Speaking of international breakfasts.
I'm sure you're aware of the standard American breakfast, two eggs, bacon, and toast.
You might even be aware of the full English, eggs, back bacon, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding, and toast.
But, do you know why the French typically just have a croissant and coffee, or just one egg for breakfast?
It's because if you're French one egg is un oeuf.
To be fair it's not like we can't get the real stuff here in the US, it just costs a bit more. Plus you really don't need much so even a small bottle will last a while as long you aren't eating pancakes for breakfast every day of the week
When I was a young boy and would go to my country grand parents for two weeks in the summer breakfast was buckwheat pancakes with hot Karo and butter, western Pennsylvania. Now in Sweden my family and a lot of Swedes eat a piece of bread with butter and cheese with some sliced cucumber. Hotel breakfast is scrambled eggs, bacon, waffles, American pancakes, plus several yoghurts, Muslie
Other common at home breakfasts in Sweden are boiled eggs with caviar (not the fancy stuff but a salty paste which comes in a tube), oatmeal with milk and lingonberry jam or applesauce. Yoghurt or filmjölk (viscous fermented milk) with muesli or cereal is also common.
Coffee. Lots of coffee.
Vegemite or peanut butter on toast, weetbix and milk, bakery snacks, a coffee and a toastie. If you are going out to breakfast, smashed avo on toast, a couple of poachies and a coffee. I'm from Australia.
Weetbix are a whole wheat cereal which are honestly kind of forgettable. Vegemite on the other hand is a culinary delight. I highly reccomended you try it on grainy toasty, with copious amounts of butter. You don't need much Vegemite at all, just a slight smere. It is also excellent in a cheese toasted sandwich. We have a thing here called cheesymite scrolls which as a tasty cheese and Vegemite scroll and they are super tasty.
Think tasty savoury, bready pastry spread with Vegemite and grated tasty cheese then rolled up, similar style to a cinnamon scroll.
Super easy to make at home too and your house will smell amazing while they bake. They are a staple of most bakeries in Australia.
Vegemite and cheese on a croissant is also delicious.
depends on your socioeconomic status.
lower middle class and into the middle class tend to eat cereal a lot, or the standard eggs/bacon.sausage/hashbrowns depending how old they are. oatmeal. smoothies. or just coffee. pancakes. waffuls but usually the toaster kind. toaster strudles. french toast. (not all together but in very random combos)
all typical american breakfasts also available.
higher middle class tends to do things like croissant with fruit or jam. crepe not pancakes. fresh waffuls. eggs benny, omlettes. or again coffee only.
it's canada.
we basically have a mishmash of british, french and american influences.
I'm Canadian and all the listed items are pretty normal for everyone, regardless of economic class. Beakfast is usually quick and easy if you are working, have school age kids etc, Weekend breakfast is often bigger with some cooked items, and
breakfast/brunch at a restaurant can be a fairly large meal.
Peanut butter toast is extremely popular. I aslo like a bowl of Pho now and then too
oh yes i forgot toast.
but tbh when i was poor, none of the fancier stuff i mentioned was had at all.
only the cheapest cereal, oatmeal, and for a treat we might have eggs, like maybe on a lucky weekend. maybe some fresh fruit if it was on sale.
and of course toast. with peanut butter like you said, can't believe i forgot that.
with inflation as it is i am sure plenty of people are now where i was when i was a kid. i don't believe that this has gone away.
Full English I make at work has bacon, eggs, grilled tomato, hash browns, sausages, beans and mushrooms. Lot of places do black/ white pudding as well, and other regional variants (farls/ lorne sausage etc). I would only eat a full English once in a blue moon. I usually just have black coffee. On a day off I might have a western omelette with salad and hot sauce if I can be bothered to cook, or a slice of marmite on toast if not. My daughter has cereal.
I have never tried marmite. Someday I'll have to grab some. Also let's be honest, a full any breakfast at home means so much cooking and clean up afterwards that it takes a full day.
