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I’m a school teacher. A study in the U.K. conducted by the government, found that children learn better after a hearty but nutritious breakfast. It makes people less grumpy. A breakfast club was organised and lo & behold success.
I'm the kind of person that really don't feel like eating until around 10am... I'd get grumpy if I was forced to eat breakfast.
But I believe there's some truth to it... I mean if a small high fiber meal in the morning is what you need to stay comfortable and calm, do that.
A high sugar breakfast will burn out before your next meal... those spikes are not healthy or helpful. Also why a proper lunch has an impact, you won't get the same snacky between 2 and 3pm.
Ultra processed sugars...
Makes kids super excited for a very short time and napping past 10am...
Beans and sausages had something for them. 😅
You are a teacher? That's fine, me too and I agree with what you wrote.👍
by nutritious we dont mean sugary right ? :) but rather milk or chese, eggs, veggies, herbs. Thats how it should be with kids breakfest before school :) Sugary things just make us sleepy and grumpy more. At least thats how it works with me. :D So I avoid them as best as I can. When I need to work hard on any project I eat some nuts or raisins with chocolate but dark chocolate and in very small amounts. Like 2 or 3 times a day I eat 4 nuts or raisins. Thats all I need to go with my after lunch coffee break or when its evening and I need to work until midnight. I would never recomend eating lots of sugary things - thats disaster IMO :)
Children learn better with good teachers and motivation. Eating dessert for breakfast makes you fat.
In Australia we have pancakes or waffles with icecream and maple syrup. FOR DESSERT!!
We also serve them as breakfast items at cafes, Maccas etc. Which is the same in the U.S., most people only eat these things when they have breakfast out on special occasions
My Canadian cousins brought real maple juice with them when they visited the Netherlands because we were curious what it tastes like. Turns out, its disgusting.
We have pancakes for dinner here sometimes, but we dont just eat them with sugar or syrup, we also have them with bacon, or put smoked ham on top, maybe some cheese, and apple pancakes are very popular as well. You sauté the apple parts in some butter until they get soft and then pour the batter over them. You can also add a pinch of cinnamon to the batter for these.
Some disgusting people like my brother also put weird stuff on them like Nutella or peanut butter but you should not follow their example.
"so we got Belgium to blame for this"
No. The waffle part was us, I have never in my entire life seen any waffle with even close to half the amount of whipped cream I saw in that picture
Idk how you'd even eat it
Edit: you guys took out the sugar??? I wouldn't even call it a Belgian waffle at that point, the little chuncks of sugar completely change the taste and eating experience
Tbf, Brussels waffles contain no sugar chunks but are still decidedly Belgian. I do prefer Liége waffles, though, by far.
They took off the powered sugar only to douse it with a gallon of syrup.
Tbh in Belgium waffles are dessert not breakfast 😂😂😂 we don't eat them in the morning. We don't even eat them every day. I only eat a Belgium waffle when we go shopping and we see the stand . 😂
@@veroniquevanhauwaert2090 Waffles with strawberries and a bit of whipped cream are an amazing dessert, one of my favorites
@@TheSuperappelflap well Ur name appelflap is also very delicious to eat . 😉
It appears that everything in the USA has added sugar. For example, American bread can not be sold in Europe under the name bread, because the sugar content is so high, it’s classified as cake over here 🤷🏻♂️
And I wish that was a lie but I know it’s true, and yet they keep on trying to tell me their bread is healthy. Sorry but… I have eaten American “bread” and it tasted absolutely terrible. I thought my teeth would have rotted away eating one slice of that crap x.x
I will continue eating my beloved dark bread made by Fazer, thank you!
In the Netherlands we have this cookie that has been a hit since the 1700's, the stroopwafel, that now can be ordered with chocolate and terribly coloured sprinkles on it because of the American tourists, who have to customize, and have to add suger and colour for some reason. The idea that adding might also take away from the taste seems absent in the USA, ,and some of food colours in the video are revolting to me.
I think in Europe we are mostly not yet detached from what food is supposed to look like, and we are raised with moderation. There is nutrition and there is treats. Nutrition is allowed to taste nice and even sweetened, but not just sweet. Treats are rare,, that's what makes them a treat. As I kid I could eat white bread with something sweet on it, but only in addition to whole grain bread with meats, cheese or egg and yoghurt, quark and fruit. And there is more than just taste and crunch, nutritiousness is also enjoyable by itself.
The American breakfast culture seems unchecked, like what kids would come up with without parental oversight. It's infantile indeed and sweet is an infantile taste by itself, something people grow more or less out of when maturing naturally. But for that you have to eat different stuff first.
I'm Scottish and I love Stroopwaffel. My workmate was Dutch and brought them in for a morning snack. I thought she had brought them back from holiday home but she got them from our local Supermarket. She used to make Dutch Apple pie with Specculaas. It tasted amazing. My Nana was Norwegian so I grew up eating Rollmop Herring. The Dutch teacher was amazed to see a Scot eating this for lunch when She joined our school.
I'm Scottish and I love Stroopwaffel. My workmate was Dutch and brought them in for a morning snack. I thought she had brought them back from holiday home but she got them from our local Supermarket. She used to make Dutch Apple pie with Specculaas. It tasted amazing. My Nana was Norwegian so I grew up eating Rollmop Herring. The Dutch teacher was amazed to see a Scot eating this for lunch when She joined our school.
I love stroopwafel!
I'm sorry but wtf? Chocolate? Sprinkles? Dear lord can't they just enjoy the thing as is. The stroopwafel itself is enough lol.
@@Jinty92 Rolmops is also a traditional snack in the Netherlands and all around the north sea and baltic coastline. Im surprised you dont have it in Scotland.
Personally I prefer the pickled herring, and fresh herring as well, in the real Dutch style, you pick it up by the tail, look up, open your mouth and slide it down your throat :)
Real Dutch apple pie isnt made with Speculaas spices, just add some cinnamon to the diced apple parts, some lemon juice, and mix properly. You dont need to add sugar to the apples either, only to the dough. The sour freshness of the apple will soften a bit during baking and it provides a nice balance with the sweet crust after baking.
When I was on a language course in USA my host family was shocked when I didn't want their style of breakfast but opted for a non-sugary version etc. We also used to drive to a diner almost every morning, something we never do in Europe, we make breakfast at home. It was pretty interesting to have such a different morning experience 😅
Never might be pushing it a bit, i eat brunch with some mates a few times a year, but yeah that's more like an event and not a normal occurence. But yeah American food culture is indeed weird :)
@@melanp4698 well yeah never as in my case, I don't think we even have actual breakfast diners here in Finland, outside of mcdonalds breakfast menu that truckers and such use
@@gyderian9435 Never here in Greece, as well. We do buy our bagel, cheese or spinach pie very often while commuting to work, rarely making breakfast at home, but going to a diner to sit and eat? No. I've been to almost all European countries and I have never seen something like what you and I experienced in the US. The focus on food there was on a different level. Americans can make the best grill, though. No one on the planet comes even close to what Americans can do with a piece of meat and a smoker.
A language course in the USA?
I didn't know they had a language.
very few restaurants are even open that early in the morning in europe.. And the concept of a breakfast diner is essentially non-existant. you might meet with firnds for brunch at the weeksends but eating breakfast at a restaurant before you go to work. not a thing
I live in Denmark and eat rye bread with strong cheese or a bowl of oatmeal porridge for breakfast...
