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Editor’s note: This is the first of what I hope will be many Meebo blog posts in a foreign language. Meebo users are from all over the world, and our office is no exception. Here, Marcus writes in his native Swedish about the difference between breakfast in Sweden and in the USA. Marcus has provided an English translation below. Thanks for reading!
När jag satte mig ner för att äta frukost imorse slog det mig hur mycket min svenska frukost skiljer sig från min amerikanska. Nu är jag nyfiken på era frukostvanor! Vad utmärker dem?
I Sverige där jag växte upp, äter jag oftast detta till frukost:
* Bröd med smör och svensk hårdost – Västerbottenost är helt klart min favorit!
* En eller två koppar svart bryggkaffe (visste ni att samtliga Skandinaviska länder tillhör de tio länder i världen som konsumerar mest kaffe per capita?).
* En skål yoghurt med müsli.
I USA där jag bor, äter jag vanligtvis annat till frukost:
* En rostad bagel – jag föredrar bagels med sesamfrön eller lök ovanpå – med cream cheese, tomater och groddar. Den godaste bageln serveras helt klart i New York!
* Ägg – stekta tills de är krispiga – med bacon och/eller korv. Och tabasco. Massor av tabasco! Ägg och bacon är inte ägg och bacon utan tabasco!
* En eller två koppar kaffe (dock inte lika gott som svenskt kaffe – amerikanskt kaffe behöver definitivt mjölk).
Vad äter alla ni till frukost? Och när ni varit ute och rest, vad har folk ätit till frukost i de länder ni besökt? Berätta gärna i kommentarerna!
Vi ses på meebo!
ps. Tack till Mårten för korrekturläsning av Svenskan!
-Marcus
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This morning I woke up and it struck me as I sat down to have breakfast how different breakfast is in Sweden and the US. I am curious to hear what breakfast is like where you are from!
In Sweden, where I was born and raised, my typical breakfast consists of
* A slice of bread, spread with butter and topped by a slice of hard cheese – the stronger, more throat-itching cheese the better!
* A cup or two of black coffee (The four Scandinavian countries are all in the world’s top 10 coffee-consuming countries per capita! Wikipedia)
* A bowl of yoghurt and müsli
Meanwhile, in the states, my breakfast will be something like
* A bagel with cream cheese, preferably sesame or onion, toasted, with fresh tomatoes and sprouts. Bagels are good everywhere, but the NY ones are always the best!
* Eggs, preferably sunny side up, with bacon and/or sausage, cooked until right before they get crispy. And hot sauce. Lots of hot sauce. Eggs ‘n bacon breakfast is not eggs n’ bacon breakfast without hot sauce.
* A cup or two of coffee (You can take the Swede out of Sweden, but I guess you can’t take the coffee out of the Swede!)
I wonder: where you are from, does breakfast differ from my American and Swedish breakfasts? What do you have for breakfast?
See you all on meebo!
-Marcus
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January 2nd, 2009 at 8:53 am
Takk! I’ve spent a wee bit of time in Sweden and it’s always fun to reach into the back of my brain and try to remember the bit of the language that I learned when I was there. I also spent some time in Norway, so I tend to get the two confused now that I never get to use my norsk or my svensk. Anyway, this was a fun little bit of nostalgia for my hectic morning.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:15 am
Vid forsta anblick pa meebo jag tyckde att jag var fortforande i sverige! Jag var en utbytestudent i uppsala sista aret och jag saknar det jattemycket. Och nu jag kommar ihag hur gott frukost var i sverige, men jag beroende av svenskkaffe. Mina kompisar hatar det.. mer for jag!
At first glace at meebo I though I was still in sweden! I was an exchange student in Uppsala last year and I miss it so much. And now I remember how awesome breakfast in Sweden, but I am addicted to Swedish coffee. My friends hate it.. more for me!
(Sorry if my Swedish wasn’t that great.. not many Swedish speakers in Southern Illinois.)
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:19 am
I think it is a fun idea b/c i have fun trying to say the words it sounds funny. i love u all by
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:49 am
Hej hej! My dad is swedish so I have had a lot of the swedish breakfasts. A lot of time when we are in sweden we have the danish or Filmjölk with kanel and sugar. Here we tend to have toast with cheese or just butter, or if we have a bit more time…cereal. Both places we have A LOT of coffee!
There is a difference between swedish and english bread though. Swedish bread has a lot more substance to it…and swedish cheese is just amazing! Whenever my swedish family come here the bring sweets, little cinnamon rolls, bread and cheese.
The different language posts sound like a good idea!
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:52 am
breakfast in japan is a lot different then America. in japan you get a lot more little thing then just a main course (like eggs and bacon…and apparently hot sauce). and coffee is not very prominent, lots of tea though. also i dont think we have anything with seafood in it for breakfast here…. they do. <3 lana
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
hey marcus and meebo team!
Godt nytt år til dere!
im a filipina in oslo and it was nice reading your blog:-)
breakfast here in norway is the same as yours back in Sweden, while in the Philippines, the menu usually includes fried rice, fried eggs and bacons or some hotdogs( the last two are limited to the affluent, or can-afford ones), a cup of coffee and some fruits:)
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:41 am
but meebo is awesome!
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:04 am
whats up? i think yhat is an awesome idea=]
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:15 am
I was born and raised in the Los Angeles area but now I live in Houston. Anyway, my breakfast usually consists of a bowl of cereal and a glass of orange juice, except when my mom made breakfast, then I got pancakes with maple syrup and milk. When I visit my family in Chile we usually have eggs (I always take mine scrambled), fruit and toast with some sort of jam or jelly. P.S. Meebo is the best, I’m voting for it everyday!
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:16 am
Well I am originally from California but I have been living in Vienna for a little over a year now, the breakfasts are very different here, not just the breakfasts but food in general.
A few of my Austrian friends have commented on how Americans are so meat obsessed, which confused me a little (Maybe its because I know that LA is, for the most part a pretty health conscious area) because I know that people eat meat in America, but in Austria they eat meat with practically every meal and not only that, but they put meat on meat. I remember I ordered grilled chicken somewhere and on top was a few slices of ham. I’m guessing it was ham but I’m not completely sure because when I ask people they almost never seem to know.
Anyway I’ll wrap this up. The breakfast here is usually cold bread with some meat, or butter and maybe some yogurt and coffee. But always meat.
well, Guten Tag!
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Here in Washington DC. I have two eggs over easy medium for breakfast, turkey bacon, or turkey sausage. Then i may have oatmeal, grits, or a toast.
Sometimes i like the grits and i dip my toast in the grits
There are many days when i have a boiled egg, crush it in sweet oatmeal and crumble turkey bacon over top of it. lol and mix it…sounds gross but really good when you make it with Apple Oatmeal.
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Hey, I am from Germany and most of us would definitely refuse something like bacon or sausages for breakfast! Meat is very unusual for us, we prefer sweet stuff in the morning. Typical german breakfast:
- buns with jam or honey
- coffee, tea, cacao, pure milk, juice
- cereals (very often and we can be very creative)
- sometimes fruits
- eggs (but most of the time only cooked)
Hope that you can enjoy a German breakfast one day
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:47 pm
in britian we do continental because there’s not much British about a brunch anymore huh? we have herbal tea, or earl grey, lattes or black coffee at least 2 cups of each, pan au chocolat, bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon (always, bagels even in the car to work or walking to school) or a cooked breakfast; scrambles eggs/sunny side up, sausage, bacon, hash brown, mushrooms, beans, tomatoes and those who can actually eat it have black pudding.
In the winter its nice to have hot horriage and maple syrup
and on any occasion the excuse for blue berry, choc chip pankcake
believe it or not i try an avoid breakfast but on weekends im not up til 12 so i guess when i do i treat it like breakfast but its lunch lmao
xx
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I live in Lexington, Ky. and for breakfaast, I usually fix my kids eggs and bacon with toast and jelly. Or on a school day, they will eat cereal or a toaster streudel and milk or O.J. And I fix biscuits and gravy, and the works on Sundays, usually for brunch…
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Funny, the other day, I was thinking the same thing about breakfast. I was eating my over-easy eggs, potatoes, toast, and two cups of coffee. I told my boyfriend that in Mexico, our breakfast consisted of mexican sweet bread and Abuela hot chocolate. I was happy and fulfilled back in the days and a lot thinner.
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:04 pm
I’m a Southern Californian but with my mom being full filipino I’ve grown up with american food and filipino.
A typical filipino breakfast when I was a kid:
-scrambled eggs
-filipino fried rice (which only consists of rice, salt, and garlic)
-toyo (dried salted fish)
or:
-longaneza (a type of sweet sausage)
-eggs
-rice
And since my dad was mexican:
-chille quilles (fried corn tortillas with egg
-beans
or:
Menudo at my Grandpa’s on weekends!
p.s. my favorite american breakfast:
-bacon
-eggs
-toast
-o.j.
^_^
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I was in Poland during the Winter once when I was younger and for breakfast I ate scrambled eggs, toast with plum jam, oatmeal and drank a tea(I don’t remember what kind). Mind you, I didn’t eat much at all when I was younger, especially meat, so the rest of my family ate differently with kielbasa, tomatoes, different cheeses and other meats on or with bread.
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:31 pm
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January 2nd, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Good job! I offer myself to write in Portuguese too!
Congrats for the great job!
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Being Chinese… many people think we eat noodles or dumplings for breakfast… which is NOT so.
Usually on weekdays my family just eats:
-cereal with milk
-soy milk (if we are feeling healthy)
-bread with butter
-eggs with hashbrowns and/or sausage
-DONUTS!! *yum*
But on weekends when we have azian pride… we mostly eat:
-rice porridge with different dim sum dishes and “zha cai”(which is a type of salty marinated vegetable)
-”yuan xiao” (a sticky riceball stuffed with red bean paste, or peanut paste, or sesame paste, or black sesame paste)
-and yes, occasionally, we do eat wontons (soup”dumplings”)
-PEACE!
