Breakfast around the world

PAcanis said:
For what I thought was an international forum, some of you have a hard time accepting others eat differently than you do.
There is a lot of "what's that" going on here. Just because someone never heard of something. 🤔
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I honestly don't think that is what is intended.

Personally, I'll accept what anybody wishes to eat. And breakfast is certainly a meal which varies immensly from country to country. Academically, I get curious about customs and how certain culinary practices came about historically or culturally so sometimes I mention the 'differences'.

Regarding the point about 'what's that', sometimes its interesting to hear someone's description of an unfamiliar dish or item rather than Google it.
 
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Morning Glory said:
In Egypt (where I lived for a while long ago) ful madames was a common breakfast dish. It a garlicky thick stew made from dried broad (fava) beans and has the most delicious smoky taste. I absolutely love it.
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I think I can eat that :)
Now I need to find dried broad beans! Never seen them fresh here
 
Morning Glory said:
They look very brown. I wonder if you can get them. You are in the same continent, so maybe.
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Same continent, yes, but almost at the other end of it. Over 5000 km as the crow flies....
But yes, I might as we have many Lebanese here. Maybe they got. Dunno.
And otherwise I'll sub with something :)
 
badjak said:
Same continent, yes, but almost at the other end of it. Over 5000 km as the crow flies....
But yes, I might as we have many Lebanese here. Maybe they got. Dunno.
And otherwise I'll sub with something :)
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Of course you can sub but it won't be the same at all in this instance. The dried broad bean has a very distinctive flavour.
 
badjak said:
I think I can eat that :)
Now I need to find dried broad beans! Never seen them fresh here
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If this helps...
Common Names: English: bell bean, broadbean, faba bean, faba, fava, field-bean, horse bean, horsebean tick-bean, Windsor bean. Spanish; haba. Portuguese: fava

I can get broad beans frozen, not fresh or dried. I tried to grow them a few years back. It wasn't very successful sadly. The plants did well, they just didn't get pollinated.
 
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karadekoolaid said:
You'd be surprised about the things we eat for breakfast. You'd imagine eggs, sausage, bacon, tomatoes, maybe; but in spite of the common language, food is wildly different.
I actually went out for breakfast with TastyReuben a couple of years ago, in Cincinnati, and ate this wierd thing called " biscuits and gravy". Absolutely divine!
If you said biscuits and gravy to a Brit, they'd think "cookies and a sauce used to savour roast meats". Imagine the confusion. I'd never have thought of the combination, but it was great.
A "classic " English breakfast would be bacon, fried eggs, fried mushrooms, sausages, fried bread, and maybe even fried blood sausage (black pudding). It might also include (a 20th century addition) baked beans and fried tomatoes, and (an American addition) hash browns.
I was invited to an Indian breakfast, back in 2011. Chickpea stew, fresh fried bhatura (bread made with yoghurt), a tomato, onion, cucumber and fresh chile salad, and mango juice.
Here in Venezuela, a typical breakfast would be an arepa - filled with pulled beef, or cheese and black beans, or chicken & avocado, or spice-up baby shark.
Breakfast in Spain is a small, sweet pastry and a coffee. Same in Mexico.
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Ahem not all Brits 😂
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