Why you eat bacon for breakfast (it was a PR stunt)

Bacon. A staple of the hearty American breakfast. It’s the breakfast of champions since the dawn of time, right? Actually, no. Eating a big hearty breakfast (with bacon of course) is a result of a marketing campaign by Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew. Before the 1920s, nobody was eating bacon. It was scrap food for peasants. The Beech-Nut Bacon company wanted to change that, because they…