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Hej Hej!! Late God Jul (was it like that?)… I’ve spent six months in Lund and it was awesome in Mexico breakfast depends on time and who u are. For ex. me as a student with no time at all i eat cereal, bread anything on it (butter, jam, ham) and COFFEE if I visit my parents it would be more elaborated like eggs, coffee and fruit and fresh orange juice…
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
i am from ukraine but moved to the US. breakfast there wasnt the same. back home we didnt really have the breakfast cerals, in stead my mother made eggs, toast (always rye), we had salo on the toast, a kind of spread almost like butter but its madefrom fat. it also wasnt unusual to have a beer with breakfast and a shot of vodka afterwords. another part of breakfast was a morning ciggerette and talking of the rummors (ukraine was comminist then, the USSR, and the newspapers were as accurate as your american talbloids so we asked about the rummors)
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I am from the US, but I am 50% Japanese…
This is what I had this morning… Japanese breakfast:
-a bowl of rice
-miso soup
I usually eat cereal with soy milk and/or yogurt.
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I do eat breakfast but as I am a diabetic, I also eat protein for breakfast. The Swedish breakfast sounds wonderful for me. But here’s what I eat: A piece of very dense, whole wheat bread, one egg and a piece of sausage or cheese. Since I am of Italian heritage, I perfer provolone or asiago cheese. Scold! M.
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Guten Morgen! Ich habe Deustch Erbschaft und Frühstück in Wisconsin bist toll. Wenn es gegessen ist. Ich habe im Allgemeinen ein Ei, gekocht nur perfekt. Frisches gebackenen Brot, Ein Speck, ein Pfannenkuchen und etwas Milch. Frisch von einem Nachbarn, wenn sie es hat! Manchmal, obwohl, ich Frühstück alle zusammen übergehe, oder ich habe nur ein Getreide.
Good Morning! I have German heritage and breakfast in Wisconsin is great. When it’s eaten. I generally have an egg, cooked perfect. Freshly baked bread, some bacon, a pancake and some milk. Fresh from our neighbor if she has it. Sometimes though, I skip breakfast all together or I just have some cereal.
German’s my second language, but it’s still not perfect. ;P
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:07 pm
PÅ NORSK — Norwegian breakfast (norsk frokost)
Ja, men trenger vi ikke noe på norsk også? x3
Likevel, til frokost jeg spise cereal (kornblanding) eller pannekaker på noen søndager, og jeg drikker kaffe, hver morgen. Jeg spiser ikke mye til frokost, fordi synes jeg det er bedre å spise liten på morgenen, så du vil ha energi og bli ikke syk senere. Noen ganger, jeg drikker appelsin eller melk også med frokost.
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Whoops, forgot the English one.
-Yes, but don’t we need something in norwegian, also? x3
Anyway, for breakfast I eat cereal (cereal) or pancakes on some sundays, and I drink coffee, every morning. I don’t eat a lot for breakfast, because I believe it is better to eat a little in the morning, so you will have energy and not become sick later. Some days, I drink orange juice or milk also with breakfast.
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Your swedish breakfast definitely sounds healthier than what we get in North America. A german friend taught me about eating uncooked oatmeal. I let it sit in some milk for a few minutes (i.e. while I get dressed) with some dried fruit like dates and cranberries. The sweetness of the dates seems to be sufficient in sweetening up the oatmeal so no additional sugar is required. And so this has become my daily breakfast routine for the last several months now.
And FYI, I am in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:12 pm
So Many Eggs! I would rather have an omelet at lunch, no eggs at breakfast.
For breakfast – Hot cereal like oatmeal with honey or cornmeal mush with molasses when it is cold and snowy outside.
Raw oats with milk or yogurt, some nuts and fresh or dried fruit is plenty to keep me full until lunchtime. For company or special occasions, pancakes with maple syrup and some breakfast meat like fresh sausage or smoked bacon.
Tea for me: very hot, very strong, very good tea – no cheap tea please! If no good tea is available, coffee will do.
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
most of the time for breakfast bahamians eat ntn but occasionally we would eat chicken or sheep tongue souse, sausage and johhney cake, dumpling, or just a plain bowl of cereal or a native favorite anytime of the day stew(stew is made with any rich meat including fish) oh yea we also eat big sometimes and dat would be like dinner 4 breakfast
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Olá! Muito interessante seu post sobre os cafés-da-manhã em diferentes idiomas. Vou seguir o modelo do seu post e escrever no meu idioma nativo (português brasileiro) e, em seguida, em inglês.
O café-da-manhã de onde venho, São Paulo – Brasil, é muito diversificado por refletir a quantidade de culturas que formam esta cidade rica em culinária e etnicidade. Vou citar alguns costumes mais comuns:
- Leite (morno ou frio) com café, Nescafé, achocolatado ou puro. Duas xícaras em média.
- Café puro.
- Pão francês com manteiga ou margarina. Em alguns casos, são recheados com frios e queijos.
- Cereal matinal com leite.
- Croissants fresquinhos.
- Suco de frutas natural.
- Vitaminas batidas em leite.
- Diversos chás (sendo o mais comum, o Chá Mate).
- “Pão na Chapa” (fatia de pão francês com manteiga esquentada numa frigideira ou chapa aquecida)
Como pode ver são muitas combinações diferentes, mas é este o café-da-manhã básico de qualquer paulista.
Espero ter contribuido para a causa
Até mais!
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Hello! I find it very interesting your post about breakfast in different languafes. Following your template, I’ll write this comment in my native language (brazilian portuguese), followed by it’s english translation.
From where I come, São Paulo – Brazil, breakfast has many different combinations, reflecting the amount of cultures that give form to this cuisine and etnicity-rich city. I’ll mention some of the most common dishes:
- Milk (warm or cold) with coffee, Nescafé, chocolate or pure. Average is two cups/person.
- Pure black coffee.
- French bread rolls with butter or margarine. In some cases the rolls are filled with cold-cut and cheese.
- Milk and cereal.
- Fresh made croissants.
- Fresh-fruit juice.
- Blended vitamins (that’s a lot of different fruits blended with milk or water and sugar, served cold).
- Tea (being the most common brand the Mate Tea)
- “Pão na Chapa” (a slice of french bread roll with butter toasted up in a fridge.
As you can see there’s a lot of different combinations to be tasted, but that’s the most common São Paulo styled breakfast possible.
Hope to be of any help
See you around!
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:42 pm
our (our means the people i know &
live with) breakfast is called “bier”… -.-
yeah, it´s german and means beer…
so cheerz..
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
I’m from Southern California, but I’m full Chinese. My family has, for the most part, adopted American breakfast (scrambled eggs and cereal) but sometimes on the weekends my mom will make xi fan, which is literally “wet rice” it’s basically really watery rice and I love it with pork sung (dried pork, but it doesn’t really look like meat. doesn’t taste like it either
but it’s REALLY good) or fried gluten, which I will also eat by itself haha. If we’re feeling healthy we can cook it with spinach.
I also visited Taiwan a couple summers ago and a typical breakfast was you tiao, which is fried bread, and soy milk. My sister and I also liked running down the the bakery downstairs and grabbing a couple buns
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:08 pm
I’m from California, born and raised. Sadly, as a college student, I barely have time for more than maybe half a bagel with some peanut butter or a Slim Fast shake. I’d rather take a few more minutes extra sleep, thank you :p
When I’m feeling fancy, or it’s a weekend and I don’t have to work, I’ll make some scrambled eggs as well.
I’m quite jealous of everyone here who comes from a different background- all these breakfasts sound amazing :3
Jessa
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Heyyyy im form Ma and I’m in a middle school, and like most of us ppl in like junior high i dont really eat breakfat…. but when i do, i usully have cereal- or a cinnamon rasian bagel.
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I’m from Melbourne, Australia. I usually have a delicious egg omelette on toast, or just toast with cream cheese and Vegemite.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Breakfast over here in California, U.S., is usually riushed for me because of a hectic schedule. However, I usually have time for one or two of the following:
*A bowl of sugary cereal, the sweeter, the better.
*A PopTart, cold of course.
*A peice of fruit, usually apples, but I love peaches
*Hot chocolate
*Toaster waffles.
On weekends we’ll have pancakes and eggs, maybe some bacon, and lots of toast and jam.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:30 pm
In Somalia we usually eat: people start the day with many styles of shaah or tea. The main dish is typically Canjeero…(the C is not pronounced),
There are many ways to eat the canjeero. You can break it into small pieces and add subag (a kind of Somali butter) and sugar, and wash that down with black tea. Or you can eat it with shakshuka,an Egyptian dish made of eggs that are cooked with onions and tomatoes. Many prefer it served with baar or liver, while others favor goat meat. Suqaar, beef cut in small pieces and cooked in a bed of soup, is also a favorite side-dish.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:30 pm
cereal. all the time. sometimes i make waffles – last time i did, i put blueberries in them and they were amazing.
however, they closely resembled zombie skin: pasty and bubbly with streaks of hypothermic blue mixed in them.
nice.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Ah, The worst place to ever eat breakfast…
America, Mcdonalds is the next cigarette with increasing obesitey in teh states.
Its a big failure for us americans to eat there :<.
If only america wasnt so corrupt, /facepalm
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Fun post! I’m in Norge at the moment, and my belly’s had as much of a time getting used to the Norwegian breakfasts as my hands have getting used to this Norwegian keyboard. I wish I knew enough Norsk to do a bilingual post, but alas, I do not.
Breakfast at home for me is almost always oatmeal with seeds and nuts and raisins, and a poached egg with coffee or tea.
Here it’s bread, and not our US weak fluffy stuff, but dense, heavy course bread, grøv brød, with cheeses both sweet and not, pickled fish and smoked, pureed and cured meats of every variety, juices, milk and coffee. But I’ve gotten several converts here to the oatmeal yums, even if they still feel breakfast is not complete without meat and bread, too. The best thing about eating here is REALLY cheap salmon. The worst is how expensive it is to eat out, but this is a country for staying in and cooking with lots of friends and family, and that’s not a bad thing at all!
