Once I started skipping breakfast, I felt more awake in the morning. Not only that, but I had more time to get ready for work. My real problem is how to consume less calories, not more.
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.
Valid point. touché
Fuck, that one on the right looks so good, but only missing a croissant.
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
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…
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.
Yeah let’s all just ignore the utter ignorance that this image demonstrates.
I’m not from Europe. But I agree with them. A dumb meme is a dumb meme
… Did you forget the /s?
FAKE NEWS! The cigarette packs are now all black.
Otherwise spot on.
And it should be a pack of gitanes.
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.)
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
Damn I want to go to Lyon now
Oooh le saucisson aux pistaches dans la broche. Gourmand !
Fou de fafa
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 🥹
Cheese is a snack food/dessert as far as I know. Hence, doubt (x)
Beaujolais ? Closer to Lyon… 😁
Surely they don’t eat that much cheese as part of their breakfast
You’re right, they don’t.
The other two cheese platters are out of shot.
C’mon, your version of that is literally fentanyl
Don’t compare all of Europe to France! The French love their despresso, that’s on them.
They clearly have not been to a Swedish breakfast buffet.
On the “Europeans” side that’s at least 2 decades out of date.
The expresso coffee part is still true in a good part of Europe, but pretty much everywhere in it nowadays only a small fraction of people smoke and even those who do can’t actually do it inside a coffee shop because they’re not allowed to smoke there anymore, which spoils a great deal of the enjoyment of having a morning coffee.
I live in Germany and work with Turks, Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians, a Greek and a Slovenian. This meme is accurate for all of us. Weekends are a different story of course but in my experience this is indeed the true business day continental breakfast.
Is it? I was just in London a couple months ago, the amount of people smoking and vaping there was honestly shocking.
I grew up in the 1980s and trust me it’s a microscopic fraction of what it used to be. You used to be able to cut blocks out of the air. If you sat at the back of a cinema you would be lucky if you were able to see the screen through all the haze. That’s all gone now.
As a fraction of the total it’s still a small percentage, unless things changed a lot in the 5 years since I moved out of there.
Yes, but not in the balkans. Went to Bosnia and was served an espresso and a cigarette as an addition to breakfast. It was even on the menu. I should mention that i only asked for a coffee.
It was a culture shock that you can smoke indoors there, especially since I hate smoking.
While we’re shitting on breakfast culture in Europe I think that Italians have the worst. They have messed up daily rhythm (siesta and then dinner late in the evening)… Actually no, that’s not an excuse. They have garbage breakfast culture, period.
Literally everyone else’s breakfasts are awesome.
please explain in detail these awful italian breakfasts because like greek food i have yet to find a dish in the culture i dislike
The interwebs seem to have a consensus of cappuccino and a sweet pastry
Scrambled eggs or pancakes are the limit of the imagination I’ve seen from Italian restaurants. But most places have pastry or some variation of a sandwich that’s going to be mostly bread.
Stayed in Rome and Florence for a week. The only breakfast stuff we found were indeed either sweet pastries or biscuits, accompanied by fruit and cheese.
How many Italian breakfast dishes you see around 😄?
i only buy sandwiches, coffee and passata at the the italian deli/cafe in town. they bake the best foccacia
-
Siesta is NOT Italian
-
what do you mean “garbage breakfast”? Tell me what do you think most of Italians eat at breakfast
-
Dinner late in the evening is not on the entire penisula
-
Siesta is barely a thing in Italy any more unless you’re like 70+ and rural lol. But a brioche stuffed with ice-cream is the king of breakfasts what are you on about
Granted, I know Italy only from a tourist perspective.
Every damn restaurant closes in the summer in the middle of the day. So do many shops.
Italy rarely have breakfast restaurants - or at least what I’d consider a breakfast restaurant. Some variations of a premade ready to go sandwich ain’t it. And the good places ain’t open in the morning, but rather during brunch hours and serve brunch/lunch more than breakfast.
brioche stuffed with ice-cream
I know you’re joking. You’re kidding, right? :)
Sicilian ice cream sandwiches are a real thing and they are basically the best thing that’s ever happened to breakfast cuisine
Wonder what’s so good about coffee and cigarettes combo
I haven’t smoked in 8 years- and every morning when I have my coffee I STILL think, “fuck, a cigarette would elevate this whole experience just right.”
Don’t start. Bad idea.
