The Breakfast Question or How Would You Have Felt If You Hadn't Eaten Breakfast? is a bait question and a counterfactual conditional that references a 4chan story of a grad student who allegedly performed IQ research on convicts at San Quentin State Prison. During the research, individuals with low IQ struggled to simulate the hypothetical situation in their minds, instead answering that they did have breakfast. Online, the question has been used in internet arguments as a conspicuous way to indicate that one's opponent is unintelligent, while the posts have often been referenced in memes.
>How would you have felt yesterday evening if you hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch?
>What do you mean? I did eat breakfast and lunch.
>Yes, but if you had not, how would you have felt?
>Why are you saying that I didn't eat breakfast? I just told you that I did.
>Imagine that you hadn't eaten it, though. How would you have felt?
>I don't understand the question.
> You seem to be failing the breakfast question, mate
>What do you mean? I did eat breakfast and lunch.
>Yes, but if you had not, how would you have felt?
>Why are you saying that I didn't eat breakfast? I just told you that I did.
>Imagine that you hadn't eaten it, though. How would you have felt?
>I don't understand the question.
> You seem to be failing the breakfast question, mate
by bertyhell May 19, 2025
Get the The breakfast questionmug. Hym "Ok. Fine. I'll ask a question. Will you come over here and take a look at this for me, please? I have something that needs 3rd party verification and I can't trust the people around me and this thing I'm doing only works if you volunteer the information freely. There. There's 3 of them."
by Hym Iam March 29, 2024
Get the Ask a questionmug. by JackPlayz777 August 30, 2025
Get the zuhair come and answer my damn questionmug. by Adujasty343 May 25, 2025
Get the <.7.9.7.6.>Your Questionality youR<.7.9.7.6.>mug. "Bro, did you get that girl last night"
"No, because she seemed offended when I asked her about her clit"
"Yeah, you always did have that question complex"
"No, because she seemed offended when I asked her about her clit"
"Yeah, you always did have that question complex"
by Marshall Fletcher July 12, 2019
Get the Question Complexmug. "I know you mean well, without coconut questions we can understand each other better. I don't invent meaning because I don't have the inability to deal with grief. "
by Communi February 18, 2021
Get the Coconut questionsmug. Person 1: Are you addicted to abscesses?
Person 2: Yes.
Person 1: Questions Under Extreme Esoterical Leniency (Queer).
Person 2: Yes.
Person 1: Questions Under Extreme Esoterical Leniency (Queer).
by TheGravelOfAConundrum January 20, 2025
Get the Questions Under Extreme Esoterical Leniency (Queer)mug.