1 in 5 dentists who don't recommend a fluoride toothpaste.
Dentist: "Use toothpicks, shove em under your gums! Use the blood as your toothpaste! You can even do it to other stuff, too, like digging out a bladder stone!"
Me, in the chair in the office: 😐😶😯🫨
I’ve read that it helps protect your teeth from all the acidic food you’re gonna eat for breakfast, not necessarily for “hygiene” purposes.
What, you don’t do it both before and after?
It’s just like showers, you take one as you get out of bed, and another one right before going to bed.
Some people are just dirty, sheeesh…
Edit: -> /s
I brush after eating, never before.
My face isn't dirty after sleeping.
The appeal is that someone else is taking care of you, to the degree of getting up hours earlier to cook for you.
My wife has an autoimmune syndrome that makes stairs painful in the morning. I wake up, make coffee, bring her coffee and a snack, and about an hour later when I know she's awake I bring her breakfast in bed. We eat together and talk about what we'll do for our respective days, and if there's anything we need to coordinate for the day that's when we talk about it. By the time she's done with that she's mobile enough to do some stretches and loosen up enough to walk.
As someone else said, coffee for morning breath, eat breakfast, then brush teeth. It's about being served breakfast as soon as your ready to sit up in bed
I've got the same question.
You could sit confortably to eat on a bed. But you can't do it in the bed. And whatever is your posture to eat, it is one you'll take to chill in a bed. So what the point? Why put crumbs, sticky stuff and beverage to a bed that will to be confortable ?
Wtf... Who brushes their teeth BEFORE they eat?! That's like wiping your ass before you shit
I don't like it because crumbs and spills in bed, and because it's not a great position for intake and digestion.
This. Breakfast in bed is totally overrated.
Top tier breakfast as a kid was taking the blanket to the couch after waking up and sitting in front of the TV and mom brining breakfast there. Its the same now....best breakfast is sitting upright in the lounge, although control of crumbs remains a problem.
It's about someone putting all the effort in so it's ready for you.
I wouldn't give a shit either and don't see the appeal, but it's human variation. Like, you probably don't really see the appeal of going out to eat with friends, and would rather do some other activity with them that you do enjoy.
But for the majority of people, food is currency, and eating in front of people shows that you're not going to just take all the food for yourself and you're willing to provide for someone who (in the moment) has none.
You're not going to really get a logical answer, it's just leftover instincts from billions of years of evolution. Like how your dog isn't freaking out in excitement over a treat, they're happy because you are choosing to give them "your" food. Even if it's the smallest piece they inhale without tasting. It was yours and you gave it to them. It re-enforces the bond.
The intent is what matters. You value who you share your food with, so who you share food with feels valued by you.
I totally get all of that. Wouldn't all of that hold true if you were having breakfast on a table/kitchen island too though? I'm specifically confused about what makes having it in bed special.
From the perspective of a traditional woman's role, it's a luxury offered by a caring husband or child. Women traditionally got out of bed and started breakfast for the rest of the family. Breakfast in bed is a reversal of that role.
"It's OK mom/honey. You don't have to get up today. Stay in bed and enjoy yourself."
I think it's more of trope than a thing people do now days.
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