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How DARE you to include Nutella in that American stuff!
Almost spit my cigarette in my coffee in disgust.
It's 50% fat, 50% sugar and disgusting so I get the confusion. But it's indeed Italian.
There's nothing wrong with fat, though.
There is a lot wrong with palm oil that has nothing to do with your waistline, and that's what composes most of Nutella.
Depends on the type of fat. Some fats are really unhealthy, like in American food. Fats in fish are healthy.
So are nut fats
I'm a fan of fat nuts
Fish was an example, there are way more food sources with healthy fats than fish and nuts but in general the American highly processed "food" is full of bad fats and worst form of sugars.
As a Scottish lass, I'm going to shut my fucking mouth.
Don't worry, Americans are still up a hill trying to find a wild haggis.
This is the Parisian breakfast.
Nothing compared to the Lyonnais breakfast

Well I’m definitely going to need a a Parisian breakfast after having all of that
Oooh le saucisson aux pistaches dans la broche. Gourmand !
This picture HAS to be AI. The cheese wheels are getting progressively smaller. 2 cups of wine. The sauce bowl is barely bigger than a grape ñ. That purple sausage? in the middle looks like a turd. The pickles in the edge are even smaller than the grapes. Sausage baked into pound cake for breakfast seems odd.
The cheese wheels are getting progressively smaller
Different cheeses are different sizes. I'm no cheese master but I think it's a comté, a brie, and a Camembert in order of size.
2 cups of wine
Two glasses for two people? You share a cheese plate. We aren't selfish fat idiots in Europe.
The sauce bowl is barely bigger than a grape
What do you mean, its almost the size of all the grapes together? We don't drown all our food in gallons of sauce like mad men. The food itself actually has taste opposed to whatever McD serves for breakfast.
That purple sausage
Look up a Saucisse Sèche d'Auvergne. They do look like that.
The pickles in the edge are even smaller than the grapes.
It's cornichons. They are that small.
Sausage baked into pound cake for breakfast seems odd
It's bread. Not cake. Bread and sausage is extremely common together. I'm not French and haven't seen this variation but in and of itself this would be a stupid indicator of AI.
Reverse image search shows it 3 years ago. Not AI.
Independent of whether this is AI or not, this is how such plates look like. It's sad if that is so far out of someone's reality they have to call the AI card.
No offense. I'm sending this from a place where a meal like this would unfortunately cost me at least 5 of my kidneys 🥹
Don't compare all of Europe to France! The French love their despresso, that's on them.
No, actually. I think it would unironically be better to get all your calories and nutrition from bread, cheese, and sausage than to have a diet consisting of any variety of high-sugar, ultra-processed food.
Also breakfast is completely optional and its promotion as "the most important meal of the day" is a scam to sell more cereal, milk, and eggs. I will die on that hill.
My hill to die on is that breakfast is the only meal that you can work the calories off all day. Eat what you want for breakfast but have a lighter lunch and even lighter evening meal.
Well technically you're burning the same number of calories regardless of the time of day they were consumed, and two meals per day is a lot easier to keep at 2000 calories (as a rule of thumb - different for everybody) than three meals per day.
Personally I like to keep the digestive process dormant for as long as possible. Eating breakfast makes me hungrier throughout the day, so I end up snacking more than I otherwise would. I've never been a breakfast eater though so I'm pretty well wired not to break fast until lunch.
Edit: also heavy foods require rest and digestion that I do not have time for most mornings
Also breakfast is completely optional
Yes for some, no for others? When I was a kid I hated having breakfast. My stomach would feel weird if I ate within the first two or three hours of being awake. But now, I need something. Nothing heavy. Some toast and peanut butter is good enough. If not, I get sick to my stomach. I would assume I'm not the only one who is like this.
aha, hence why I said optional. If you want/need it, have it. If you don't want or need it, it doesn't actually harm you in any universally applicable way to just wait until lunch.
I've never seen a single European use a Zippo. We use Bic over here !
I've seen plenty in highschool, even owned one.
If you live on the coast or other windy region, Zippo works better
Agree. I bought one to go on trek, but you need to refuel it every week. Maybe 2 weeks if you tight it in inner tube. I ended up buying a storm lighter instead. I put it in my underpant when it's too cold, to avoid gas liquify 😂.
