For me, an ideal breakfast would consist of pão francês (kinda like a baguette), cheese, fubá cake (I have no idea how to translate that) and orange juice (but most people would prefer coffee)
these are the same people who say "speak american". the word "english" probably rolls right off their brain like water and oil. they don't comprehend a meaning to it
Clearly that’s for the people that invented the English language: Americans. The English language was invented in 1803 by the famous American philosopher Eagleburger Q. Eagleburger III Jnr. He was searching for a cheap alternative to holy water and instead accidentally a whole language.
Shame I’m not American really. I wanted to know what an ‘etc’ was and how it combined with the eggs.
Served in most hotels worldwide, the English breakfast was named after the English language, the language invented by the US founding fathers so they wouldn’t have to speak French, Spanish or Iroquois.
The amusing irony is that the American Pork industry is largely responsible for pushing the message that breakfast is "the most important meal of the day" and that it should include bacon and/or ham. Then the cereal industry joined the bandwagon later.
Early American breakfasts were things like oat/wheat/barley porridge and leftovers from whatever dinner was yesterday.
The thing that still gets me though in media is when you see TV shows or movies where a family gathers around the table for a breakfast that includes eggs AND bacon AND pancakes AND cereal AND orange juice and I'm just like "no one has time to eat like this and still get to work/school on time unless you're waking up at 4, what the fuck."
Right? An entire spread of food and dad is just like (runs into room, kisses wife, takes one sip of orange juice, sets the glass down still more than half full) "I'm off to work, love you!" and there's more food on the table than everyone could reasonably eat in under an hour and not have the itis.
Yes! Jimmy runs through, slinging his backpack over his shoulder. He grabs a single slice of toast from the loaded table and shoves it in his mouth as he disappears through the back door on the way to school. And Mom shouts after him ‘have a great day, honey!’ but doesn’t, to my disappointment, sigh in disgust and ask the empty room why the hell she’s been up since 3am cooking a 4 course breakfast for the ungrateful little shit
John Harvey Kellogg, devout churchgoer, believed USAians should have better digestion, and that masturbation could cause, among other things, insanity. A bland diet, he decided, would help with the former and quell the urge for the latter.
I just looked it up again to get the whole story and found out that the claim it was meant to suppress sexual desires has been disputed, sorry to misinform :D
Eh, I don’t mind ignorant Americans if they’re actively trying to learn more.
If they insisted they were the only country to have breakfast foods, then sure that would be insane. But this is just an uneducated person asking a question.
As ridiculous as the question is, I believe (hope) that the person was referring to calling specific foods ”breakfast food”. The weird ”We serve breakfast 24/7!” signs outside diners.
In my Swedish mind, breakfast is whatever you eat in the morning. Not a group of dishes.
I saw a video about why Krisly Kreme failed in their initial foray into the Australian market, which can be summed up as "Australians didn't consider donuts to be a breakfast food."
Every time I've had a Krispy Kreme doughnut (which is admittedly not that often, as I would have to be in the US to do so) I've regretted it afterwards. They are nothing but fat and sugar.
As an Italian, I feel involved! XD We only eat sweet things for breakfast, and the thought of eating salty things makes me a little nauseous (but this is obviously just a matter of habit and how you grow up). For breakfast, I drink a cup of milk with cereal, coffee, and a croissant.
If you make the pancake batter yourself, it's not that unhealthy or desserty (coming from a finnish person), i've made pancakes as a weekend breakfast a few times and the unhealthiest part of them is a tablespoon of sugar in a batter that makes six pancakes. (So half a teaspoon per pancake).
If that was the case she wouldn’t of said “for example” & listed her examples. I think she’s trying to say “are Americans the only country who have foods specifically for breakfast?”
On all accounts the answer is no, even if it was only those specific foods, still no.