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Hi, Why my Meebo (www.accd.ge/giga) can’t write to Georgian letters ( UTF – 8 )?
But in this window it is not probelm: ა ბ გ დ ე ვ ზ თ ი კ ლ მ ნ ო პ ჟ რ ს ტ უ ფ ქ ღ ც ჭ ძ ჰ ჯ ხ ყ
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:01 pm
I gotta represent Hobbees in the Bay Area. Since I grew up in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA so I like to go to Armon´s. People need to send Yelp links for people. We need to be more Web 2.0 savy.
Hobbees:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/hobees-restaurant-mountain-view
Eagle Rock:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/armons-restaurant-los-angeles
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Haha, my stepdad is from Sweden, and that’s exactly how breakfast always is when his family visits, except they always seem to enjoy eating it outside.
I usually have whatever I scrounge up at a gas station close to my work for breakfast, but ideally I enjoy the normal midwestern american breakfast of eggs and bacon.
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:24 am
It’s my pleasure that i can join meebo and leave some commends. Every people all over the world like making commend on this site but what is attractived in their personal messages is good concepts. All of them just want to let us clear what is right and what is wrong.From day to day,From month to month,From year to year,we all expended much time to live in the world but for useful living,we must do evething that give benefits to human by giving helps such as idea or material- help,health- care- help and much more asstants that we able to do it. Further more, ejoy in whole society and shouldn’t mind any nationalities all arround the world or poverness.For my idea,i would to wish may the world’ll be always in peaceful. Sincerely,Mr. PHOK CHANNPHIRUN.
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:28 am
hello, i’m from croatia (from it’s southern part dalmatia, to be more precise)
when i was a kid i would always drink a cup of tea, eat a slice of bread with jam, and then hurry up to the school. now when i’m student i normally eat a sandwich or a bowl of müsli (with milk, of course), and then hurry up to uni
in dalmatia, breakfast is normally considered to be unimportant meal. that’s because in dalmatia people usually have one more meal before lunch at 10 or 11 o’clock (brunch in english, if i recall good).
that’s why i was surprised when i was in scotland and germany visiting my relatives. breakfast has more important role (and they eat food with higher percentage of fat then i’m used to)
god jul och gott nytt aar
January 3rd, 2009 at 3:57 am
Well i am from Canada, and i typically eat what Americans eat. But since i’m Filipina i tend to have a mixed schedule on breakfasts. Well i could tell you now, most filipino’s eat rice with most of every meal. (haha) So usually my breakfasts are a cross between American/Canadian and Filipino food. Since i was little, i was deeply influenced by Filipino ways.(eating most of everything with rice) Til’ this day, i am still following Filipino ways.
My breakfast consist of;
-eggs
-bacon
-hot dog or longaneza (a sweet sausage)
-toast with garlic
-hashbrown
-orange juice/water/milk
optional; rice
But since i would wake up late in the afternoon on weekends i would usually eat left overs. xD
When i was about 7, i visited the Philippines. I vaguely remember what i had for breakfast, but the things that stood out the most were;
-longaneza (sweet sausage)
-fish
-spaghetti
-rice
-banana
-orange juice
Well i hope you learned a lot from what i said, goodbye
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:39 am
Halo! Gue orang Indonesia, sekarang terdampar di Singapura – jadi sekalian aja komentar tentang makan pagi di masing-masing negara. Di Singapura, makan pagi yang cukup khas roti bakar pakai selai kaya (selai yang terbuat dari santan, telur dan pandan), ditemani telur setengah matang dan kopi hitam. Indonesia punya tapi tradisi makan pagi yang agak berbeda2 dari satu daerah ke daerah lain — meskipun akhirnya kembali ke nasi-nasi juga. Di Jawa Timur, gue dulu suka makan pecel (sayur mayur dengan saus kacang) di pagi hari. Di Jawa Barat, makan pagi biasanya terdiri dari nasi kuning (nasi santan dengan bumbu kunyit) atau bubur ayam. Tidak ada aturan, lah, sebenarnya… kita bisa makan apa saja kapan saja – makanya awal2 dulu agak heran dengan budaya orang barat yang nampak sangat teratur sekali.
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Hi, I’m Indonesian, but currently working in Singapore, so I guess I’ll give a glimpse of both countries. In Singapore, the unique breakfast is the kaya toast (kaya is a jam made of egg yolk, coconut milk and pandan leaf) with rare egg and black coffee. Indonesia’s breakfast culture varies between regions — although we basically eat rice on almost each meal anyway. In my home, East Java, I usually have pecel (basically, salad with peanut & spices sauce). At my university town in West Java, typical breakfast food would be yellow rice (coconut milk & turmeric-infused rice) or chicken porridge. We could basically eat anything we want at any given time, no rigid rule — which is why at the beginning I wondered on why the westerners have such a strong habit of what to be eaten when.
Just my two cents
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:23 am
mimi ni mtanzania
asubuhi nikiamka kwa kawaida ninakunywa chai ya rangi na vitafunio kama vitumbua, maandazi au chapati chai ya nyumbani ni nzuri sana na ninaifurahia sana
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:52 am
I am originally from Spain, though I’ve grown up in America. I noticed a sharp difference in breakfast there, as well as all the other meals of the day. Breakfast usually consists of coffee or hot chocolate and perhaps a churro. A churro is like a Spanish doughnut, a long piece of fried dough, often covered in sugar. And the hot chocolate, if done correctly, can support your spoon standing up straight in it.
Lunch is often the biggest meal of the day (why many people take a siesta afterward) with a few ‘platos’ or courses, and dinner is often no more than a snack to keep you going until you get to bed at 2 AM.
In America, my favorite breakfasts came from my mother, who grew up in rural Ohio. Biscuits and sausage gravy, eggs (scrambled, sunny side up, whatever), bacon, sausage, grits, hash browns … but these were, maybe, once a year affairs.
January 3rd, 2009 at 7:26 am
Yum, your post made me hungry. Well, being a Filipino, I remember waking up to the strong delicious aroma of fried dried fish, eggs, and _sinangag_ or garlic fried rice. Being a primary school boy back then, I wasn’t allowed to drink coffee, so I had some hot chocolate drink instead, allowing me to grow up with Olympic energy (hehe!).
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:50 am
När kommer det bli möjligt att stänga av meebo-bloggen? Den dagen jag vill veta vad en okänd människa tycker om skillnaden mellan svensk och amerikansk frukost måste jag skaffa liv eller skjuta mig i skallen.
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:35 am
Thanks for the information tankssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
Peace And Blessings….
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 am
YOU LOOK LIKE A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! O AND DO U WANT TO GO OUT???
January 3rd, 2009 at 11:52 am
interesting blog,
in vietnam, in the morning, watever we can get, we eat it,
for the rich, their breakfast is americanized, with eggs, milk, organe juice,
for the poor, they dont eat, just work
for the average, anything will do
^_^
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Hey everybody
I am from Germany and I will list the different types of a German breakfast.
1) The fast one: cup of coffee or char
2) For early birds: coffee or char, slice of bread with butter + honey or jam, also popular: Nutella; optional is a bowl of cereals or müsli
3) Housewifes: two cups of coffee or char, a slice of bread or a bap with everything that is imaginable: butter, honey, jam, nutella, peanut butter, ham, cheese
4) Weekend: two cups of coffee or char, toast, baps or croissants with everything you can think of, a boiled egg or two / scrambled eggs
5) Holiday: glass of orange juice, several cups of coffee and/or char, yoghurt, bowl of cereals or müsli, toast, bread, baps, butter, honey, nutella, jam, eggs in all variations, ham, bacon, salmon, fruits
To all my German fellows: If you find something that misses here, don’t hesitate to add it
Simon
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:25 pm
i thinks its great that meebo’s using different languages. i myself am swedish and i was born there so it was cool to see both languages and be able to read both. When i go visiting to sweden we always have
1. many pieces of bread butter and sometimes cheese
2. DEFINETLY coffee. and lots of it
3. yoghurt sometimes with jam and other things
4. also a cereal which i think was called Havrefrost
In spain which is the other place i’m from typically breakfast would be
1. fresh bread and butter
2. crossants, a lot of crossants
3. coffee for adults and cola cao or hot chocolate or milk for children
There are a lot more things that we eat in spain and i’m afraid i’m missing a lot so add to this list if you know more.
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:36 pm
so, i am defiinetly from california, and breakfast doesnt really exist. Occasionaly you go to breakfast with freinds, and the food is yummy. However, besides that no one really eats breakfast at my age. (teenager)
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Nunca comer desayuno, pero me gusta pan tostada y manzanas.
I never eat breakfast, but I like toast and apples.
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
In Peru, for breakfast I have a roll of bread with some combination of butter, cheese, or a jam. Also a cup of cafe con leche, or concentrated coffee and milk. Sometimes I’ll also have orange juice.
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
I just wanted to let you know I voted for meebo.
I love it,
I have several accounts for aim,
plus, I have a myspace. Meebo
keeps my computer running faster,
rather than aim, and myspace im.
Thanks.
January 3rd, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I live in Boston MA but I am mostly Brasilian. For a normal breakfast I eat toast with butter in which I dip into coffee . It is DElicious seriously, try it. Also a cup of strong strong strong coffee with milk, the way I like it. Of course I will have a banana but that is just so I stay healthy-ish. Sometimes I eat these little rolls of cake that are coated with sugar and taste like heaven. They’re called “bolinhos de chuva” or “little cakes of rain.” That is pretty much my typical breakfast.
Also I’d just like to mention that I voted for meebo and I think Meebo is SO helpful to many people that have to multi-task and use many applications. It narrows down about 9 applications to 1 helping so many. Thank you Meebo
Gi
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I live in California, actually, pretty close to the Meebo headquarters, I think. But my ethnicity is Japanese and breakfast over there kinda depends on the family. If you do a traditional breakfast, there will probably be rice, miso soup, grilled fish, pickled vegetables, and perhaps a seaweed salad too with a cup of tea. Or the more modern Japanese people who don’t have much time in the morning will eat a slice or two of white bread with either butter, jam, or no topping, or a rice ball with pickled plum, tuna, fish roe, or bonito filling with a cup of tea or coffee.
