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[Coop and Dino singing]

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What do you typically like to eat for breakfast? [Man sitting down with sushi and caviar for breakfast]

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Hm.

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Sushi and caviar.

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Consider yourself in the minority.

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In the United States, most children eat foods like cereal, toast, eggs, bacon, or yogurt

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for breakfast. [A selection of different breakfast meals]

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However, there are people from other countries in the world who eat very differently than

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we do.

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Some of them even chew with their mouths closed. [Man chewing food]

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In this lesson, we learned about a few of those countries.

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In Iceland, children eat oatmeal that is cooked in water or milk with brown sugar, maple syrup,

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butter, or fruit. [A bowl of oatmeal with berries with Iceland highlighted on a map]

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Children also take cod-liver oil to make sure they get enough Vitamin D, because of the [Boy takes sip of cod liver oil]

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lack of sunlight there.

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And also because their parents love seeing the looks on their kids’ faces while

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drinking cod-liver oil. [Parents laughing at son drinking cod-liver oil]

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In Amsterdam, children have a glass of milk with bread, unsalted butter, and sweet sprinkles…

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chocolate, vanilla, or fruit.

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Parents in Amsterdam are much nicer than those in Iceland, apparently. [Parents with daughter having breakfast]

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They call it “hagelslag” or “hailstorm”.

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Who cares what they call it?

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We’d stuff it in our face.

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In Brazil, children eat ham and cheese with bread and butter. [A slice of bread with ham and cheese]

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They also drink coffee.

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Especially on mornings when they’re late to the office.

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In Malawi, children eat a type of cornbread called chikondamoyo, which is cooked over a fire. [A plate of chikondamoyo cooked over a fire]

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Sometimes, they also eat boiled potatoes and black tea with a heaping spoonful of sugar.

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Or, if they’re making breakfast in the dark, a heaping spoonful of table salt. [Person grabs table salt in the dark]

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In Tokyo, children sometimes eat an American-style breakfast…

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…but mostly, they eat rice with side dishes such as green peppers cooked with dried fish,

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raw egg mixed with soy sauce, carrots sautéed in sesame-seed oil, and sliced pears.

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Or, if they’re all out of that stuff…Lucky Charms. [Boy eating a bowl of lucky charms]

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So yeah, just because we eat one type of breakfast here in the U.S. doesn’t mean it’s “correct”

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or “normal.”

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In fact, considering how many of our breakfast cereals feature miniature chocolate chip cookies, [A bowl of miniature chocolate chip cookies]

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you could probably argue the opposite…

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