Breakfast Bounty
Since 1919, the time price of breakfast has fallen by 93 percent. For the time required to buy one breakfast in 1919, you get 9.54 breakfasts today, an 854 percent increase in breakfast abundance.
We compared the prices of 12 breakfast items in 1919 to prices in 2019. The items included bacon, bread, butter, coffee, corn flakes, cream of wheat, eggs, ham, milk, oranges, rolled oats, and sugar. The 1919 prices were provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the 2019 prices were collected by shopping at Walmart.
The money prices were then …