In my country we call the body an rye bread engine... 😊
As a german who grew up with 1-2 slices of bread or a breadroll in the morning as the standard breakfast, I once as a child got with my parents in the supermarket a 8 in 1 test package of 8 different kinds of cereals, all in sepperate cardboard boxes, one box equaling the amount estimated for a kid to consume in a bowl. I tried it once or twice but it felt odd, like cheating my way through breakfast and lunch straight to "Kaffe und Kuchen" (coffee and cakes, the german tea time at ~3/4 pm, depends on the family). That concept didn't work in my head so I went straight back to bread topped with cheese slices (Emmentaler, Gouda or whatever), Hackepeter/Mett
(minced raw pork with diced onions on top as well as salt and pepper), Sausage slices, butter with Chives or Cress, or Nutella xD
I'm Finnish and I love breakfast as I'm usually pretty hungry in the morning. My breakfast today: 2 thin slices of oat bread and one slice of rye bread with hummus, turkey and cucumber on them. Green tea, no sugar or honey. Some Oatly with half a banana and some blueberries.
Exactly (also had hummus and slice of bread this morning, lol) - just some light-not-heavy breakfast to start the day. I don't understand how they can eat all the junk they eat in the US (it literally makes me want to vomit - and that I mean in the most respective way)...
French breakfast is great. My favorite is very standard, a croissant, black coffee, orange juice, and pain complet with cheese and/or ham. Maybe a pain au chocolat if I want to treat myself.
@@TomiThemself There are literally studies that show that a bigger breakfast is better for you. Also I have been to most european countries and they will eat similar crap in the morning... sugary cereals are in all their supermarkets and there are sweet breads all over the place. Stop your bullshit, I could point to dozens of people in my life that eat more healthy breakfasts than you do and live a healthier lifestyle. How slow do you have to be to think that everybody eats the same thing or that it is eaten every day? Are people in europe all as slow as you all are?
I am wondering though: that can't be fresh blueberries, because they are not in season right now.
@@alis49281 They can be fresh (or "fresh"?) because blueberries are flown all the way from South America in the winter. Many people also have wild blueberries in the freezer.
Breakfast is very important start of the day and its not supposed to be full of sugar.
I once watched Preppy Kitchen making a blueberry coffecake and was amazed when I got that it was a breakfast. I mean, it was a cake, with it's sugar and white flour and butter and eggs. Even the name: Cake, tells you it's a dessert, no? The cultural difference really hit me in the face with that one. Some people may give their kids cereal here, but it's more normal with an open faced sandwich with cheese, ham, liver pate or some kind of fish, or oatmeal porridge. All the sugar in the morning would make me crash into a sugar coma the moment I'd enter the doors to my job. I must admit I kind of admire that you actually manage to function after such a breakfast, haha
"Cake tells you it is a dessert, no?"
Not really. In germany, we have Pfannkuchen (german pancakes, basically thicker crepes) as a hearty meal as well as dessert, covered with cold cut meats, cheese and such. Or even filled with, say, mushrooms and herbs. Or cut into ribbons as a filling for soups (Fädlesuppe or Pfannkuchensuppe)
I still remember seeing the first "breakfast casserole" when I visited an American friend. Casserole for breakfast??
The concept of breakfast is the most important meal of the day stems from pre-industrial days when workers, farmers etc. needed to have high energy to work in agriculture and blacksmithing, carpentry etc. We even have a German saying: „have breakfast like an emperor, lunch like a king, and dinner like a beggar.“ But, we do not work like that any longer. Yes, children should probably have a good protein and carb intake early in the morning to get through school, but most adults do not need a high-calorie intake early in the day. I am intermittent fasting and was surprised at how fast I, as someone who could not go without breakfast, switched in no time to not having breakfast at all without getting hungry. Nowadays, I often get a little hungry in the afternoon, only to realize I have not eaten anything, yet…
The English version is "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince(or queen) and dinner like a pauper."
True but also In the Industrial era. Back in the days the industry workers worked bone hard.
@@mikeh723 Serbian version is Eat breakfast alone, share lunch with a friend, give dinner to an enemy.
The word breakfast literally comes from "break fast", because the poor farm workers could only afford two meals a day. So they would have one meal mid-morning (after several hours work) to break the fast and then another early evening to keep them full until bedtime.
That rings true. I'm Colombian, and one of our national dishes is called Bandeja Paisa, which I'd compare it to the English full breakfast. It's got beans cooked with pork, rice, morcilla (black pudding), chorizo (a type of pork sausage), avocado, arepa (a sort of unleavened bread made from ground maize, plaintain and fried eggs. It originated in the 1800's in the paisa region and the coffee axis. Traditionally is what the coffee plantation workers and _arrieros_ (muleteers) transporting coffee and other agricultura products would eat in the morning. Sometimes it was their only meal during the day. So basically, that breakfast was the most important meal of their day.
As someone who doesn't have a sweet tooth I found breakfast was the most problematic meal while holidaying in the states. Even things you didn't expect to be sweet were. I ended up just having mushroom omelettes everyday and I got in the habit of asking them to to not include the bread as even that was to sweet.
I would have to bake my own bread if I went over there, or just buy a bag of whey protein and shredded oats and drink protein shakes all day
In my childhood here in Germany it was mostly a Pausenbrot, buttered dark bread with cheese or sliced meat on top, together with an apple or other fruits or vegetables during the school days. And at the weekends, when we sit together for breakfast, there comes also some unhealthy options like cereals or nutella or marmelades for the bread rolls. But there were also the cheese and sliced meat option, so you could choose between sweet and hearty food. And you got a hard (or not so hard) boiled egg, which you can eat as it is or can also put it on top of your bread. But that is mostly the only warm part of a german breakfast, accept from drinks like coffee or tea.
Nowadays I don't eat breakfast most of the time, only if I don't have to do it allone. But even then I prefer the unsweet options 😉
My papa was German and the only thing he could cook was Bratkartoffelpuffer. It tasted amazing and we used to have it for lunch, never breakfast. I don't know if Germans would eat this for breakfast in cold months. As a child in Scotland, I had porridge regularly for breakfast in the Winter or Weetabix with warm milk poured over the top. I couldn't eat this now but I would still eat porridge but I generally eat yoghurt, banana and homemade granola for breakfast at around 11am. I eat a cooked Scottish breakfast a few times a year and very occasionally have American style pancakes for brunch a few times a year.
This is exactly what my experience in my childhood in Germany is. Now I am a vegan, so all the animal products are no option anymore for me. Perhaps that's why I eat nothing anymore in the morning.
We never eat Bratkartoffeln or Kartoffelpuffer (I don't know which one you mean) for breakfast @@Jinty92 Kartoffeln (potatoes) is always a hot meal like dinner or lunch here.
I had to switch this video off 😮 you interrupted the original video about six time s in first 20 seconds, rather let it run a while and then chip in it's very annoying and difficult to watch 🙁
As a Brazilian all that sugar for breakfast was a total food culture shock. I remember my first breakfast at the University's cafeteria. The server drenched my pancakes in syrup. I had never had syrup before and I actually gagged. For the rest of the semester I would adapt what they always served to my taste. I never had syrup, if they had bagels I would have a bagel with some cream cheese and to drink I would have some coffee and milk (latte), sometimes chocolate milk. I was shocked they had a cereal station with a bunch of different brands. It was wild. In Brazil breakfast is usually very simple, some bread and butter (sometimes cheese and ham) and to drink just some coffee and milk or chocolate milk.
Same breakfast in Serbia and Hungary.
