i stayed at a hotel offering a "continental breakfast" last summer. i got a room temperature bottle of apple juice, one of those nature valley granola dust bars, and a terrible muffin in a bag. ACBAB
They need to stop calling it a "continental" breakfast and start calling it what it actually is, French. Every other country in Western Europe eats a normal breakfast. This pastry and coffee crap is only in France. :france-cool:
I stayed at a German guy's house, and the breakfast he made was basically continental. No pastries, just bread and cheese and jam.
The only people's houses I've been to have been in Spain and France, I'm mostly speaking of my experience in hotels. I had cake for breakfast in Spain and really good potato and egg omelets, too.
Why Is It Called a Continental Breakfast?
The term “continental breakfast” refers to the continent of Europe and the style of breakfast enjoyed in European cultures. The term first appeared in 1896 as a result of the turning of the century. Prior to the 1800s, the most common American jobs involved farm work and demanded a high-calorie breakfast to start the day.
However, as the country headed into the 1900s, the average job became more sedentary and emerging middle-class workers sought out a lighter morning option. At the same time, more and more European travelers were visiting America and staying in hotels. **The hotels responded in kind by adding a light breakfast option to their menu that their European customers would appreciate. **
from now on, i will decolonize breakfast by hitting the stat cap for breakfast weight and enjoying a quart of sausage gravy made fresh from frying up a 1 lb chub of jimmy dean breakfast sausage, chopped up and dumped over 2 buttermilk biscuits baked to the consistency of a commercial grade portland cement mix.
when my body is found, tell my children i died in defense of their future.
