I realize that Kellogg's was a sponsor for the show and that is why you see the Clampetts eating corn flakes for breakfast most of the time. I can't recall ever seeing any breakfast scenes where Granny is fixing eggs, bacon/sausage, grits and homemade biscuits. I bet Granny's biscuits were very good. I know Elly's were not. Does anyone else remember them eating anything else for breakfast but cereal?

now that you mention it, I don't.

I remember seeing a scene in an episode once where Granny, Jed and Elly were in the kitchen and Mr. Drysdale comes in. Jed asks him "How about some...?", opens the cabinet but it's empty. He turns to Elly and says "Elly Mae, there was 3 boxes of corn flakes up here. What happened to them?" (or 5 or some high number). Elly says "Oh, well Jethro just had breakfast.":lol: :lol: :lol:

Part of the humor was Granny making "mountain food" and announcing city folk to dinner, and they were going to have beaver balls in eyeball gravy.....not exactly that, but it was unappetizing to a great point.

The only normal thing they ate was Corn Flakes and Jethro went through the boxes, so that was product placement.

There was one time that Jethro saw a big pot of what he thought were grits, and he devoured the contents. It turned out to be cement, IIRC...! So of course he and the Clampetts were certainly known to have been consumers of grits -- even if we didn't often see them.

Also regarding breakfast foods, Elly once cooked up some enormous, heavy doughnuts -- and Jed was going to try one with his coffee. They were hard as rocks.

There are one or two mentions of biscuits and red-eye gravy, which is a rural dish eaten almost exclusively at breakfast.

I remember the Clampetts used to eat possum innards and collard greens . There was one episode where Miss Jane mentioned some of the expensive delicacies rich people eat, and Granny said "I guess if you're hungry enough, you'll eat anything !" .