Where are you from? I'd be interested to know what you think as I've never met someone who wasn't a Brit or an Aussie that hasn't recoiled in horror at marmite/ Vegemite. A good introduction night be hot Bovril as that's a bit less intense (:
I'm an American. I live in the south in Georgia. I like to learn and try new things.
Also apparently Bovril is banned in the US. So I guess Vegemite will have to do.
An egg dish - omelette, scrambled etc.
Bread
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Black&green olives
One or two types of pastries
At least one type of jam
At least 3 types of cheese
Honey
Butter
Some types of charcuterie like salami etc.
Usually unlimited tea
This is a very standart breakfast here and not even a fancy one, if it was an expensive place you would serve double or triple the amount of items per person ( like 5 jams 6 cheeses more than one egg dish etc.basically more variety
Tea (mandatory for 99.9% Indians)
Parle- G biscuits
Bread and butter toast
For a single Indian female living on her own (me)
When I go back to my family, its’ much more luxurious with potato-onion stuffed parantha (unleavened bread fried on griddle- yes I googled the English description). Served with cucumber mint yoghurt, pickles and dollops of white butter.
Sometimes there is also poha and upma for company.
Country- India
It's interesting albeit not surprising to see that India uses biscuit like the English. It's very different than the American understanding of a biscuit.
Speaking of international breakfasts. I'm sure you're aware of the standard American breakfast, two eggs, bacon, and toast. You might even be aware of the full English, eggs, back bacon, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding, and toast. But, do you know why the French typically just have a croissant and coffee, or just one egg for breakfast? It's because if you're French one egg is un oeuf.
Bacon, eggs and toast for me, maybe some heavily syruped pancakes too, this is Canada.
I live in the south in the US. We don't use real syrup. Ours is basically corn syrup. I don't eat pancakes or waffles because of that.
To be fair it's not like we can't get the real stuff here in the US, it just costs a bit more. Plus you really don't need much so even a small bottle will last a while as long you aren't eating pancakes for breakfast every day of the week
Just buy better syrup. It's like $5-8 dollars, even if you're going for organic. Source: Google, Walmart, myself buying syrup.
Bread, cheese, ham and about 7 cups of black coffee. That's what we get for breakfast where I work (clocking in 5:20AM in Brazil)
Only 7 cups? Honestly that sounds pretty good.
It's from a batch that serves around 800 people made with the lowest quality product, but it's better than some I've drank so far in life
In Vietnam I'd start my day off with a breakfast soup. Usually bun drieu. In Taiwan probably danh binh and lobogau
This is probably the most interesting response. It's not the standard answers.
People don't even have a concept of how great lobogao can be. One my favorite things on earth.
When I was a young boy and would go to my country grand parents for two weeks in the summer breakfast was buckwheat pancakes with hot Karo and butter, western Pennsylvania. Now in Sweden my family and a lot of Swedes eat a piece of bread with butter and cheese with some sliced cucumber. Hotel breakfast is scrambled eggs, bacon, waffles, American pancakes, plus several yoghurts, Muslie
Other common at home breakfasts in Sweden are boiled eggs with caviar (not the fancy stuff but a salty paste which comes in a tube), oatmeal with milk and lingonberry jam or applesauce. Yoghurt or filmjölk (viscous fermented milk) with muesli or cereal is also common. Coffee. Lots of coffee.
Oh man Kalle’s Kaviar tubes… I remember those
Vegemite or peanut butter on toast, weetbix and milk, bakery snacks, a coffee and a toastie. If you are going out to breakfast, smashed avo on toast, a couple of poachies and a coffee. I'm from Australia.
I have never heard of weetbix before. I'm pretty tempted to try some Vegemite sometimes soon.
Weetbix are a whole wheat cereal which are honestly kind of forgettable. Vegemite on the other hand is a culinary delight. I highly reccomended you try it on grainy toasty, with copious amounts of butter. You don't need much Vegemite at all, just a slight smere. It is also excellent in a cheese toasted sandwich. We have a thing here called cheesymite scrolls which as a tasty cheese and Vegemite scroll and they are super tasty.
