I love how they call it a continental breakfast like it’s supposed to be fancy but everybody on earth actually wants an English breakfast
they call it a continental breakfast like it’s supposed to be fancy
They call it continental because it’s in the style of what is served on the (European) continent.
what I mean to say is, I think they choose a continental breakfast because it sounds fancy and is cheap. not that they made up the word Continental for it
Almost every half-decent hotel I’ve stayed in on the continent has a self-service mix of both. The breads, hams and cheeses of a continental but also heated cloches of eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns etc. Also it’s served from about 7.30 to 10.30
If they sell you a shit breakfast, leave a one-star review and make a difference. Instead of rolling over and having your belly tickled by capitalism like the yanks do
Some shocking breakfasts in this thread but more shocking that some people just shrug and go “It is what it is”
The breads, hams and cheeses of a continental but also heated cloches of eggs, bacon, sausage, hash browns etc. Also it’s served from about 7.30 to 10.30
And all of them stale because they keep changing them out for a week. The biggest thing missing is most european hotels don’t have waffle makers- or if they do they’re missing syrup. One hotel I stayed at put the syrup next to their stale pancakes, and nutella next to the waffle maker- they had it very backwards.
You clearly stayed in shit hotels, mate. I wouldn’t stay anywhere that had anything stale on a breakfast table and I’d throw a fuckin wobbly at anyone that tried to serve me stale food.
Did you just roll over like a good puppy and eat it anyway?
You clearly stayed in shit hotels, mate.
I’ve stayed in a lot of different hotels, sometimes the best in the city. Sometimes just meh.
Did you just roll over like a good puppy and eat it anyway?
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It was styled on what Americans imagined European breakfasts to be like in the 50s, and cost optimized over subsequent decades.
I love it when the breakfast is hot water and instant oatmeal
That’s honestly better than most continental breakfasts.
Most hotels outside the US and Canada actually do a legit good breakfast. Not this cheap carb garbage they do in the States.
Most hotels outside the US and Canada actually do a legit good breakfast.
I really think you have this backwards- at least in my experience. I wonder if you’re just staying in nicer hotels when you’re on vacation.
I was given a piece of toast and an orange when I went to a hotel breakfast in the UK. In Germany, I think they laughed at me when I asked if breakfast was included.
dude, refrigerators aren’t included when you rent apartments in Germany.
Please speak for yourself. If I had to eat an English breakfast before 6pm that’d be a lost day for me. Because that’s dinner food.
I don’t want the shitty hotel breakfast anyway, so there! 😛
Have you been to a hotel breakfast in Europe? So heavenly
Europe is a pretty big continent…the breakfast you get in the Netherlands is going to be different to the one you get in France or the UK.
Yes, we have several hotels over here, in the county (city? village?) of Europe.
Yes, but many big hotel chains have a buffet style breakfast that does not only include typical local food. For instance in France a local breakfast would be bread, croissant or other pastries, and a coffee, but you would also find scrambled eggs, bacon, cereal, etc.
Smaller hotels will be more local though yes.
That’s a continental breakfast, and they’re popular in the US too, both east and west coast.
Okay I’ve had hotel breakfasts in literally those three and it was great. But you make a good point.
Italy vs. Germany. The only occasion where Germany wins against Italy when it comes to food. But Turkey is where the real breakfast kings reside.
Hold up- did you just say German food is better than Italian? I have never once in my life seen a German restaurant. Italian restaurants are all over the place
Edit: apologies. I misread and that you said “is when it comes to food”. Sounds like I need to try me some German breakfast.
Sounds like I need to try me some German breakfast.
German breakfast is good, but it isn’t the greates breakfast on earth. But Italian breakfast is terrible. It is basically coffee and some sweet pastry.
IDK I might be biased but what you described sounds like heaven.
Meanwhile Germans fry sausages at every occasion, call that cuisine, and yet aren’t event the best in Europe at doing that.
No fried sausage at a German breakfast. That is England.
Eh, I’ve had better in every restaurant around the hotel.
I haven’t. Where’s the best? I’ve always wanted to see Belgium
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Literally most places, and depends on what you like. I think anywhere in France is the tits for delicious food (try traveling outside of Paris as well).
I’ve been to Sweden a couple times, and the real food they serve in hotels or cafeterias versus the industrial processed eating product that we usually have in the US really puts us to shame.
But that goes for many aspects of the culture. The whole, you know, respect other humans thing.
Lmao what
I don’t know what hotels you go to but my experience has been pretty mid across most of Europe. Bog-standard continental breakfast buffets. Croissants, orange juice, cereal, toast, all of mediocre quality.
Not terrible as it is, but you can likely get infinitely better breakfast by hopping over to any cafe across the street.
Can confirm, been to hotels all over Europe, even the fancy a la carte ones are fairly shitty if you dont need breakfast like a normie morning person.
Strongly disagree, I’ve stayed in a fair few hotels around the world. Best are usually US or Asia(not China)
Lmao you consider dry powdered eggs that peak cuisine or something?
Just get used to eating hours-old food and you can get there at 10 just before closing time.