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Dito po sa Pilipinas, laging may kanin. Pero kapag almusal, minsan nagtitinapay nalang kami. Pandesal ang tawag sa tinapay na pang-almusal. Minsan nilalagyan namin ng palaman, minsan din, hindi.
Masgusto kong sinasawsaw ang pandesal sa kape o sa tsokolate na tinatawag naming “tablea”. Sabi nila, Pilipino lang ang gumagawa noon, kaya kung may nakita po kayong nagsasawsaw ng tinapay sa kape, siguro po ay galing siya rito.
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Here in the Philippines, we always have rice in our meals. But sometimes, we eat bread for breakfast. Our typical breakfast bread is called the pandesal. Sometimes, we eat it with jam or butter, but sometimes, we don’t.
Pandesal is almost always eaten with chocolate milk (for kids) or coffee (for adults). We usually dip our bread into the coffee or the milk, which may be weird for some people, but most Filipinos do it. So if you see someone dipping their bread into coffee, they might be from around here.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:13 pm
i love apple pie. other people should love it too.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
I live in atlanta, ga in the u.s. My favorite breakfast is cereal and coffee. But sometimes I have oatmeal and coffee. But I love going out to IHOP and getting pancakes and bacon and coffee yumm , but thats a rare treat. Either way coffee is a staple.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
i was born in the philippines, but mostly raised in the US. when i stilled lived in the PI, however, we had:
)
-pandesal (the best bread ever
-rice
-tuyo (salty dried fish)
-some type of meat like tusino (sweet pork), hotdogs (my mom likes to sprinkle sugar on top), or longanisa (sweet sausage) ….it seems we like our meat sweet in the mornings XD
-eggs
-and taho- this custard type thing made from soy curd with watery caramel sauce and tapioca balls
-coffee or hot chocolate
breakfast in the US is different, although still has filipino influence
-rice!
-last night’s leftovers
or
-eggs and rice
-cereal
-bread and peanut butter
-milk, oj, or just water.
:]
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Gud Morning,
Just read ur post marcus,Wishing you and all at meebo a happy new yr!
Quit nice topic to discuss regarding the brk fsts, we all would get an idea regarding the different varities of brekfst all over the world .. nice job
I am basically from India and from the state Kerala .. but at present based in United Arab Emirates
In india we have different varities of Brkfst many to describe
i will try to give u a glimpse of it, In india we have north india and south india
North indians usally prefer breakfst made of wheat – chapatis with Mixed Vegetable with Gravy, Tea and coffee is prefered mostly by all the people across india.and many more dishes..
In my part ths south india we make brkfst of Rice powder, too many to mention
We use rice powder and jagerry and coconut, In kerala every dish coconut is a must , then few of the names of the dishes frm kerala
Puttu , Pattiri, Idiyappam,Veleyappam,Koyikatta.. too many dishes to mention just FYI its made of Rice powder and coconut in it.
Then many more using rava powder, ragi, and the famous ones Dosa ,Idly and Vada with Sambar – (Sambar is a gravy made with selected veggies and the sambar powder)
Uttapam.. the list is endless am at office and i might get into trble if i go on this way lol
Then we have black tea,i prefer milk tea
,then now as of globalisation and when mom runs out of time to cook here, i get the usal break fasts thats bread with butter, mayonise, jam,cheese or egg sanwich, sausages or noodles all the easy ones, so today my break fast is Uttapam , its made of rava and some dosa batter with onion and tomatos and coriander leaves, chilles am going to hav it along with coconut chutney 
Any one from India would like to add more to this they r more than welcome, i mentioned wht all came to me .. Have a gud day all of u
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:16 pm
I am from the Philippines. We have fried rice, sweet sausages, eggs sunny side up, and a roasted tomato. Weird, huh?!
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:21 pm
hi Marcus, thumbs up for this post!. when I was in Gavle, Sweden several years ago, I usually had that kind of breakfast that you mentioned. I spent about two years at there to pursue magisterexamen. now I am really miss the frukost.
the first time my impression when stepped out from plane and just entered Arlanda is the smell of coffee.
Now I live in Missouri, USA and my breakfast is similar to other American, a bowl of cereal with milk or pancake.
a little bit about my origin, I am Indonesian and when lived in Jakarta, my breakfast is friend rice (Nasi Goreng) or Coconut milk rice (Nasi Uduk) with sides like tempe, scramble egg, roasted peanut or congee with sliced chicken and sambal or traditional cake or bubur sumsum made from rice flour boiled with coconut milk and of course with a cup of java coffee or lampung coffee..so yummy..I really miss that kind of foods
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I’m from Australia. As a country we are diverse in our ethnicities and therefore the foods we eat varty considerately. However, if there was a breakfast food that most of the australian population can relate too it would have to be the good old VEGIMITE! on toast!! Its great!
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 pm
In Indonesia, we usually have loads of fried rice or chicken porridge with its condiments in the morning. It has to be something with rice in it, or we will only call it “snacks” and not breakfast. Tea is the best companion for the breakfast. Hot, freshly brewed tea.
Some of my Western friends think that those foods are too heavy for breakfast, but we Indonesians love our breakfast to be “the most important meal of the day”, thus we like it heavy.
So, fried rice, anyone?
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
in somaliland, we usually have loads of friend rice or pasta
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Hey! I’m from the USA, but I am currently living in China. I live in Beijing now, and the Breakfast here usually consists of some Baozi(Steamed Bread with Veggies or Meat inside) and a Cup of warm Dounai(Soy Milk). Down in Hainan(where I lived befoure Beijing), the usual Breakfast is either the Baozi and Dounai or, if Tyme permits, Noodles with Peanuts, Vegetables, and Pig Intestines. Very tasty Stuff. Sometymes here in Beijing, I see People eating Egg and Tomatoe Soup for Breakfast as well. The most common Drink with Breakfast here though, is the Soy Milk.
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Ah, forgot about the Porridge(Just Rice oversaturated with Water) or Rice for Breakfast here. It’s not so common in Beijing, but very common in south China.
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Yo soy de Colombia y aunque en mi pais los desayunos también son variados, seguiré el ejemplo original y voy a describir mis desayunos regulares, traduciendo luego al inglés.
Cuando tengo tiempo, me gusta preparar huevos revueltos con champiñones, picar fruta y tomar jugo de naranja. De lo contrario, cereal con leche, y tostadas con café o aguapanela son mis opciones.
I am Colombian, and although the breakfasts people eat in my country are pretty varied, I will follow the original example and I’ll describe my usual breakfasts, and then translating to English.
When I have the time, I like to make scrambled eggs with mushrooms, slice some fruit and drink orange juice. Otherwise, cereal with milk and toast with coffee or aguapanela (a drink made with hardened brown sugar) are my options.
January 4th, 2009 at 3:30 am
I live in the UK and I generally eat cereal or fruit for breakfast. I used to be really into fry ups at weekends, like others have pointed out – sausages, bacon, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes, hashbrowns and black pudding (including a delicious white, fruit pudding in scotland yum!), but heard it was bad for your heart
Swedish breakfast sounds great, may give it a try!
January 4th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Here in Australia my family normally has toast with butter (or margarine) with vegimite ( a salty yeast spread with lots of vitamin B in it) or Peanut butter, But my dad and sister prefer to have Wheat bix and milk with Strawberries, Peaches and nectareins… But now and again we have panckes or freashly baked bread =D
As for drinks, My dad and i have a large glass of Orange Juice as well as a hot chocolate (I’m allergic to coffee), my mum has a tea and a class of Apricot juice and my sister will have 2 cups of tea (One when she wakes up and another when she has breakfast) but will usually only have half of the 2nd cup of tea, leaving the other half to go cold on the kitchen table, which really annoys everyone >.<
January 4th, 2009 at 4:51 am
For me, it depends on the day. Here in America, I typically don’t have the time for a full breakfast as a student. I usually just eat a bowl of cereal with a galss of milk and another of juice. On a good day with plenty of time, I enjoy two over-medium eggs with a bowl of grits and an English muffin, along with with Nutella and peanut butter, a glass of orange juice, a glass of milk, and a mug of coffee. For family events, my mother likes to prepare pancakes, waffles, or sometimes French toast.
About half of my family is Swedish, so I’ve had a lot of experience with Swedish food. I think it’s fantastic!
Thanks for the interesting post!
January 4th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Well here in Britain we have a lot less for Breakfast then you all seem to.
Most people have tea or coffe for breakfast with one of the following
- Cereal
-Sausage/bacon/both sandwich
-Fry up bacon,sausage,egg,baked beans, toast, tomato and some people will have pigs/black pudding fried
- Toast with butter/ jam/ chocolate spread/ baked beans
January 4th, 2009 at 7:32 am
As you well said, when I visit the United States, I basically stuff my face with bagels and coffee (minus the sunny side up). That was how I gain at lest 5kg a week whenever I go there. Here in China (sadness) I get whatever there is that doesn’t smell like seafood or rice. Had enough of that stuff–been eating it since I could eat in the first place (Born Taiwanese 15 years ago), so try toast, bacon and egg. But still, coffee. Lots and lots of de-sugared cappuccino. God I miss Starbucks.
Thanks for the post by the way. It had me reminiscing. Lucky I’m heading to America for college. I’m dying here.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Eh…and when I feel fat maybe apple pie. Pie rocks.
Forgot to mention that more traditional Chinese breakfasts (that I obviously don’t have) consist of weird paste-like soup (soy milk?), porridge, and old people food. Can’t think of much right now.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:16 am
actually, i’m from the US and i eat cinnamon toast crunch or honey bunches of oats (cereal) with milk, OJ (orange juice), then a peanut butter chocolate chip granola bar, lol, i never have time to fix eggs or bacon considering i only have an hour to get ready and eat, etc. lol
January 4th, 2009 at 8:17 am
oh and on the weekends i get starbucks frappuchinos for my breakfast, then a hardy’s biscuit (sundays) lol, not that healthy but i exercise a lot!
