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Being the inquisitive one amongst my peers, I often have random questions run through my head so

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Being the inquisitive one amongst my peers, I often have random questions run through my head so though it may seem weird to someone else, It did not seem totally out of place when I started to ask myself questions about where my breakfast of General Mills Corn chex with 1% milk and sugar, Columbian coffee, two hard boiled eggs, some pieces of bacon and a banana on this beautiful Sunday morning could have originated from.

The first thing I did was look at the ingredients on the cereal box. Corn chex made from whole grain corn, corn meal, <basically more corn>, corn starch <from the corn kernels>, sugar, brown sugar syrup, salt, baking soda and a chemical called BHT <CORN CHEX, 2013>

Taking into consideration the fact that my father grows …show more content…

The milk however had to have been refined since it is impossible for fresh milk straight from cows to be just 1% milk fat so it makes perfect sense to say it was refined at a refinery such as the one located in Middlebury Vermont before it ended up in the gallons at the grocery store.

Quite obviously my pot of Columbian coffee doesn’t require much research to be done since as the name suggests, it is from Columbia in South America. <Coffee production, 2013>.

The two eggs of course would come from a poultry farm known mainly for eggs and not for cultivating chickens for their meat such as the one located in Ohio, one of the five states that produce the most eggs for the U.S. <Poultry Farms, 2013> while the bacon which is derived from pigs would be the product of an expert butcher who specializes in slicing bacon from pig hides like the one located in Los Angeles, California with his farm somewhere in the California countryside. <McCall’s Meat &Fish, 2013>.

The banana on my menu this morning which is probably the most healthy thing on my plate, would also have foreign origins and the closest country to mass produce and export bananas to the United States would most likely be Dominican Republic. <Banana link, 2013>

In summary I would say my breakfast is more worldly than I am and even though I have visited Mexico and South Korea, my menu has origins from different states in the country as well as countries like India and the

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