German breakfast

[harryviking]

On 6/23/2025 at 6:21 AM, Blueman1 said:

It DOESN'T Compare, That's MHO !!

LOL! True! Not much can be compared to that British "breakfast"! 

[jts-khorat]

16 hours ago, jts-khorat said:

 

Let me tell you as a native German... this is NOT a German breakfast. Disgusting!

 

The only warm thing in a German breakfast might be boiled eggs. Sliced bread and butter, more likely marmelade or honey than cold ham or salami to put on it. Croissants or other similar pastries. Definitely a can of coffee.

 

Nobody in Germany would ever eat such a thing as in the photo, but of course, tourists don't know.

 

How could this post have gotten a downvote?

 

Somebody knows better than the natives?

 

What is wrong with the "German meal" in the picture:

 

Mystery ham (instead of real cooked one showing lumps of meat), a laughable mini-Schnitzel with bad crust (not welling and the meat obviously not hammered), nasty mashed potatoes (not creamy), lumpy home fries with some mystery green which has been cooked with them (instead of the potatoes being evenly thick slices, so they brown properly without some being just cooked), a mini meatball (you can see it even in the photo that it is of too hard consistence) and a red sausage (instead of a white Bratwurst), all mixed in some mystery red oily liquid on the bottom of the plate.

 

I have written in parenthesis, what I as a German would think about the individual components on this plate. That they would never be eaten in such an ensemble in germany is, I hope, self-explanatory.

 

It is not often that I have seen such an abhorrend mockery of a restaurant dish, it seems an intentionally disgusting assortment of food.

[Yagoda]

11 hours ago, jts-khorat said:

How could this post have gotten a downvote?

You must have shown your support for the wrong side in a politics discussion

[Mark1969]

On 6/24/2025 at 1:32 AM, jts-khorat said:

 

Let me tell you as a native German... this is NOT a German breakfast. Disgusting!

 

The only warm thing in a German breakfast might be boiled eggs. Sliced bread and butter, more likely marmelade or honey than cold ham or salami to put on it. Croissants or other similar pastries. Definitely a can of coffee.

 

Nobody in Germany would ever eat such a thing as in the photo, but of course, tourists don't know.

You mean they don't eat weiners at every meal?

[Hummin]

On 6/20/2025 at 4:05 AM, KhunBENQ said:

This is from the net.

Hard to get this in Thailand and not for 129.

(forgot butter)

 

That's a mixed European platter, and not especially for german only. Could have been any Nordic country as well regarding hotel breakfasts 

[KhunBENQ]

1 hour ago, Hummin said:

That's a mixed European platter, and not especially for german only. Could have been any Nordic country as well regarding hotel breakfasts 

Tell me what's  Nordic on the picture.

And that the French press is not typical has already been mentioned.

[Hummin]

6 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Tell me what's  Nordic on the picture.

And that the French press is not typical has already been mentioned.

Ham, cheese, butter, german style bread, coffe, jam, juice, all common on the Notmrthern europeen breakfest table at any hotel around  🌝

 

The french press is also introduced to Scandinavian breakfest table, as well certain hotels. 

[Bangkok Black]

<deleted> all that other <deleted> off and have a Bavarian breakfast  or Weißwurst Frühstück

White sausage with mustard a pretzel ,and lots of Weißbier beer.

 

[jacnl2000]

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[jacnl2000]

On 6/20/2025 at 7:03 AM, dutch boy said:

I sure do miss the Dutch pancakes.  

 

Happen to carry around a very different image of Dutch pancakes in my mind. Miss my pancakes too. Did not see the relative smaller versions during my latest Hotel visit in Udon Thani. In my dialect they are called struif, but look very different than the one in the picture above. The dish in this photo (the oven-puffed kind) is called Dutch Baby as a trade name, coined in America, most likely in the 1920s at Manca’s Café. There's absolutely nothing Dutch about them, but appreciate the pun intended 🙂

 

 

In many Dutch dialects, struif (pannekoek)  refers to a kind of light, airy pancake — often pan-fried, not baked, and usually thinner than the puffed-up Dutch Baby. It's homely, straightforward, and deeply local — quite different from the theatrical American version:

 

 

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[still kicking]

On 6/20/2025 at 10:05 AM, KhunBENQ said:

This is from the net.

Hard to get this in Thailand and not for 129.

(forgot butter)

 

Love it 

[still kicking]

Why thumbs down? This is healthier than the English or American breakfast.

[Cameroni]

It certainly is. The reason Germans don't have a need for fried bread or fried bacon, is that they know how to make sausages and cold cuts and bread. Which is therefore delicious on its own, ie without frying.