You describe a perfect lunch for Dutch people.
@@agnesmeszaros-matwiejuk8783 According to internet memes Serbian breakfast consists of black coffee and cigarettes 😂
@@stefanoarraisnogueira9461 that is also true :) (but for kids it is savory, often burek with joghurt, sandwiches as described above, fried dough (with or without filling -mekika or panceroti)…)
@@agnesmeszaros-matwiejuk8783 I've seen some pictures, everything looks delicious!
He made one major mistake, he implied that European pancakes have added sugar, that is have sugar in the list of ingredients in the recipe. Now I can't speak for all of Europe but in the UK and Australia, the recipe for pancakes is the same as the recipe for Yorkshire pudding, so the pancakes start off savoury, and if people want it sweet they can add a sweet topping, personally I only want butter on my pancakes.
I add a little sugar, when I make pancakes - which isn't very often, and definitely not for breakfast 😄 (Denmark)
@@Donnah1979 Why?
We have actually cornflakes, ie made of corn without frosting sugar. American breakfast cereal is like 20% sugar, at that point you might as well eat a cake.
cornflakes on their own are no better than the sweetened version, because the problem is with the cornflakes in the first place.
@@uncle_matula explain this lie in some detail, please
@@papalaz4444244 One quick, EASY search:
“Cornflakes have added sugar.
If you are having cornflakes on a daily basis, some of the side effects of cornflakes include higher blood pressure, inflammation, weight gain, diabetes, and fatty liver disease. According to the National Library of Medicine, excess sugars even lead to chronic diseases.”
You gonna call that a lie too?
The original reason for the invention cornflakes is wild. Check out the wikipedia page 😂
@@uncle_matulaThere’s not a whole pile of nutrition but claiming the ones without a sugar coating are “no better” flies in the face of logic and facts.
I live on Spain, in a tourist area, and a lot of USA tourist believe that we have "chocolate con churros" as a breakfast. That is just a special fancy breakfast that I had... ¿¿Three times in 30 years??
The toast with olive oil+sea salt, olive oil+fresh tomato+sea salt, olive oil+tomato+melted cheese or the toast with olive oil+tomato+avocado+sea salt are the usual breakfast.
Even the garlic toast (less common) is: pick a toast. Pick a garlic. Scrub the garlic on top of the toast, so it taste garlicky. Ad olive oil and sea salt.
If you are more on the light breakfast team, like myself. Drink your coffee or tea or milk.
Middle breakfast team? Fruit
I like waffles... After lunch!
One of the first things we discover on our road trip in Florida, in the hotel breakfasts every thing is made of sugar. The only healthy things are the apple.
Don't worry - they'll find a way of injecting the apple with sugar.
@@bjornh4664 It's probably a GMO apple anyway to make it extra sweet
The plainest breakfast I ever heard about in Europe, is the Portuguese one, coffee or tea with or without milk, perhaps a piece of fruit or some juice, bread or toast with butter or cheese, sometimes jam. My breakfast is coffee and a piece of bread or sandwich, sweet things at breakfast makes me sick. If it might help, it also makes you slower to eat too much for breakfast, and sweet things for breakfast might give you an instant energy, but it slows you down during the day.
Balkan breakfast: coffee and cigarettes :)))))
In Slovakia (and most other Slavic countries), we just have a slice of bread, with butter and/or some salami/ham/pepperoni. Literally that simple...
That Portuguese breakfast you mention is just a standard breakfast you can get anywhere in Europe. Instead of sweet jam or local cheese, another traditional option besides ham and other meat, is a boiled or fried egg on bread. Or just a boiled egg on the side with some salt.
In the Netherlands we have an omelette dish called "farmers omelette", its an omelette with a lot of green herbs, ham, tomato slices, mushroom slices, and some other vegetables cut small, on dark bread, its really good and you wont need to eat anything for the rest of the day :)
But usually we just have bread with cheese or meat and a glass of milk.
Portugal is plain? Bruh this is the most normal breakfast i've ever heard of. Coffee/Tea, some fruit or juice or both, and some bread/toast with cheese/jam/meats/eggs etc... completely normal. I'm from Norway. Also you kinda just described you eat the same. Coffee and bread/sandwich. It's the exact same!... only you missing out on not having some fresh fruit. I guess the only reason it wouldn't be the same is because you actually have a lot of sugar in your coffee and bread, which can't be it since you claim you don't like sweets at breakfast... unless you're american and don't realise everything you eat has been drowned in sugar already and you're just used to it 😂
@@K000H No I am Portuguese, half German, but Portuguese, and my tea and coffee are not sugared, if you drink black coffee like I do, and coffee is very strong here, you need to put either some honey or a small tea spoon of sugar, because the acidity of the coffee is not good for your stomach. In Portugal we have local fruit all year long except in the peak of Winter and depending on the zone, because in the Highlands it snows, and it rains and is cold all over the country, in the Algarve its the only place with Mediterranean climate, the rest is Atlantic and Continental. I like fresh fruit and most Portuguese also seem to like it, from apples, pears, abundant oranges in all their variants, figs, bananas (grown in the Madeira are the best). We also tend to eat more times and less, its a cultural habit, you eat your sandwich with a cup of coffee or tea at home or in the cafe, mid morning you might drink an expresso with some pastry (pastel de nata for example), lunch, the "five a clock tea" or "lanche" we "invented " and that one of our Princesses brought the English, dinner, and if early maybe a glass of milk and maybe some cookies mostly when you are a kid before bed. And, read up on it to confirm, Portugal as one of the strictest sugar and salt tax in Europe and our food is one of the best in the world.
Give me two slices of toast and Vegemite for brekkie. Good as gold. Breakfast of champions.
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Belgian here. - Belgians do not eat wafels like depicted. That is a tourist thing. - You order a wafel and it is with a modest portion of whipped cream or powdered sugar on top of it. - That is it. - And indeed that is not breakfast. It more something for late afternoon.
In Spain there are 2 schools of breakfast, you either drink milk with something, or you do not eat breakfast. The toast with olive oil is something that great grandmas would eat, usually here you either skip breakfast or eat milk with something, that something is coffee if you are an adult or cocoa powder if you are a kid.
It has to be said that we wat lunch at 2PM and tha there is an additional meal between breakfast and lunch around 10am-11am, in that intermediate meal, the usual is to eat bocadillo, that is is for the uninformed, bread with meat or cheese inside. the bread is similar to the french baggette, just that here it is made shorter and wider, but is that style of bread, not the American style of bread, and no I can not translate bocadillo to sandwich, that is because we do use the word sandwich to mean specifically a sandwich made with american style bread, if it is done with normal bread it is bocadillo, if made with gross american bread it is sandwich, the distinction matters, those are 2 completely different foods, a sandwich is something that you prepare and eat it on the spot, a bocadillo is something that you prepare in the morning, wrap in foil and eat at 11am at work or school. Usually a bocadillo is made by putting different types of sausages or jamon serrano with cheese, and with cheese I mean real cheese.
Squirrel for breakfast had me on the floor laughing ....just loved it🤣
I have found that diets vary between people. For me, i eat when i am hungry, usually small snacks like berries and grapes and water, usually a sandwich at some point, and one proper meal.
