Breakfast in other countries

A lactose intolerant person would apparently starve there.

In Ireland, they serve blood pudding (didn't eat it), tomatoes, baked beans, and Guinness.

It looks like milk on top of milk

In Ireland like Britain most people eat a bowl of cereal or a slice of toast for breakfast. The big breakfasts happen perhaps at the weekend and then not every weekend or if you are on holiday. Not everyone would eat them even then.

Do people still eat porridge for breakfast, R4?

My mother does, r5. Yes, I should have included porridge but I was basically saying that most people have very simple breakfasts.

What does breakfast mean?

Breakfast around the world.

French breaksfast is the best: coffee and a croissant

Oh and a cigarette

What is a Canadian breakfast?

I'm in love with R9 R10

I’m American through and through, but sometimes I like a bowl of miso soup for breakfast. I get these little packets of paste to add to hot water. It’s good if you’re a little hung over.

Canadian breakfast looks like American breakfast really.

The only meal my Arab dad ever cooked for us kids and that was at best 3 or 4 times a year. But I’ve been making it regularly for friends and family, it’s delicious

In Chile, the hotel breakfast buffets would always include sandwich fixings, and sliced of cake.

I make sandwiches for breakfast when it's too hot to cook, and why not?

R1 We only have those people here in the US.....they are intolerant to all foods

R15, that looks very appetizing.

I've only been to England and France outside of the US, and the simple breakfasts in Paris still are one of my favorite parts of the trip. I fell in love with clotted cream in England, but I never had a full breakfast, sadly.

R17, no. A lot of Asians are lactose intolerant

I think a lot of Brits eat baked beans with breakfast. Does anyone verify this?

In Turkey we were served cheese, cucumbers and tomatoes by our b & b and it was perfect - light and refreshing in the heat.

A can of La Choy would be so much easier and save on dish washing.

Dog food makes a lovely start to the day.

Pinoy breakfast: tocino, fried egg, garlic fried rice

Kippers (smoked Herring) are still a thing in the UK.

OP’s image looks like it includes a side dish of Alien.

Dominican breakfast isn’t much to look at, but it really hits the spot.

The best breakfast away from the USA was in Tokyo. A cafe a few blocks from our B& B served a bowl of sticky rice topped with a Salisbury steak with cheddar cheese and a fried egg with miso soup on the side. We ate there four times. One of the most satisfying meals I’ve ever eaten.

What a sweet Mongolian family. I bet they're way happier than than the avg Wall St. billionaire.

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The Turkish breakfast looks delicious. I'd LOVE to try shakshuka. The Mongolian food was different shades of white and about the only thing i'd want to try is the fried bread; however the kids were as cute as buttons. Yes, i've stayed in Paris and absolutely a croissant and coffee is not a bad way to start the day. I have to say the full English breakfast minus the blood sausage is my definite favorite...i'm more a savory breakfast person then pancakes/sweet stuff for breakfast. No cold cereal in my cupboard, but my parents were hippies and we grew up on whole/unprocessed foods. Crap like that was not allowed in our house.

A typical English fry-up

What in the world are they eating?

I love Turkish and Middle Eastern breakfasts. So fresh. I went through a long phase of eating sliced cucumber, sliced tomatoes, toast and cottage cheese or yogurt every day during a hot summer.

How I hated this when it came out.

OP - I always thought an internationally themed breakfast restaurant would be fun. It seems that outside of the biggest metropolitan areas, in the US, very few "ethnic" restaurants serve breakfast. When I was in DC I had breakfast at this odd little Indian cafe. The husband was South Indian and his wife was Parsi (like Freddie Mercury) and they served a mix of South Indian food and the rarer, hard to find, Parsi cuisine. They were also open for breakfast. I had this WONDERFUL, incredibly flavorful Parsi scrambled egg dish called akoori.

Desayuno Andaluz

Mollete, a soft light bread, lightly toasted, rubbed top, bottom, and sides with a garlic clove, topped with the best olive oil, crushed fresh tomato, more olive oil, then paper thin slices of jamón serrano, or, better yet, jamón ibérico de bellota.

Served with coffee and orange juice.

Please. Desayuno Andaluz is a sucking off a couple of hot garbagemen in a Torremolinos alleyway.

I was in Israel in 2007 and the hotel served SALAD as part of breakfast.

I eat a bowl of cut up orange, thawed frozen strawberries, and hunks of cantaloupe. It’s surprisingly filling.

[quote]R30 What a sweet Mongolian family. I bet they're way happier than the avg Wall St. billionaire.

The little girls are so cute. I hope they have happy lives.

Here's Clarissa Dickson Wright's episode on Breakfast. The Two Fat Ladies made a version of R15 's dish on an episode called "Food in the Wild".

OP, thanks, that was interesting. I'm guessing these people are nomads since they're in a yurt?

