It's currently being heavily disputed as a hot debate broke out online when a wife user said her husband had wrongfully "chided" her for eating a Kellogg's Rice Krispies Squares bar for breakfast.
The Rice Krispie Squares are made of Rice Kispie pieces, marshmallow, and a lot of sugar, but does this mean they count at breakfast food or not?
The Reddit user known as PickleHarry posted an image of a Rice Krispie Squares bar and wrote: "My husband (not a UK native) just chided me for having a ‘treat’ for breakfast. Surely this falls under the umbrella of cereal bars?"
The debate that followed had some hilarious responses, with a number of theories attempting to answer the eternal question: what is breakfast?
It kicks off with that-there stating the bar is an "incredibly sugary snack" – implying that it shouldn't come under the "umbrella of cereal bars".
Findesiluer agrees, but GosephJoebbels chimes in with the nutritional facts: a Rice Krispies Squares bar has 115 calories and nine grams of sugar, which they claim to be a small amount.
While the following commenters argue it is in fact a lot of sugar, other Reddit users were commenting below with different schools of thought.
Mechanical-slug and 9DAN2 argued over whether the snack counts as a cereal bar or a 'treat' based on the amount of cereal – a certified breakfast food – the Squares contain.
The pair end up deep into a debate similar to that surrounding Jaffa Cakes, due to the use of 'cake' in the naming of some foods made with cereal – which in 9DAN2's opinion disqualifies it from being a breakfast food.
BangaiBanagi then denounces all other points as they state: "Who gives a s**t about the semantics of what it is, the important thing is when you eat it. I had a full pack of Club biscuits for breakfast the other day, and it was breakfast not a treat since it was the first thing I ate that day."
And the argument that 'if it's the first thing you eat that day, it's breakfast' continued from here, but not before the cake-or-cereal-bar debate could continue.
Teh_yak even admits to being so confused about something being called a cake that he "once did try some soap because I'm sure it had real bits of strawberry in," admitting: "It was good for the first second or so."
The conclusion they came to was that if a bar contains 51 per cent cereal, it can be classed as a cereal bar and is therefore deemed to be a suitable food to be consumed at breakfast time.
So then the question arose again: does the Kellogg's Rice Krispies Squares bar count?
The answer appears to be 'no', according to NibblyPig, who states "it's more of a sugar-bar".
Then, the PickleHarry, the original poster, comes back to confirm what she ate as her full breakfast.
While -brownsherlock- seemed to think the addition of fruit to PickleHarry's breakfast put her "on a diet", the others chided her once more for consuming even more sugar and adding acid to the mix.
Next the debate moved onto what counts as "traditional breakfast material", arguing that regardless of sugar content, certain foods are acceptable and others aren't.
Another American breakfast food Pop Tarts are compared to our habits in the UK and bobmanuk seems to think it's okay to have a "more sugar to get started" in the morning.
But as a conclusive argument, DannyOUFC states: "It says Kellogg’s in the corner. It’s breakfast to me!"
This Reddit user trusts the British cereal brand name and therefore recognises the bar as a breakfast food.
This isn't the first time food debate has taken over Reddit – back in August another married couple landed themselves in the middle of a custard discussion.
One drenched their crumble in custard and the other used just a drop, but it seemed to reignite the never-ending conversations about the correct way to eat food.
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