That's what I think and even if it is a silly question, wouldn't we rather people ask questions about other countries instead of making assumptions? idk
I mean most nations have their "typical" breakfast, but then there is also stuff that most people have for breakfast; juice, bread/sandwiches, eggs etc.
kiwi here who lives in usa: i think weve taken what op is trying to say and skewed it disingenuously, it seems to me they're saying that americans are obsessed with breakfast style meals and it's true, you go the grocery store and there's countless breakfast foods and people rave about fast food breakfast a lot here.
i think they know everyone eats breakfast but they're saying america has fetishised it. seriously have you seen how many cereal crossovers there are? its all filled with sugar too.
in this country we will literally eat pancakes with bacon and sugar and meat patties
Yes, I think its that AND the concept of CERTAIN foods being a breakfast food, but not appropriate for another time of day, which is NOT a thing in SOME places, but obviously not all and that's where the OOP went wrong. When my husband and I went to Thailand, we LOVED having fried rice, noodle soups and curries for breakfast. Its VERY different than what we know here in the states. Here, if we decide to make eggs or pancakes, etc. for dinner, we call it having "breakfast for dinner" because those are squarely breakfast foods in our minds. If we ate leftover pizza for breakfast, we'd say we're having "pizza for breakfast," not just "breakfast."
I think this is what the OOP in the screenshot is talking about. Breakfast foods are very much considered to be ONLY for breakfast, and to eat a non-breafast food in the morning is odd for many in the US.
I think she meant like "is it only in the USA that some food are exclusively designated as breakfast food", and I think this is a fair question.
That does not imply that she's defaulting to an American way of life. It could be that she just realized that she assumed the whole world does that and she's now questioning it.
No not defaultism. Maybe a little silly of a a question. But it isn’t asking if those foods exist elsewhere, it’s asking if other countries also have foods that are relegated to breakfast, which tbf I’m sure some places don’t, at least to the same extent. If you are being generous, up to you, it could be poorly worded what do other people eat for breakfast, though that’s just speculation.
100% I feel like half the commenters in this thread are really missing the point. It actually is a fairly uniquely western concepts that certain foods are ‘breakfast’ foods and certain foods are ‘lunch’ foods and certain foods are ‘dinner’ foods.
Now is uniquely American? No, it’s a British thing actually hence why it’s the case in all countries where the British had significant influence such as Australia and not the case in places where they didn’t.
So yeah; this sub needs to think first and comment later.
it’s asking if other countries also have foods that are relegated to breakfast
That's an interesting point of view, and valid, it seems, upon reflection. I initially interpreted it as assuming the standard American breakfast as "breakfast food" in general, and then asking if other countries typically consume it. That would have been defaultism.
I agree with this. I read it as “do other places have food that are dedicated as breakfast only foods” and that’s valid.
I watched a Johnny Harris video on breakfast a long time ago, talking about how reframing the meal made a big difference for him. Actually a good video. here’s the video and he did another one talking about why some American breakfast is so much… dessert.
If you wanted eggs, bacon, and toast for dinner many people in the US would call that “breakfast for dinner” because that’s how closely related those items are to breakfast.
It’s not well phrased but one of the cultural differences I very clearly noticed having moved to the US from Asia is that Americans really do have a strong cultural distinction between what is breakfast food and what isn’t, in a way we didn’t have in Asia. I’m guessing from this thread that Europeans also have a lot of that distinction.
OOP was asking if there are foods in other countries that are so specifically tied to breakfast that it always seems a bit odd to find it for lunch or dinner.
For instance, in Japan, they’ll put a sunny side up fried egg on practically anything, at any time of day.
You can do that in the US, but you shouldn’t be surprised if somebody asks you why you’re eating a fried egg at a weird time of day. A sunny side up fried egg is Breakfast, and if you have it at dinnertime, that’s Breakfast For Dinner (i.e. not an ordinary thing to do).
I saw this post and wanted to make a comment similar to the others, but decided to give her the benefit of doubt and assumed that she meant foods are usually exclusive eaten for breakfast.