The staff might look at you funny, but you can wake up at any time you want and set your own schedule.
Where are you staying that the breakfast is open that late on a weekday?
Many hotels do 7-10 instead of 6-9. Depends on whether it’s a tourist location or worker-heavy
/shrug
A middle-of-the-road priced business hotel in Brazil, and that’s all I can say to that. Stayed there for a concurso público (no earthly clue how to translate that) two months ago.
The thing was at 12pm which made it rather inconvenient to get lunch before the event, so I slept in, arrived at breakfast at 9:50, there were still half a dozen people there, food was a bit old but I got what I needed.
It’s because they don’t want to give out free food (but want to make it seem like they do want to give out free food), so they will make it available only when people are less likely to go for it.
Free food? Since when is the hotel food free?
Here you always have to pay for it even if you usually do it when booking
In the US several hotels will offer a “continental breakfast” included with the stay. I guess you could argue that it’s not really free, considering it’s factored into your stay at the hotel, but there is technically not a separate charge for it and it’s considered an “amenity”. I know that this is not necessarily common in other places, so I thought I would mention in case you were not aware.
I’d say you’re correct except now it’s more “used to offer”. In Europe it’s usually included and it’s a good spread, in the US it was a decent spread, then cereal and processed muffins, and now it’s… A Starbucks Togo you have to pay for
Life hack, you are absurdly drunk at 3am asking for French toast and Cheerios. Me 1, Hotel 0
10am is not sunrise
Pull you in
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All the hotels i’ve ever stayed in anymore.Don’t have a restaurant or a bar just bare bones. I stayed in ohio today in express once and it had a pancake machine
I like Drury Inns. They do have the standard “breakfast ends at 9:30” thing which sucks for late sleepers, but they also have a 5-7 pm “happy hour” with snacks and both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks provided gratis. It’s a way to avoid paying for dinner if you can do it and you don’t care about your dinner being snacky stuff, but if you’re on vacation, let dinner be snacky stuff.
Pancake machine sounds fancy.
Thanks! It’s my nickname!
Holiday Inn Express is the most miserable breakfast I’ve ever had in a hotel. The selection was basically lard with sugar on it, and whatever drink you chose tasted of chlorine.
I’m normally not much of a breakfast person, but work had booked me in at HIE once, and as I had a long day ahead I had to force myself to eat something. And the selection available didn’t exactly make it easier.
After that I always make sure to book the hotel myself. I’m not that picky in terms of hotel, as long as the eatery is decent.
Yeah, uh… Don’t know how to say this, but if your water smells like chlorine, I don’t recommend drinking it. Might be ok for survival, but it’s definitely not for regular consumption.
whatever drink you chose tasted of chlorine
Well that’s concerning
I never had tap water in the US that didn’t. No wonder why bottled water is so popular there. I’m sure they have better water in more mountainous states, but TX, LA, MS and AL tastes like chlorinated swamp.
Most of my life I’ve lived in places where the tap water comes from natural lakes in nearby mountains, with bird poop as the only additive. I therefore notice the chlorine very easily, to the point where my coworkers claim they don’t notice it at all.
In New Zealand our tap water is mostly okay to good, with the exception of Whanganui. Tap water there has lots of lime (not the fruit) in it so I tend not to drink tap water as a habit, despite living in the south island now which has nice and cold tap water pretty much everywhere. Never heard of chlorine in the tap water around here lol
Does lime have a flavor to it?
And a sign up that says YOU MUST NOT TAKE THINGS FROM THE BREAKFAST ROOM!
Yeah, fuck you. Pockets full of churros.
ahh that brings back my memory of sneaking out lettuce from the hotel cafeteria so I can give it to the local perfume & tea shop keeper’s tortoise, talking with the locals is the best
look at this tiny big chomp :)
ATTENTION ALL NINES: FOOD IS TO BE CONSUMED, NOT HOARDED
Damn I need to stay at your hotels. The ones I stay at usually you’re lucky if you get fresh fruit
“Continental breakfast” means some shitty $0.50 box of dollar store knockoff brand cereal and a paper bowl.
I went to one that had a random box of dunkin Donuts 12ct that clearly had gone through their break room and nobody wanted the rest lol
Damn got that 5 star treatment
I saw Pockets Full O’ Churros live once! Good show…
Why would I spend the time and money on a vacation just to waste it on being lazy? I can do that at home. On vacation I’m up before sunrise, take a shower, and grab breakfast before I start my itinerary for the day.
That sounds like work with extra steps.
We have different vacation philosophies. Mornings are nebulous unplanned times for everyone to do what they want like sleeping in, relaxing by the pool, getting brunch at a nice place, and light sight seeing. I usually don’t have scheduled goals/events for the day until afternoons and evenings while on vacation. I can’t enjoy being somewhere new if I’m too burnt out and exhausted to participate and experience it properly.
If I wanted to wake up before my biological clock tells me to and follow a schedule, I could just go to work.
I’m a freelance software dev, you just made me realized I should vacation on a schedule so I have some variety in my life.
I paid for this uncomfortable hotel mattress, and I’m going to damn well use the fucking thing!
