Also, many Germans take their pride in cooking their own jam. A German sunday breakfast should include at least two different kinds of jam and then some honey. And what about Fleischsalat and Rollmops?
Many years ago silver cutlery was common, but the silver reacts with the boiled egg and makes it taste faky. That's why Germans until today often have special plastic spoons for the eggs.
When i visit my parents and i'm there on a weekend they always have the saturday breakfast tradition that hasn't changed for decades. First my mother visits the market that is held on saturday mornings and gets fresh meat, cheese, eggs and bread (all kind of different bakery stuff). After that all family there gathers and eats together. We usually have: a lot of different 'Brötchen', some brine based stuff (like pretzels but in different variations), some sweet stuff or stuff that goes well with sweet stuff (like croissant), at least 4 different kinds of meat (met, leberwurst, ham in cooked and dried variation, salami), at least 4 different kind of cheese (2 different kind of mountain cheese from the southern region or austria/switzerland, some kind of cream cheese, gouda for people that don't like hearthy mountain cheese, some kind of brie or gorgonzola), different kind of marmelades (usually made by my parents from fruit in season) and a boiled egg with different grades of softness depending on the person. To drink there is usually milk, coffee, tea and juice. So yeah, a breakfast in germany can take a while, but it is very enjoyable.
Fantastic!And also the family tradition is amazing. Nordic people usually have this unique way to cook and prepare meal all together with every one playing their part into the process and a real chance to have a conversation among family members. Especially breakfast on weekends or dinner. I was born in south Europe and there traditions and family structure is very different. I always admired this cultural aspect and I made it basics in my lifestyle and family.
I watched this on a Tuesday morning and immediately got hungry. A little addition: Just to sell fresh rolls Germans even allow an exception from their holy Ladenschlussgesetz which forces most shops to be closed on a Sunday. But not for selling fresh rolls! There is a good reason for those funny little spoons made from all kind of plastics Germans use for their eggs. Many families still use silver spoons for their coffee. Try and eat an egg with that, and a terrible taste will fill your mouth. As silver acts as a catalyst, hydrogen sulfide will form in your mouth and give you the taste of, well - rotten eggs. And the spoon? It will turn black from Silver sulfide. Who wants to spend a sunday afternoon polishing spoons ? I believe the interviews have been made in the streets of cologne, but the sunday breakfast procedure is exactly the same here in the Hamburg area.
Well, in Hamburg we usually also eat different kinds of smoked salmon and sometimes also other fish, not to mention the "Krabbensalat" which is a classic! I love our breakfast!
I've lived in Germany for over 18 years now and I have real difficulty coping with my parents at breakfast when they come over to visit from the UK, as they have finished their breakfast before we've even really started!
All that food looks delicious, I'm from Peru and a common breakfast is fried pork with sweet potatoes inside of French bread, sometimes tamales or bloody sausage with onions.
What a delight, living in Germany for over five years as a soldier,I only brushed agains proper German cuisine, but what food I had was a surprise, and wonderful. thank you for your jolly presentation. David.
I'm in California and my breakfast today was scrambled eggs, smoked sausage and hash browns. A lot of the food sounds familiar since I'm half Geman! I only eat the eggs every other day and pancakes or waffles or bread (sometimes with Nutella) and some fresh fruit!
German bread rolls from the local bakery are so uniquely fantastic I haven’t been able to find a replica outside of the country. Please do a feature on that.
Weekday breakfast: whole wheat bagel with peanut butter. Weekend breakfast type 1: American/southern style biscuits with bulk pork sausage gravy, heavy on the sausage (I like a medium spiced pork sausage; it has a nice little kick, but not too much). Weekend breakfast type 2: Breakfast casserole of scrambled eggs, country style fried potatoes, sausage and/or bacon, and shredded cheddar cheese. And coffee, as always.
I'm surprised you didn't mention cornflakes and all the varieties of it, in addition to oat (Haferflocken) and also yogurt. Also we do eat croissants and french bread (sticks), not just "Brötchen", but on the whole it's "Brötchen" :-) More and more we see various ready-made bread spreads in the supermarkets, like egg bread spread, chicken bread spread - not to be confused with bed spreads :-)
When I visited family in the Bayern region, they had “Brötseid” (sp?) each morning (mainly because I visited). Consisted of a soft boiled egg, assorted cold cut meats, cheese and black bread. That bread was awesome; wish a bakery here in the US/NY would make it.