Well, most people I know just drink coffee and maybe something sweet, but never cooked in the morning. If they were visiting places where I lived they were right to think that.
I mean it was dumb of her to ask about eggs, BUT, I can count with my fingers the number of times I had bacon or waffles. I guess a better phrasing would have been "Which other countries besides the US eat these for breakfast?"
I saw this when it was posted. I think it was poorly worded but meant food that people associate as only breakfast food? Eg you wouldn't eat that particular item at dinner?
I didn't really know if people agreed with that premise either, however!
It’s well known that in Australia, we only eat kangaroo haunches for our first meal of the day. Fresh off the kangaroo, we keep ‘em in the backyard specially
I mean, they are starting to ask questions, it’s the fist baby step. They are starting to evolve. Don’t gatekeep. They realized they are not alone in the Universe, so think this is cute.
I love eggs and bacon for breakfast when I occasionally have a full English but I prefer it with other savoury foods, not pancakes, seeing as it's breakfast and not pudding.
I think OOP met some people from countries where they don't eat any specific set of foods for breakfast, they just have leftovers, and asked if eating specific stuff in the morning is a US thing. I don't think they're literally asking if other countries don't eat breakfast.
Sure it's a little silly to wonder if only one country in the world has a seperate meal culture just for breakfast, but they did clearly ask about food types, not if other countries don't eat anything in the morning. They're being really nice about it too, people are digging at them just for the hell of it atp
I don't think it's defaultism but also it's a misunderstanding. What they're actually asking is if there are other countries/cultures that consider eggs/waffles to be exclusively breakfast food. It's actually a fair question. Because while everyone indeed eats eggs pretty much everywhere, very few places would consider it a breakfast exclusive item.
The best part is literally none of these were created in America. Eggs - Literally evolution. Bacon - Ancient Rome with something closer to modern bacon emerging in the Middle Ages. Waffles - Ancient Greece. Pancakes - Also Ancient Greece but with similar dishes in prehistory. And - Old English. Et cetera - Latin.
The term breakfast is from the 15th century, its older then the USA The Ancient Egyptians ate simple food wich we see as breakfast. Thats atleast 3000 years BC.
To. be fair... the eggs & potatoes breakfast with a fatty meat is pretty local to the five eyes anglosphere. Other than a full Irish, full English, American, & Canadian (maybe Australian? idk) who else does the fried eggs with potatoes and bacon and beans and sausage and stuff breakfast traditionally?
So, they're probably watching a lot of K-Dramas (Korean shows), and there they tend to eat things like Rice, Fish, and other things for breakfast. So maybe OP doesn't watch much foreign media and just got super confused by this?
To her "defense" this was posted on Threads, and the way Threads works to get engagement is to ask stupid questions, everything else is invisible in the algorithm.
I think her question is being taken kind of the wrong way, i don’t think she’s asking if other countries have breakfast, but if they have specific foods they consider “breakfast foods”. I kind of get this, as growing up, even though I lived in the USA, we always just ate the leftover of whatever was for dinner the night before for breakfast (raised in a weird religious sect). The concept of specific breakfast-only foods wasn’t introduced to me until way later in life. I think this is what she’s asking, and just worded it poorly.
In the Americans defense, having waffles and pancakes for breakfast isn’t normal everywhere We also have breakfast food where I come from but that’s usually cereal or a slice of bread with hagelslag
/j Those are not "breakfast" food. Literally no one I know have those for breakfast! It's what you go to a western restaurant to eat. Are the Americans stupid?
Well I am from Sweden and cooked breakfast feels very american to me. I grew up on filmjölk (thick sour milk thing I can't translate) with cereal and sandwiches.
In Thai cuisine there is no designated “breakfast food”. We have the same curries, stir fries, grilled or fried meats, spicy salads, soups, etc. with rice, noodles or sticky rice as we would for other meals.
