One of the things I like about staying at AirBNBs when I travel is that I can make my own coffee and my own breakfasts or lunches while I am traveling. Plus if you stay a minimum of 3 days the amount of “make it at the AirBNB” options goes up a lot.
I used to have a breakfast of a large pomelo in Thailand, it kind of reset the dining clock and made the rich lunches and dinners seem like a treat and not a chore.
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The breakfast version is almost the same, and called Morgenbrot. In my extended family, there might be eggs or yogurt in addition to the cheese and cold cuts in the morning
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I’ve never heard that term before in my life. Is it an Austrian thing, maybe? Because in Germany, breakfast is called “Frühstück.”
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Just make sure to keep your sammiches open-faced, for it is the proper way to have Abendbrot 
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For a moment there I read it as “Top poster who shall remain shameless” and really, when one can spend 5K per month on eating out, that sounds about right.
Why?
Should one be shameful of success? I don’t recall the poster that was referred to on the old CH thread but if someone can afford to spend that much money dining out, what’s it to you and what does shame have to do with it?
If one is successful and can spend money on things that one enjoys, why not? If you can afford to eat out a nice meal once a month, well I’m sure that’s one times more than many others can. Should you feel shame at that? What’s the inflection point for feeling shame about dining out?
How about thinking of the benefits that are generated by those who dine out frequently? All the restaurants and chefs and servers who are employed because people choose to eat out a lot. Remember when so recently no one could eat out at all, we heard all about how traumatized the restaurant industry was? I guess we could remove shame by not eating out ever. That will solve the problem.
I’ll just channel my inner Frank Gallagher instead.
Might be a rural or small town East German thing? Not sure.
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Maybe morgenbrot/morning bread is a specific type of breakfast in Germany? My German was never good and I haven’t tried to use it in 30 years so I am not a great source of info. LOL!
It’s just cold cuts, cheese, bread , buns, maybe sliced tomatoes, maybe sliced cukes, maybe yogurt, maybe eggs (usually soft or hard boiled in my family).
Nothing specific. Most ethnically German Germans would eat that kind of breakfast. Same sort of breakfast is common in Scandinavia, Poland, Czech Republic.
The term when I’ve heard it seems interchangeable with Frühstück, but Frühstück means breakfast so it’s broader than morning bread!
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According to this Austrian tourism site for Tirol, Morgenbrot was a German term for breakfast, until the 15th C.
I have heard one cousin in Saxony call breakfast Morgentbrot.
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I’m old, but I’m not that old 
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I was a lot younger when I took German classes, but not that young.
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you and me, both.
I did hear it as late as 2008
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“Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”
-Bob Dylan, My Back Pages
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Generally, when we are vacationing, we are eating out. However, when we vacation, it is only about a week or so. It doesn’t feel that onerous. And, it is nice to explore/revisit previous finds, within that type of time frame. So, with our trip to San Diego last week, we did eat at a deli attached to our hotel for late-ish breakfasts most mornings. We were there for Comic-Con, so this was not really a gastro-vacation. I found that 2 eggs, ham, and potatoes would hold me until dinner. We did have a nice ramen discovery (Tajima) for lunch before the convention started. We spent a lot of time at a tasting room for a brewery we liked (Bolt). Otherwise, we had a couple planned dinners (Rei de Gado and Shino Sushi and Kappo) and took in the con.
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It occurs to me, a couple of weeks after this topic was first posted, that I took a three month cross-country trip between finishing college and starting grad school. And ate out every single day. So I guess I can tolerate that. In fact, I remember liking it quite a bit.
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