But then i also eat chocolate. 😂😂
Pancakes are a dessert for after dinner, but only if you find a really good French cafe who makes them light and natural! Breakfast is usually Oats or another very Low GI meal - eggs and avocado on toast is popular! Break fast, means you are are breaking your "fast", as in you haven't eaten for a long time! It's essential for keeping our blood sugar levels even and helps with focus and energy! 🤔
Come to the Netherlands, pancakes are dinner! Granted we do make whole meals out of them, adding meats and veg or fruit to the batter and sometimes cheese on top. Almost like pizzas but with pancake basis.
@@annehoog I have enjoyed a few Poffertjies at the local markets! But haven't tried those savory ones! 😁
We sometimes eat pancakes but we use only a tiny sprinkle of sugar on top and then eat them with any of our homemade jams or fresh berries. Eating them with ice cream is only as a treat if celebrating something and even then the ice cream is homemade.
Too much added sugar makes me sick and it’s not a pleasant feeling.
@@NaeniaNightingaleMy favourite is sliced peaches and custard, but my father likes lemon and icing sugar! Yes, becoming used to less or no sugar and cream is not that difficult really! 🤗
I agree but i feel pancakes are also a "if i want it i can eat it for what ever meal." If you go to a nice hotel or a cafe you're likely to get "breakfast" pancakes which is probably with a bit of syrup or cream, maybe a bacon option. But definitely nothing too heavy.
Don't see it a lot in lunch settings but it's for sure an availability, and then dinner pancakes, usually the regular sweet kind, or as i like them, with bacon. A lot of restaurants have a pancake options for both adults and kids. Pancakes with bacon usually for adults, and then blueberry pancakes for the kids.
And then there is the dessert kind, which would be topped with a lot of extra sweet things like ice cream, sprinkles, cream, chocolate, loads of syrup etc.
It's definitely a sweet but it's become a "when do you want it?" meal.
I usually have self made oats (not the overly sweet ready stuff) or two slices of self baked "breakfast cake" with nuts, dried fruits, oats, whole-grain flour and just enough sugar to make it slightly sweet as a first breakfast. Just enough to fill my stomach till my breakfast break at work (which can be very late). As second breakfast I have a slice of (usually) self baked bread topped with some cheese or cold cut meats like salami, ham or chicken slices.
I live in Australia. I have cereal but it’s refined sugar free and also has nuts and things like chia and linseed for a nutrition boost. Any sweetness will come from a sprinkle of dried fruit. I also love oats. My teenage daughter hates stopping to eat as that means she can’t sleep as late and so she takes a piece of fruit to eat on the walk to school. She walks 1km each way. My son is hungrier in the morning and he’ll make himself a smoothie with fruit and yogurt. A box of sugary cereal lasts us over a month as the occasional midnight snack. Even breakfasts we all like such as English breakfast or pancakes will only happen a few times a year when we go out for someone’s birthday or similar. They’re both on break from school/university right now and I bought them a box of Lucky Charms from a specialty store as I thought it might be fun. They both told me it was too sweet and they didn’t want to eat it 😂.
no, its not popular :) most people here in my area eat oatmeals/porrige with fruits or eggs with bacon and herbs, or sandwhiches with veggies, or toasts and jam. Desserts are for after lunch (on town while we are working) or after dinner or even before dinner. And usualy just for some occations, like sunday high noon diner with whole family gathering or on birthdays, or holidays. But not on breakfast. Thats positively weird :)
A typical breakfast in France is :
1 hot drink (coffee/tea/milk/chocolate)
Bread with butter or jam or both
some people prefer yoghurt or fromage blanc and a piece of fruit.
And for Sundays, sometimes croissants/ pains au chocolat ......
(I haven't watched the entire video yet, so I apologise in advance in case it was brought up in the clip you watched. 😊)
Fun fact: In Korea, like in many other Asian countries, there are no breakfast items.
Korean "breakfast" consists of the same elements as the other meals of the day: rice (often multigrain and mixed with beans or peas), a hearty stew (made with vegetables, tofu, fermented pastes, fish...), different side dishes (fresh marinated vegetables, dried seaweed, fermented legumes), and sometimes even a whole fried fish.
Here in Central and West Europa, it's usually a variation of the famous continental breakfast - I'm not really a fan, it's kind of boring, imo.
If you want excitement, eat brunch instead of breakfast. 😉
Continental breakfast is about the opposite of a standard European breakfast. Standard is whole grain bread with slices of meat and/or cheese, maybe a boiled or a fried egg. For drinks, orange juice, coffee, tea, milk or just water. Optionally some fruit. Personally I barely eat fruit, too much sugar.
Some people dont want to eat bread because of the carbs so they have some yoghurt with muesli.
Ive never seen a continental breakfast outside of hotels. If they want to be really fancy on the weekend, people go get some fresh croissants or pain au chocolat, or make an omelette with some diced vegetables and chunks of ham and green herbs thrown in.
In Norway, and other places in Scandinavia, we eat grains (typically bread or musli), dairy (milk, yoghurt, cheese), protein (typically a slice of ham, salami, fish, liver, or eggs) and some fruits or veggies for breakfast. In other words, we eat a balanced breakfast, instead of straight up carbs that make you feel bad throughout the day. When I grew up, the only cereal they sold in the stores, was corn flakes, and as you say, it's the healthier option in the cereal category.
Tomes have changed (in Germany) but during my whole school years (started in 1972 😉) breakfast No.1 ( and my favourite) in our house was: dark, whole rye bread with cheese & tomatoes or with cured ham or creamy cottage cheese & cucumber/tomatoes on top, or a sliced hardboiled egg & mustard. No. 2 option was muesli/ oatmeal with yogurt & fresh fruit. Sometimes we opted for honey or my mum’s home made very low sugar jam on bread (no toast in our house. It was not considered to be bread…) but always on whole wheat or rye bread. Croissants or sweet rolls/buns with raisins (😍) were only a thing for the weekend. I am very thankful that my exposure to junk food of all kinds was so very low.
I'm Swedish and my breakfast is this: Boiled egg with fish paste (that comes in a tube), natural yoghurt with oat flakes and dried fruit (or fresh if I'm feeling it), two plain toasts and chocolate milk. Eating an American breakfast every day feel super foreign to me and maybe something I do like 2 times a year as a treat.
Is the fish paste like our salmon spread in UK?
@@HopeVReason It's fish eggs (usually cod), smoked and mixed with some other ingredients. It's salty with slightly sweet flavor, and great with boiled eggs or as a spread. I much prefer it to putting salt on my breakfast egg.
technically it's smoked fish cod roe in a tube called Kalles Kaviar@@HopeVReason
Check out if there's no sugar in chocolate milk and it's good - otherwise it digests before the vitamins, C especially
@@bjornh4664Kaviar : ) Kalle?
Breakfast as a child consisted of homemade bread, cheese or ham, one slice with marmelade - we don't eat the waffles for breakfast here in Belgium. 🙂As an adult it is either toasted bread with a healthy topping or yoghurt with granola and or fruit. Pancakes are too rich for me - and I do have a sweet tooth!
Here in Spain the most common breakfast is the tosta or tostada, which despite translaring as "toast" is actually a small loaf of regular bread, like a pulgita or things like that, cut transversally (like a sandwich) with stuff on top.
What to add depends a lot on location but here in the south its usually oliveoil, salt, mashed tomatoes with seasoning (often garlic, sometimes you change the tomatoes for gazpacho if you feel fancy) and jamón serrano (or iberico if you can afford it), plus a glass of milk. Other regions use cheese and/or regular ham, some just straight up make a sandwich with meat and pepper. Basically we eat miniature morning sandwiches really. Which may seem weird I guess but they're really good.