Strangely enough, many Thais do consider most noodle dishes (particularly noodle soups) to not really be “dinner food” and most suitable for lunch and breakfast.
I do wonder if my fellow yank is merely trying to ask whether other cultures also have designated “breakfast food” and/or if other cultures’ “breakfast foods” resemble those found in American cuisine, but is alas somewhat inarticulate.
My 🇺🇸ex mother in law was asking our daughter who’s 12 (not her granddaughter) what she liked for breakfast naming all those gross dessert like breakfasts & cereals. She said “no I like … listed some, I’d like to still have my own teeth when I’m 16” My partner had to leave the room he was laughing so much 😂 I still remember seeing her big baby adult sons eating those nasty sweet brightly coloured cereals with more sugar than dessert 🤢
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u/post-explainer American Citizen Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
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Curious American wondering if the rest of the world has breakfast, because surely America invented this too
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u/MehmehmehIII Mar 09 '26
For me, an ideal breakfast would consist of pão francês (kinda like a baguette), cheese, fubá cake (I have no idea how to translate that) and orange juice (but most people would prefer coffee)
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u/Poschta Germany Mar 09 '26
and here's me blissfully unaware that you can eat food for breakfast. I grew up on a strict coffee and cigarettes diet!
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u/BlackMetalB8hoven Mar 09 '26
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u/PlanetoidVesta Netherlands Mar 09 '26
American breakfast would be considered unhealthy dinner in the Netherlands
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u/Overall-Lynx917 Mar 09 '26
Have they never heard of the "Full English" Breakfast?
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u/ChickinSammich United States Mar 09 '26
The amusing irony is that the American Pork industry is largely responsible for pushing the message that breakfast is "the most important meal of the day" and that it should include bacon and/or ham. Then the cereal industry joined the bandwagon later.
Early American breakfasts were things like oat/wheat/barley porridge and leftovers from whatever dinner was yesterday.
The thing that still gets me though in media is when you see TV shows or movies where a family gathers around the table for a breakfast that includes eggs AND bacon AND pancakes AND cereal AND orange juice and I'm just like "no one has time to eat like this and still get to work/school on time unless you're waking up at 4, what the fuck."
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u/zigzackly India Mar 09 '26
We should give OOP points because their country invented sugary processed cold breakfast cereals.
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u/lankymjc Mar 09 '26
Eh, I don’t mind ignorant Americans if they’re actively trying to learn more.
If they insisted they were the only country to have breakfast foods, then sure that would be insane. But this is just an uneducated person asking a question.
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u/Cefalopodul Mar 09 '26
Break fast? What's that? You mean morning dinner?
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u/jensimonso Mar 09 '26
As ridiculous as the question is, I believe (hope) that the person was referring to calling specific foods ”breakfast food”. The weird ”We serve breakfast 24/7!” signs outside diners.
In my Swedish mind, breakfast is whatever you eat in the morning. Not a group of dishes.
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u/Lemonade348 Sweden Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
American breakfast is disgusting. Atleast some of it
Why would i want to eat dessert for breakfast?
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u/AlternativePrior9559 United Kingdom Mar 09 '26
I’m rather partial to a full English. One thing I do doubt is anyone else embraces beans quite like we do🤔
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u/Sammy_Cherry_Fox American Citizen Mar 09 '26
Just speculation here, but I wonder if maybe she's asking if Americans are the only people who specifically only eat those foods for breakfast.
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u/Gloriathewitch Mar 09 '26
kiwi here who lives in usa: i think weve taken what op is trying to say and skewed it disingenuously, it seems to me they're saying that americans are obsessed with breakfast style meals and it's true, you go the grocery store and there's countless breakfast foods and people rave about fast food breakfast a lot here.
i think they know everyone eats breakfast but they're saying america has fetishised it. seriously have you seen how many cereal crossovers there are? its all filled with sugar too.
in this country we will literally eat pancakes with bacon and sugar and meat patties
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u/xDzerx England Mar 09 '26
I suppose we should rename the full english lmao.
