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I guess they do that kind of breakfast in hotels, in many countries, including those whose cultures don’t eat bread or bacon in the morning.
I can assure you the Dutch do not eat this breakfast at home. And they especially don’t eat pancakes that early. Because pancakes are mostly for dinner. Dinner is the only warm meal of the day and pancakes are warm.
As mentioned by Retrospek, the difference between breakfast and lunch is about 4 hours. Absolutely true. Just buttered cardboard spongy brown or white sliced bread and on each a slice of wet ham (or any type of cold cuts/“liver cheese” which contains real liver, not German “Leberkaese”), peanut butter, jam (yuck… much too sweet), and chocolate sprinkles. If they have to cook something it’s just boiled eggs. That’s the most typical “breakfast”, and repeat it at lunch, at exactly noon. Many people grab a coffee and some pastry from somewhere on the way to work/school.
Interesting that dinner is the warm meal.
For my relatives in small-town Germany, including some near Aachen, not far from the border, lunch is the warm meal.
The Germans I know eat liverwurst and braunschweiger meat spread on bread at breakfast.
Leberkäse (for others who aren’t familiar, Bavarian meatloaf that translates to liver cheese, which doesn’t contain liver or cheese, and it’s served later in the day) isn’t common outside Bavaria. I’ve visited Germany close to 2 dozen times, and I’ve only ever had one serving of Leberkäse in Munich.
Dutch immigrants running Pannenkoek specialty restaurants in Calgary and Kelowna capitalize by offering Pannenkoek as a weekend brunch.
Not that it matters, most Canadians would tend associate eating pancakes for dinner on Shrove Tuesday. So it’s probably easier to sell Pannenkoek in Canada as brunch food, and I went to Holland thinking of Pannenkoek as brunch food.
Me, being a tourist in Amsterdam for a few days, I did Pannenkoek for brunch, then dinner (Stamppot one night , Rijjstafel the other night).
If I do a Full English while travelling , I don’t eat again until dinner.
I tend to be a brunch and dinner person, all the time.
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Same in the UK where we often call it Pancake Day.
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I just remember they do eat this Berliner classic, Strammer Max, which they call Uitsmijter. They probably ate it for “breakfast” once upon a time when mothers used to stay at home taking care of children.
A country that has no cuisine it’s OK to steal ideas from its neighbours.
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Belgium has a cuisine. Its neighbour to the north doesn’t.
I’m sure that’s true. I remember two long counters with many different kinds of food that most Americans wouldn’t consider for breakfast. A little something for everyone.
Norway was breathtakingly expensive but their breakfasts were so good - not as heavy as the British and Irish breakfasts were. I still dream about the pickled herring, their Gjetost and their preserves. We did sneak packets of condiments out, so we could stop at small groceries and buy a couple of rolls and some meat or cheese for lunch. We also ate quite a few roadside hotdogs in our travels there!!
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Thanks for reminding me. This breakfast is more my style. I love smoked fish with (scrambled) eggs! Eel is rich and tasty. It’s become so expensive now that I can’t buy it more often than I used to.
Ate smoked haddock with scrambled eggs at 5:30 in the morning inside Billingsgate fish market (in London). I was visiting a Scottish acquaintance in London and we went to Billingsgate market early in the morning.
When we lived in the Netherlands, our Dutch landlords helped us rent a canal boat and we followed them in theirs for 2 weeks one summer. We would pass canal-side stands with signs for “Gerootke Paling” and often stopped to buy some. It was delicious.
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Our planned “outings” so far will take us south to Worcester (Premier Inn buffet breakfast) in a couple of weeks or so. And north to Carlisle and Hexham, where we’re going to explore Hadrians Wall for a few days. The latter trip is not a particularly gastro area - the likely hotel in Hexham looks like it does a decent cooked brekkie (https://www.countyhotelhexham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Hotel-Breakfast-May-21.docx.pdf)
Cambridge could be good in the summer. University towns usually have decent hotel rates during the uni holidays. And July/August is our celebration season - both birthdays and anniversary all within a couple of weeks or so.
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Because we’ve not yet had the best ever “Full English” quote, here it is.
In the words of the late Hovis Presley (who came from Bolton, in my metro area)
“Bacon, sausage, black pudding, egg, mushrooms, beans, tomato, toast -t’s almost a meal in itself really”.
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And the wonderful Felicity Cloake has written a book about the British brekkie, due out in a couple of weeks. But here’s a taster from today’s Guardian.
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I should have been off on a cruise today, but the bastard Covid has intervened and we’ve been cancelled by the cruise line. So, I’m planning where I might go to eat once we’re feeling better. One such is is Ate Days A Week, which has moved from being a cafe in Stockport to a slightly more upmarket affair in Manchester’s city centre.
They are still going to major on pies and breakfasts. Which is what brings me here.
Take the vital ingredients of a “Full English” - streaky bacon (just “bacon” to American readers), sausage, hash brown, black pudding and beans. Wrap it all in shortcrust pastry and what have you got? Yeah, you’ve got a breakfast pie. Now, bake that. And, when it’s done, split open a bread roll (we call them barms or barmcakes round here but 10 miles away where I used to work, the same bread roll is a bap). Shove your pie in there and top with a fried egg.
They’re good on puns here. This menu item is I Just Died in Your Barms.