Here in Argentina we don't do that, we make some mate cocido or tea, coffee or even Mate to drink and just eat some bread with butter or jam, dulce de leche, things like that (or just bread or toasted bread) or cookies and we usually prefer to make bacon or fried eggs for lunch or dinner but never on the breakfast or merienda.. Never. Besides we would never eat it together because one plate and we would be already full, also.... What even is Ihop? 😶
A critical thing a lot of people don't know! Is that for most people (especially if you have or are developing Diabetes 2), our insulin control and processing system is still asleep during breakfast and requires *double the amount* of insulin per sugar/carb consumed.
What does this mean for these people? A sugary breakfast is a massive contributor to consistent high sugar and insulin levels in your system, leading to a faster development of diabetes 2. Also if you have diabetes 2, any early breakfast with carbs can shoot your sugars twice as high as you'd expect! 😮
That´s interesting. How long does the system usually take to "wake up" ? Usually i eat breakfast around an hour after i woke up because most times i´m not hungry immedeadly after waking up.
@@paha4209 No idea but I don't eat until my body gives the signal. I don't like to force it awaken, I just wait until it happens and my stomach grumbles. Usually around 1-2 pm. The only times I force food in the morning is when I have a very active day ahead of me.
I never eat breakfast because I’m never hungry in the morning
I don’t know where you got that information from but that’s not true. Not for people with diabetes nor for healthy people. It wasn’t true during my education in the early 2000s nor did I find any reputable study which was reproduced supporting your claims. Also, NONE of our bodies systems are „asleep“ at any point. They might have peaks and lows depending on certain circumstances but every aspect of our metabolism functions automatically.
The diabetes guidelines used to recommend a basis insulin therapy of 2/3 in the morning and 1/3 in the evening, in reality only a small percentage of patients (about 8%) actually have to follow this guideline and most spread it out equally. So not even people with diabetes have to use more insulin in the morning!
There have been studies which tried to look into the effects of the circadian rhythm of human bodies as it was unclear if earlier studies with rodents were applicable. They showed the contrary of your claims and I quote for more accuracy: „Using a range of experimental protocols, studies in humans report circadian rhythms in glucose, insulin, glucose tolerance, lipid levels, energy expenditure, and appetite. Several of these rhythms peak in the biological morning or early afternoon, implicating earlier in the daytime as optimal for food intake.“
On that note, many (especially old) studies regarding diabetes but also other dietetics and medicine - and many other sciences- topics fall into the „crisis in science“ category. A huge number of studies aren’t replicable. It’s one thing if physics struggles to reproduce outcomes but it’s a big deal in medicine and dietetics. People have been following guidelines without any actual reason.
While it’s clear our diet has a lot to do with diabetes, it’s actually not that clear that the amount of sugar we eat plays the biggest role after all. It will need a lot more and different research to find out the truth. Scientists will have to include factors like genetics and epigenetics, the influence of many different factors like hormones, sex, age, physical activities, stress, mental health and much more. It’s very likely that diabetes type 2 is the outcome of a multitude of physiological factors. We will have to look at the individual much more, it’s a shame how seldom professionals do that now.
The reason I write all that is to prevent you from falling for sensationalism and cherry picking from scientists or media outlets. Just because a scientist has an OPINION doesn’t mean they‘re right.
If it works for you personally to avoid breakfast, please go for it! But don’t spread misinformation, not even with good intentions. Much love to you
@@juliaspoonie3627 It is called Dawn phenomena, and while it is not well understood, it is a real thing. Please stop spreading misinformation on topics you don't understand and clearly are not qualified to "debunk"
_"The cause of the dawn phenomenon isn't clear. Some researchers believe the overnight release of certain hormones that happens _*_naturally increases insulin resistance. That causes blood sugar to rise._*_ The hormones are called counter-regulatory hormones because they have an effect that opposes the effect of insulin. They include growth hormone, cortisol, glucagon and epinephrine"_ *-Mayo Clinic*
Toast with butter and either marmalade or marmite is a common British breakfast. Cereal is too especially porridge when it is cold.
Ryan may think you meant you eat cold porridge !! (He is renowned for misunderstanding words / sentences which we see as clearly written!!)
I went to America on a work trip some time ago. First place we stayed was in Florida and it was a proper hotel. Most of us had cereal or waffles, but one guy saw there was a steak breakfast and he had to try it - he spent the rest of the day with a bellyache as his guts rejected the unexpected load. Second place was a Holiday Inn in Boston - we came down and there was a buffet of donuts plus a variety of cereals in dayglo colours. I got a headache just looking at them, never mind eating them.
On the other hand, the UK is just as guilty when it comes to hotel breakfasts. A 'full English' hotel breakfast will put you in a protein coma.
No, it won't. A full English breakfast on holiday, will set you up for a long journey, or just having a light lunch.
The English breakfast is pretty good in my opinion as long as you skip the beans and add some proper bread. Eggs, bacon and sausage are a great way to start the day for me.
an old saying in Germany :
You must eat In the morning like an emperor, at noon like a king and in the evening like a beggar
Yes if you work in a coal mine 😉
With 9-5 jobs this isn’t possible, time wise. Most people’s main meal is in the evening when they have time to prepare and cook a proper plate of food
in czech the saying goes.. brekfast eat all yourself, you share the lunch with your friend and you give supper to your enemy.. interesting🙋🇨🇿
I'm sorry - doughnuts. For breakfast. What?????? Is that real? How is there anyone left without diabetes? Cereals are big in the UK too for a quick breakfast and people moan that they contain too much sugar, but I'm sure they are much less than the US equivalents. And we don't have all the bright colours so we're not filling our kids with E numbers too.
As a foreigner, I feel everything in the US can be traced down to capitalism and big corporations.
Eating before bed isn't even bad. Maybe give yourself a little bit of time to digest but studies have shown that it doesnt matter when you eat, rather what you eat. I cant remember the exact studies but Dr Mike Israetel made a video and referenced many studies and discussed the topic too.
Edit: Also, there's a stigma that carbs are unhealthy. They're not. Too many calories and not exercising is unhealthy. Carbs are literally our source of energy. For breakfast this morning I had plum tomatoes on toast.
If I eat too heavy a meal in the evening then my sleep will not be good, but that is after a certain point of the evening (anything after 8) so to amend that me and my partner eat dinner around 6 and then I just eat a plain sandwich with cheese or a small bowl of fruit salad later on (8-9) before bed.
But breakfast is a absolute must for me or I will not wake up xD
I usually dont eat breakfast but instead I have second dinner around 10 or 11 in the evening, a few hours before bedtime. A second hot meal with lots of vegetables and some protein is much healthier than having a meal that is mostly bread.
For lunch I usually drink a protein shake that I mix myself without any sugar, artificial flavoring or food coloring, just some whey protein powder, shredded oats, a little bit of maltodextrin for the carbs, and some other supplements like fish oil powder and vitamins.
Its really cheap, gets me through the day and it takes a few minutes to make a mix that I use for a week. Buying bread and ham or cheese is ridiculously expensive these days where I live, a loaf of bread costs ~2 euro, pack of butter ~2,50, 100g sliced ham is ~3 euro and cheese is 15 euro/kg. Shrinkflation is real.
what you call "cereal" for breakfast is an ultra processed food and at the end is no more a cereal. it has become almost candies.
When I grew up (Sweden), I was always told the very same: breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
Now, once I've grown up... my typical choice in the morning is only one cup of coffee before I take our kid to kindergarten and then I'm off to work, and eat a fairly hearty lunch; usually leftovers from yesterday's dinner.
