Hey Mole, don't know where you grew up but you seem to be telling people things were better back then. Well, I was a poor village boy, earlier than you and I remember it was shit.
Brains on toast isn't very nice and not very good for you, but natural and cheap. Walking up the garden in the snow in the middle of the night to an outside loo isn't fun, especially if the brains have given you diarrhea.