| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/20/2008 2:16:21 AM | i remember when the term "american breakfast" came into hotel language. my impression was that it was cheap and fast, included in the price as a sort of bonus, and if not for the price, most people entered the "american plan" to be able to eat their breakfasts outside the hotel.
most people i know, do not eat pastry for breakfast. there are more and more healthy fast food alternatives where i live. in america people often travel way farther for work or even school than i noticed in britain and have way less vacation and time off--so they tend to be in a hurry a lot.
when i was in my limited travels via canada, britain, romania, the various surrounding islands, mexico (the healthiest thus far) -- the breakfasts were as fattening and unhealthy as the quick pastry. i think it takes local knowledge as to where to eat out and personal knowledge to how to eat healthy.
in britain, everyplace i went had cream and butter on everything with all the fish "fried"--yet pof locals tell me that where they live this is not the case. what can i say? i went with the ex's recommendations and he was born/raised there!
more and more fast food chains are trying to enter the healthy food market. many poor people depend on the cheap food they serve, but things are changing slowly with education and "demand". the biggest problem here to date has been what has been offered as lunch to the children in the interest of saving money. that too is being dealt with, at least where i live. | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/20/2008 2:53:53 PM | Well personally I think any argument made by the OP (Even though he posted it 2 years ago) is nulled by this line;
Hello.
Im not european, im scandinavian
Anyway, back to the topic. There are plenty of other things Americans eat for breakfast. Truth is a lot of obese Americans, along with Englishmen, Frenchmen, heck even our Asian friends that are obese eat pastries for breakfast, eating a bad breakfast isn't just an American thing.
Usually I go for something decent, eggs if I have the time or some kind of granola bar or something. The occasional pastry isn't too bad. Thinking that America sits there dumping sugar down our throats every morning is kind naive. | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/20/2008 2:53:57 PM | The title of this thread made me laugh harder than I have all day. 
"Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?"
Hey buddy, don't knock until you've tried it! I eat chocolate rice krispies with chocolate soy milk and maple syrup every morning and it's FANTASTIC. Although I do get sharp pains in my chest and left arm around noon though .... hmmm.
P.S. I'm as thin as a rod. | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/20/2008 2:55:54 PM | Ahh, ya Lobosin
Protein is the best option. The easiest way to lose weight is cook up an egg and some toast every morning. Improves your metabolism and isn't bad for you (depending on how much you butter the toast and what kind of toast you use that is) | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/20/2008 3:13:15 PM |
"Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?"
ewww, I am American and I don't eat that stuff. I have stuck to my Military breakfast going on 8 years or so and my blood tests are the same as when I was 19. I eat Eggs, Turkey bacon, toast or oatmeal. mmmm, breakfast my favorite!! | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/20/2008 3:23:24 PM | Breakfast is a meal that needs a TOTAL re-engineering. The breakfast-meal paradigm is something that harkens back to an era when a quick-energy meal got farmers and laborers kickstarted for the day. As a diabetic it's sometime a struggle to make breakfast that to many of us Americans resembles lunch.
Frustratingly,
Schadybaby | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/21/2008 1:58:01 AM | In reply to this thread, I'd just like to use the word "fedility". I have no idea what it means, but it makes it look like I've thought about my response. Which, of course, is completely impossible, considering what I ate for breakfast today - the skin of a porcupine, lightly roasted, with extra syrup(sirup, for you Canadians(hint:read the original post and tell me what the poster ate for breakfast)).
Yeah, I got friends who eat donuts for breakfast. I suppose that beats a knuckle sandwich. But not by much.
I thin kwe need a new advertising slogan. Beef! It's what's for breakfast. | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/21/2008 2:14:24 AM | In reply to this thread, I'd just like to use the word "fedility
Uh..... DONKEYPIMP.... were you trying to say "fertility" or "fidelity"?
Either way, we're totally ****ing confused as to what you REALLY meant.
We'll just take it to mean that at a minimum, you understand what DONKEYPUNCH means, lol!!!
At least you were honest in terms of your vocabulary acumen, and your staple diet.
Tell me. Does that friend of your's get his breakfast out of the window of a cop-car, just before dawn close to a weigh station or a rest area? I think your advertising slogan is perfect- BJ, 21. Just stay there. There's already enough bullshit on Ch19these days without you Tinky-Winkies horning in on the heterosexual business channel. Probably got that knuckle sandwich knocking on an old-school driver's door in the wrong place.