But a typical breakfast here in Sweden, I'd say that would consist of toast and/or crisp bread with cold cuts, like ham or Salami, and cheese, yogurt or filmjölk with cereal or müsli and coffee or tea. And a lot of people also have a small cup or glass of juice with their breakfast too. Oatmeal with jam is also very popular
I had gestational diabetes and I learned fast that eating a poor breakfast could completely destroy Your day. Not only is Your body more vulnarable to sugar in the morning, spiking and needing more insulin, but fast digestion of sugar meant You spent the whole day sudenly getting ravenous, eating snacks, repeating ghe whole process.
Breakfast is most important because it can make Your whole day a slipery slope of sugar.
Once I had pancakes with syrup, eggs and bacon for breakfast while in the US. I was more hungry afterwards... I really like sweet cereal but more like a weekend treat. Normally I have overnight oats or bread for breakfast.
I'm reminded of my childhood here in Scotland in the 1980s. My sister and I would often eat toast cut into "soldiers" that you could dip into a soft boiled egg. Very fun to eat and still have it from time to time.
Sometimes we'd also have porridge as made the Scottish way (ie zero sugar), just some oats, water, salt and some milk added after they were ready. I'm still very much an adherent to porridge though I must admit, Golden Grahams did tempt me for a while when I was a teenager.
I live in Europe, on a small island in the Baltic Sea only reachable by a 2 hours ferry. On christmas one year the snow was so massive by arrival that everybody outside of walking distance from the harbour had to stay overnight on the ferry. In the morning the restaurant only had coffee and tea for the adults, some cake, and lots of french fries for the kids.
Most of those children never forget that christmas morning, where they got french fries and cake for breakfast. It made a bigger impression than the fact that they didn’t reach their family destination with presents, christmas tree and all :-D
So… it’s not normal for us to eat potatoes or cake for breakfast here in Europe.
"dinner breakfast" is what I know as brunch, (although it's also advertised as breakfast buffet) ... as *part* of a giant buffet you take your time partaking in. Although, admittedly, I mostly go there for the stuff I don't get every day. Scrambled eggs, bacon, little pancakes, maple syrup... I won't go so far to call it 'exotic', but it's certainly special.
Every office day? I get a croissant with cheese and ham at the train station.
I'm British, the best thing I ever did was switch to porridge (oatmeal) , every morning (yes even summer). It keeps me feeling full for the next 8 hours. My entire eating window is about 10 hours a day. Nowadays I have a flat stomach, and never feel bloated, and just feel way better than I used to. (Cereal, sugar, toast and marmalade was my old breakfast). I'll just add, that if I ate pancakes for breakfast, I would feel absolutely terrible FOR HOURS. They make me super bloated, and I hate that feeling.
Oatmeal is the best ! I'm used to eat porridge in the morning and I get supercharged and I don't need food untill noon.
When you say “British”, do you mean “English”? Because if you were Scottish or Northern Irish, it’s unlikely you wouldn’t have had a “porridge era”previously.
Welsh? Who knows? Laverbread?
Same, I've had porridge for breakfast for decades. Usually with fruit.
I was a fairly tall little girl, so I was an appetite on legs as a child. I was never overweight. I just needed to fuel my body. As an adult, I'm pretty good at reading my body and knowing when I've had enough. I only eat breakfast if I absolutely have to. I'm a night owl, and my brain as well as my stomach take at least an hour to start functioning properly. I like a big brunch and a light dinner in the evening. I have a sweet tooth, but I don't like that kind of thing for breakfast. Although back in my teenage years and early 20s. My friends and I would have a breakfast that would give a dietitian a nightmare after waking up after one of our slumber parties. We had a lot of those. Breakfast was whatever leftover junk food we found from the night before. Mum was pretty cool. She knew and liked my friends as well as their families. She was happy for me to invite them over and bring some food, etc, with them to share. I didn't have a best friend as a teenager, I had three close ones. We're still friends to this day. We started viewing each other's parents as our own. My big sister was also adopted. But we didn't exclude anybody from our group of girls.
My minimum breakfast would be unsweetened cereal 1/2 teaspoon of natural honey and full cream milk
Where are you from?
Your reactions get better and better! Your good humoured sneering is infectious. Are you sure you’re not British?!😂
I think very few people here give their children Cookie Crisps for breakfast. Many people normally just eat bread.
In Germany, the sweet stuff is more likely to be given by families who don't care about the children's health, the main for them is quick and the child eats it. But that is not the norm.
Bread with topping and sliced vegetables are more common.
Sometimes croissants, milk rolls, pickles or mozzarella as an extra.
Many people don't eat breakfast or eat at work.
There is often a big breakfast on the weekends then.
Or Müsli for the kids
German here, people with sweet tooth eat sweet breakfast and the others not. Simple as that. Nothing to do with social background.
@@lilg2300 If you as a parent give your children this pure sugar stuff, it's not just because parents are the sugar typ.
It is simply no coincidence that children from a family poorer backgrounds have more tooth decay or rotten teeth.
This comes from sweet drinks and sugary breakfasts.
Dentists know this all too well.
how does one eat bread normally..? Do you mean with a knife & fork?
@@stirlingmoss4621 ah, well i fixed it. I mean it that way
I am epileptic, and in my youth, it was discovered that I was most prone to attacks when my blood sugar was at its lowest which was between 3am and breakfast. I always had to have 2 biscuits (cookies) with some milk before bed. It was explained to my parents that if you eat, as most people do, your evening meal at say 7pm it is then the longest time you go without consuming anything. Also, while you are asleep your digestive system is at its slowest so is not converting that food to sugars etc. for the good of your body. So having a good breakfast is very important and it kick starts your metabolism and digestion and makes you function much better mentally and physically early in the morning. Therefore, it is the most important meal.
I have epilepsy and that’s when I’m most likely to have a seizure too, if I have low blood sugar
A lot of countries do very sweet breakfasts, such as danish pastries. Although not healthy, I’d be made up with that 👍🏻 but not every day. It’s nice when you’re abroad though, to see what they have at a buffet for breakfast and indulge whilst you’re there
I dont have epilepsy but I get really cranky and tired when I have low blood sugar. It runs in the family. I avoid this nightly dip by having second dinner around 11PM. Some people say eating before bed is unhealthy but those people dont have my metabolism.
NOW I KNOW WHY THE AMERICANS ,DON'T GROW OLD !!!!
Not all American eat sugary things for breakfast.
The animals we create are morally equivalent to our own children and are owed the same unconditional love and protection. The experiences of animals are real and matter. Their suffering is identical in nature to your own. It harms us when we take pleasure in cruelty and violence.
Intelligent creatures do not belong on your plate.
Ryan, after sleeping for about 8 hours your body needs fuel. What it doesn’t need is sugar, fat and empty calories.
I agree about the sugar being empty calories but fat? Fat is so important to the body, though not those awful veg and seed oils. Nuts, avocados, animal fats - all saturated fats - are great for keeping body and mind going
Sugar and fat are pure fuel my friend 😄
Do you ever stop talking,just look and try to take note and learn
As an Australian I have crepes or pancakes maybe twice a year for breakfast/brunch and never eat processed cereals. Oats, muesli, yoghurt, berries, eggs, bacon, traditional English, fruit and vegetable smoothies, avocado on toast - many nicer breakfast options.