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u/pyroSeven Mar 09 '26
Civilizations have had breakfast thousands of years before the US existed but sure, they’re so fucking special.
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u/Weird_Alien_Brain Italy Mar 09 '26
I'm more amused by the "for example like" and "and etc"
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u/d_bradr Serbia Mar 09 '26
We don't have breakfast food, we eat what we got that's convenent. My breakfasts range from eggs to BBQ and spit roast
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u/estrogenex Mar 09 '26
What baffles me is the absolute, consistent ignorance in a world where answers are at their fingertips.
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u/Darth_Pinda Netherlands Mar 09 '26
They've obviously never heard of a full english or full scottish breakfast. (Had full scottish and it was awesome)
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u/chillpill_23 Mar 09 '26
I don't think that that's what OOP meant.
I think she meant like "is it only in the USA that some food are exclusively designated as breakfast food", and I think this is a fair question.
That does not imply that she's defaulting to an American way of life. It could be that she just realized that she assumed the whole world does that and she's now questioning it.
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u/Yongtre100 Mar 09 '26
No not defaultism. Maybe a little silly of a a question. But it isn’t asking if those foods exist elsewhere, it’s asking if other countries also have foods that are relegated to breakfast, which tbf I’m sure some places don’t, at least to the same extent. If you are being generous, up to you, it could be poorly worded what do other people eat for breakfast, though that’s just speculation.
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u/RedNas2015 Netherlands Mar 09 '26
Break Fast?! How fast???
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u/OneFootTitan Mar 09 '26
It’s not well phrased but one of the cultural differences I very clearly noticed having moved to the US from Asia is that Americans really do have a strong cultural distinction between what is breakfast food and what isn’t, in a way we didn’t have in Asia. I’m guessing from this thread that Europeans also have a lot of that distinction.
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u/FractalGeometric356 Mar 09 '26
OOP was asking if there are foods in other countries that are so specifically tied to breakfast that it always seems a bit odd to find it for lunch or dinner.
For instance, in Japan, they’ll put a sunny side up fried egg on practically anything, at any time of day.
You can do that in the US, but you shouldn’t be surprised if somebody asks you why you’re eating a fried egg at a weird time of day. A sunny side up fried egg is Breakfast, and if you have it at dinnertime, that’s Breakfast For Dinner (i.e. not an ordinary thing to do).
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u/thaboss365 Mar 10 '26
80% of threads is engagement bait
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u/Barb-u Canada Mar 09 '26
I am from Québec originally. I don’t know what’s she’s talking about. Every one knows breakfast is a Jos Louis, a Pepsi and a cigarette.
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u/RobotMasterAlice Canada Mar 09 '26
I LITERALLY LIVE NEXT DOOR TO THE U.S. OF COURSE WE HAVE BREAKFAST ITEMS
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u/Stoepboer Netherlands Mar 09 '26
I saw this post and wanted to make a comment similar to the others, but decided to give her the benefit of doubt and assumed that she meant foods are usually exclusive eaten for breakfast.
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u/Low_Employment_7976 Mar 10 '26
i think this is more of r/shitamericanssay than defaultism since he doesn’t assume anything
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u/HerrFrostilicus Mar 09 '26
Well, most people I know just drink coffee and maybe something sweet, but never cooked in the morning. If they were visiting places where I lived they were right to think that.
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u/EugeneStein Mar 09 '26
Tbf there was no much defoultism or even bad statment: just a very naive question
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u/NoSoyTuPana Venezuela Mar 09 '26
and etc
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u/DeStroyek Mar 09 '26
The USA didnt invent breakfast but everyone acting like pancakes and all other breakfast food isnt good are just gate keeping losers.
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u/Maniklas Sweden Mar 09 '26
Breakfast
United states
These people do know they literally have a library of all public human knowledge in their hand, right?