I stayed on a German Air Force base...ate at their chow hall in the 1990s. Breakfast had a lot of cold cuts, cereals, and juices. The most unique thing about eating there...they are seriously "rank conscious". ie -- depending on your rank, that is where you sit. Us Americans all sat together -- officers, NCOs, SNCOs, enlisted, civilians. That was a shocker to them. However, by the end of our three-week TDY, we were all sitting together (Germans, Americans, officers, enlisted) and trading stories and loosened up. Best time in my career...the German base commander was awesome...threw us a big 'ol party at their Officer's Club with dancing girls, bier, TONS of food, bonfires, live music outside...they know how to have fun!
Thanks for sharing. I make the breakfast for my UK family and I make it as varied as possible with some of the following each day - eggs of all types, chipolata sausages, fried tomatoes, fried onions, black pudding (blutworst I think), avocado, lemon juice & onion spread, kippers, melted cheese on toast, my own version of microwave cheese fondue, my own low carb onion bhaji, cheese puffs, my version of eggie or French bread - all with low carb Atkins bread and coffee or tea. I'm always keen to expand menu.
French toast with butter and maple syrup with pork breakfast sausage links ( preferably Jimmy Dean), crisp Applewood smoked bacon and crispy hashbrown potatoes and milk to drink. Or, a bowl of hot oatmeal with honey and buttered toast from homemade bread and a poached egg. Or a FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST, occasionally. USA.
Indians eat a variety of dishes for breakfast and it all depends on the location. In Mumbai, most common dishes are Kande Pohe (Flaked rice with spices), Batatawada sambar (Potato cutlet and sambar curry), idli (steamed rice cake) wada, Dosa (Fermented rice pan cake) with may be combined with veggies, Upma (made with semolina, onions and spices), Sheera (made with semolina as well but sweet), Scrambled eggs and bread and some authentic breakfast food native to Western coast of India like khaskasa (Cucumber semolina cake), Shirvale (Steamed rice noodles with coconut juice), Amboli & ghavane (also kind of fermented rice pancake) that goes well with Shellfish, prawns or chicken curry or coconut chutney and Ross Omlette Bread (Spiced curry with Omlette and bread)
Today was plain full fat yogart mixed with plain cheerios (from aldi's). Yesterday I had migas (olive oil sauteed bits of corn tortillas with an egg cooked in it). And 2 cups of coffee with cream, never with sugar. Everything organic. I'm originally from Texas. My favorite is a table set with plain yougart, boiled eggs, bread with butter and honey or jam, olives, cucumbers, tomatoes, creamed coffee or hot tea with cream and honey, alfresco. My husband hates everything about this, he wants fried hard cooked eggs, mountain of bacon and buttered toast, served to him on a tray, in front of the tv in his recliner. He's from Indiana.
I'm from Northern California and I like eggs over easy, with bacon & hash brown potatoes. Slides wheat bread with butter & jam an maybe some pancakes IF I'm really hungry! Oh and a glass of pineapple juice.
My breakfasts usually feature eggs, fried or scrambled but occasionally boiled, some sort of meat, bacon or ground sausage generally, but sometimes ham or bologna, some type of bread, cheese, almost always a sharp cheddar, and a pint of strong black coffee. I’ll frequently add spinach and/or mushrooms. Occasionally I’ll eat biscuits and gravy instead of the above, or have grits or oatmeal instead of bread. I should probably elaborate a little, as a couple items are regional foods. Biscuits and gravy are probably known to most Americans at this point, but there are probably some folks who don’t know them yet and I doubt foreigners have experienced the dish. Our biscuits are a type of quickbread, i.e. a raised bread that uses a chemical leavening such as baking powder or baking soda rather than yeast. For the gravy, you fry up ground sausage in your pan, then set it aside and cook flour in the grease, then add milk to get a thick gravy. Then add the sausage back in and ladle over your biscuits. Top off with plenty of black pepper and some Tabasco or other vinegar-forward Louisiana-style sauce. Doesn’t generally need much if any salt, as there’s generally plenty in the sausage. As for grits, even many Americans have never heard of them. It’s just a porridge made from coarsely ground hominy, which is corn (maize) treated with lye. You eat it with butter, salt, and pepper. Some people add cheese, and a few heretics use sugar. You can’t trust someone who sugars their grits. As you have no doubt guessed, this is American food.
I notice that the egg spoon is non-metallic, same as I've found in the Netherlands. I do have some English egg spoons that belonged to my grandmother; they are metallic, but only about the size of half a teaspoon.
That is a common "Sonntags-Frühstück", a way many families normally breakfast on a sunday morning (sometimes late morning time= brunch). In our family we also have little cherry tomaoes, sliced cucumbers in bowls, sliced fruit mixed in a bowl (Obstsalat) like apples, bananas, pineapple and seasonal fruit, cereals with milk, a variety of bread rolls, tea or cacao and orange juice. It is more like a buffet, everybody picks the things they like to eat and it is also a very socialising event for your families or your friends and can take more than one hour. After that you have a late small lunch in the afternoon or skip the meal, because after breakfast your full. Because it takes some effort to prepare this is not a typical german breafast for every day, more like a weekend celebration. On normal workdays we germans have a small breakfast at home or in school, or work and lunch or dinner time is larger, when kids and family can sit together and spend their time together getting informed how everybodys day was and if their are any news...
