Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I spent 8 weeks in Europe and I found that most places that served simple breakfast provided bread of some kind (more often a roll) with slices and meat and cheese. I had that more than I had croissants or pastries. There was also often yogurt and sometimes a piece of fruit.

Europe is not France. Eating meat and cheese for breakfast puts you in northern Europe--German/the Netherlands/Scandinavia.

Exactly! I'm the PP french poster and eating meat and cheese in france in the morning is unheard of. It is sweet food I'd anything in the morning. Lots of cereals as well. Quick is the goal.

Anonymous wrote:Coffee or tea + croissant or pastry x 5 to 7 mornings a week?

First Europe is a continent with vastly different customs and eating habits (so is Africa BTW). That's like asking if all North Americans from Panama to Alaska eat bacon and eggs each morning. I can only speak to france as lived in Paris the first 24 years of my life. Breakfast was, and still is for me (if I est any breakfast at all, breakfast is insignificant in France) usually toast with jam or some plain yogurt with fresh fruit.

Often lunch is huge with a very very small dinner, possibly just some.bread with sliced meat and some raw vegetables. The only "event" meal is lunch.

Very common in Italy. Breakfast is often some sort of pastry and a cappuccino.

A small bit of bread and cheese. Maybe some jam. Def not croissants every day. More like once a week or so.

DH is German and wouldn’t eat a croissant daily. We go to the bakery like everyone else and get a buttered pretzel and coffee.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I’m French.

Of course not!

My father tried that once and he put on so much wright.
The doctor told him to cut it out.

Well who's eating all the morning goodies baked fresh daily at all the patisseries?

It’s an after school snack

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I spent 8 weeks in Europe and I found that most places that served simple breakfast provided bread of some kind (more often a roll) with slices and meat and cheese. I had that more than I had croissants or pastries. There was also often yogurt and sometimes a piece of fruit.

Europe is not France. Eating meat and cheese for breakfast puts you in northern Europe--German/the Netherlands/Scandinavia.

I was just in Paris in the beginning of Feb and what PP wrote was exactly what was served for breakfast every day.

Anonymous wrote:They have better genes than fatty Americans

Hi! You always show up right on schedule to put down Americans and call them fat. Even when the topic isn't about Americans!

Pray tell us what superior country you are from!

I had a french roommate in the US. She ate two english muffins toasted with butter, a hot chocolate and a glass of orange juice each morning.

A tartine which is toasted leftover baguette with butter and jam or Nutella. Usually dipped in your coffee.

I'm English and I eat a croissant for breakfast most mornings. I buy them at Pret with my coffee. I'm 37 and pretty thin and I do watch what I eat other than this morning indulgence.

It seems most good Euro bakeries make far more plain croissants in comparison to the sweet pastries. Are plain croissant more popular for routine casual breakfast?

Anonymous wrote:
I’m French.

Of course not!

My father tried that once and he put on so much wright.
The doctor told him to cut it out.

Well who's eating all the morning goodies baked fresh daily at all the patisseries?

Anonymous wrote:Many Italians won’t eat anything for breakfast - just have an espresso.

So they’re inadvertently doing Intermittent Fasting

Anonymous wrote:I spent 8 weeks in Europe and I found that most places that served simple breakfast provided bread of some kind (more often a roll) with slices and meat and cheese. I had that more than I had croissants or pastries. There was also often yogurt and sometimes a piece of fruit.

Europe is not France. Eating meat and cheese for breakfast puts you in northern Europe--German/the Netherlands/Scandinavia.