January 4th, 2009 at 8:41 am
I’m from the US, but am living in Korea now teaching English. Koreans traditionally have the same thing for breakfast that they have the rest of the day…rice, kimchi, and some sort of soup. The mother gets up early to prepare it all, and they have a big meal as a family (I guess, this is from what I’ve heard). Restaurants usually aren’t open for breakfast, but there’s some 24 hours places that have the same menu for all parts of the day. There is a soup they have called Haejang gug (Sunrise Soup) that is spicy as hell, and full of meat and veggies, that’s supposedly a good cure for a hangover.
A typical greeting in Korean is “Have you eaten?” or “Did you eat breakfast?”. Comes from when they were poor and didn’t necessarily always have food to eat.
As the writer in my Lonely Planet says, a lot of the young Koreans typically have the same breakfast as everyone else in the world….a cup of coffee and a cigarette. I typically just eat an American style breakfast.
I also lived in Spain for a year, and breakfast there wasn’t a big deal at all…some sort of bread and a cup of coffee. Hooray.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:47 am
i’m a malaysian… i usually eat a western style of breakfast; bread, coffee or cereals. to toss in a local flavour, it would be dipping bread smeared with condensed milk into my milo drink~ most malaysians growing up would probably have milo as a drink for breakfast (it’s a chocolate drink)… regardless of what type of breakfast they eat lol.
we also eat toasted bread with jam made from coconut (it’s called kaya, and it’s really delicious!! heavenly when you put a thick slice of butter on the toasted bread as well).
chinese style breakfast would be ‘pao’; steamed buns with meat, veggies or red bean/sesame paste inside. porridge, egg tarts, egg cake, half boiled egg with a dash of soy sauce or pepper etc
if you’re up for a malay-style breakfast, it would be nasi lemak, which basically is rice boiled with santan(coconut milk) served with a slice of hard boiled egg, cucumber slices, fried anchovies (my fave!) and sambal (spicy sauce, made up from bashed up small chillies, shallots etc…. deliciously sinful). i love this, but it’s so heavy in the morning…
indian-style, it would be roti-canai (prata) with sugar or curry (and you could get the dude to fry bananas, eggs, butter, milo powder etc in it too!). and teh-tarik! literal translation is ‘pulled tea’ where the tea (with condensed milk) will be ‘pulled’ from one cup to another many times. it comes out frothy on the top and very lovely with any type of breakfast.
January 4th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Olá! Eu sou de Lisboa, Portugal e estou visitando agora em Chicago. En Portugal queria comer pasteis de feijão. É tão delicioso!!!!! En Chicago, eu comer cereais e muitas outras coisas.
Obrigado Meebo!
January 4th, 2009 at 9:54 am
For me, breakfast is usually sweet, and isn’t a very big deal (I usually eat in the car.) Sometimes I’ll have an egg sandwich (scrambled egg, cheese, english muffin) or cereal, or just sourdough toast.
January 4th, 2009 at 9:58 am
That is so awsome that you go on the screen with your face on it! How do you do that?
January 4th, 2009 at 10:00 am
I ually have scambeled eggs ,toast,and cereal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 4th, 2009 at 10:03 am
La colazione è una delle cose più importanti della giornata…
Io vivo in Italia e qui abbiamo caffelatte, biscotti, torte, pane, brioches e nella regione deov vivo spesso mangiamo una delle meraviglie del mondo: ‘focaccia’ che è come un sottile pane salato ma non puoi descriverlo…devi assaggiarlo!
Breakfast is one of the most important things of the day…
I live in Italy and here we have milk+coffee, biscuits, cakes, bread, ‘brioches’, and in the region where I live we often eat one of the best wonder in the world: ‘focaccia” that is like a thin salt bread but you can’t described it….you have to taste it!
January 4th, 2009 at 10:14 am
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January 4th, 2009 at 10:16 am
I had been hovering around ur site for a while, finding it quiet interesting and useful. Just thought of leaving my first comment here… I simply enjoy my stay here…
January 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Okay i have never been to Sweden before but it sounds pretty cool.
January 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
i think it was a great idea because eveybody can get on aim who ever has one
January 4th, 2009 at 11:31 am
hey meebo!!!!! I’m from Eritrea, a small country in east africa, above the horn (Look it up if you dont kno it!!!) In Eritrea, we usually have home made pitabread with natural honey or even the honey comb. We would also have tea every single morning. (if Sweden drinks a lot of coffee, than Eritrea consumes a LOT of tea too!!!) While over here in America I usually eat cereal (my favorite is Honey Nut Cheerios!!!) As you can see, the Us and Eritrea both have very different breakfasts.
January 4th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
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January 4th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
In spain we used to eat sweet buns or toast with fresh fruit and/or yogurt.
January 4th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
When I’m with family, we’ll eat “traditional” Slovenian breakfast food, although the authenticity of that is up for question, seeing as Slovenian culture is a mixture of Slavic, Italian and German traditions.
It usually consists of lots and lots of kava, coffee obviously xD, fresh fruit, especially berries, thick white bread slices with either honey, butter, or jam. (Or all. ;;>>). Sometimes there’re German sausages for those of us that eat meat, and then there’s always Šmorn, a breakfast pancake that was the -original- crêpe.
January 4th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
oh i forgot: we didn’t usually have coffee til later in the day during our siesta or our afternoon meal(ish). my friends and i usually just had milk, juice, or orange soda for breakfast. Orange soda tended to ward off homesickness. also the sweet buns are not like little debbie’s version, more like flaky bread with sugar added to the dough and no glaze or anything.
January 4th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I am from the Uk (england)
and all i have for breakfast is one or two slices of toast with marmite
and i have a glass or orange juice.
how can you eat so much at breakfast?
January 4th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Monday-Saturday
Cheerios
Orange
Orange Juice
Coffee
Sunday (when I don’t work the morning)
Pancakes
Turkey Bacon
Scrambled Eggs with Hot sauce
Orange
Orange Juice
Coffee
January 4th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
I have been told by a European friend that we Americans have the biggest breakfasts in the world, so I imagine that is true. There are more than one yummy combination to choose from, from a simple cold or hot cereal breakfast, to a whopping 4-course meal to start off your day! I like to rotate my family weekend breakfasts between eggs, and bacon; eggs, bacon and pancakes, and/or fresh fried potatoes with onions, sometimes adding grits to the plate. Eggs is always the staple of the meal, and my family all has different preferences to how they are cooked, so it can be a timely task. Thank goodness for coffee!!!! Bon appetite!!!
January 4th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
in my country indonesia we usually have rice porridge with the condiments of fried soy bean, thinly sliced fried egg,crackers,shreded chicken, chopped celery,and fried shallot and usually accompanied with hot tea or just plain water
in my island bali we usually have porridge too or wide range of traditional cakes that we can choose. such as : black rice cake,layer cake,sticky rice cake,rice flour cake,banana fritter,sweet roll,cup cake,sponge cake,and many more……
January 4th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
That is kinda cool but i couldnt understand some of it!
January 4th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
England:
well for me I like to eat a full english but without the tomato and pudding (eggs,bacon,sausages,bread) and a glass of orange juice or cup of tea depending on how cold I am.
or I just go with plain and simple cereal. unfortunately it’s weetabix but I always wish it’s coco pops.
January 4th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
I am a Cuban-American. My family came to the U.S.A. in 1971 after the Castro regime’s power increased. I have never thought it significant enough to ask my grandparents what they ate in Cuba. However, I live in Palos Verdes Estates, CA, U.S.A. currently. We usually have a piece or two of toast (with butter or cream cheese), and gulp down some orange juice. Although, on weekends we have a full out American breakfast! It consists mainly of: scrambled eggs, chocolate milk, bacon/or sausage, toast, and hashbrowns! People pertain Americans to food though it does not revolve around our lives as foreigners say it does.
January 4th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
我是中国人，但是住在美国每天早上我吃面条或米饭。通常会跟牛奶一起吃。
I’m Chinese, but I live in America. Every morning, I have noodles or rice, normally with milk.
January 4th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I live in Fiji. I am a Fiji Indian. For breakfast here it is normally roti (something like pita but it is soft made out of flour dough and rolled flat then cooked on the girdle) with vegetable curry. This is normally with tea.
However, I normally have sandwiches and a cup of coffee or freshly squeezed orange juice.
cheers!
January 4th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
i have never been to sweeden but i still eat breakfeast . I usally eat a bowl of ceral , and if i am lucky i will have pancackes , sasuge , and eggs. Usally on weekends I get lucky i love breakfeast but , somtimes i dont eat it .
January 4th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Well, in the United States most people are in very much of a hurry to get to work after waking up, so the typical breakfast consists usuallly of a quickly poured bowl of cereal (sometimes with milk and raisins) and a glass of milk or orange juice.
An exception is made on weekends, when most have time to cook pancakes or waffles and possibly eggs along with typical breakfast meats such as ham and bacon.
January 4th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
In Florida we eat corn beef hash (yumm!) for breakfast, sometimes with gravy and biscuts. Espcially with a big glass of fresh orange juice grown from our own tree! Yumm! Sometimes with toast, mabye cinnamon on top if Im lucky!
January 4th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Japanese Breakfast – I am American but currently living in Japan. I am usually running late to work and my breakfast is a cup of black tea with milk and honey drunk in the car while I am driving. But we have staff parties for Bonenkai (end of the calendar year) and Soubetsukai (end of the school year) where everyone goes together to a traditional Ryokan (Japanese Bed and Breakfast) at a hot spring. The Ryokan always has a big traditional breakfast in the morning. They usually include –
*a bowl of steamed white rice
*miso soup
*natto – fermented soybeans, eaten with shredded nori (seaweed) and soy sauce for flavor
*cooked fish
*boiled vegetables – spinach with katsuo (dried bonito flakes) is my favorite
*salad – shredded lettuce and watercress over cold tofu with shiso leaf dressing is my favorite
*other goodies on the side – its common for formal Japanese meals to have a large number of small dishes. Fried or poached egg, fish roe, and tsukemono (pickled vegetables) are common sides.
