We didn’t have them often when I was a kid, especially since the grapefruit you got in supermarkets was sour. Every once in awhile someone would send a case up from Florida and we’d love those.
Nowadays, I just don’t think about it.
Mom used to serve it to us kids too. It’s like fruit that comes in its own bowl, and it was fun cutting up the insides into bit sized chunks and sprinkling sugar all over it. After awhile we stopped getting it very often, no idea why. Probably too expensive or something.
As an adult it rarely ever made it onto my menu. Too much work? Back when I used to drink I liked vodka and grapefruit juice cocktails. It’s called a Greyhound or something?
It’s not contraindicated for any of the meds I’m on but I never remember to pick some up.
I guess it was about 8 years ago I could buy for a dollar, I like the pink grapefruit and when I asked if the one in the store were pink I was told yes. It wasn’t .
I can’t eat a grapefruit too often now , I have heartburns . I will some if it on sale.
It cost one dollar for one grapefruit , the last time I checked the price. I got spoiled paying one dollar for 4 grapefruits.
Indian River white grapefrult are wonderful whites. I agree that white grapefrult have become harder to find.
We always eat them with salt on them. Never sugar, bleah!!
I’m not on any type of prescription medication except PRN stuff (i.e., stuff you only take when you specifically need it) so no worries about drug interactions.
When I was a kid, my mother would actually cut around each section for us. Sugar on top, of course (this was the 1960s). I had this routine I would use where I’d make one trip around the half-sphere to get the easy pieces out (the pre-cut part). Then, I’d go around one more time, scraping the insides of each section to get the parts that were outside the cut. For a finale, I’d take the half-fruit and squeeze the last bit of juice onto my spoon.
Who said I was OCD? 
My stomach often aches with hunger in the mornings. Eating something acidic does not help. I can’t even drink soda without getting a horrible cramp. I have to get something in my stomach first.
I remember the little serrated grapefruit knife we used to cut the segments out.
I ate them when I was much younger. Always with salt.
I’d be too concerned about heartburn now. Even an orange can give me trouble on an empty stomach.
Many of them might not even know about eating breakfast at a table at home.
Let’s face it, breakfast is still eaten by a majority at least some of the time but it is the vast majority of the time for most a meal focused on the “fast” part of the word, and not the meaning that was etymological origin. A bowl of cereal, a yogurt, a fruit that can be grabbed and eaten on way easily, like an apple or a banana, or an Egg McMuffin. What fraction of breakfasts are eaten sitting down as prepared meals at home nowadays? Grapefruit is just not an easy food to eat!
The industry’s problems, from canker to the impacts of hurricanes to citrus greening - all of which have dramatically decreased supply and thus raised prices significantly even as demand has slowed - has not helped.
I’ve always preferred oranges but none of it for breakfast. it’s all too acidic. I’d have a stomach ache. I can’t tolerate much more than toast until at least lunch time. Oranges or grapefruit (with sugar! Shut up!) are a nice snack though.
As a dieting teenager in the 80s, I ate a lot of grapefruit. My lifetime’s supply, I’m sure.
It was also much less expensive ‘back then’. I’d eat it now, but the prices now just make me pass it by.
I also remember the little serrated grapefruit eating utensils, sprinkling white sugar on top when cut open (but not when dieting), and if you were really fancy, a half maraschino cherry in the centre!
I eat grapefruit for breakfast all the time, but apparently I’m hopelessly old-fashioned, because I also eat cereal.
That’s a practice I associate with the elderly, because my grandmother was the only person I knew who ate grapefruit for breakfast.
same. my grandparents ate it all the time, with the aforementioned serrated spoons. I think my dad did too, until medications forced him to stop.
me, I can’t stand the things. like the comedian Gary Gulman said, grapefruit is so vile it had to steal the name of an actually edible fruit 
I’ll eat a sweet ruby red occasionally. Didn’t think it was ever a big deal.
Just as an aside: how long has it been known that grapefruit interacts with many medicines? No more than 20 years or so, right? Just never really remember hearing about such things before 2000 or so. Might have just been off my radar, though.
LOVE grapefruit, but also have the meds problem.
Got it for breakfast a couple times a week as a kid in the '60s, but Mom always did the grapefruit-knifing thing. Never got into that habit as an adult.
Take a refrigerated tumbler, swirl the rim in coarse salt, add ice and gin and fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice. Some call it a Salty Dog; some call it a Greyhound; I call it faaaaaaaaabuous.
White grapefruit is everywhere around here - just not in the stores. Almost everyone in my neighborhood has a citrus tree or two, with limes, oranges and white grapefruit being the most popular. It’s citrus overload this time of year!
I think my mother does. I don’t really do citrus anymore.
I notice a lot of comments about sugar but not about toasting the sugar. I always thought it was specifically grapefruit brulee that was the prototypical classic breakfast dish.
I believe it is the salt that differentiates a salty dog from a simple greyhound.