Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Personally, a cup of tea does me just fine!
However, when we talk about breakfast – or lunch or dinner – we don’t use an article. We don’t say we had ‘a’ breakfast, just – I had breakfast.
That is not the main focus here however. It is the repeated use of the term ‘mixed eggs’. If you say mixed eggs, I would think of a variety of different eggs – maybe a chicken egg, an ostrich egg and perhaps a goose egg all together. Interesting!
But that’s not what is meant. Mixed eggs in English is ‘scrambled eggs’.
So next time you tell me – or one of your other teachers – that you’ve had this for breakfast, say:
For breakfast, I had bacon and scrambled eggs.