Former smoker here. The flavor combo is amazing, and both act as stimulants, and I could get my fix for both addictions in one go.
that hippie speedball is beautiful when done right too
I had never heard this term but that’s dope
If you’re a pooping-challenged individual, it really helps knock that out whenever. And that always puts a smile on anyone’s face
Probably the same as sex and cigarettes.
Or alcohol and cigarettes.
Double the high.
It’s a culture that doesn’t eat any damn vegetables, so they need weapons-grade stimulants to get anything out in the morning.
Former smoker — don’t try it, but trust that it’s awesome.
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.
The world is so fucked no amount of coffee and cigarettes help anymore. Ketamine on the other hand…
no thanks we’ve all seen what constant k-holing can do to a person
We have?
Elon Musk famously abuses Ketamine to an insane degree.
Makes me never wanna try the stuff.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have to Google who that is.
Speaking for America, we’re deeply sorry about him getting a platform.
space karen
I do ketamine every weekend but during the week coffee is what motivates me to come out of bed.
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.
I wouldn’t even care about the health hazards at this point, given the future we’re all looking at, if smoking didn’t make you stink I’d start back today
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?
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.
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.
Go with an open system and a bottle of eliquid. More of an upfront investment, but with a refillable system you can adjust your nicotine levels much easier, and it’s significantly cheaper in the long run.
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.
Yeah, there are no heath benefits when it comes to smoking. It’s just a way to get some feel good chemicals in our brain which we only need because of the addiction and how fucked the world is right now.
Also, nicotine is self-medication for a lot of undiagnosed ADHD folks. So, there are health benefits. Far outweighed by the health drawbacks though. At least for smoking to get the sweet, sweet nicotine.
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.
Algae fats too
So are nut fats
I’m a fan of fat nuts
Gottem
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.
i think you’re confusing statesians who can’t cook with statesians who can
And ramen is Japanese.
All commonly eaten in America, granted, but it’s weird to call it “American” food.
Is that a pack of Marlboro cigarettes? Every real European knows that a proper coffee & cigarettes breakfast requires Gauloises.
Came here to say the same thing. Malboro and a Zippo? GTFO!
It’s the extra tar that makes the Gailoises so smoooooooth…
Petit-déjeuner noir
Blue Drum rolling tobacco dark roast coffee black and unsweetened.
deleted by creator
Unfortunately, the one on the right may be more healthy
Smoking cigarettes is the number one cause of heart disease and cancer globally. If you smoke, quitting is the biggest thing you can do to improve your health
Nah, obesity and high blood pressure are the top causes of heart disease, but smoking is also a major risk factor. Bad food and cigarettes are awful for you. Just drink a coffee and pursue an affair like a good Frenchman.
Take out the cig and it definitely is
Cafestol is the main contributor of cardiovascular disease due to coffee (hugely increases cholesterol). Get filtered coffee, or even better, black/mate tea, Matcha/green tea, Guarana or Guyausa (most of which have the reverse effect on cholesterol btw).
I like how different people have said each different item is the main cause of heart disease
main cause of heart disease is having a heart
Yeah, such a terrible thing. Let’s remove it! :D
Don’t mind the Aztec decorations in my clinic. :D
oh i see we’ve met before
Now can we stop being so mean to those poor heartless megacorp voting shareholders?
rare we talking
or
edit: also, no.
Joke’s on you guys because reading my comments is the main cause of heart disease gottem
Straight up didn’t know this, but I don’t and have never drank coffee and am the only man in my family without cholesterol issues.
Yeah, genetically predisposed here, will likely die of a stroke sometime. Though green (and other) tea, Guarana and Guyausa have lots of cholesterine reducers.
Do you have a source on that?
Sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafestol
And some of the ingredients in the alternatives (some of them in coffee too).
So it sounds like cafestol is the most potent cholesterol synthesis agonists, but that it is in such small amounts in the beans that using a paper filter essentially eliminates it entirely. Even without a paper filter, its low enough that the studies show that you would need to drink more than 4 cups a day of unfiltered coffee for it to start having any sort of impact.
Ok, fair point.
metal filter work too?
Much less effective from an (admittedly brief) look around. The finer filtration you get with paper apparently helps filter it out, but it’s such a small amount that even if you were just chewing beans it doesn’t appear to matter.
oh yeah those neuroprotective issues are more important to me than the cardiovascular ones. YMWV
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.
Joke’s on them, haggis is illegal in the US
They’re slippery wee cunts. The trick is to chase them anticlockwise round the hill so their short leg is on the downhill side. Then they fall over when they try to run.
