Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> En réponse à Robert Hailman <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> >
> > No eggs at breakfast? How do you live?!?!?
>
> French people eat usually only sweet at breakfast (when they take any
> breakfast). So it's a lot of bread with butter, jam, also croissants, pains au
> chocolat, etc... The egg at breakfast is very exceptional but exists. Then it's
> generally a soft-boiled egg. French people have quite an original way to eat
> eggs :) .
>
:-) Actually, the typical French breakfast you describe sounds a lot
like what I usually eat for breakfast. For me, though, it's just
preference, not cultural.

>  Well, at least you've seen
> > the error in your ways. ;-)
> >
>
> Only because I like salty better than sweet. So at my breakfasts I mix
> everything (not at the same time of course). I even eat camembert at breakfast
> :) .

I like salty too. I just can't take too much salt at breakfast, because
then the taste will be in my mouth all day... urgh.

> > No cheese, either? I thought the French all eat cheese all the time.
> > There goes one stereotype.
> >
>
> Very true. But you can replace it by the fact that French people eat a lot of
> bread. So much that in most restaurants bread is free, as well as water.

Even at a lot of decent restaurants in Canada bread is free. Well, not
always completely free, but you usally get *some* free. Although that
could be French influence.

> > Well, for all that list has done, at least it's helped prove
> > sterotypes
> > wrong. And that's a good thing.
> >
>
> Always :) .

Of course.

Wait a minute... *you* eat cheese, don't you? Maybe *your* the
stereotypical Frenchman. No, wait, you don't act snooty enough towards
Americans. ;-)

--
Robert