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PS Ivan, is that fried or uncooked black pud

Night Prof.

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G'night Prof

>>Drinkers of "Americanos" do not realise that this is actually meant as an insult.<<

These people never met my grandmother. She made coffee you could stand a spoon in.

She used a percolator on the stovetop. It was even nastier than expresso, and was blamed for disease outbreaks in Memphis.

I agree about the milkshakes.

I must admit, from my days of being served you can stand a spoon in at café, I have been put off unless a latté. Hides many sins. But I find American breakfasts inedible and stodgy. Once had waffles, bacon and maple syrup! But I admire your courage.

For me there is only one thing for breakfast... , followed by another around 10am.

That sets me up for the day. The routine is then, roughly another at 11.30, another around 14.00, which should be followed by BrUnchEr (a single meal that I consider as Breakfast, Lunch and Supper, rolled into one) at 15.00, then at 17.00, finishing with the last at 18.00 before finishing work. The day is rounded off usually with , occasionally an additional then the last (decaf) before .

Btw, the is best drunk by the pint! I may occasionally have a sandwich around midnight if peckish. On my day off BrUnchEr is often around 19.00.

A typical day.

Well, it's worked for me for the last 6 years!

MMF

And RF, you forgot the fried and bubble and squeek!

MMF

This is going back 20 years but I remember staying in English hotels as a child and being offered a 'continental' breakfast that was essentially a bread roll and a glass of fruit juice!

I highly recommend wrapping one's favourite fry-up items in a Staffordshire oat cake and munching away English fajitas?

american "coffee" and "pancakes" are two of the biggest disappointments i have ever had - breakfast wise. other than that the american breakfasts i have had were all okay

french breakfast is more to my liking though: black coffee, croissants and gauloises

growing up in germany taught me to eat bauernfrühstück* (peasants breakfast) of course - but i don't recall eating it for breakfast. ever! you, bel?

*a fry up of cooked and sliced potatoes "gathered" with egg



ps: these days i have a cup of or two before eating toast with a slice of cooked ham - no butter no nothing else

In motel language, "American breakfast" would imply that eggs and maybe toast or hot biscuits are involved. The ketchup would usually be reserved for those eating hash browns (Potatoes shredded and fried up into a pancake like shape.) On further thought, any breakfast that's served hot and not in a bowl might qualify.
I don't know how any particular way of doing coffee could be described as American. I can't drink it anymore, but find all sorts to be had. I know plenty of Americans that want a little coffee with their mug of sugar.
Anyway, my at home breakfast in America is normally juice, 2 pieces whole wheat toast (one buttered with molasses on it for last) and a Jumbo egg, whipped lightly with just a few drops of buttermilk and done somewhere between scrambled and omelet with some mushrooms, peppers and whatever else is in the salad bin of the fridge cut in.

However, when I'm on the road, the motels always offer free "continental" breakfast (meaning European style, I'm given to understand.)
Anyway, that means a minimum of some sort of bagel or sweet pastry and coffee and juice.

Since I can't eat sweets on an empty stomach, and feel sick till lunch if I don't get some fat and protein in that first meal, I have to carry my own. Since I can't always count on refrigeration and sometimes need my food to last several days, I have for motel breakfast...
peanut butter (low sodium/no sugar added) on whole wheat. I'm sure I would starve without it.

Bagels for continental breakfast?

I've never had bagels for breakfast on the continent, no matter which country I was in. I thought that was something 'very' American.

In Germany, I've never been offered any sort of cake for breakfast. I couldn't eat that, either. No sweets, not when I'm hungry, so I sympathise, hstwrd.

No Bauernfrühstück for breakfast, Pierce. It's a full meal for either lunch or dinner, despite its name.

Cake is usually on offer in a German breakfast buffet. When we still lived with my mother-in-law (and presumably up until then she did it too) a cake was always baked for Sunday breakfast - usually quite a rich one, especially if it was a special day, like Easter Sunday.

The rest of the week it was rolls or bread for breakfast - something I always found too dry and I weaned my husband on to cereals for breakfast when we moved out. We always have cereals now, although if we're away from home, a long-drawn out hotel brunch is nice if you have time to drink loads of tea and juice with it - then I will eat a roll and cheese or jam, some scrambled or boiled egg, and possibly some ham, and a bowl of fruit with yoghurt.

Sweet bread (Rosinenstuten) on Sundays: yes, I know that. However, I seem to have only ever had breakfast in all the wrong hotels, I've never seen cake offered for breakfast.

Sounds like "coffee cake". So called because the black coffee you drink with it cuts the sweet. That is about the only cake anyone here would have with breakfast, although banana bread shows up from time to time. However, it's more likely that we eat both kinds for snacks or desert rather than breakfast. (We had banana bread at the funeral visitation last week, along side the sandwiches.)

it is now, bel, but back in the olden days i believe it was a hearty breakfast which was needed for the hard w*rk on farms

back when i was at sea we would start the day with a few mugs of very black and VERY strong and maybe a slice of wheat bread with , then w*rk for an hour or two before having a real meal which included slices of bread, butter, cheese, jam, eggs, salami, slices of cooked ham and the like and more

they say breakfast is the most important meal - it sure was back then!

having a danish for breakfast as a kind of breakfast-dessert is not uncommon in denmark

Imagine the poor woman who had to prepare Bauernfrühstück at dawn for all the farm workers.
But I agree, it was certainly needed to keep them going until lunch time.

my grandmother used to cook for all seven employers in my grandparents hairdessing saloon every day

i remember how exhausted she was after serving pancakes

mind you, i ate a lot of those also

It must be a tradition in this part of the world then, to have cake for breakfast. Even my frugal mother-in-law would pull out all the stops for a rich, creamy Torte on Sunday mornings. At this time of year it's plum cake, of course. (traditionally eaten with potato soup, but that's a lunch menu)

Rosinenschnitten would be a weekday breakfast cake.

Afraid I must defend American coffee. I strongly suspect what you had was just poorly made and/or the grounds they started with were stale. The coffee I make is never bitter. But it is like anything else. It's all down to what we are accustomed to having.

true. i never had grits - and don't think i ever will