is that a ridiculously large cup or ridiculously small pastries? the ratio is all off here in a really trippy way
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the joke has to be that it's meant to gaslight americans right? i have never seen a pastry that small
I'm sure this is edited. A doughnut that could almost for in a spoon? Where?
oh wait i see the spoon. yep it's a joke. it must be a joke. i refuse to believe europeans live like this
As a yank my favorite thing about breakfast in europe is it has... vegetables. I skip breakfast a lot because it makes me sluggish, but after a trip to Amsterdam for work, I started doing what I had at the small hotel there: some combo of cold cuts, one or two bite sized pastries like in the picture, some sliced tomatoes with a bit of salt, some peppers or green beans, some cheese, and a hard boiled egg. Occasionally some kimchi or saurkraut, but that I never had with breakfast in europe.
My only real gripe about EU breakfast is the coffee. Absolutely delicious but gone to fast. Even if inferior, I need volume. Coffee is my emotional support beverage to get me through the first half of my day. It's either that or a pitcher of bloody marry's and I've been sober a while now.
Virgin Marys are just as good if properly spiced.
Didn't even have a proper Amsterdam breakfast smh.
Is that just fairy bread? Bread, butter, sprinkles? Boring coloured fairy bread but still
it's chocolate, so it's brown. there's also fruit sprinkles(vruchtenhagel) that's just colored sugar
Well, fairy bread is for parties. These are non-festive, highly serious, adult approved chocolate sprinkles for daily consumption.
I think the form factor is giving people the wrong impression. The French eat baguette with Nutella and no one bats an eye, but sprinkles are somehow reserved for cake.
This one in particular was always funny to me. Surely they have better tasting sprinkles to make this reasonable?
This is so real. I usually skip breakfast as well, unless it's a bagel (I'm weak for bagels.)
I’ve been sober a while now.
That is awesome, though. I know it's not worth much, but this random internet stranger is proud of you. :)
I appreciate it, but what I appreciate more is that you saying that means your the kind of person someone whos just starting to get sober would be lucky to run in to. Keep that up.
Okay but for real if that’s a normal sized spoon then those are actually tiny pastries. Like that muffin can fit on the spoon, that’s just bite sized at that point.
That spoon is giant, its head looks stretched. It's probably meant for soup, but whoever served it didn't find anything better.
Yes, they're little nibble cakes served at affordable hotels' breakfast buffets. Which I think is fine, as I don't wanna load up on cake for breakfast anyway. If you buy a pain au chocolat at the bakery, it will be full sized.
OK… But that’s not what everybody else in the thread is saying…
A pain au chocolat in a german or french bakery will have a base area of 10x15cm, the size of a postcard. I've been in quite a few hotels for work, this is a hotel breakfast buffet. I don't know what to tell you.
OK… That doesn’t change the fact that the entire rest of the thread has turned into America bad for thinking these are small. And they are small.
It's Lemmy. It does not matter what the discussion is about, it will always turn into America bad if America is even .01% tangentially related to the topic.
No protein, no micronutrients, no dairy, no water. This is crap sugar.
Italians eat sweet pastry and a cappuccino for breakfast. One of the longest lifespan countries in Europe, if not the.
I think your influencer-made protein power-whopper-pro might not be the best choice for breakfast.
There's also water in coffee.
What the hell do these people eat for dessert? A bag of sugar?
I mean... Have you been to Italy? They have cookies for breakfast. There's no protein in Rome before noon.
Milk with cookies usually
Or coffee if ya lazy, but many don't even eat cookies but eat biscuits
I also don't see why you need to eat proteins in every meal when you can have them in other meals
They’re American, if the meal is not stuffed with bacon and diseases they don’t like it.
EU portion sizes are actually sized correctly. Single US portions, especially in the South, would feed a European family of 4-6.
What, you don’t want 2 fried eggs, two raisin toast bread with butter, 2oz of hash browns, 2 waffles with 2 oz of maple sugar, 2 pieces of bacon, a full glass of OJ and milk and 2cups of coffee?
If the pastries were larger he would probably not get 4 of them?
[ laughs in fat American ]
You'll probably also be surprised that this costs 30€ at the airport lol noob
[Edit put the € behind the number, wtf is wrong with me]
No wonder half of the country is overweight.
Overweight has a specific definition and using that Europe is over half overweight as well.
USA: hold my fries
As an American, I can assure you that one of us would rather shove an entire large order of french fries in our mouths at once rather than ask someone to hold them for us. I mean, they might steal one.
What the spoon!?
For scale, I assume.
Europeans don't spoon pastry cereal into your mouth, using coke as milk? I would be upset that I have to request a bowl and more coke too. This is just xenophobic.
Those are also pretty normal sized pastries except for the muffin (outside of those Muffin Bites packaged shit).
This are standard hotel buffet size. Not normal per piece size.
I remind you, there's four of them!
“I’ve been in Europe for less than 15 minutes and I haven’t been gifted a quadruple cheeseburger with double bacon and 15lbs of fries. This must be why they did brexit”
If thats actually a coffee then this could easily be an Italian breakfast.
It's a coke. The second person mentions it in the photo.
Is it actually or are they just assuming it is because it makes their joke funnier to them?
Let's think of it logical. Coffee always comes hot, we then add ice or anything else to make it cold, meaning that if you pour hot coffee in a glass, it won't be easy to hold it. Also we as human, use cups and mugs instead of glasses to drink coffee. Now if it's some kind of cold brew coffee, I don't know.
So we can assume it's not coffee, doesn't necessarily mean it's coke, though.
Coffee is normally not served in a glass. Except if its ice coffee, but doesn't look like it.
I found the size of pastries to be pretty generous in Italy. Though I did occasionally get odd looks getting two cornettos for breakfast, instead of just one. But I’m always doing a lot of cycling when I’m in Italy, so I need the calories lol