Jude🇵🇸Mar 7
Just boosted a toot about breakfasts of the world (can't quote boost). Interesting replies, although very western-centric: all variations on a theme.
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 7

@sister_ratched I hate "Western Breakfast" with an even greater passion than Jonny Harris!

  • But I also got real bread and not desert for it and had the orivilegue to travel a lot as a child, so that changes perspective…
    • It's really fucking sad when you see #USians look at you like they saw the 2nd coming of christ when you give them a cheap #bread and they won't believe you that by German standards the bread selection of #ALDI is just "bottom barrel" in comparison.
How I Stopped Hating Breakfast

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Show threadJude🇵🇸Mar 7
@kkarhan Indeed. The whole 'cake for breakfast' thing, in America but also Europe, is just bonkers.
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 7

@sister_ratched I mean in #Germany it's less extreme.

Wake up with the Average German – all their weird habits and more

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Show threadJude🇵🇸Mar 7
@kkarhan Lol. Yes, a German breakfast with cold cuts, cheese etc is much more sensible.
Show threadKevin Karhan 

@sister_ratched But then again, Germany was - prior to industrialization and Nation Building - an amalgamation of 300+ small states and kingdoms that were quite poor.

  • So OFC knowing how to "literally cook every single piece of a pig" (which was more of an 'organic waste trashcan on legs' in rural communities) was kinda important, tho most people back then consumed literally kilos of bread (because porridge is boring and more cumbersome) each per week because pre-Napoleonic Germany was just a bunch of feudal lords that barely spoke a similar language.
Geography Now! Germany

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Show threadJude🇵🇸Mar 7
@kkarhan Ah, interesting historical perspective!
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 7

@sister_ratched I mean, that's the way things developed here.

  • The only reason beef went big in the USA is because space wasn't a concern to the point that ranchers just let theirs graze in areas that take days to walk through...
Show threadJude🇵🇸Mar 7
@kkarhan That explains a lot!