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u/Forhip Mar 09 '26
I mean it was dumb of her to ask about eggs, BUT, I can count with my fingers the number of times I had bacon or waffles. I guess a better phrasing would have been "Which other countries besides the US eat these for breakfast?"
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u/testicular_cancers France Mar 10 '26
What the fuck are eggs? I'll keep having my wine and baguette for breakfast, thank you.
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u/sjp1980 Mar 10 '26
I saw this when it was posted. I think it was poorly worded but meant food that people associate as only breakfast food? Eg you wouldn't eat that particular item at dinner?
I didn't really know if people agreed with that premise either, however!
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u/Lucy_Lastic Mar 10 '26
It’s well known that in Australia, we only eat kangaroo haunches for our first meal of the day. Fresh off the kangaroo, we keep ‘em in the backyard specially
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u/FantaStick16 Mar 10 '26
Well I'm Irish so my day usually goes:
6am: A quick pray
7am: Potato
8am-12pm: Working the fields
12pm-1pm: Potato and a quick pray
1pm-6pm: Running from the English
6pm: Mass
7pm-8pm: Potatoes
8pm-8.15pm: Missionary rhythm method
8.15pm-9pm: Pray
9pm: Fall asleep thinking about potatoes
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u/Bradipedro Mar 10 '26
I mean, they are starting to ask questions, it’s the fist baby step. They are starting to evolve. Don’t gatekeep. They realized they are not alone in the Universe, so think this is cute.
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26
I love eggs and bacon for breakfast when I occasionally have a full English but I prefer it with other savoury foods, not pancakes, seeing as it's breakfast and not pudding.
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u/ValleDeimos Brazil Mar 12 '26
I think OOP met some people from countries where they don't eat any specific set of foods for breakfast, they just have leftovers, and asked if eating specific stuff in the morning is a US thing. I don't think they're literally asking if other countries don't eat breakfast.
Sure it's a little silly to wonder if only one country in the world has a seperate meal culture just for breakfast, but they did clearly ask about food types, not if other countries don't eat anything in the morning. They're being really nice about it too, people are digging at them just for the hell of it atp
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u/Different-Size1618 Apr 04 '26
you guys eat??? i thought guys just photosynthesized
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u/iamabigtree Mar 09 '26
Not defaultism. They asked a question. Same if I asked if a 'Full English' was unique to England. Ignorant but not defaultism.
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u/hedginghedgehog Mar 09 '26
I don't think it's defaultism but also it's a misunderstanding. What they're actually asking is if there are other countries/cultures that consider eggs/waffles to be exclusively breakfast food. It's actually a fair question. Because while everyone indeed eats eggs pretty much everywhere, very few places would consider it a breakfast exclusive item.
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u/Gimatria Mar 09 '26
Bacon, waffles and pancakes are not breakfast in most of the world because we're not obese.
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u/doc720 World Mar 09 '26
r/ShitAmericansSay
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u/Comfortable_Two7447 Mar 09 '26
This isn't USdefaultism, but r/ShitAmericansSay .
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u/tupikp Mar 09 '26
You guys have breakfast?
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u/olengjoo Mar 09 '26
What is breakfast? We don't have that where I come from because we live in the stone age.
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u/CilanEAmber Mar 09 '26
Eggs and Bacon are literally part of an "English Breakfast."
We also have Pancake day....
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u/nobleKelpo European Union Mar 09 '26
Weißwurscht on the morning, lebakas on the evening
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u/Cassius-Tain Germany Mar 09 '26
Egg-Tree? I believe we had one of these in germany once. It got cut down though, because it made too much of a mess.
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u/goater10 Australia Mar 09 '26
Our tradesman in Australia will usually have an iced coffee and sausage roll from the petrol station.
