very good teeth to munch it.
When people were cutting turf, they always did a good deal of work before breakfast, which they took to the bog with them.
When tea came into fashion, people had it for breakfast with potatoes. At the beginning, tea was only used every Christmas, and then only and ounce was bought. Should it happen that any of it remained over it was kept till the following Christmas. The tea was always boiled - to get all the good out of it.
Some people used yellow meal porridge for breakfast, stirabout - they called it.