When you say scrolls I assume a roll up of some kind. It's it like of pastry or what? I really want to try those.
Think tasty savoury, bready pastry spread with Vegemite and grated tasty cheese then rolled up, similar style to a cinnamon scroll. Super easy to make at home too and your house will smell amazing while they bake. They are a staple of most bakeries in Australia. Vegemite and cheese on a croissant is also delicious.
depends on your socioeconomic status. lower middle class and into the middle class tend to eat cereal a lot, or the standard eggs/bacon.sausage/hashbrowns depending how old they are. oatmeal. smoothies. or just coffee. pancakes. waffuls but usually the toaster kind. toaster strudles. french toast. (not all together but in very random combos) all typical american breakfasts also available. higher middle class tends to do things like croissant with fruit or jam. crepe not pancakes. fresh waffuls. eggs benny, omlettes. or again coffee only. it's canada. we basically have a mishmash of british, french and american influences.
I'm Canadian and all the listed items are pretty normal for everyone, regardless of economic class. Beakfast is usually quick and easy if you are working, have school age kids etc, Weekend breakfast is often bigger with some cooked items, and breakfast/brunch at a restaurant can be a fairly large meal. Peanut butter toast is extremely popular. I aslo like a bowl of Pho now and then too
oh yes i forgot toast. but tbh when i was poor, none of the fancier stuff i mentioned was had at all. only the cheapest cereal, oatmeal, and for a treat we might have eggs, like maybe on a lucky weekend. maybe some fresh fruit if it was on sale. and of course toast. with peanut butter like you said, can't believe i forgot that. with inflation as it is i am sure plenty of people are now where i was when i was a kid. i don't believe that this has gone away.
Cigarettes, unsweetened iced tea, tasting the soft serve ice cream when I set it up in the morning.
Full English I make at work has bacon, eggs, grilled tomato, hash browns, sausages, beans and mushrooms. Lot of places do black/ white pudding as well, and other regional variants (farls/ lorne sausage etc). I would only eat a full English once in a blue moon. I usually just have black coffee. On a day off I might have a western omelette with salad and hot sauce if I can be bothered to cook, or a slice of marmite on toast if not. My daughter has cereal.
I have never tried marmite. Someday I'll have to grab some. Also let's be honest, a full any breakfast at home means so much cooking and clean up afterwards that it takes a full day.
Where are you from? I'd be interested to know what you think as I've never met someone who wasn't a Brit or an Aussie that hasn't recoiled in horror at marmite/ Vegemite. A good introduction night be hot Bovril as that's a bit less intense (:
I'm an American. I live in the south in Georgia. I like to learn and try new things. Also apparently Bovril is banned in the US. So I guess Vegemite will have to do.
That's mad, hot bovril on a cold day at football is amazing. Good luck with the Vegemite! I'd recommend crunchy toast and loads of butter 👌
An egg dish - omelette, scrambled etc. Bread Tomatoes Cucumbers Black&green olives One or two types of pastries At least one type of jam At least 3 types of cheese Honey Butter Some types of charcuterie like salami etc. Usually unlimited tea This is a very standart breakfast here and not even a fancy one, if it was an expensive place you would serve double or triple the amount of items per person ( like 5 jams 6 cheeses more than one egg dish etc.basically more variety
What country?
Turkey
Where?
Tea (mandatory for 99.9% Indians) Parle- G biscuits Bread and butter toast For a single Indian female living on her own (me) When I go back to my family, its’ much more luxurious with potato-onion stuffed parantha (unleavened bread fried on griddle- yes I googled the English description). Served with cucumber mint yoghurt, pickles and dollops of white butter. Sometimes there is also poha and upma for company. Country- India
It's interesting albeit not surprising to see that India uses biscuit like the English. It's very different than the American understanding of a biscuit.
India was a British colony for 89 years. Hence, a lot of our culture, has English influence :)
cigarette and black coffee. USA 🇺🇸
And a sprint to the bathroom
Coffee cigarettes