I love the Traditional German Breakfast so much, I bought all the goodies so I could enjoy it on my Birthday 🤗 But usually I have a fruit, a bowl of porridge and a cup of coffee.
I usually have cereal of some kind, but buttered crumpets or crumpets with cream cheese is a fav of mine. I'm vegetarian so I can't do a typical English Breakfast, but replace the meat with some vegetarian sausages and keep two fried eggs, hash browns, baked beans and a nice helping of brown sauce.
Never saw a "eierschalen...". And you forgot a thing for the Sunday breakfast: juice... mostly orange. (No, it does not replace the coffee. Nothing can do that. There ist only a glass of juice additional there.)
weekday im eat my breakfast so fast because im in harry i eat some fruits at 7:20 after one hoer i drink tea with milk but in weekend i make apical breakfast like eggs cheese jam peanut butter
Depends on the region. Kommt dadauf an wo Sie herkommen. We had soft boiled eggs und Brot oder Frisbee broetchen.. keine Wurst, no cold cuts ever for breakfast.
Breakfast tacos from Texas. My favorite are chorizo and egg. Every once in a while a make some fresh flour tortillas and make some potato and egg with a slice of bacon. Yum 😋
I'm from Southern California. Our typical breakfast is a bowl or two of cold breakfast cereal. Now that my older kids are young adults, they tend to also make themselves a scrambled egg. I'm trying to lose weight so for myself, I typically have a chocolate protein shake mixed with half a banana and plain yogurt.
25 seconds in "What DID Germans eat for breakfast?" WHAT?! DID?! Do I look like a freaking corpse to you? Germans are not a dead people. We still DO eat breakfast, we're still alive
Im from odisha india and i have flattened rice soaked in cold milk sugar and banana and mixed together. Along with it i have potato and onion fry as side dish.
Kurdistan- Iraq breakfast one boil egg honey jam Kurdish cheese ( like hard chewy wet like mozzarella) yogurt and Kolira bread or nan bread or Asha bread with cup of tea not coffee with
If I am home I usually just have milk with coffee, a couple biscuits, a fruit...I am Italian and many people will have something similar, or a cappuccino with a croissant at the bar. That said, as long as it is someone else doing the cooking I can go for a german breakfast...
Sunday is the best day for breakfast, 4 bred roll , 2 soft boiled eggs, crab salat, mett, roast pork and jelly, Cheese, white sausage with sweet mustard, bacon, and a chocolate milk *edit:words
Brouhaha Ma Its really Long - she Used the longest possible Name that somebody could give that thing - We call it "eierköpfer" Ei=Egg and köpfer= someone, that slices the Head from the Neck xD because Kopf= head (dont remember the exact Englisch Word, sorry)
The language uses a lot of compounds. As soon as somebody finds the longest word in German, somebody else could just make one up that's a little longer and still makes sense. Eierschalen-Sollbruchstellen-Verursacher is also valid German and shows the parts the compound is made of.
Gouda comes from Holland, Emmentaler comes from Switzerland, Germans don't "do" their own cheese which is interesting, obvious now that one thinks about it but had never thought about it before. Germany is not big on cows.
Low carb fad? I been eating mostly protein and fat rich foods for a long time, even before any fads. I mostly eat red meat, eggs, nuts, fruits, chicken, pork/ham, tubers, and some vegetables. I would say that about 25% of calorie intake is carbs, but all from fruits, nuts, tubers, and vegetables. Everyday I feel great and have so much energy and I have the best blood pressure, sugar, cholesterol, etc... readings. However, my other family members or friends that eat processed foods, such as breads, pasta, etc..., are obese and have the worst health readings. I would well with German breakfast. I would mostly eat the meat and eggs, which is pretty much what I do now anyway.
Here in Russsia my favourite breakfast consists of two chickens (not big ones) along with 10-12 eggs(not overboiled, of course), strong tea(not more than six spoons of sugar) and as I am keen on British food traditions I can't exclude a good piece of marmalade either. And after that I work hard... yes, I do... Thinking about dear lunch
Hi Kate, you used the word "Weltmeister" several times in this video. But I never heard from you "Weltmeister-Brötchen" or "Weltmeister-Brot"..! Didn't you come across those types of German Brot/Brötchen?
I have traveled around the world and the German rolls for breakfast are very nice. Not realy into there bread, but then I prefer a cooked eveing meal and not just bread and sliced meat or cheese or other Things they have.