 

And Germans are not so self-centred that they don't admit Norwegian salmon or French pancakes to the breakfast table.

 

It is a feast for the senses and for the eyes. And certainly a lot healthier.

[Bangkok Black]

31 minutes ago, jacnl2000 said:

 

Happen to carry around a very different image of Dutch pancakes in my mind. Miss my pancakes too. Did not see the relative smaller versions during my latest Hotel visit in Udon Thani. In my dialect they are called struif, but look very different than the one in the picture above. The dish in this photo (the oven-puffed kind) is called Dutch Baby as a trade name, coined in America, most likely in the 1920s at Manca’s Café. There's absolutely nothing Dutch about them, but appreciate the pun intended 🙂

 

 

In many Dutch dialects, struif (pannekoek)  refers to a kind of light, airy pancake — often pan-fried, not baked, and usually thinner than the puffed-up Dutch Baby. It's homely, straightforward, and deeply local — quite different from the theatrical American version:

 

 

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I did not know that

[still kicking]

4 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

It certainly is. The reason Germans don't have a need for fried bread or fried bacon, is that they know how to make sausages and cold cuts and bread. Which is therefore delicious on its own, ie without frying.

 

And Germans are not so self-centred that they don't admit Norwegian salmon or French pancakes to the breakfast table.

 

It is a feast for the senses and for the eyes. And certainly a lot healthier.

Love the breadrolls. There are more than 3200 officially recognized types of bread in Germany according to the “German Institute of Bread”. Some of the options even have variations depending on the region where you find

 

Beat that.

[Bangkok Black]

7 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

It certainly is. The reason Germans don't have a need for fried bread or fried bacon, is that they know how to make sausages and cold cuts and bread. Which is therefore delicious on its own, ie without frying.

 

And Germans are not so self-centred that they don't admit Norwegian salmon or French pancakes to the breakfast table.

 

It is a feast for the senses and for the eyes. And certainly a lot healthier.

Yes try getting properbacon in Germany lol

[still kicking]

1 minute ago, Bangkok Black said:

Yes try getting properbacon in Germany lol

Every Deli 

[Bangkok Black]

6 minutes ago, still kicking said:

Every Deli 

I was there for 2 years. The usual bacon on offer was paper-thin. 

[still kicking]

1 minute ago, Bangkok Black said:

I was there for 2 years. The usual bacon on offer was paper-thin. 

I lived there for 20-plus years 

[Bangkok Black]

4 minutes ago, still kicking said:

I lived there for 20-plus years 

Whenever one of us went back to England for a few days, there would always be a massive shopping list to take back and get all the items.Tea, HP sauce and a whole range of products, but the main item would be bacon ,thick cut from a butcher. English and German would both request it

[still kicking]

1 minute ago, Bangkok Black said:

Whenever one of us went back to England for a few days, there would always be a massive shopping list to take back and get all the items.Tea, HP sauce and a whole range of products, but the main item would be bacon ,thick cut from a butcher. English and German would both request it

Meat is an illegal import.

[Bangkok Black]

4 minutes ago, still kicking said:

Meat is an illegal import.

It wasn't at the time. We would bring back burgers, lamb, beef, sausages, bacon and more. All from a butcher.

[still kicking]

OK, let's everybody eat what they like, you can't tell a Norwegian or a Dutch person not to eat this

  

[still kicking]

4 minutes ago, Bangkok Black said:

It wasn't at the time. We would bring back burgers, lamb, beef, sausages, bacon and more. All from a butcher.

You be lucky now 

[Bangkok Black]

8 minutes ago, still kicking said:

You be lucky now 

No chance now. Then there were no checks at the Eurotunnel.

I had a van and it would be full of cool boxes full of meat.

[Cameroni]

45 minutes ago, Bangkok Black said:

Yes try getting properbacon in Germany lol

 

Yah, but the problem is in the UK you get 79 types of ham and bacon and that's it. In Germany you get a whole world of pork sausages and cold cuts.

 

Ham is boring.  Even if you roast it in honey.

 

Except for  Black Forest Ham, of course. That's a work of art. On a par with Serrano.

[CallumWK]

24 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Yah, but the problem is in the UK you get 79 types of ham and bacon and that's it. In Germany you get a whole world of pork sausages and cold cuts.

 

Ham is boring.  Even if you roast it in honey.

 

Except for  Black Forest Ham, of course. That's a work of art. On a par with Serrano.

 

But Black Forest ham is a German product