In my circles, I'd estimate only a narrow minority have a breakfast beyond caffeine. I certainly don't eat before noon.
PS: more evidence, after I searched to investigate:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7593760/Two-thirds-of...
Men skip their morning meal the most, with 74 per cent admitting lunch is their first meal of the day.
It appears ale and wine has been replaced by coffee. That's usually all I consistently have before lunch.
"My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work. I thought it a detestable custom; but it was necessary, he suppos'd, to drink strong beer, that he might be strong to labor. I endeavored to convince him that the bodily strength afforded by beer could only be in proportion to the grain or flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer. He drank on, however, and had four or five shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor; an expense I was free from. And thus these poor devils keep themselves always under."
[1] http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/biographies/benjamin-franklin/chap...
I switched to SLS-free (Squigle) about a year ago and couldn't be happier.
My wife suffered with ulcers all her life until a comment on the NHS website suggested cutting out SLS. She followed the advice and very quickly stopped getting ulcers. I mentioned it in passing to our dentist and he said he won't use a products with SLS in for himself or his family ...