The main thing that I miss with a Japanese breakfast is a cup of good strong black tea or coffee. At the Ryokans they offer green tea. But when I am eating over at a friend’s house they usually don’t have any hot caffeinated drink for breakfast. The miso soup substitutes for a beverage I think.
January 4th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Hi,Marcus ,I’ve read your blog and found it quite interesting,I live in Australia,And my breakfast
ranges from toast with peanut butter,to a bacon and egg roll or pancakes.
January 4th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
hi, im laycie i live in arizona and what i eat for breakfast is, what we call a desert roll, and what it is: its a sweet roll made out you know like torte-ah roll but this torte-ah roll is berry flavored and we put homemade berry yogurt, and spread it on the torte-ah roll and then we put fruit on it such as black berrys, blue berries, bananas, straw berries, and alot more other fruits. for a drink just orange juice is fine
January 4th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
i am only 15 soo breakfast is no rush for me
January 4th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Ugh. New York bagels. I tried it once and said, “never again.” Now you know where you are with true blue Montréal bagels.
Anyways, my Québecois, Canadian breakfast is usually non-existant. If I’m up early enough for my meal to be considered breakfast, I’m usually hurrying to school worried I’ll be late again. If lunchtime (or later) counts, then it’s usually cereal, if not supper time already.
January 4th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Living in Manila, we’re used to eating rice any time of the day. So the usual breakfast there was:
- Choice of:
Breakfast steak marinated in garlic and soy called Tapa or
Filipino sweet sausage/chorizo called Longganisa or
Sweetened pork called Tocino or
Dried fish
- Then add + garlic fried rice + eggs + picked papaya + vinegar w/ chili and garlic, then coffee or OJ
Now, in Singapore, breakfast is a lot more complicated… Chinese, Malay, American, French, Indonesian… etc themes are around but I usually go for:
- Chicken noodle soup
- Char Siew Pau
At home, I always cook what I do best: Omellette, when I have time to wake up early
January 4th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
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January 4th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Indonesian Breakfast
From 17.000 islands and 33 provinces in Indonesia, our breakfasts are varying. To name a few, here I list some:
In Sumatra Island, there are:
‘nasi lemak’: coconut milk steamed rice, served with meat or chicken on coconut milk sauce with chili paste.
‘lontong sayur’: rice cake slices, served with vegetables in light coconut milk and chili paste
‘pempek’: fish cake on thick sweet & sour vinegar with slices of cucumber
In West Java, there are
‘nasi timbel’: a bowl of red or white rice wrapped with banana leaves, served with deep fried chicken or fish, vegetables, dried salted fish, chili paste, and sweet soy sauce.
‘kupat tahu’: rice cake and soya bean cake slices in yellow colored coconut milk
In Central Java, there are
‘nasi gudeg’: steamed rice served with sweet cooked young jackfruits, salty & spicy sheep skin, served with steamed chicken and egg in thick coconut milk, and chili paste.
‘ketoprak’: rice cake and soya bean cake slices with sweet soy sauce
In East Java, there are
‘nasi pecel’: steamed rice or rice cake served with mixed vegetables with peanuts and chili paste.
‘soto madura’: coconut milk soup contains shredded steamed chicken, soya beans, rice noodles, and shredded cabbage.
In Bali, there’s ‘ayam betutu’: steamed chicken with red onion and chili chops, served with steamed rice.
In Kalimantan, there’s ‘roti goreng’: literally means fried bread, similar with donuts without the hole.
And much more, because I can only remember a few of them.
Personally, I prefer a salty fried rice with some seafood with egg yolk. A cup of tea served from an old clay pot with crystal sugar will make a perfect breakfast.
January 4th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Hi! Pleasantly surprised to see your post as now I can say I did yoga next to someone famous on the internets.
For the simplest breakfast at home I eat some form of fiberous cereal with vanilla soymilk.
For breakfast at the office it’s oatmeal with honey, butter and cinnamon.
For the indulgent mornings, it’s eggs copenhagen (eggs benedict with smoked salmon and a dash of rosemary)
-Ousi Li
January 4th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Hello,
Although Swetha gave a good insight of the Indian breakfast, however, I would like to add to her list of South-Indian breakfast, so you have an idea of both South as well as North Indian belly.
The staple Breakfast of a North Indian (especially Punjabis) is “Aaloo ke paraanthe” (Mashed Potato packed and cooked in wheat flour). Some Links:
http://www.khanapakana.com/india-recipes/punjabi-haryanvi-recipe/Aloo-Paranthe.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080220225829AAhjSD9
Ofcourse, the potato in the above recipe can be replaced (according to taste) with grated cauliflower or a zillion other things. There is a famous restaurant in New Delhi called “More than Parantha” with a huge listing of different kinds (including Non-Veg Paraathas). The menu is as large as a News-Paper with a similar font-size!
Now, for the ones in North India who don’t like so much saturated butter & Cholesterol, usually prefer for scrambled eggs or brown-bread dishes. For the health conscious they prefer protein rich diets like sprouts or Dalia (both my favourite)
And there is sooooooo much choice, only if you have that sort of time!
~
Jagmeet
~
January 4th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Oi! cumprimentos de Brasil! aqui nosso café da manha é muito diferente!
hi. greetings from brazil! here our breakfast is very different! (but i live in the U.S. HAHA!)
Here pur breakfast consists of very different breakfast “ingredients” (somewhat):
coffee, milk, baguettes, brioches, cheese buns, sweet and salted biscuits, yogurt, cereal, cake, butter, jam, honey, cheese, ham, tropical fruits and juices…
January 4th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
sa o fut pe ma-ta de ungur
January 4th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Good morning guys, I voted for you
) Meebo is the Best 
and I think I prefer the American style breakfast. A bowl of musli? come on!! If I start the day with eating musli I feel depressed LOL
January 4th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
in Jakarta, for breakfast people can choose traditional style or modern style. Some eat bread with jam. More people though eat traditional foods like rice with eggs and vegetables, gado-gado, pecel, bubur ayam (chicken porridge), instant noodles.
Some have tea, coffe or just plain water.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:10 am
The Swedish breakfast is the best, always miss it when I live abroad… But I do see the charm of a traditional English breakfast with the bacon and the egg and the sausage.. Yumyum! What I do remember as one of the worst breakfasts Ive had was when I lived in Mozambique and we had something white porridge looking with a taste of lemon… Later for dinner we had the same but this time in a more sticky jelly looking version… I think it’s called Bap in South Africa (??)… I loved my time in Moz and South Africa but was happy to return back to Sweden and leave the ‘Bap’ behind…
Breakfast is the best meal of the day and now I’m already looking forward to lunch as I’m having a lazy day at work!
ENJOY!
January 5th, 2009 at 3:21 am
Justin you are a dork. too ashamed to show your face that you are a face on yahoo.com. you loser. and what are you, a mutt? weird name.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:30 am
Here in the Philippines, breakfast usually is consist of fried rice, black coffee, fried dried fish, tomatoes and that’s that! Well, eeerrrr…this is only for those who lives below the poverty line (I guess). But for the affluent ones, they usually have bacon, hot dogs, eggs and toast for breakfast…and of course coffee……
January 5th, 2009 at 4:54 am
Taga Pilipinas ako! Ang agahan ko kadalasan ay tinapay, mantikilya, kape at bacon. minsan hotdog, cereals, o tokwa. or goto! depende sa mood.
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I am from the Philippines! My usual breakfast consist of bread, butter, coffee and bacon. sometimes hotdogs, cereals or tofu. or rice porridge (with beef). it depends on my mood.
January 5th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Please dont take a “California” American breakfast as typical of the entire US! In NY, bagel and cream cheese–yes. but with tomatoes and sprouts? probably not. There are so many variations on breakfast: cereal and milk, coffee/tea and toast/bagel, eggs and sausage/bacon/ham, pancakes with sausage/bacon/ham….
then in the south I seem to remember something about grits, and sausage gravy over biscuits…
January 5th, 2009 at 5:41 am
Jag var i sverige (bara stockholm) 3 ar sedan. Det var sa vacker! Hotelen hade storst frukost! Brod, skinka, musli, yogurt (med socker och vindruvor), agg, och alla amerikansk frukostmat! Det var min forsta gang att ata musli med yoghurt…mmm. Jag sacknar det sa mycket! Svensk frukost ar bettre an amerikansk frukost (med du vet det redan!). Ok…jag ar klart haha. Jag hoppas att min svenska var inte sa dalig. Vi ses!
January 5th, 2009 at 6:24 am
Jag håller mig till mina två liter te på morgonen och mediciner. Väldigt osvensk frukost, men vissa behöver verkligen lyckopiller. Har man tur så har min maniska storasyster redan varit nere och bakat någon slags mat eller fika för att hon inte kunde sova. Mmmmhh. Te och biskvier. *onyttig*
January 5th, 2009 at 6:45 am
hey guys, did you see an episode of “how i met your mother” in which one the awesome SVEN collective shows up? its magnificent
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January 5th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Hi.I found the breakfast issue really interesting.In kenya the typical breakfast is around four slices of buttered bread, no cheese and sometimes not buttered at all.Tea with milk. But it also differs with social class. Though thats generally what people have.
January 5th, 2009 at 7:26 am
it wus good
thanks
January 5th, 2009 at 7:41 am
Hi Marcus,
I am hurt, how can one possibly say that NY bagels are the best when it is a known fact that Montreal Style Bagels are (especially from Fairmount Bagels on Fairmount Street).