In Australia I grew up eating vegemite on toast for breakfast, or bacon and eggs on toast. The only sweet things were occasionally having a slice of toast with jam. The cereals we had , and only occasionally ate were weet bix (bugger all sugar) or cornflakes. We had froot loops and coco pops occasionally, but I used to eat those for desert after tea (evening meal)
It's odd that he doesn't even mention the etymology of the word 'breakfast', in that it breaks the fast your body's being undergoing while you've been asleep. Also, high-sugar cereals and pancakes etc. are notoriously bad for you. As an example, for my breakfast I generally have a bowl of cereal - Weetabix, this morning - and a cup of coffee. With the cereal I have semi-skimmed milk and no sugar. My coffee's black without sugar. Is that healthy? It's certainly healthier than pancakes, waffles and doughnuts smothered in maple syrup. Also, here in the UK, we have strict rules on ingredients such as sugar and fats which help ensure a more balanced nutrition.
Of course, I enjoy a full English as much as the next person, but not every day. In fact, a soft-boiled egg with soldiers was a regular breakfast when I was a lad, although again not every day.
Breakfast is important because it helps restart your digestive system when you wake up. Plus, if it's nutritious enough, you won't need to eat anything else until lunchtime. Frankly, just because a cereal company has financed a study it doesn't necessarily follow that the study is flawed. More often than not it is, but not in every case.
I also belong to the not eating breakfast after getting up in the morning group. It started when I got into my teens, I literally could not eat breakfast without having the feeling that something was wrong with my stomach, even just drinking a glass of still or tap water was impossible. It has mellowed out again after I got over twenty but I still don't like to eat early, I prefer eating something small (a bread roll with either sausage or jam) three hours after I wake up. Before that I loved eating Kellogs with milk or milk and cocoa for breakfast, if I could persuade my parents to get some since bread or bread rolls with sausage, cheese or jam are the norm where I grew up.
Much rather have a Full English - you really need some sort of veg to balance things.
I had pancakes with maple syrup once, about 45 years ago and it was revoltingly sweet, to this day that was the only time I have had maple syrup and possibly the last time I have had pancakes. I don't really like sweet things, and looking at those fruit loops, probably half the food colouring used is carcinogenic so they wouldn't tempt me to try them, they are another thing I have never tasted in my 60 years.
I loved your dry and unironic reaction at 11:45. "Why would you take that out? ... It's not even healthy. Usually we just cut out the healthy stuff." XD
But to be more on topic: I'm from The Netherlands, and I've personally have been eating a pretty similar breakfast for the past decade (except for the different condiments on top of it), which is a 'Peperkoek' and either two 'crackers' or a one 'cracker' and one 'beschuit'. I'm not even sure how to describe them, since they're all three typical Dutch things, but I guess 'crackers' are best compared to very hard toast (not to be confused with little crackers/biscuits you have as snacks); 'beschuit' (translates to 'rask') to a very fluffy and light toast (like toasted buns instead of slices of bread, kinda, but different..); and 'peperkoek' (translated as gingerbread) I don't even know how to describe.. It looks similar to gingerbread, but I feel like gingerbreads are overall oven baked and harder, whereas a 'peperkoek' is more mushy and reminds me of a peanut butter texture when eating..
Either way, seeing that dish with four thick American pancakes with additional ice; sugar; honey; and whatever else was on there: I wouldn't even be able to finish that plate even if I'm very hungry as dinner. 😅Our Dutch pancakes are A LOT thinner, and I usually eat like 2-3 (although tbf, I do have them with apples or bananas). Let alone as breakfast. And a donut as breakfast just sounds silly to me. Then again, the typical UK breakfast with sausages, beans, eggs, mushrooms, etc. is also more dinner than breakfast for me.
I've never commented on this subject before, but how many times did you actually pause this video?
You let it play for 0.5 seconds and then pause it again. I mean WTF?
It's a reaction video, I get it. But this was ridiculous.
Try and watch it back yourself and not get annoyed... also you weren't even listening. I wouldn't usually even comment but you got my goat with this one, babe.
✌❤🏴🇬🇧🏳️🌈 xxx
Sausage and Egg donut sandwich is what my nephew loves for breakfast and I worry what his health will be in 5 yrs when he turns 18
In Israel, we eat salad (cucumber, tomatoes, olives, peppers, cut into tiny cubes, served with olive oil and fresh lemon juice), cottage cheese and bread. Maybe add a scrambled or poached egg. I find American breakfast shocking.
I'm eating morning cake while watching this (granted, it's 5 pm :))))) I'm European, yet functioning on a US time zone ....it's morning there. :D Anyway, I actually discovered I love eating sweets, like cake, not chocolate or candy (and usually homemade cake) right before eating the actual savory food. Yum.
Yet I will mention my morning routine is lazy and long. It's more like a ritual and it takes a few hours. I have time to enjoy my dessert, then cook my breakfast - eat it, and then savour my coffee. Plus I start off with just drinking water or aloe vera gel and not eating anything for the first hour of the day. That's because I can. If I was going to work in the morning and had to wake up early for that, I would not be having this as a morning routine. :)
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P.S. I have been to IHop and it was kind of gross. While I like sweet before my breakfast, I don't like my breakfast sweet ....if that makes sense. :)))
I do not quite get the point of that video? I mean he is not really/only complaining about the healthiness of the american breakfast, but about the breakfast culture that suggests only a narrow spectrum of choices. But that is literally the case everywhere in the world. Every culture has its own breakfast culture that only caters the few who like it.
I think it would be a great cultural change if Americans just skipped breakfast completely.
Fun thing is, we have these places called pancake houses in the Netherlands. They, as expected, serve pancakes. Very popular to take your kids out to for dinner. Used to be they had pancakes with powdered sugar, syrup, bacon, apple, etc. Things you would expect on pancakes.
Then the tourists came and now you can order pancakes with Nutella, pancakes with minced meat, pancakes with god knows what. If something edible exists, there's a place in Amsterdam that will put it on a pancake and charge you 20 bucks for it. And its spreading through the whole country. Disgusting. Shamefur dispray.
There's an American reactor who now lives in England...and I was utterly gobsmacked on a couple of occasions when he spoke about "kid's food" - referring to everything that is considered hideously bad for kids. All those artificial "cereals", sugar content that is ott even for adults, harmful additives, colourings etc. with no nutrient value. Or the ghastly and equally rubbish "kid's meals" in cheap food places: alway accompanied by chips/fries, brightly coloured, artificial sauces, fats and oils.
This guy has a girlfriend now and I often wonder about what he'll do if he has children? Will he fill the cupboards with all this junk and feed it to his own kids because it's "kid's food" even though he's fully aware of what harm they cause to the human body? Strange.
During workdays I eat musli with seeds, freshly chopped nuts, blueberries (or gold kiwi) and greek yoghurt. No added sugar or honey. And a cup of green tea. During the weekends I eat unhealthy with fresh orange juice and a croissant with jam, honey or apple syrup. And a cup of coffee (real coffee, not the American kind), without sugar. I don’t add sugar, I will get enough sugar in all other food. An American breakfast is something I wouldn’t even eat to celebrate something, too much of …. well, everything.
I like to watch tourists visiting Stockholm and Sweden in general. Saw an americans video and every morning he ate pastry for breakfast. Wtf? 🤦♂️
Adults should be able to choose whether to eat/not eat breakfast if they wish…….But NO CHILD should be going to school on an empty stomach!
