/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Italian people aren't known for waking up before noon

>>18070375
This is true. Lunch and dinner were great, but breakfast was practically non-existent.

Breakfast noodles.
You pour milk and sugar on them.

>>18070393
They don't even eat eggs? A couple eggs is sufficient for me

>>18070375
My ideal breakfast is an espresso, a small glass of juice, a slice of cheese, and a pastry
Breakfast is by far the worst of the three meals, no reason to make it more than a small snack
t. american

>>18070375
It really depends on the region, but breakfast in Italy in general isn't really seen as a sit-down meal. It's usually just quick carbs and coffee.
In Lombardy, you can sometimes find an interesting addition to the typical breakfast. An egg is whisked together with sugar and then mixed with coffee and milk. You can dip your breakfast bread into it and drink the rest.

>>18070393
I remember during my trip to Italy going out to buy a liter of milk to go with my breakfast.
The attendant looked at me like I grew a third head.

>>18070375

We don't have a breakfast culture to speak of. It's pretty much impossible to find anything beyond coffee, milk and pastries. Some chains might have sandwiches but only in specific situations like big transport hubs, and most of the times it's only because the wagies prepared them in advance for the lunch hour rush.

>>18070375
Kinda true, but
> The worst pastries you ever tasted
is a tastelet comment just to be a faggot

>>18070441
interesting

Italian in the US here.
Coffee (or barley "coffee") with milk and biscuits/cookies or pastry are for breakfast, yes. Also fruit. Children may also have yoghurt.

>>18070417
If you serve eggs at breakfast in Italy, people would find it quite strange. The only exception is zabaglione, which is an egg yolk whipped with sugar and eaten with a spoon. Some people add freshly brewed coffee to it, warm milk or, rarely, both. Variations exist, made with sweet wines instead of coffee.

>>18070387
Italian here. I just deboonked your statement

>>18070375
witterfags are insufferable

Full Italian Breakfast

>>18071540
You're not Italian in the US, you're just American.

>>18071624
woow look what we have here
>undercooked eggs
>pepperoni
>uncooked bacon
>corn dogs
>more corndogs but in spaghetti sauce
>pound cake
>and some nasty looking swedish meatballs

>>18071629
you are the dumbest spastic american ive ever seen

>>18071636
i can feel the seething through this yuropost

>>18071629
>>undercooked eggs
What the hell are you talking about? Those are not undercooked.

>>18071540
Damn interesting

>>18070375
sfogliatella mogs every other pastry

>>18071540
>which is an egg yolk whipped with sugar and eaten with a spoon
Yolks eaten raw?

>>18071629
Every time someone on this board sees a sunny side egg they revert to full retard mode

>>18071647
>>18071656
Mates. Read the rest of his post.

>>18071627
Then in that case he'd be Italian-American. He could well possibly be a student or on a work visa therefore making him an Italian in the US.

>>18071629
>undercooked eggs
Yet you will eat sushi no problem won’t you gaylord?

>>18071690
Why, the whole post is garbage.

Italian Eggs Benedict
Ingredients
1/2 lb Italian sausage
3 Egg yolks
8 Eggs, large
1 dash Lemon juice
1 dash Cayenne pepper

>>18070434
holy shit you are gay. breakfast is the best meal of the day.

Italian pubs open at 5AM. Lots people grab a coffee and a panino (bun with mortadella, bressaola or cheese, nothing more) or piadino (hearty pancake with veg, meat and cheese) on their way to work.

Others insist on having ghastly lemon-flavoured croissants. Absolutely disgusting especially in combination with marmelade, coffee and of course, Grappa. Can't have breakfast without it.

>>18071624
Are pommes croquettes really an Italian staple?

>>18071832
>>18071832
>Grappa. Can't have breakfast without it
You guidos gettin ripped on vino for breakfast all the time? Wicked

>>18070434
Extremely gay post, do not read

>>18071627
>no one from Europe ever goes to the US

>>18071893
Most Europeans drink from sunrise to sunset, it really is a wild thing to see so many people casually drinking wine and brandy and whatnot as soon as they wake up.

>>18071624
I'm gonna coom

Yeah, they don't eat much for breakfast. Usually just some coffee and a pastry or some bread with an egg (I know this contradicts what a few other anons have said but I'm sure it varies by region).

>>18071545
You stayed up all night.

>>18071346
the most popular breakfast pastry in italy is basically a french croissant. Of course there are the good fresh ones and the industrial ones.