Cheers
January 5th, 2009 at 7:46 am
can you stop popping up please thankyou
January 5th, 2009 at 8:54 am
hello my name is Tatianna and I well like to know do you like all the bagels in the world because if you do that’s cool and very ineresting I only like one flavors and I think it’s the dry flavor but I’m not for sure.I like to cook my bagels like this .First I cut the bagel in half .then I get some butter out the refreator and cut one skinny slice. then put it on the bagel. then put the bagels in the micerave just for a little bet so the bread won’t be hard .it has to be soft. after that you get to put the cream cheese on there and spread the cream cheese . then your all ready to eat your bagels. and that’s the end of my bagels ingretints .
January 5th, 2009 at 8:55 am
I am from South Africa, but live in London now. I used to have Fruit Loops for breakfast back in SA but they dont seem to sell it the UK, so sad. So, have toast with cheese now.
I miss fruit loops alot!
January 5th, 2009 at 9:51 am
That’s funny. I actually lived in Sweden for a while. Breakfast wasn’t all that different actually… at least to me. I generally eat cereal and in most countries I’ve been to cereal is very similar to cereal everywhere else.
Pancakes on the other hand (which is one of my favorite breakfasts I rarely get to eat) is very different in Sweden. The two are really nothing alike. Both are very delicious still
but I’ll take my American pancakes any day.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:35 am
I am chinese but since I live in the states, my breakfast, if any, would consist of milk and cereal. Occasionally, I have a bagel, plain and toasted… When I go back to Hong Kong, however, a normal breakfast would be a glass of milk or hot tea, with rice noodle rolls with soy and HoiSin sauce..yummy….. I think the people in Hong Kong have all different sorts of breakfasts. There are the western style breakfasts with bread, sausage and eggs. And there are the chinese style ones that consist various congees (rice soups), dim sum, rice noodles soups….. sooo many…….
Happy New Year Everyone…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 5th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Hello everyone! I’m from Brazil and my breakfast is: slices of bread with butter or mayoneese, a cup of cofee ‘n milk and another cup with just milk. Here in Brazil is very common the people eat just bread ‘n drink cofee ‘n milk in their homes or in bakery.
January 5th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Hello all. I was Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina (United States) to a mother of Mexican descent and a British father, and that makes breakfast quite an ordeal.
while with my father’s side of the family, the Brit side, we usually have a bagel with cream cheese and smoked salmon or marmite, earl grey tea or coffee, and a bowl of cereal or fresh fruit.
while with my mother’s side of the family, we always have fresh tortillas, eggs cooked scrambled either in an omlette (peppers, jalapenos, onions, cheese, etc) or with churezo (a mexican spicy sausage that is VERY good) mixed in. we also occasionally have some refried beans or corn cakes.
now, going back to my southern roots, i make a mean biscuits and gravy every time i can get my hand on enough sausage to make a decent pot of it. it’s hearty and delicious!
it seems that a lot of people sympathize with the bagel story.
good eats, everyone!
January 5th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
If in North Jersey (US), go to any diner for breakfast and ask for a “Taylor Ham, egg, and cheese”. Fabulous! And it seems to be only available in North Jersey. Taylor Ham is a brand of “Pork Roll”, or spiced processed ham, thinly sliced and grilled. It’s served on a round roll, but also good on a NY/NJ bagel! Not very good for your cholestorol, but your tastes buds will thank you! (What’s a grit?
)
January 5th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
i never have breakfast and im from England. if i ever do have breakfast its on a weekend and normally a bacon sandwich on brown bread prefurably
:)
January 5th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Australian here
When I was a kid normally all we’d eat was either cereal or toast. Nothing fancy in my family, I could just imagine my mums response if I asked her to make me pancakes or bacon haha. Now though I don’t usually eat breakfast, usually I just have about 4 cups of coffeee when I get out of bed to wake myself up :p
January 5th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
We eat at 12.00 AM haha ugly fjgdfiogdot-
January 5th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
heey i just wanna say that i love meebo and i chat with my friends 24/7 it is soo kool
January 5th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
seus filho de uma putha arruma essa PPPPOOOOORRRRAAAAA de Meebo Pq eu to Ficando Com Raiva já de ter q ficar saindo e entrando no meu msn
January 5th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Well, here in Costa Rica our breakfast is different, we eat something called “Gallo Pinto” and it is a combination of rice & beans with an English sausage. with the Gallo Pinto we eat cheese or eggs and sour cream!!!
January 5th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
As for me breakfast is the mot important meal of the day and it’s interesting to see what you all eat in your different country. Some of you need coffee to begin their day. I love eggs and I need eggs for my first meal: eggs (usually boiled in the week time) with toast and fresh orange juice.
On my day off ,either scrambled egg with rice, ham and cheese,or mirror eggs with bacon, plate of fresh fruit, plate of ham and cheese, tomatoes and cucumber, fresh soft gaarlic,… then a toast of delicious french chocolate and nuts named “Nutella”, a real cup of english tea and a smoke !
Now I’m peace !!!
January 5th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
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January 5th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
im kinda new so guys plz read my next comment
January 5th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
ok as i was eating breakfast my bro spilt his pop on my dad it was so funny you should of been there it was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo helariose i mean it
Your Friend
Terra
January 5th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
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January 5th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
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January 5th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
this is very weird y do u have a new blog every day its pointless and it takes to long to read so i think it should be like banned and btw to all the people who take all their time reading these pointless comments its takes up to much room. i mean we come on to talk to our friends not to read those pointless blogs. so yea
January 5th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
im from america but i live in korea right now, and breakfast is usually considered the same as lunch, they may eat rice, or ramen if in college
there is dunken doughnuts and mcdonalds, lol and that is the closest thing to a normal breakfast for me
January 5th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Well, I live in New York City and you’ve pretty much got the bagel and cream cheese bit downpacked. Usually (not every…day) maybe saturdays and or sundays I may have Bacon, Turkey Ham, With buttered/cheese Grits. Sometimes I may have oat meal with a bit of butter and some Splenda. Coffee is pretty popular up here and it doesnt taste that bad. Maybe I”D get a bacon egg and cheese sandwich from the store around to corner from my school…(I do see that a lot of people up here use hot sauce) but I use ketchup. I aboslutly love orange Juice
then you have Mc. Donalds, Dunkin Dounuts, etc. that provide us people with unhealthy breakfast choices = ) but Dunkin Dounuts coffee tastes great!
January 5th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I am originally from Canada but now live in Costa Rica. Back in Canada a typical breakfast in Ontario is a trip to the Tim Horton’s Donuts for a donut or two with coffee to go. Always popular are bagels w cream cheese, or muffins.
Here in Costa Rica, Fresh fruit, gallo pinto (which is rice and beans) and maybe an egg and coffee. This is the best coffee in the world, but surprisingly ticos (Costa Ricans) only have one in the morning.
enjoy
January 5th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Hi, I’m from Surabaya-Indonesia. Mostly people in here not eat bread, bagel or a cup of coffe for drink for breakfast.
Indonesian people prefer to eat fried rice, steam rice with eggs, pecel, and green tea or mineral water to drink. hehehe
January 5th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Hello..i’m from Malaysia. The breakfast of people in Malaysia are similar with people in Indonesia. people mostly eat rice, noodles and drink tea, coffee and milk and we have our special bread call ‘roti canai’ but some of us also do take breakfast like you do.
January 5th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Hi Marcus!
Very simple topic but impressive.
I’m from Indonesia. Perhaps not everyone knows that Indonesian people have rice as their primary meal. Indonesian say they feel like haven’t eaten if they haven’t have rice no matter how much other meals they have. So, some Indonesian still have rice as breakfast. But, instead rice, there are many alternative traditional meals for breakfast here, such as:
- ‘bubur’ (porridge which is the source made from rice also)
- ‘lontong’ (made from rice. The rice is made into firm and poured by chicken curry as the sauge)
- ‘mie’
- ‘ketoprak’ (consist of tofu, cabbage, ’somay’ it’s something like fishball, boiled potato, and they all are poured with bean sauge)
- ‘egg’
- and ‘bread and cheese’ like in western
- plus ‘milk’ or ‘juice’ or ‘tea’ or ‘coffee’ as a drink
Thanks Marcus for sharing with us
Love from Indonesia,
-Marina-
January 5th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Hey guys. I live in Ohio and never been out of the country. lame yes i know. BUT being the culinary kid i am, i sadly say i dont spend much time on breakfast..mon-friday i hardly ever eat breakfast. when i do its either a milk and cereal bar or a toasted bagel with butter and always Cran-Apple juice. Now on saturday’s depending on when i get up i have either frozen waffles (after toasting them in the toaster) or eggs…but very rarely eggs cuz i like them for dinner when mom makes me a ham and cheese omelet. Sunday’s i normally just grab a donut or honey bun from church and sit in the nursery looking after a boy who just turned 3 and another lil boy who is 4.
<3
mucho love from ohio, USA
ally
January 5th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Hi ! I was amazed to know that your Swedish breakfast is just like our usual Russian breakfast! Yep, some bread, butter and hard cheese, preferably swiss
At other rare times we eat crapes.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
I already posted once but I forgot something
Cold Pizza!
best thing for a hangover.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
I’m from Belgium and my breakfast generally consists of cereals with milk, bread with jam / chocolate spread or cheese (spread), or a drink yoghurt, depending on how much time I have. My father likes scrambled eggs in the morning too.
Another thing that I haven’t seen in the list yet, is “lost bread”: we dip older bread (needs to be dried, so leave to dry beforehand if you have no older bread) shortly in milk and then in egg (egg white and egg yolk mixed with a fork but not beaten up), then fry it in a pan and add sugar on your plate (served warm). This is something we eat on special occasions only, and can be eaten as lunch or dinner too.
Nowadays a lot of people skip breakfast altogether I heard, even though it’s not healthy.
Best wished for 2009 from Belgium.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:58 am
breakfast in Kenya (east africa) is not so differrent , most people i know have cereals,bread, milk, juice and tea. But the tea is a staple, people do take a lot of tea!!!!
coffee is like a social drink like beer…….
