英國人三分鐘站着解決早飯

It's supposed to be the most important meal of the day.

But on average we spend just three minutes and 15 seconds on a weekday breakfast – and we're so pressed for time that we often eat it standing up.

In fact, only half of us eat breakfast at all, research shows. Many prefer to have a lie-in, while others blame the growing pressure to get to work early.

Only a third of us now eat breakfast in the kitchen. Some resort to eating it in the bedroom, or even the bathroom, with 22 percent getting dressed at the same time.

Around a fifth manage to eat only half their breakfast because they have so little time, while more than a third say they eat their first meal of the day on the bus or train.

In Birmingham, 59 percent said they were too busy on the internet or watching TV in the morning to eat breakfast.

In London 57 percent said the same, and 52 percent of people from Bristol and 51 percent of Mancunians agreed.

One in seven eat at their desk at least one morning a week – and one in five confess to grabbing something as they run out of the door and eating it while they walk down the street.

But three-quarters still said it was the most important meal of the day, and seven in ten always have a hot breakfast, according to the survey commissioned by Weetabix.

Sian Porter, a company spokesman, said: 'Encouragingly, the research indicated that possibly 1.2million of us find time to eat a hot breakfast every single morning and demonstrates that Brits do understand the importance of breakfast, even going as far as eating it on the bus, or in the bathroom, to try and fit it in.'這本應是一天中最重要的一餐。

英國人平均每個工作日僅花3分鐘15秒吃早餐，因爲時間太緊，以至於常常站着吃早飯。

調查顯示，事實上只有半數英國人吃早餐。許多人寧願睡懶覺，另一些人則將不吃早餐歸咎於趕早上班的壓力增大。

現在只有三分之一的英國人在廚房裏吃早餐。有些人在臥室裏、甚至在浴室裏吃早餐，22%的人一邊吃早餐一邊穿衣服。

約五分之一的人因爲沒時間早餐只能吃一半，超過三分之一的人說他們一天的第一頓飯是在公共汽車或列車上解決的。

在伯明翰，59%的人說他們早上忙着上網或看電視，沒時間吃早飯。

57%的倫敦人、52%的布裏斯托爾人和51%的曼徹斯特人也這麼說。

七分之一的英國人一週中至少有一天的早飯是在辦公桌前解決的。五分之一的英國人坦言自己匆匆抓了點食物就奔出門外，然後在街上一路走一路吃。

根據維他麥食品公司委託開展的這一調查，四分之三的英國人依然認爲，早餐是一天中最重要的一餐，十分之七的人總是吃熱騰騰的早飯。

該公司的發言人西恩•波特說：“令人感到鼓舞的是，該調查指出，每天早上英國大概有120萬人抽時間吃上一頓熱乎乎的早飯，這表明英國人確實瞭解早餐的重要性，即使要在公車上或浴室裏解決，還是會努力找時間來吃早飯。”