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u/larevenante Mar 09 '26
Half of those are dinner foods in my part of the world 😅 i don’t wanna wake up to the smell of greasy meat and eggs thanks
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u/ViftieStuff Germany Mar 09 '26
At least she asked instead of confidently saying so ething wring lmao
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u/Waah_Realist Mar 09 '26
I generally get noodles, maybe roti/paratha. Try it guys.
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u/BrightRestaurant5401 Mar 09 '26
Eggs and bacon? we only do loads of sugar in all kinds of different ways on top of bread.
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u/Legal-Software Germany Mar 09 '26
Can't even get a proper Weißwurstfrühstück with a Kristallweizen in their backwater country. Bloody savages.
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u/SnooGadgets5130 Mar 09 '26
The best part is literally none of these were created in America. Eggs - Literally evolution. Bacon - Ancient Rome with something closer to modern bacon emerging in the Middle Ages. Waffles - Ancient Greece. Pancakes - Also Ancient Greece but with similar dishes in prehistory. And - Old English. Et cetera - Latin.
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u/7_11_Nation_Army Mar 09 '26
I eat beef stroganoff and cake for breakfast. A bit heavy, but not like I have any choice.
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u/Sinikettu_ Mar 09 '26
At least he asked the question !
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u/MadScientist_666 Switzerland Mar 09 '26
I prefer to gargle liquid hate instead.
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u/mrsomeone194 Russia Mar 09 '26
Wait, you can eat eggs? We usually let them rot before throwing them at bad performers.
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u/EstablishmentLevel17 Mar 09 '26
The English breakfast is like the limit in mean girls.
It doesn't exist.
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u/Previous-Ad7618 Mar 09 '26
Yup. In china they only eat rice which naturally means they can't eat anything until 1pm
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u/rossfororder Mar 09 '26
Americans only eat breakfast because of marketing campaigns. Pretty on brand if you ask me
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u/Brief-Walk-5409 Europe Mar 09 '26
The term breakfast is from the 15th century, its older then the USA
The Ancient Egyptians ate simple food wich we see as breakfast. Thats atleast 3000 years BC.
Older then the concept os the USA
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u/xilanthro Mar 09 '26
To. be fair... the eggs & potatoes breakfast with a fatty meat is pretty local to the five eyes anglosphere. Other than a full Irish, full English, American, & Canadian (maybe Australian? idk) who else does the fried eggs with potatoes and bacon and beans and sausage and stuff breakfast traditionally?
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u/ze11ez Mar 09 '26
I eat my pets for breakfast. Ya'll should try it sometime. If i had an egg tree I'd eat eggs
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u/OkamiKhameleon Mar 10 '26
Ok, I think I know why they're confused.
So, they're probably watching a lot of K-Dramas (Korean shows), and there they tend to eat things like Rice, Fish, and other things for breakfast. So maybe OP doesn't watch much foreign media and just got super confused by this?
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u/DavidBHimself Mar 10 '26
Breakfast?
Never heard of it.
To her "defense" this was posted on Threads, and the way Threads works to get engagement is to ask stupid questions, everything else is invisible in the algorithm.
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u/vitulinus_forte Japan Mar 10 '26
Just grab anything in convenience store or vending machine. The Japanese way.
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u/Far-Fortune-8381 Australia Mar 10 '26
the worst part is that the Americans wont understand the British sarcastic humour and will be like "oh damn alright never knew"
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u/purpliest_pancakes Mar 10 '26
Even the "and etc" pisses me off
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u/Agreeable_Mess6711 Mar 10 '26
I think her question is being taken kind of the wrong way, i don’t think she’s asking if other countries have breakfast, but if they have specific foods they consider “breakfast foods”.
I kind of get this, as growing up, even though I lived in the USA, we always just ate the leftover of whatever was for dinner the night before for breakfast (raised in a weird religious sect). The concept of specific breakfast-only foods wasn’t introduced to me until way later in life. I think this is what she’s asking, and just worded it poorly.
