What is the difference's between American breakfast and Continental breakfast?!
What is the difference's between American breakfast and Continental breakfast?
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A Continental breakfast originates in Europe, although resorts and hotels have picked up on it here in America. The Continental breakfast is very light, barely a breakfast compared to American meals. You always get coffee (or tea) and a pastry, the type depending on which country you are in. Also, a very small glass of juice is possible, but that's it.
An American breakfast is basically bordering on a gluttonous meal. For example, in a restaurant, as soon as you sit, you are served coffee or tea. Then we eat eggs and bacon or sausage, for example; and if that's what we order, we will also be given a pile of hash browns, a plate with several pieces of buttered toast and a glass of juice. Some people stuff themselves on pancakes, waffles, french toast along with the bacon or sausage. Some people even have eggs with those foods also. Basically, breakfast is a very substantial, filling, high-calorie meal.
There is a reason why Continental breakfasts are so small. In Europe, and I'm speaking about western Europe, i.e., France, Italy, etc., they eat dinner very late. Restaurants do not begin serving dinner until 8pm, so people are starting much later than the average American to have dinner. So, if you can't even start eating until that late, you will be finishing quite late. So when you wake up in the morning, you are not going to be that hungry.
The longest period of time we go without eating is at night, when we are asleep. The word "breakfast" comes from an old saying "breaking the fast," which sleeping basically is. We wake up and break the fast by eating something. In America, for the most part, we eat early and families usually go to sleep relatively early. So, their fasting period is a long time, and they wake up hungry; that's why the bigger breakfasts. In Europe, where they can't start eating until late, they have a much shorter fasting time; so they naturally have a lighter breakfast.
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Having lived in several European countries while in college.
Perhaps "American breakfast" is a hotel or motel's way of saying continental breakfast, because I've never heard of an American breakfast before.
A continental breakfast, however, is a lighter breakfast that may include pastries, bagels, coffee, juices, of some other baked goods.
American is the works.......continental is juice, coffee, milk, bagel, rolls, jelly or butter......oh by the way, you very rarely get american LOL LOL
A continental breakfast usually consists of some sort of bread (roll, danish, croissant, toast, etc.), juice, coffee or tea, and some fruit.
An American breakfast (or English breakfast) usually has eggs, some sort of meat (bacon or sausage), coffee or tea, cereal, and toast. There is often some fruit and juice as well.
i have never heard of american breakfast....
i know that continental breakfast is a "cold" breakfast.
nothing "hot" like eggs or meat.
pastries, fruit, cereal, yogurt, coffee, tea and juice usually....
American breakfast:
Scrambled eggs, toast, bacon, sausage and some beverage.
Continental:
Donoughts, fruit and juice.
An American breakfast begins with eggs, either fried or scrambled, with either bacon, sausage or ham, hash browns or home fries, and toast and jam. Sometimes it may include pancakes (flapjacks) and biscuits and gravy.
Continental breakfast usually means bagels and cream cheese or croissants and fresh fruit, but sometimes includes cereal.
Basically, an American breakfast is cooked, a Continental breakfast is cold.
About a thousand calories.
ABOUT 10LBS
An American Breakfast wears a cowboy hat and goes Yee-Hah!
The size and fat content for one!! One portion, when I went to America in my teens (now a bit older than that!) one portion could have done me four or five days! Obscene wastage in USA!
Continental is more bread/cheese/meat based or fish. Much lighter and less fat. I go for that any time!
American Breakky usually contains bacon, eggs and so on. Cotinental consists of croissants, toast or rolls with jam.