What did you have for breakfast today? Cereal? Bacon and eggs? Toast? This has not what breakfast looked like in days of yore.

Back around 1900, a typical middle-class breakfast was a leaden meal that should have put people in a coma. Pig trotters in aspic, rice-and-meat croquettes, roast chicken in gelatin. Platters of seasonal veggies.

During WWI, under the guidance of Fannie Farmer (I still have my Fannie Farmer cookbook!) people ate fried hominy with maple syrup, often with fried vegetables and sliced peaches.

And how about this from 1922? Grapefruit, codfish cakes and bacon muffins. During the depression in the 30s, folks ate hot cereal and creamed codfish on toast.

It wasn't until the 50s that breakfast evolved into something we might actually eat today.

And interestingly, it was during the 50s that our game of bridge began to evolve into something we would recognize today, under the guidance of Charles Goren and others. Do you think our bids today would pass muster? Let's see if we can find the perfect contracts.