Dairy breakfasts have, during the past 30 years or so, become part of our social world in Wisconsin’s rural countryside. Each June — and even May and later in the summer — people of rural soils commune with neighbors over pancakes, sausages, cheese curds, milk and other goodness.
It’s never high cuisine and the ambiance most often is the inside of a pole shed or tent, which Wisconsin people understand are perfect for a dairy breakfast.
That ever-increasing love for those breakfasts has made it difficult for people to hear the news of dairy breakfasts canceled or postponed this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers of those events also have said those decisions have been heart-wrenching but difficult.
Eau Claire’s annual Breakfast in the Valley was among the state’s largest breakfasts to be canceled. Eau Claire Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday announced their decision, echoing other breakfasts’ organizers about the difficulty in taking such a necessary step.
Rest assured, though, that the Breakfast in the Valley and so many others will be back next year, if not earlier. And rest assured that we’ll continue to raise our milk glasses in daily toasts to the dairy industry.
It won’t be the same this summer without our dairy breakfasts but cheers to you, dairy farmers and processors.
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