Breakfast Buffet

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I wish I could downvote twice.

However, I regularly make my family breakfast-for-dinner, so it's more my love for all breakfast foods than when it's eaten.

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I vocally say "Byeeeeee...!" whenever the call is hung up.

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Only kveldsmat! (Evening food in Norwegian)

queermunist she/her

It's Big Breakfast trying to silence me!

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I wondered if there was a TV Tropes page for this, and was surprised to not find one. Maybe I just missed it.

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Breakfast meals are perfect any time of the day. The only one I have trouble with is pancakes. It eliminates dessert as all that syrup is sweet enough. I understand that's a personal problem for me. I gotta put a cap on that sugar intake.

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I'm on the older end of millenial. Breakfast was a bowl of corn flakes, and arguing over who gets which part of the newspaper, then everyone munches in silence in different rooms while reading.
As the youngest brother I usually didn't get any part of the newspaper, so I read the back of the corn flakes package for the hundredth time.

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This is the most fitting:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich

With these being adjacent:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LateForSchool
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ToastOfTardiness

One explanation is that food spoils very quickly in studio lighting (especially after multiple takes), so the food shown are fake inedible props.
The trope's purpose is then to show an intact family preparing a hearty breakfast, then giving an excuse for why the actors aren't actually eating it.

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Yeah, they're elements of that scene, but not the whole thing, which seems strange because it's such a common one. I know I've seen it many, many times over the years.

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Eating is Brutal

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Canadians could read it en Français, aussi.

Midnight Wolf

It will actually be on film, or saved digitally. The camera is merely the tool to capture it.

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they do not use real food unless taking a bite of something is absolutely neccesary

and any food not eaten is most likely given to pigs as theyll eat literally anything and be fine

Flying Squid

I remember when I was a kid in the 80s, they would advertise cereal as being "part of this complete breakfast," which was supposed to be cereal with milk, toast, a glass of juice and a glass of milk. And even as a kid who would eat a meal of practically any size put in front of him, I was like, "who is having all of that at breakfast?!"

VindictiveJudge

Is there any possibility this is done just to make it blindingly obvious to the viewer that Breakfast Is Happening?

I think it's either that, or directors for major movies tending to be fabulously wealthy and not knowing what normal people have for breakfast.

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I've been listening to a lot of TV and movie podcasts. Fake food is often more expensive than real food. Unless there is a good reason, food is more often than not real.

But it's rarely eaten.

Actors have to do several takes and if they eat in the shot, they have to eat in every shot. A lot of young actors who don't know often learn this very early in their career to never eat the food because they will forever be sick of it.

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I remember seeing somewhere that they would actually eat on All In The Family to make it more realistic, and if you watch scenes of them doing it, it definitely worked.

AwesomeLowlander

As far as the food industry goes, Hollywood studio wastage is far, far, down on the list. The hotels and restaurants in Hollywood probably produce more food wastage than the studios. And the groceries more than both of those combined.

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Because she was really hungry.

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One of my favourite takes on this trope: