Breakfast Buffet

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I'm an aging boomer, and I've never witnessed or experienced a family breakfast as seen on camera.

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Well......start video taping your family meals. Then it'll be on camera.

queermunist she/her

Breakfast isn't a real meal, it was made up by companies selling breakfast foods. Death to breakfast.

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

Seems like someone grabbing a couple breakfast bars and a canned beverage might plausibly finish the task quickly enough that a viewer may not notice, particularly if it’s not the foreground of the scene.

Or maybe it’s for the same reason anyone coming back from the grocery store will have a paper bag with celery stalks and a baguette poking out the top? No reason other than that it’s the conventional way of demonstrating the trope.

atro_city

The amount of food wasted on sets is disgusting.

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That one gets me too. Everybody in movies just hang up on each other all day.

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to make it blindingly obvious to the viewer that Breakfast Is Happening?

True, its often used to signal that we have jumped to the next day in the same way they might use a rooster call in a rural setting.

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Big Breakfast. We need to take down Big Lunch and Big Dinner too. No more meals!

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Could just as easily do like I do for my family:

"You wanted bagel with cream cheese, right?"

"I only have time for half."

"Then take the other half with you, it's hand-held food. The whole point is you can take it to go."

"They don't allow food on the bus."

"Whatever, I'll eat the other half. Have a good day. BOY! DID YOU FINISH YOUR WAFFLE WITH PEANUT BUTTER? I NEED YOU TO SIT ON THE POTTY SO FINISH YOUR BREAKFAST! Oh, hey, did you want toast or english muffin or something, Hon?"

"Nnnnnnhghh.... just coffee..."

"It's already out to cool down, there on the stove. I WILL THROW OUT THAT WAFFLE IF YOU DON'T FINISH IT WE HAVE TO GOOOO!"

I feel like that would get the "breakfast is happening" vibe out there.

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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.