Breakfast of champions?

DeskPotato
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:02:45 +0000

Just FYI for the original poster, the reference is to an advertising campaign for a specific breakfast cereal. There is a cereal called Wheaties that long ago adopted the slogan “breakfast of champions” and has always put pictures of notable athletes on their boxes. It’s considered an honor in American sports to be on a Wheaties box.

But I think the question is either concrete (what do you eat for breakfast?) or metaphorical (what does it take to get you going on your big day of accomplishments?) depending on how you want to interpret it.

I’m struck, recently, by the number of kids who are flummoxed by the wording of the application questions–on another thread, a kid wasn’t familiar with the phrase “what makes you tick?” If colleges are really interested in multi-culturalism and globalism, you’d think they’d use fewer of these American colloquialisms in the essay prompts!