Breakfast around the world: How different countries start the day

A few times a week I have eggs, with turkey bacon or peameal, perhaps some leftover potatoes and of course a big mug of orange pekoe tea which I sip on all morning. :)
Other days for a quick breakfast I'll have some cottage cheese with fruit and toast.
 

In The Sticks said:
I'll have something similar every once in a while: smoked salmon on a bagel with cream cheese, minced shallot and capers. I've never tried chives.
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I have smoked salmon quite often, I prefer smoked trout... chives have a subtly onion taste.. we used to grow some in a pot on the windowsill, and just snip off some to add to food every day, but it grows too fast for us to keep up with.. :D
 
When I was little back in the 30s no such thing as children's vitamins were yet available, so each morning at breakfast I was given a tablespoon of cod liver oil. My father would have to leave the room as he gagged to see me lapping it up as though it were caviar. I loved the stuff and I do believe it left me with a good constitution later in life. Usually, these days, I have coffee, fruit and yogurt for breakfast. Eating a lot in the morning is just not appealing to me.
 

For a short time during the hard winter of '63, I remember my mother doling out cod liver oil .. *yeuch* .. and a tablespoon of Malt from a jar as we left home to walk to school...

She never gave us it again after that winter, and the next time I tasted Cod liver oil was when they gave it to me in a pint form with orange juice to try and induce labour when my baby was overdue... *Yuk*.... šŸ˜§
 
The Bulgarian bread pudding sounds delish.
Granola cereal with yogurt or milk, oatmeal with blueberries and walnuts are my top choices. Occasionally I'll have an American biscuit breakfast sandwich made with a sausage patty and cheese or toast and a fried egg.
 
It's very very rare that I ever cave in to outside pressure- and when I do, I end up regretting it. This is only one example. I don't think I've had "breakfast" since my oldest child started school and the teacher said 'The children LIKE to have breakfast in school with their friends!' and asked me to take that approach instead of preparing breakfast at home as I'd been doing.

When the kids were still at home, and home in the mornings (weekends, vacations, etc.) I made breakfast for them, but didn't usually have any myself. So throughout those years, and now, too, "breakfast" for me is a cup of coffee- or, if I'm up early, two cups. It doesn't occur to me to have anything else. So the first meal of the day is lunch.
 
I've ebbed and flowed on having breakfast throughout my life.

There have been phases when I got in the habit of having breakfast and my stomach would growl all morning when I missed it.

There have been phases when I never ate breakfast and couldn't consider eating a thing until mid-morning.

It's like my sleep habits...my routines have been very easy to reset. That's been both a blessing and a curse.
 
Absolute favourite would be smoked haddock, poached egg and wholemeal toast.

I tend to have different things every morning - cereal, porage oats(sic), bacon, kipper, eggs etc..
When we're on holidays in Europe, it's usually croissants with cold meats / fish and cheeses.
 
Capt Lightning said:
Absolute favourite would be smoked haddock, poached egg and wholemeal toast.

I tend to have different things every morning - cereal, porage oats(sic), bacon, kipper, eggs etc..
When we're on holidays in Europe, it's usually croissants with cold meats / fish and cheeses.
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I recently tried kipper snacks with poached egg on toast and it was horrid. Would a smoked herring be better for that dish than a canned-in-oil King Oscar snack?
 
I remember as a teenager, being presented with a bowl of pickled herrings on a bed of chopped onion for breakfast on the old Queen Elizabeth. I almost gagged at the prospect of eating something like that.

Now, I LOVE pickled herrings on onions but I'm still not a fan of it for breakfast. Lox and a bagel yes, herrings no.
 

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