To find out about the memes origin, I put “Breakfast is the most important” into Google Ngram. I couldn’t add meal because of the five word limit.
It seemed to have it’s first showing in the 1920′s and then was silenced in the great depression. When food wasn’t as plenty it might have died down. Interestingly, there’s a strong increase in the phrase after 1994 and a dip after 2014.
There’s also the claim that a 1944 marketing campaign created the belief. I created a skeptics question to find out.
“People say it because it sounds good” seems to me like a model that explains little about why the popularity of the meme changed over time.
To find out about the memes origin, I put “Breakfast is the most important” into Google Ngram. I couldn’t add meal because of the five word limit.
It seemed to have it’s first showing in the 1920′s and then was silenced in the great depression. When food wasn’t as plenty it might have died down. Interestingly, there’s a strong increase in the phrase after 1994 and a dip after 2014.
There’s also the claim that a 1944 marketing campaign created the belief. I created a skeptics question to find out.
“People say it because it sounds good” seems to me like a model that explains little about why the popularity of the meme changed over time.