Is it more like cheese/ham/eggs or jam/pastry/frosted flakes?

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  1. Depends on the preference. I guess it’s about 50/50.

    On weekends it’s usually a mix. You’d have a savory breakfast with cheese/ham/eggs/savory spreads but in the weeked there’s usually also “koffiekoeken” (pastries)

  2. Sweet breakfasts are rare. They’re mostly a special occasion or weekend breakfasts. Mostly hotels have them.

    Salty breakfasts like bread and oatmeal porridge are far more common. The porridge may have toppings like berries, fruit or something else sweet.

  3. Generally sweet, often the standard breakfast is coffee (espresso, that is) or cappuccino and a piece of pastry that can be a croissant or a bombolone (similar to the Polish pacek) or a maritozzo (especially in Rome).

    You can add a yoghurt or a fruit juice to end the breakfast.

  4. Sweet breakfasts are mostly reserved for hotel breakfasts. Although a croissants would be seen as unhealthy by most; sweet cereals, juice, and jam are popular.

    A Swedish breakfast often include items like cereal, porridge, granola, yoghurt, [filmjölk](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmj%C3%B6lk), egg, bread rolls, ham, cheese, roast beef, lettuce, potato sallad, shrimp sallad, cucumber, paprika, and a bit of jam.

    With coffee, tea, milk, or juice to drink.

    Of course; not everything at once, but those are probably the most common items.

  5. Most breakfast items in Turkey (cheese, olives, eggs, tomatoes/cucumbers) are savoury. But we also have jam and honey to put on bread. Most people have a mix of everything, usually starting with savoury stuff and ending with sweet.

  6. Almost exclusively salty. Some people eat cereals that are a bit on the sweet side but it is very uncommon to do so.

    I think there are far more people that skip breakfast altogether than those that eat a sweet one in my country.

  8. I would say salty for weekdays (sandwiches, fried eggs and stuff) and sweet for the weekend (because making pancakes or syrnyky takes time!)

  9. Depends on preference. We have Khikhlikho which is a savory variant of French toast (just bread dipped in eggs and milk without any sugar or cinnamon) typically served with savory condiments but, we also have aladi (a variant of syrniki with a yogurt rather than cottage cheese base) and blini which is just French crepes. Both of these are usually eaten with jam or Nutella. Usually for breakfast I just have granola, muesli, sometimes fried eggs or just eat yesterday’s leftovers.

  10. Traditionally savoury-verging on salty, sweet breakfasts (as in sugary cereals) are common nowadays.

  11. I would say both, but not to the extreme. Breakfast in Germany is mostly bread or toast with toppings. You have the usual sweet ones like confiture, chocolate cream, honey etc., but also cheese, smoked bacon, sometimes cold sausage cuts.

    Depending on how much time you have, there can be fresh fruit, and some people like a (soft cooked) egg on Sundays. When you have a good bakery nearby you might buy some Brötchen (bread rolls, we have a lot of variety), or a croissant or pain au chocolat, but usually that’s more of a treat for weekends.

    A lot of people only eat Müsli for breakfast. This is not very flavoured, but more sweet than savoury. It’s oat flakes and other stuff (see comment below), often with plain yoghurt and you can cut some fruits into it.

    What we don’t do for a normal breakfast is elaborate dishes like pancakes, cooked bacon, beans and sausages like the British and overall warm food. Breakfast in Germany is, apart from the occasional egg, a cold affair. From personal experience, I’d say most people prefer a sweet breakfast (but the savoury toppings are also on the table).

  12. I think it can be both. For salty options there’s toast, toasties, savoury pastries, and sandwiches (cheese, ham, presunto, chouriço, etc…) in different kinds of bread.

    As for sweet options, usually some kind of pastry or cereal (more of a kid thing though). We have jams and stuff, including the OG marmalade, but do people have those for breakfast? I don’t know.

    There are also people that make pancakes, overnight oats, and eat protein puddings and yogurts. I did for a while, but I realized I don’t have that big an appetite in the morning.

  13. Oh my…

    Both? Is both an option? On one day we may eat scrambled eggs, on another a sweet roll or pancakes, or we may go simply for a sandwich or a bowl of cereal.

    It depends mostly what we want to drink for breakfast as well – if it’s tea – we will go for something salty, if it’s coffee- something sweet.

    I remember that my grandpa used to go to the bakery every morning to buy the sweet rolls for breakfast (specifically “drożdżówki z kruszonką”), but I’m not sure if sweet breakfast was more common in older generation and now it’s a mix of both or if it was always a mix and my family simply always preferred sweet breakfasts 🤷‍♀️

  14. im just getting humg up on the use of salty instead of savoury. id never have thought to describe a fried egg as salty.

  15. Definitely sweet. Either a croissant & coffee, usually at a bar, or the more classic milk & cookies. Sometimes I do have breakfast with leftover pizza from the previous evening, but not too often, as most people would agree. Other than that, savory breakfast is not a thing, if you even suggest it most people will probably tell you it’s weird or straight up unhealthy. I don’t even have breakfast most mornings and somehow I feel like skipping breakfast altogether is more socially accepted than having a salty one lol

  16. Both, with a tendency to sweet on workdays. It’s sometimes quicker to fill a bowl with cereals or to smear jam or honey on bread than to cut cheese and meat. But if there’s time, we have both.

    On weekends, decidedly both with all of that and also eggs. Some people make american-style pancakes. Our traditional pancakes are more like crêpes, but a millimeter thicker, not particularly sweet, and something for dinner that can be filled with savoury or sweet fillings.

    Our breakfast meat includes cold cuts, dried ham, dried meat (like Italian bresaola), and dried sausage.

  18. Depends.

    One day you’ll have a cheese sandwich, the other you have a hagelslag sandwich.

  19. It is kind of a mix, porridge with jam is quite common, as is youghurt that is a bit sweet, topped with dried fruit and sweetish müsli or granola. But salty/savory things like bread, eggs, ham, cheese and most importantly, coffe, probably makes “not sweet” take the crown.

  20. I wouldn’t say either was predominant to be honest. Breakfast is very varied (despite the internet thinking we exist on fry ups) – savoury breakfasts (those fry ups, porridge, eggs, toast with savoury toppings) are probably as common as sweet (cereal, overnight oats with berries, toast with sweet toppings, pastries).

  21. Traditionally sweet, with cereals, or toast with jam or butter. On weekends or spécial occasions croissants and pain au chocolat can be consumed. That said I know quite à few people who like eggs or cheese with bread as well

  22. Both. When I grew up my parents tried to limit my sugar intake so I had to eat one neutral/salty boterham with kaas or pindakaas first and could then have a second sweet one with hagelslag or jam (so de facto hagelslag, because it’s vastly superior to jam).

  23. Generally during the week its Wheatabix or Cornflakes, but at weekends you’ll see more traditional breakfasts like a Fry

  25. If you haven’t got any kind of hot breakfast, you can’t consider yourself a civilised nation.

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