-Nomad- | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/21/2008 2:20:31 AM | Hei-Hei OP,
I have Norweigan family (in Stavanger) and lived there for some months last year. The amount of sugar in the jam you guys put on your waffles equates to how we dress our pancakes. Also, the crepes...more jam. Did I mention that both of those things are eaten for dinner? Very sweet stuff, indeed! Don't get me wrong I loved it. Jordbaer, mmm lekker!
Oh, what about braun ost? That stuff is nothing but congealed condensed milk--full-o-sugar. And, oh gawd how I loved that too! And then you guys put jam on top of that! LOL. There is plenty of sugar in breakfast foodstuffs in just about every culture. When I moved here to Czech, I noticed that they have THREE aisles of sugar stuff...and that doesn't count the salty snacks. Grant it, Norweigans do have a counterbalance for all that sugar. Should I mention, liverpostei? I liked that too, btw. 
Americans like sugar in the morning to get that extra energy we need for our rat race. Europeans/Scandanavians have a MUCH easier way of life. They don't need as much crap because they have less crap to deal with during the day. That's just an observation...having lived in both cultures.
Btw, she wasn't calling you a nazi, in the Adolf Hitler-gas-all-the-sugar-junkies way. It's a tongue-n-cheek joke. One that Jerry Seinfeld, a JEW, started. Ever heard of the Soup Nazi? That's where she got it. Anyway, if you are going to be on the message boards you need two things, IMHO: a thick skin and a sense of humor.
Ha det bra! *waves*  | |
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Posted: 5/21/2008 3:21:59 AM | It's a tongue-n-cheek joke. One that Jerry Seinfeld, a JEW, started. Ha det bra! *waves*
Lois, in Sarasota, FL, there was once a really nice, authentic sushi bar called Yoshino, owned by Katsutoshi Yoshizawa and his wife, Keoki. They were in their early sixties and were just grade-school age when we dropped the bombs over there. Katsu was very sentimental about his restaurant- he fished local catch and ran the raw end of it all alone, and his wife did the hot kitchen. They had minimal bus and kitchen staff, and prided themselves in traditional operation of their establishment. Katsu did all kinds of neat stuff like ozakazushi, and was a little on the wild side. While he would keep some of us, his favorites who had passed his own unorthodox test of acceptance, later than the posted business hours- drinking sake and having fun... He was known city-wide as the "Sushi-Nazi".... He'd wave his knife-- whip it past the end of your nose in some instances, bang hell out of it on top of the Hoshizaka, or whatever the damn thing the fish is kept in.... and if you stood your ground with him at the sushi bar- that was his test of your metal. If you had a regular place at his closest, then he had accepted you. Others, given Sarasota has a seasonal crowd- would come in with children, complaints, drunk, whatever.... He was known to run clientele he didn't feel like he needed out the door on the point of his knife. His restaurant was zoned 'professional' and in that inclusive residential loophole, weapons law admitted the tenets of castle domain. Touch the fish tank if you were an unruly kid, and get your family tossed. He was all about Pride.
Bringing this story up to date, Brian and Brenda Johnson(Brian of AC/DC) and Tom De Lucca, who managed Brenda's stable of Aston-Martins(Brenda races SCCA OpenWheel Vintage...) were as fond of their place as I was, and we spent more than a few nights pickling ourselves in the name of fun, long after closing.
Long story short, they were tired of the restaurant rat-race, and in their friendship with Brian and Brenda... I'm pretty sure the Yoshizawas are touring as royalty with AC/DC. They do authentic dinners for special guests when Brian and Brenda call the occaision, but they are friends first, and Katsu and Keiko are along for the fun- as much fun as they have cooking for special friends that show up, just like so may of us here.
My point was to bring a friendly point to the earlier Nazi crap.... likening it to the Seinfeld episode, but likely with a basis more real-to-life than Jerry Seinfeld himself could ever imagine.
As for Brian Johnson- Imagine Dudley Moore without the alcohol issues, and about 25% bigger than himself. Just a helluva decent, very human husband and wife. Achievers worthy of compliment. The Johnsons are some of the most real and wonderful people I've had the privelidge to meet. The point of this story was to put something tangible to the earlier anger about the Soup Nazi thing. I'm hoping I've give some AC/DC fans a little bit of an inside look, and if they earn another well deserved fan, then, I have nothing to say for myself. Hell, I'm not even a big fan. Back In Black came out when I was in high-school, lol. Angus' hat is still fonky-lookin'... But, Bless Bon Thomas... Brian was a right guy to fill his shoes, and has worn the challenge well, and with nobility.