I stayed with a family in rural Austria once and they ate ham and cheese sandwiches for breakfast. I didn't really mind, but they always left the windows open and in August there were tons of flies, including on the food.

Breakfast food in general is one of my favorite meals (which is odd as I don't eat breakfast ie, in the morning). I would LOVE a restaurant with breakfasts from around the world.

Is this really a typical Australian breakfast?

I spent a summer in Turkey in the late 1980s, and fell in love with the breakfasts: Fresh cucumbers, tomatoes, feta cheese, honey, bread, almonds and tea/coffee.

There is a Honduran restaurant not far from me, and I have their desanyuno at least once a month (scrambled eggs and chourizo, fried plantains, cheese, beans, tortillas, and crema).

Israel makes a bigger deal of breakfast than any country I've ever traveled to.

It's combination of what Americans know as traditional Eastern European Jewish food (lox, herring, sable and other smoked fish) and Middle Eastern-- hummus, shakshouka,cheeses, pita, bourekas, Israeli salad (cucumbers and tomatoes with scallions), olives, babaganoush, etc., with some Russian thrown in: caviar and blinis

Originated in the early kibbutzim where people were going to go out and work on the farm all day.

It's generally served buffet style and hotels in Tel Aviv compete to provide the most lavish breakfast spreads.

I love having pho for breakfast in Vietnam

The Mongolian breakfast has too many hands on it.

St. Louis' Washington Avenue Stroll "Whore's Breakfast" (Same as a whore's breakfast anywhere else):

Paper cup of coffee in one hand, doughnut worn like a ring and lit cigarette held between first two fingers.

Sip. Puff. Bite. Repeat.

It's been a long night and Youngblood will be driving up for the payload any minute.

r49, that sounds amazing. minus fish (not a fan).

r51 and not enough color to it.

That breakfast looks great R49.

This:

So that's what Genghis Khan ate for breakfast?

R49 ‘Traditional Israeli’. Lol, don’t make us laugh. That is typical Mediterranean food that Israelis claim is theres.

Breakfast in Italy is eaten standing up.

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Rice.

I love congee.

R5 Yes. I have porridge for my breakfast on a Sunday morning in winter.

R21 Yes. I have baked beans with my full English breakfast on a Saturday morning.

R26 Yes. I had kippers for tea though last night at 6pm. If you stay at a hotel in Scotland you'll probably be offered them for breakfast.

R58 With lots of cake and coffee!

But do they eat breakfast in bed?

No love for huevos rancheros?

[quote]What is a Canadian breakfast?

Identical to American breakfast.

r65 except for the pea meal bacon. Damn i miss that.

Oh God, the hotels in the Netherlands had the most lavish spreads ever! Eggs, meats, odd tiny pancakes, yogurt, museli and other cereals, breads, cured fish, pastry, all of it fantastic! More fruit compotes than fresh fruit, as it was February, so I'd start most breakfasts with yogurt topped with fruit compote and museli, and go on from there. And yes, I'm told that's a really common breakfast for Dutch people, yogurt with museli or fruit.

I don't know why the food in the Netherlands gets a bad rap, everything I had there was excellent. Except the white asparagus, which they were so proud of, but which was always overcooked.

When I was last in Mexico, the hotel offered American breakfasts which were fine, and Mexican dishes like huevos rancheros and this odd stacked tortilla cake something like this. My boyfriend said that the tortilla cake was delicious, but the hotel made such excellent sangria that I was never very adventurous at breakfast.

r68 kind of looks like "mexican pizza"

Offerings at lowish-end hotels where I've stayed:

France: Baguette, butter, and jam with strong coffee and hot milk. Two Marlboro Menthols (brought them from home).

Amsterdam: cheap cold cuts, cheese, bread, coffee. I skipped the cold cuts of meat. I just couldn't.

Hungary: Pastries, pickled vegetables (surprisingly good!), eggs scrambled with onions and paprika.

Costa Rica: Rice and beans, fried plantain, scrambled eggs, coffee with sugar.

Osaka: Rice triangles wrapped in seaweed; hard boiled egg; miso soup, and strong green tea. Sometimes pieces of cold fish would appear in the breakfast room. (There were packets of Nescafe instant coffee and hot water for foreigners which I used) It grew on me. I was there for two weeks and had to have this for another two weeks at home to break the habit. I am craving sticky rice with seaweed and miso soup as I type.

Greece: Bread, cheese, plain, full-fat yogurt (Greek style, of course!) with honey, strong coffee.

Aus/NZ: Toast with packets of peanut butter or vegemite, tea.

Boston: (I consider this to be a foreign destination but my bf lives there). A "regular" = bad coffee+cream+sugar and a bag of donut holes from your nearest Dunk's, which is never more than 20 feet away.