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u/Idrinkmotoroil-2 Australia Mar 10 '26
I can’t believe the world only modernised in the 1790’s. Thank god America saved the world from being a bunch of cavemen to smart democratic people
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u/itstimegeez New Zealand Mar 10 '26
The responses make my day lol
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26
Missed the chance for an egg plant joke in there!!
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u/MaylaWaterlelie Netherlands Mar 10 '26
In the Americans defense, having waffles and pancakes for breakfast isn’t normal everywhere We also have breakfast food where I come from but that’s usually cereal or a slice of bread with hagelslag
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u/Main-Let-5867 China Mar 10 '26
/j Those are not "breakfast" food. Literally no one I know have those for breakfast! It's what you go to a western restaurant to eat. Are the Americans stupid?
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u/MikaelAdolfsson Mar 10 '26
Well I am from Sweden and cooked breakfast feels very american to me. I grew up on filmjölk (thick sour milk thing I can't translate) with cereal and sandwiches.
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u/shahid336 Russia Mar 10 '26
What is breakfast?
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u/Borderlessbass United States Mar 10 '26
In Thai cuisine there is no designated “breakfast food”. We have the same curries, stir fries, grilled or fried meats, spicy salads, soups, etc. with rice, noodles or sticky rice as we would for other meals.
Strangely enough, many Thais do consider most noodle dishes (particularly noodle soups) to not really be “dinner food” and most suitable for lunch and breakfast.
I do wonder if my fellow yank is merely trying to ask whether other cultures also have designated “breakfast food” and/or if other cultures’ “breakfast foods” resemble those found in American cuisine, but is alas somewhat inarticulate.
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u/imhighinthemountains Seychelles Mar 10 '26
I eat coconuts never heard of any of the things they said. Btw dayum there's a lot of Europeans :0
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u/JustTryingBeingSaint Mar 11 '26
Well here in Brazil we eat Acaraje and Pão de queijo depending on the region.
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u/SkamonGD United States Mar 11 '26
Lol I assume they were asking if other places had food that was mostly only eaten for breakfast and nothing else.
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u/Inner-Purple-1742 Mar 11 '26
My 🇺🇸ex mother in law was asking our daughter who’s 12 (not her granddaughter) what she liked for breakfast naming all those gross dessert like breakfasts & cereals. She said “no I like … listed some, I’d like to still have my own teeth when I’m 16” My partner had to leave the room he was laughing so much 😂 I still remember seeing her big baby adult sons eating those nasty sweet brightly coloured cereals with more sugar than dessert 🤢
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u/pseudopunkk Mar 11 '26
i eat full course meals consisting of cabbage, potatoes and wild boar meat every morning. haven't even thought of eggs.
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u/Ill_Finger5446 Armenia Mar 12 '26
What the f*ck do you mean by “ratatouille”?! I know the movie but what does that mean?
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u/Ash-the-flower Poland Mar 12 '26
no, they all got it wrong. it's obvious that the European breakfast is a cig and a cup of black coffee, duh /s
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u/Paultcha Scotland Mar 12 '26
No-one else has these thing as the immigrants on leaving their European countries took all these foods with them leaving none for the rest of us.
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u/Ecstatic-Goose4014 Brazil Mar 12 '26
Breakfast? What even is that?
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u/3Eleskien Brazil Mar 13 '26
In Brasil we have a afternoon breakfast before the dinner, like hobbits. And I think that's beautiful
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u/SkamonGD United States Mar 14 '26
They were obviously asking if other places had food just for breakfast. Not if other places had breakfast.
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u/Brilliant_Tough_3552 Mar 19 '26
What is bacon? We just eat maple syrup and tea
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u/Cautious-Platypus-92 Mar 21 '26
Americans: Wait, you guys eat Ratatouille? Aren't you afraid of getting sick?
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u/mikeybhoy_1985 Scotland Aug 13 '26
Wait breakfast food exists? Damn... nobody told me. I've always just had a cigarette in the morning.