Do French people eat croissants (and pastries) multiple times per week?
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Anonymous
Sounds like linking to meat and dairy consumption. |
Anonymous
| My French relatives do this thing where they dip their half baguette with butter and jelly spread on it into their bowl of coffee. Not sure if this is a local thing (they live in Moselle). Then they have bits of butter, jelly crumbs floating in their coffee or hot chocolate. Not sure if that's thing or my family members are just weird like that. |
Anonymous
You are definitely swiss french. My swiss german family eats what you do plus a plate of cheese, some speck, landjager and wurst! They also have berries, apples and grapes. It's a really big meal. |
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Anonymous
My host father did this when I studied abroad in Paris twenty years ago! He would do it with hot chocolate which he had with his breakfast (in addition to coffee). He was a born and raised Parisian. |
Anonymous
Yes I am  . Grew up almost on the roestigraben. Swiss German roots but culturally Swiss-French.
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Very interesting convo here.
What I'm getting out of all of this is that...I'm hungry. |
Anonymous
My French friend and her family do that too. They are from Lorraine, not too far from Moselle, maybe it’s a regional thing? They also drink their coffee from bowls, not cups/mugs. |
Anonymous
Where I lived in Germany, most people ate their main meal at lunchtime during the week and ate a simple dinner (Abendbrot). But there were still plenty of people who ate out in the evening and had a sandwich, soup or salad for lunch. Even now we try to eat our main meal at lunchtime. I’ve also lived in Belgium and don’t recall people eating bread and jam for dinner. |
Anonymous
| Another question, do Belgians really eat French fries every day? |
Anonymous
| I was an exchange student in Berlin, and breakfast was often muesli with full fat yogurt (delicious!). Coffee was typically espresso, maybe a cappuccino in the morning. Snacks at the university were often small French-bread type rolls with a generous slathering of salted butter and a slice of cheese. For dinner, as students, we often ate simply at home (salads, bread, cheese) or when we were out we ate a lot of ethnic foods - curries, Italian, Japanese. After clubbing we ate doner kebabs! or currywurst with French fries and little forks. |
Anonymous
And, yes, the pastries in the Viennese cafes were unparalleled. |
Anonymous
| Mmmmm, pain au chocolat |
Anonymous
| I grew up in Germany and people eat bread every day, from the bakery. For breakfast and lunch, sometimes. The biggest difference in my experience is the portion sizes. Americans go extreme in ways that Europeans don’t: more extreme workouts (instead of a lot of plain walking), more extreme diets (here it’s lots of protein and never carbs, it’s more balanced in Europe), etc. It seems more “food intervention” occurs here, like they take out all the sugar or fat from yogurt, or grow very large tomatoes and chickens. In Germany, we didn’t intervene with the food so much, just let it be what it is and eat smaller amounts. |
Anonymous
And I want all of it! |