You can also maximize your time sleeping in too. Stay out and have fun on the town, head back to the hotel at 3am. Some people are night owls, some people like mornings. Nothing wrong with either.
Personally waking up before sunrise feels awful for my body and brain function, but I get it.
Because you could spend more of your time in the evening, when there are more things to do in town.
Mornings are boring. Evenings are exciting.
Ok dad
Im allowed to be lazy everyday if i want
It’s so weird seeing almost 500 upvotes on a post like this on lemmy where, based on comments, like 90% of it’s users can barely afford rent, let alone going on vacation and staying at a place that offers breakfast.
Oh it’s just the usual people that complain that they can’t afford anything but somehow they’ve visited 35 countries so far in their life and are planning their next trip to add one more to the list.
I haven’t been on a holiday since I was a kid, but I remember these hotel breakfasts.
I mean, I travel for work a lot and have to stay weeks in hotels. And weeks means weekends, so yeah I can relate. There’s a lot of people I meet around the world that travel like me and wouldn’t be able to afford those same hotels for a vacation… like me lol
Well I mean, the majority of hotels don’t even serve free breakfast anymore once they realized they could get away with not having it or making it a paid thing. This used to be common a while ago, when I’m sure Lemmy users used to be taken on vacations by their parents.
Pretty sure there are more than 10% of Europeans on this site.
Not everything is as dystopian as the US.
I would expect most lemmings, like myself, to have spent more time in company-paid hotel rooms than vacation hotel rooms
I think that’s a very strange assumption.
Bold assumption but it checks out for me. It is based on lemmy being so tech heavy?
Can confirm.
Source: I think last time I paid for a hotel myself was 2009. I have no idea how many nights I’ve spent on company expense since then, but it must be in the hundreds.
That sounds horrible
Nah. Job is pretty chill, pays well, I usually get to choose the hotel, and I get to see new places.
But you never take a vacation.
There are also people outside of america. In my country i could afford to go on a week-long vacation every year in europe with basically a minimum-wage salary if that is what i want to prioritize in life.
We remember those placer from when we were kids though.
I don’t believe that. There is no way Lemmy is that poor on average
“You can’t be struggling if you’ve stayed in a hotel before.”
Could it be possible that these are different groups of people? Lemmy has like 70,000 monthly users now.
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Its still weird to me how English breakfast is (that much of) a thing.
Like a couple of centuries ago for the difference in the sheer standard of living, sure, maybe at that point it was luxurious in terms of ingredients alone, … but still?
It’s because the alternative is “continental breakfast” which consists of a few slices of warm ham, tiny slices of bread and a bunch of fruit that’s already on the turn.
That’s why I’m sticking with alpine/Austrian breakfast: Real bread (Google “Schwarzbrot”), real cereals (a mix of oats, dried fruits and nuts, with hot milk) or Sterz (a breakfast made from ground maize, couldn’t find a translation) with apples and raisins. Depends on how much time I have and what I’m doing on that day (before a long hike or a long day of skiing Sterz is the best).
Real bread (Google “Schwarzbrot”), real cereals
Way to gatekeep. 🙄
Sometimes, it’s good to gatekeep. @pumpkinseedoil is correct on this one
Not even one bit. Fluffy bread is superior in every way in my opinion. And eating raw oats is just nasty.
Sterz
I think Polenta is internationally more well known. Sterz is similar to Polenta.
Good point. They’re the same, the difference lies in how you continue after cooking it.
English breakfast is like the only decent thing to come out of that place
Which isn’t a high bar, but I agree with you.
Bri’ish food isn’t that bad, I mean the yanks deep fry butter for god sake.
I mean the yanks deep fry butter for god sake.
Yanks do? If anything that would be more of a southern thing, but I don’t think its a common thing anywhere other than as fair food or something
It even isn’t really a southern thing, its an attention grabber for capital. No one eats or thinks of deep fried butter save for those that go to fairs and get it waved in their face.
Fried butter is like a novelty fair food over here, it’s not a real dish.
Blood pudding in the UK, on the other hand . . .
Blood sausage isn’t just a UK thing, variations are found in pretty much every cuisine that eats meat. And it’s not even like its super popular in the UK, its very often not even included in a full English breakfast.
Black pudding is fucking delicious, you’re missing out
I didn’t say it wasn’t. Fried butter is also delicious. I was just making a comment as to the availability of the dishes in their respective countries.
You got me fucked up if I’m waking up early on my master approved break from wage slaving. I’m waking up at noon and I’m having a bowl for breakfast.
Bowl of peanut butter crunch.
After ripping a steamroller of course
ripping a steamroller across your favorite shirt.
After getting high of course
high up in the hotel because the club level’s breakfast has an omelette station.
After smoking marijuana of course
The smoked marinara dipping sauce is a regional favorite, complementary offered at all meals to the hotel’s guests.
After inhaling thc vapors purely for recreation of course
The gnc flavors of vitamins go well with a healthy bowl of fresh fruit for your daily nutritional and fiber needs.
After freebasing an eight-ball of crack cocaine of course.