Zippo (too) sucks for windy weather. You want one of those blowtorch ones
Zippos are really only around still because of aesthetic and cool factor and anyone who says otherwise is lying.
It's actually a really healthy breakfast because coffee has a lot of physical health benefits and both coffee and a cigarette help against a mental breakdown when you wake up and realize how fucked the world is.
Nicotine might help with short term anxiety symptoms, but addictions of all kinds tend to make anxiety worse overall and dependent on the addictive substance to not be anxious
Yes, that's why you should never skip your cigarette with breakfast :)
(I quit smoking luckily, I'm just joking around)
Sometimes I wish smoking wasn’t so bad for you.
Nothing hit as good as smoking a cig after a stressful day at work and unwinding.
Nicotine, by itself, really isn't that much more addictive than caffeine.
As a smoker, that's a fucking lie.
Did you not read my comment? I said nicotine by itself, not cigarettes.
Vapes are addictive af, what are you talking about?
I'm way more addicted to vapes than cigarettes. Only reason I ever touch smokes is when I can't afford a 30$ vape and can only swing 7$ for a pack to get by.
Not physically addictive, no. The physical addiction to nicotine lasts 3-7 days, while caffeine is 7-14.
It's not the nicotine that has you truly hooked, it's the habit. It's the fact that it's always on you and you can often hit it as much as you want.
Back before shitty closed disposable systems became popular, people regularly dropped to 0 nicotine without any trouble besides some cravings for a few days (which were about the equivalent of caffeine withdrawals).
Have you stopped smoking or drinking coffee? One is way harder, let me tell you. They are both habits, but nicotine is way more mentally pervasive.
You milage may vary but stopping smoking was way harder than coffee. For me, personally.
That's the habit, not the substance. Smoking or vaping integrates into your life way more than caffeine.
Whilst you're kind of joking (I hope!) on the health benefits, I would say that deriving some enjoyment from all manner of small pleasures is a pretty good way to keep one's mental sanity.
I wasn't joking about the health benefits of coffee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVE5iPMKLg
I was thinking that the joke part was about the ciggie rather than the coffee.
Isn't that a french breakfast in the right?
French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian... it's not really specific. It's also not for everyone. I'd say it's mostly for 20sth in rush and 50sth working men. Everybody else either skip it entirely or have a proper breakfast, but that's just my experience, might not generalize.
How do people survive without a proper breakfast, by lunchtime 11 I'd be fucking shaking
I usually cant eat breakfast, it just wont go down. Im usually OK with just a big lunch followed by snacks following, though i do sometimes forget to eat lunch and realise late at night that I havent eaten all day
I would like to point out that british are also european and they are known for their extra healthy bacon and eggs breakfast.
This is also the reason why Metamucil doesn't sell in Europe. Seriously: just looking at the left picture gives me constipation.
(I understand that the pic is a joke, but anyone who has a coffee and a fag after breakfast can attest to their wonderful laxative powers.)
Oh yes the famous nation of Europe. An entire continent full of nations and different cultures been rendered down to the stereotypes of the occupants of a single city.
Americans need to get out more.
Damn struck a nerve huh
I'm not from Europe. But I agree with them. A dumb meme is a dumb meme
Yeah let's all just ignore the utter ignorance that this image demonstrates.
imagine if someone is complaining about Americans, and interchangeably refering to Canadians/mexicans/Argentinians...
You damn Americans, always saying sorry with your mate thermos, carnival music mariachis...
If they did it in a meme they posted in a community with shitpost in the name I can't say I would pay it much mind or take any personal offense to it, no. That seems to be a uniquely European thing
Fuck heads already do because they say “America refers to all of Americas, not The United States.”
But also, as a Californian I apologize a lot and listen to mariachi music. You know that states can be culturally as different as nations, right?
Thanks for clearly stating why the world makes fun of American stupidity
You know that states can be culturally as different as nations, right?
no. they are not, and you only say that, because you have no idea how different cultures can be. California and NY are still American, speak English, eat similar food, do similar sports... whatever difference between California and NY is nothing compared Spain and France.
Seriously, what country is this even applicable to? Russia?
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