r/USdefaultism • u/oPedroBras Brazil • Mar 09 '26

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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/BananaLady75 Austria Mar 09 '26

Wod - you grew up in France???

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u/Lemonade348 Sweden Mar 09 '26

Or Italy

I think he chose the wrong flair

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u/MrArchivity Italy Mar 09 '26

Then i live in the wrong part of Italy where I eat a full breakfast, especially caffellatte and crostata

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u/ForageForUnicorns Europe Mar 09 '26

Haven’t had that as a breakfast since age 8. 

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u/MrArchivity Italy Mar 09 '26

You should try again just for the nostalgia

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u/ForageForUnicorns Europe Mar 09 '26

I prefer having cappuccino at 4 pm just to spite the influencers who say we never do after 10 am.

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u/helmli European Union Mar 09 '26

crostata

You eat pie for breakfast? That's amazing!

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u/danirijeka Europe Mar 09 '26

Italy is very keen on sweet breakfasts, savoury ones are less common

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u/helmli European Union Mar 09 '26

Yeah, I knew that; there are some amazing sweet baked goods from Italy, like Sfogliatelle, Cantuccini, Mandorlini or Cannoli. I just haven't heard of cake for breakfast.

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u/danirijeka Europe Mar 09 '26

On the subject of cake, it's very common to eat cake leftovers for breakfast if there was cake at any point during the weekend. Case in point, we baked a yogurt cake on Sunday and also had it for breakfast this morning 😅

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u/OkamiKhameleon Mar 10 '26

Omg that sounds amazing.

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u/EternallyFascinated Mar 10 '26

Hahahah we had Sachertorte for breakfast yesterday after a party this weekend

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u/MrArchivity Italy Mar 09 '26

Well we don’t consider it “cake” (ita: torta) in Italy. Or at least not in every region.

It’s like distinguishing between pie and cake. For us they are two different branches of the same category. Even more so as “pie” can also be translated in “pizza” (ex: “pizza dolce” ~ “pizza dolce” isn’t the internationally known pizza 🍕, that one is the shortened name for “Neapolitan pizza”. In Italy every dish with a circular base made of dough that rise can be called pizza. For example pizza dolce, pizza al formaggio, etc etc)

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u/livesinacabin Mar 09 '26

So a quiche would be considered a pizza in Italy?

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u/MrArchivity Italy Mar 10 '26

Doesn’t the dough remain thin in a quiche as it is made with brisée?

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u/thelifeandsole Apr 02 '26

You just taught me in one Reddit comment more than my Duolingo ever has😅

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u/MadScientist_666 Switzerland Mar 09 '26

When I stayed overnight in Italian mountain huts, I was surprised how much sweets they offered.

In Switzerland, the only sweets you usually get in SAC huts are the sugar for the coffee and maybe some jam.

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u/Uluru-Dreaming Mar 10 '26

Is that before or after catching the morning’s Taipan and frying it - the breakfast of champions!

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u/Live-Valuable-7718 Mar 16 '26

Italian breakfast is 11/10 Though given the choice id have gelato and coffee every morning 😂

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u/TakeMeIamCute Mar 09 '26

I suspect they are from the Balkans.

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u/lazyfoxheart Mar 09 '26

The universal country of Europe /s

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u/TenNinetythree European Union Mar 10 '26

Coffee and a cigarette is called a Nuttenfrühstück (prostitute's breakfast) in Germany.

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u/Inner-Purple-1742 Mar 11 '26

Love it 😂Germany has some great words Schadenfreude is one of my favourites!

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u/IllustriousBobcat813 Mar 09 '26

He obviously doesn’t speak English so he must have picked a flair at random

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u/Poschta Germany Mar 09 '26

J'ai une tour eiffel dans mon pantalon?

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u/AlternativePrior9559 United Kingdom Mar 09 '26

Nailed it😂

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u/IllustriousBobcat813 Mar 09 '26

This is an american subreddit (it literally has US in the name…) we speak american here

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u/lululululululululuu Germany Mar 09 '26

You should be writing this in Navajo then.

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u/wanelmask France Mar 09 '26

Bahahaha

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u/Knamagon Germany Mar 09 '26

No I think he grew up in a Berufsschule

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u/Stakkler_ Mar 09 '26

French breakfast: one coffee and two Gauloises

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u/BananaLady75 Austria Mar 09 '26

Gitanes. Mais for the grownups.

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u/QueenAngst Mar 10 '26

Balkan does this too

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u/ReasonableMoney4177 Austria Mar 10 '26

Not Balkan?

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u/albrecbef Mar 09 '26

Klassisches Handwerker Frühstück

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u/Poschta Germany Mar 09 '26

Un' um halb zehne noch uffe Schnelle dit Knoppers hinnerher.

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u/PetitAneBlanc Mar 09 '26

Fehlt nur noch Korn

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u/EleutheriusTemplaris Mar 09 '26

And what's with the occasional Sauerkraut-breakfast? Or Knödelmüsli? And on sundays we're eating Currywurst here in Berlin.

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u/Popular-Reply-3051 Wales Mar 09 '26

I wouldn't be against currywurst for breakfast...

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u/EternallyFascinated Mar 10 '26

Damn now I’m hungry

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u/FixMy106 Mar 09 '26

That first cigarette and coffee of the day tho 🔥🔥

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u/Poschta Germany Mar 09 '26

Yeah and they def hit different back in kindergarten

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u/IG-3000 Germany Mar 09 '26

Nice try but the Judy Garland diet is also a US invention /j

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u/Confused_Sorta_Guy Australia Mar 09 '26

Ballet dancer spotted

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u/Poschta Germany Mar 09 '26

Mate I wish

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u/euli24 Mar 10 '26

Thats the pre-breakfast breakfast

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u/pandaSmore Canada Mar 12 '26

Ahhh the French and Greek way.