I hope I helped to lay to rest a Nazi tonight that is a little more fondly familiar to us than the one who caused so much angst and destruction some sixty or seventy years ago now.
Peace, and Godspeed.... -Nomad- | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/21/2008 4:23:42 AM | I personally like blanket statements for breakfast...
Come on, do you really think EVERY American eats pastries for breakfast? About forty five years ago, corporate america found high fructose corn syrup and because it was so much cheaper than sugar began adding it to everything. Americans began getting huge sugar rushes from it and it began a huge problem with ADD, diabetes, depression and more. We all thought the governement was of the people, for the people and by the people, we found out corporations can get what ever they want with the right amount of payolla....so Americans are on a roller coaster wondering why they are getting fat after eating a burger shake and fries, yet they are still hungry a half an hour later....(because the lack of nutrition and drop in blood sugars).. so the fast food people made the portions larger, added more high fructose corn syrups, salt and other additives.. rising costs forced mothers/women to get a job, two incomes to keep the family going, no time for cooking real food... so pizza, fried chicken, burgers were something to help out an exhausted family... slowly killing themselves.
Many of the Americans are eating only organic, beginning to join barter groups for organic foods and wouldnt eat a pastry if you paid them a thousand dollars.
Try not to group everyone into one big pile... | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/21/2008 4:54:30 AM | Im not european, im scandinavian
i really do apologise for being picky and i know its totally off topic ... but if you are scandinavian could you tell me exactly where in the hell have they moved it too then if your not of european decent...?
norway sweden anmd finland..which are the countries counted as scandinavian penninsula were always in northern europe.. maybe we should send out an expedition to go find it again...? | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/21/2008 4:57:26 AM | About forty five years ago, corporate america found high fructose corn syrup and because it was so much cheaper than sugar began adding it to everything
BETTERLATE.... We're gonna get skinny again, now that the source of our synthesized sugars are going in the gas tank. Poor lil' fat bass turds... Mind you, I'm a FL native.... gonna be cryin' like a starvin' Cambodian... Ya'll remember when our Mom's were tellin' us to clean our plate, because people in Cambodia were starving?
Sorry, Betterlate.... Not being crass to you, just being crass in general. I just sold a BEAUTIFUL Peterbilt- Finally worked my way to ownership of my childhood dream, came up in a FL citrusenterprise, family biz... Damn family owned me for my ability to front our customers... Finally won my freedom form the regime and then the Bush/Bin Laden Oil Consortium got to hassling me.....
Never mind, babe... I'll SHET MY MOUF NOW WHILST I STILL BE ABLE!!!
-Nomad- | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/21/2008 7:04:24 AM |
He was known city-wide as the "Sushi-Nazi"....
LOL. Maybe Jerry and/or Larry David ate at that place in Sarasota. It sounds grand and similar to the Soup Nazi, similar as in inspiration.
Hey Nomad, guess what? No soup for you!!! LOL. You do know that I am kidding, right?
About forty five years ago, corporate america found high fructose corn syrup and because it was so much cheaper than sugar began adding it to everything
I have a great disdain for corporate America. It's that BS that has made Americans fat and insurance companies rich.
In Norge, the sweet jams I mentioned have natural sugar. They are just was sweet but better tasting. | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/22/2008 1:42:15 AM | LOIS!!! Yes, I know you were kidding... Uh... Trade you some fish for some of that jam? Special delivery?
It depends on what kind of fish. That's one of Norge's better exports. That and oil, not the cooking kind. LOL. Glad to have a laugh witcha, Nomad! 
Anybody else here hungry? | |
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| Why in the name of god do americans eat pastries for breakfast?
Posted: 5/24/2008 9:26:40 PM | Continental breakfast
continental breakfast
One entry found.
continental breakfast
Main Entry: continental breakfast
Function: noun
Usage: often capitalized C
Date: 1911
: a light breakfast (as of rolls or toast and coffee)
Does not mean all Americans eat is sugar loaded pastries for breakfast............The hotel industry in it's attempt to appease the masses found this to be the most universal breakfast.
I like cherioos honey nut myself and fruit, When I want to I make vege omlets. | |
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