In Sweden we usually eat sandwiches with cheese and/or ham or turkey and usually with sliced vegetables like cucumber, bell peppers or tomatoes, or oatmeal with milk and jam (sweet yes, but there are low fat options), maybe some boiled eggs, or sour milk/kefir (like sour cream but it being milk instead and way less fatty) with müsli or cereal (and with way less sugar than American cereal even if it is the same brand). Fried foods are usually not breakfast here.
Today for breakfast, I'm having toast with smoked mackerell in tomato sauce and a cup of coffee with milk and no sugar.
My favourite breakfast: Toast with avocado, tomatoes, olive oil and oregano 😊. I’m Swedish, it’s not a Swedish dish, but that’s what I like 🤷♀️. On weekends, bacon and scrambled eggs 😋.
British here. I like avocado on toast, but for lunch.
Like many other Germans in the comments, I grew up with mainly sliced bread or bread rolls and cold cuts for breakfast. I ate some cereal for a short bit when I was rather little but soon grew to find it disgusting and bland. I know people who ate way too much cereal well into adulthood but I never understood that myself. I mean nowadays I'm having trouble eating anything in the morning and eating enough from healthy foods (I have virtually 0 hunger....not really but compared to others), which is honestly pretty bad for an athlete but back when I ate like a normal person, not just for performance, cold cuts and bread rolls were awesome. Couple hearty bread rolls, sliced sausage (whether it be meat or not), sliced tomatoes and sliced cucumber, now that's the shit right there.
I cannot remember a time I ate breakfast cereal. Wholemeal toast (bread home made) has been a default for years. Sometimes fruit and plain yoghurt, or avocado, or eggs or cured meat or mushrooms. And yet I still got diabetes.
As a French adult, I don't regularly eat breakfast, but when I do (probably around 3 times a week or so), it's a coffee, one or 2 slices of bread, spread with very thin butter and a bit of jam, or sometimes bread with Nutella. Or, if not bread, then a yogurt and a fruit. We don't eat savory food for breakfast as a rule, don't ask me why, it just feels super wrong xD (although when travelling it's always fun to try)
Personally I love traditional Japanese breakfast. White rice and some kind of Miso soup are usually the base then add some kind of fish, fruit, pickled vegetables, maybe an egg (sometimes boiled, sometimes raw to add to the rice) and if you can stand it Natto (I can't.).
To be fair, things you call "desserts" makes me gag as an European. Sure cakes covered in layers upon layers of sugar glaze look cute, but the taste, my dude! Do You, guys, just ommit foundant and the actual cake? But then you cut the cake and it's filled with unnatural colour. Even, the most famous one, the red velvet, is coloured not by beet juice, but some crushed beetles instead. Gross! Ohh, and I have yet to find a tasty cup cake recipe to bake - it's either tasteless, prepped for being covered with cream toppings or too much sugary.
Mmmm Belgium waffle…….only had them in Belgium, for desert.
In Australia we have the pancake parlor but it’s not somewhere we go very often. It sounds nicer than it is. Al way a bit disappointed afterwards. I prefer my pancakes thin with lemon and honey but my usual breakfast is a piece or two of Vegemite toast and coffee😊
Honestly the breakfast video should have said North Americans; rather than just Americans because that breakfast is also very Canadian.. sadly.
So I live in Paris & one thing we don't lack at every corner are boulangeries. Problem is, all seem to serve sugary things as to go options in the morning, aside from the croissant, which annoys me so much! I actually begged the bakery on my street to make something simple with just bread and cheese (no flaky gets everywhere on your clothes stuff) & I once commiserated with a colleague from the middle east on the lack of savory options in the morning...
I am so not a morning person, I get hungry an hour after I woke up at least, & sugary food to start the day (or any meal really) irritates my stomach. For work reasons, my family lived in a country influenced by the US as I was growing up, so the fast option to feed kids before school was milk & cereal. & guess what, I also have a mild intolerance to milk that I didn't know about then.... My stomach was constantly unhappy with me & I freakin hated it. (I don't have issues with yogurt, cheese, food made with milk, anything as long as the milk was transformed in some way, at least, nothing glaringly noticeable most days). Now I know that I need low lactose milk with a bit of chocolate powder if I want to drink it, & don't eat it daily or at breakfast usually. It's a winter treat for when I'm feeling cold & need a snack. & I sometime add low calorie (aka low sugar) whole grains cereals with dry red fruits & mango for the fun of it. Just never, ever in the morning. Too marked by bad memories for that even after more than 20 years, + my annoying stomach.
These days, I just find myself forced to make a dry cheese & ham sandwich the night before because I rarely have a Paul on my way (they have bretzels with cheese), & being a not morning person, I need everything ready the night before so I can sleep as long as possible.
I just wish there were more savory options to go, sigh
Mornings are too early for food. My metabolism doesn't kick in until 1pm. At which point a tuna sandwich or similar will do just nicely.
edit: If I do eat breakfast, it is squirrel.
Right now my fav breakfast (I only have time for this at weekends) is home baked bread toasted+little olive oil+sauerkraut on top. With some tea, preferably sg cinnamon-ginger etc
I'm European, I've never eaten anything similar to American breakfast but I still don't like or eat breakfast. It's just that I eat protein and healthy fats rich meals for dinner so I'm not at all hungry in the morning. I drink coffee as early as I can but my first meal of the day is almost always lunch. Also, American pancakes are just huge. In my country 4 traditional pancakes would be equal to one American pancake. And you guys eat multiple of them. With butter. And syrup. Which is crazy for me because pancakes are sweet by itselves and often fried in butter.
We also have healthy alternatives to cereal in Europe, for example muesli, which is dried oats with some dried fruit and nuts in between, which can be eaten with milk or yoghurt. Its high in fiber. Alternatively, warm oatmeal porridge is a traditional breakfast dish as well in many countries, but personally I think it tastes terribly.
And by the way, even the standard boring Kelloggs conrflakes are like 20% sugar. Sugar is a part of the chemical manufacturing process of cornflakes. You cant make them without it. So those arent even healthy.
Most nutritionists will tell you the ‘breakfast is the most important meal’ myth is…a myth, except for kids.
Here in Australia Vegemite toast is pretty popular for breakfast. The most advertised breakfast cereal is probably Weetbix, their slogan is ‘Aussie kids are Weetbix kids’. As a cereal it is very plain and not sugary but it is popular. Avocado toast, porridge, muesli and boiled eggs with toast are right up there. Pancakes, bacon and eggs and so on are usually for weekends or breakfast out somewhere.
I stopped eating breakfast years ago. I, too, was duped into thinking I had to eat breakfast, but it used to make me feel sick. So now, lunch is my first meal of the day. Recently, I found out that there is a name for this on TH-cam by American TH-cam doctors, "intermittent fasting"! Who knew...I just thought it was me making a decision to not eat breakfast because I wasn't hungry then and it made me feel sick!
English pancakes are similar to French crepes. Scotch pancakes are more like American pancakes, but not quite as rich or fluffy. There are more healthy cereals in Britain and less of the sweet gimmicky ones.
Gaufres Liegeois, or what you call waffles, are not any meal type of food. It is a snack !!! Something this bloke got wrong. They are very good, but only with a little bit of topping never way too much.
My grandparents were farmers in the Iberian Peninsula. My mother used to tell me that when she was a child, and her parents would get up in the morning to work in the fields, their breakfast was simply a soup, warmed over the fire. I'm starting to think, well, maybe it wasn't such a bad idea. Then came the switch, influenced by North America, and almost everyone started eating much sweeter, even in Europe.