Breakfast sausage comes in 3-inch links or thin patties -- half the size of Italian sausage, which can come in 6-inch brat-like links, ground, or wrapped into long, thick coils, but never as patties.

Breakfast cereal could use a lucky charm. U.S. sales of the colorfully packaged morning staple have been in a decades-long decline, a trend back in the spotlight with news that Italian ...