What do you foreign type people eat for breakfast?

Started by Caliga, June 16, 2012, 08:31:35 AM

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Caliga

So this morning Princesca and I were eating breakfast and I mentioned that I thought it might be neat for us to experiment with different ethnic breakfasts... we've done plenty of experimentation with international cuisine for dinner, so much so that a number of favorite dishes have made it into our 'usual' meal rotation--examples include feijoada (Brazil), turos czusza (Hungary), frappe coffee (Greece) and cafe cubano (Cuba).

I started with wikipedia and although there are plenty of articles about ethnic cuisines, many of them make no mention at all about breakfast.  So I figured I'd try polling Languish.

Oh, and if anyone is interested, for breakfast I had bacon, fried eggs, a hash brown, scrapple (which if you've never heard of it, is kind of like white pudding with cornmeal instead of oatmeal), and coffee with almond milk.
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Coffee, boiled egg (sometimes), dark bread with turkey sausage, müsli with soy fruit yogurt.
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Liep

Oatmeal porridge, a stable Danish breakfast. Served with raisins and milk. Maybe add butter and/or cinnamon sugar, depending on how dark and cold it is outside.
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Caliga

Quote from: Liep on June 16, 2012, 08:39:42 AM
Oatmeal porridge, a stable Danish breakfast. Served with raisins and milk. Maybe add butter and/or cinnamon sugar, depending on how dark and cold it is outside.
Sounds like a typical breakfast I'd have as a kid on weekdays.  Weekends we typically had 'English' type breakfasts like what I mentioned in the OP.
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On a related note, Dole has started labeling their organic bananas (yes I know, I know, 'organic' is a farce) with the actual farm they came from.  The bananas we got yesterday came from a farm called Asociación Bananeros Orgánicos Señor de Chocán San Vicente Piedra Rodada in San Vicente, Sullana, Piura, in northern Peru. :)
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I rarely eat breakfast since surgery, unless I'm out of town. In that case I'll have orange juice, café con leche, and something to eat like buttered toast and/or croissants.

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Quote from: Caliga on June 16, 2012, 08:31:35 AM

Oh, and if anyone is interested, for breakfast I had bacon, fried eggs, a hash brown, scrapple (which if you've never heard of it, is kind of like white pudding with cornmeal instead of oatmeal), and coffee with almond milk.

That is a lot of food.

Obviously I'm not a foreign type person, but I've started drinking an Odwalla smoothie for breakfast at about 9:30. On the downside, it has a lot of sugar, but that also gives me a kick to keep me going until lunch time (I usually eat around 11:45, which I know is a lot earlier than some foreigners). I've also cut out all coffee, and for me the sugar is an effective caffeine alternative.
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Zanza

Either cereals/müsli with milk or yoghurt or rolls/croissants/bretzels with butter or nutella.

Caliga

Quote from: alfred russel on June 16, 2012, 09:08:52 AM
That is a lot of food.
During the week my typical breakfast is a banana and espresso.
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150g muesli with 250g full fat milk, coffee.

Every other day I have instead 125g weatabix or another wheat-based cereal with 200g full fat milk, coffee.
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Legbiter

I usually don't eat breakfast but if I do it's something like egg and bacon or dinner leftovers. Sometimes coffee with a good helping of unsalted butter in it.  :licklips:
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Sheilbh

Feijoada isn't a breakfast meal.  It's like a Sunday lunch :mellow:

I don't often have breakfast.  Normally it'll be either porridge and honey or my amazing homemade bread and honey :)
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Maximus

Anything is a breakfast meal if you eat it for breakfast.

For example this morning I had a leftover pork and bean burrito from last night's dinner.

Sheilbh

Quote from: Maximus on June 16, 2012, 11:07:47 AM
Anything is a breakfast meal if you eat it for breakfast.

For example this morning I had a leftover pork and bean burrito from last night's dinner.
Yeah but feijoada's a massive stew of multi-meats and beans with rice, casava flour, a salad and oranges.  It's not leftovers, I've had leftover curry for breakfast.  But in terms of cooking a feijoada takes hours of slow cooking.  So chances are your breakfast's the toast you had while putting it all on the hob :P
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