January 6th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Wish you all the best very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 6th, 2009 at 1:38 am
Hi,
I am colin, I work as the manager of a sports store, our breakfast differs.
However I do know that all of the 15 swedish people I had to Northern Ireland last year for a cross community program all said they hated coffee.
Mabey its not a swedish thing afterall.
You cant take the truth out of the Irish!
=D
January 6th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Hi there. Back here in Portugal, we usually eat some toasted bread with butter, optionally cheese and ham, along with coffee, tee or milk.
Optionally, milk and cereals
January 6th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Shouldn’t you be eating knāckerbrod in Zweden?
Here in Holland we eat bread and cheese and chocolate sprinkles and chocolatecream (nutella)
You shouldn’t eat eggs everyday! That really bad for your cholesterol… unless you work out and stuff
January 6th, 2009 at 3:44 am
Im in South Carolina,In this part of USA,our breakfast is somewhat different from the rest of the USA.Instead of bagels and oatmeal.It mosty consist of grits,eggs,bacon,ham,or sausage for the meat.toast with jam(jelly).Or just a good ole southern made biscuit.Or maybe cereal and milk for those on the go folks.We drink coffee and orange juice mainly for breafast.The grits are great when you put plenty of butter and mix in your eggs.My son in law is from California,Oregon area.When he comes he stocks up on grits now to take back.
January 6th, 2009 at 3:53 am
Here in England, the “sprout” is a disgusting vegetable, like a tiny cabbage, which we have only at Christmas. I assume this is not what you have with your bagels…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussel_Sprout
January 6th, 2009 at 5:16 am
I am from Nigeria, yoruba culture. I take amala, gbegiri soup (beans) and ewedu in the morning…. so palatable!
January 6th, 2009 at 6:09 am
My breakfast ritual differs each day but most of the time it goes something like this:
On weekends or days with no school, my breakfast consists of whatever leftover food is in the house and some type of juice or water as a substitute for juice.
On school days not including Tuesday and Thursday and whether I am in a rush or not, I will either have a grilled cheese sandwich with some form of juice or pick up a chicken steamed bun at the shop and a coffee (double double
) on the way to school.
On the Tuesdays and Thursdays in which I have school, I will either have the same as above but will also enjoy a bagel with butter and cream cheese or a piece of toast with the same spread, a cup of coffee with milk and 4 tsp of sugar (I admit I do not know how to make a double double like they do in shops), some fruit, a cup of yogurt, and a piece of cheese… I love the breakfast club
I suppose it’s a very complicated breakfast schedule.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:11 am
I’m from Mexico, and I’ve met several foreigners who’ve been surprised by the size of our ‘breakfast’. While cold cereal and yogurt and fruit are common, many Mexicans go without breakfast and have instead a large ‘almuerzo’; kind of a mid-morning meal. ‘Almuerzos’ can consist of fruit, juice, coffee, bread, and a main dish like chilaquiles (fried tortilla chips covered with hot sauce, fresh cheese and cream), enchiladas, eggs, or corn-based Mexican ‘antojitos’ or snacks, like tamales, sopes or huaraches. These dishes usually have a side of some kind of meat, like a steak, ham, sausage or bacon. You should try it some time!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huarache_(food)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamal
January 6th, 2009 at 6:50 am
I <3 breakfast! One of my fave meals of the day!!!
I’m originally from Jamaica, W.I. so my Mom makes yummy Jamaican breakfast food when I go to visit her in Miami;
JA breakfast is usually heavy and consists of one of the below:
ackee and saltfish
porridge
callalloo and saltfish
w/ a side of 1 or 2 of the following:
green bananas, yam, plaintain, fried or boiled dumpling, bammy
At work i ususally eat lighter:
greek yogurt w/ organic granola
But weekends in NYC usually means brunching w/ family and friends and i usually get either:
pancakes
french toast
omelette w/ goat cheese and mushrooms w/ a side of toast
grits w/ cheese
sausage
and definitely apple juice or cranberry juice
January 6th, 2009 at 6:54 am
esta bien todo lo agregado sobre usted
January 6th, 2009 at 6:58 am
Breakfast… hmm… Well, I’m English, and for breakfast I either eat a bowl of cerial, or a few slices of toast and butter. And of course… A cup of nice hot tea. ^_^
January 6th, 2009 at 8:01 am
im from nigeria and we are very rich in traditional food. As Mary said earlier, Amala and ewedu is not a bad combination even though work has not given me time to eat it in a while.
rice is our every day food.
igbadun wa ni nigeria. e maa bo wa si ile olora.
January 6th, 2009 at 8:32 am
it seems like there have been a few shoutouts for the filipino breakfast… pan de sal (sweet rolls– if you speak spanish…yes, it’s counterintuitive because it’s not salty), garlic fried rice (sinangag), and filipino breakfast sausage (longanizza). basically the “si-log” (where the si = sinangag = garlic fried rice and the log = itlog = eggs)… basic combos of tapsilog: tapa beef jerky, garlic rice and eggs, or longsilog: longanizza, garlice rice and eggs, and countless other possibilities…
having said all that. I’m a big proponent of the champorado!! It’s rice cooked with ground cocoa beans… basically hot chocolate in your rice! For detailed pics of what it looks like or how to make it check this out:
http://onefilipinodish.com/blog/2008/10/champorado/
January 6th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
hey there. last february i had the fortune of visiting stockholm for a little less than a week, and i was surprised at how savory the breakfast foods were. i stayed at a little hotel called hotel connect a few steps away from the alvsjo commuter train station. meats, cheeses, a caviar(?) spread with delicious butter complemented fruit, yogurt, and muesli. on a separate morning i was delighted to try out the princess cake and a pastry with a delicious almond past filling in it. i have no idea what it’s called, unfortunately, but from what the baker said – it was a seasonal item. and of course – the most gut wrenching thing i had all trip – a tunnbrodsrulle in the wee hours of the morning. not quite breakfast, but good enough.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I am from germany and in 2007/08 i lived as an exchange student in the usa.
!!!! the first time at IHOP ordering pancakes with blueberries and whipped cream – i realized heaven on earth 
!!!!!
The breakfast over in the states differed so much from the food i was used to eat back in ma home country.
I think i gained a lot of weight haha, but i didnt care because my hostmom made it with so much love and it was always joy eating her great pancakes.
In germany the first few years of high school life i didnt eat any breakfast on school days, i always woke up late and then i had to ran for ma bus, so the time for breakfast went slowly away from ma schedule. On the weekend i have a full breakfast, with cereal, yogurt, fresh fruits, anddd myyy lovely “Brötchen” – bread rolls on those we put on cheese, or ham..or if u like it sweet then we go with jelly or nutella.
When i came to the usa, i really didnt notice the change about the breakfast at first, but after a couple of months, i started to miss my Brötchen ..
Pancakes, nevertheless, were the best i could imagine…i couldnt get enough of them, and when i ateI am from germany and in 2007/08 i lived as an exchange student in the usa.
The breakfast over in the states differed so much from the food i was used to eat back in ma home country.
I think i gained a lot of weight haha, but i didnt care because my hostmom made it with so much love and it was always joy eating her great pancakes.
In germany the first few years of high school life i didnt eat any breakfast on school days, i always woke up late and then i had to ran for ma bus, so the time for breakfast went slowly away from ma schedule. On the weekend i have a full breakfast, with cereal, yogurt, fresh fruits, anddd myyy lovely “Brötchen” – bread rolls on those we put on cheese, or ham..or if u like it sweet then we go with jelly or nutella.
When i came to the usa, i really didnt notice the change about the breakfast at first, but after a couple of months, i started to miss my Brötchen ..
Pancakes, nevertheless, were the best i could imagine…i couldnt get enough of them, and when i ate the first time at IHOP ordering pancakes with blueberries and whipped cream – i realized heaven on earth
Now back in Germany i really miss those amazing pancakes because they are always the best where u first ate em
Now back in Germany i really miss those amazing pancakes because they are always the best where u first ate em
January 26th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
hmmm something about breakfast..
We usually have:
If one is in a hurry..
- bread
- hot choco [mom doesn't want us to drink coffee when we were kids..] or coffee
- fruits [usually apples or bananas]
* they usually dip a piece of bread to their coffee if there’s no jam or cheese nearby
But if one have time especially in weekend
- fried rice [sliced hotdogs, left over meat and eggs] topped with cooked-until-brown garlic [w/c I usually put aside hehehe]
- hot choco or coffee
- fruits
OR
- arroz caldo [rice porridge with meat and striped-ginger] and served very hot
YUMMMMY….
February 4th, 2009 at 1:08 am
mmorpg game is very interesting . I want to play Dofus . so i want to know if i should buy some dofus kamas.
February 4th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
hmmm something about breakfast..
We usually have:
If one is in a hurry..
- bread
- hot choco [mom doesn't want us to drink coffee when we were kids..] or coffee
- fruits [usually apples or bananas]
* they usually dip a piece of bread to their coffee if there’s no jam or cheese nearby
But if one have time especially in weekend
- fried rice [sliced hotdogs, left over meat and eggs] topped with cooked-until-brown garlic [w/c I usually put aside hehehe]
- hot choco or coffee
- fruits
OR
- arroz caldo [rice porridge with meat and striped-ginger] and served very hot
YUMMMMY….
April 27th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Grilled Cheese Sandwich…
Well, this is not only kids recipe but almost all kids like this for breakfast, there are about 200 calories on a grilled cheese sandwich, this is probably a little off… each slice of white bread has about 50 calories in it and each slice of amer…
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:21 am
Bandeng Saus Hoisin…
Bahan :
2 ekor (1,5 kg) ikan bandeng segar, siangi, potong dua bagian
5 sdm air jeruk nipis
1/2 sdt garam
minyak untuk menggoreng
3 siung bawang putih, memarkan
2 cm jahe, memarkan
2 buah cabai hijau, iris memanjang
100 ml kaldu ayam
2 sdm kecap mani…
November 4th, 2009 at 9:14 am
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