>the worst pastries you've ever tasted
lmao, lol even

>>18071939
i mean, why would i?

>>18070441
Would you say that the heat of the coffee cooks the egg?

>>18070441
>scrambled eggs in my coffee
no thanks

>>18070375
Well, if you're eating lunch and dinner out in Italy the same day, you really want to skip on that breakfast, unless you want your stomach to burst at the seams.
We're not known for dishing out meager dishes. In fact, quite the opposite.

An full Italian meal is a challenge to survive.

>>18071627
that's not what my visa says :(

>>18071651
Yes. Raw yolk. Spoonfulls of sugar. Beat that shit. And eat. It's grainy and eggy and good and one of my favourite things when I was a kid. If you add hot coffee or milk while whipping, which will melt the sugar and thicken the yolk ("cooking" it), you can dip biscuits into it. Otherwise, it is very much consumed raw.

>>18072125
But it's made with brioche dough, not puff pastry. At least where I'm from, it is. It's an entirely different thing, similar only in shape.

>>18071627
idiot...

>>18071893
I'm a complete alcoholic and grappa is the only drink I refused to drink more after one gulp. Absolutely vile.

What anglos and germans calls breakfast could be a lunch in Italy. we live in hotter climate so stuffing yourself with fats at the start of the day is impractical. I don't do breakfast but when I do at home is just espresso and maybe two cookies, at the bar is a coffee (espresso or cappuccino if I need more energy) and some sort of croissant, which vary greatly regionally.
also I had an american breakfast in a nice hotel in Rhode Island and itt was great, I still crave for that french bread or whatever you call it. but I had a chocolate chips cookie in some sort of breakfast place and I felt like I was dying from sugar overdose, it was terrible I could actually FEEL my veins for a couple hours. that is how you folks get so fat, I was not used to it

>>18071629
>>18071639
You don't know what half of that shit even is, brainlet. Stop making Americans look bad with your dumbassery. Imagine thinking sunny side up eggs are undercooked, too. I bet you aren't even American.

>>18072582
These are so based but I've never had one with custard in it. It's always just the pastry with some nice syrup or honey on it. With custard I'm sure it'd be the tits

>>18072601
You fucks flood DC in mass every vacation you get.
Not a lot of Italians though. Mostly northern Europeans and germans.

>>18070375
Let me guess, you "need" more?

>>18072893
>claiming something and disproving it in the same post

>>18072893
>in mass
not following this conversation, just letting you know it's 'en masse'

>>18070434
you sound fat, coffee and smokes are enough

>>18073875
post body projector

>>18073943
you first tubby

>>18071893
Not everyday, and when I do it's the shit my Nonno makes, which tastes like shit and is closer to 70%

>>18073846
>What is reading comprehension
Not that anon, he said Euros, not Italians. And as someone who just recently was living in DC, there's a lot of Euro tourists there, especially in the spring and summer.

>pastries for breakfast
will never understand, they're always so shit. I'd rather just have a slice of toast.

>>18070375
Breakfast is a meme created by the US agricultural lobby in the 1950s because they knew people wouldn't need to eat as many calories outside of an agrarian lifestyle

>>18074658
Not really, they built off the existing anglo culture of eating a large meal before the start of the work day

>>18071629
The heat from your rage cooks the eggs

>>18074658
I think you're thinking of steak and eggs. IIRC, that was pushed as the healthiest breakfast in postwar America.

>>18072836
>foreigner nearly killed by American dose of sugar
I think our bodies have adapted to what is otherwise a poisonous amount. Some of ours anyway, the others got the 'beetus.
I think you're talking about french toast by the way, which is incredibly easy to make for yourself and I'd highly recommend it. I like to add a dash of cinnamon and a drop of vanilla extract to the whisked eggs before dunking the bread, also use thick slices for good french toast.

>>18074275
>pastries for breakfast
Not Italian but, aren't donuts pastries?

Breakfast is a meme invented to sell cereal. Unless you’re doing hard farm labor in the morning like people did in the past, you don’t need anything more than a coffee and maybe slice of toast or pastry before noon.

>>18074799
Holy fuck dude, you are dumb as hell.

>>18074812
t. general mills shill

>>18074758
Yes, when you were getting up at 4AM to do physical labor all day the extra carbs were needed. Not so much if you're taking the bus to school or driving to your office job

>>18070375
viral twitter is bleak...

twitter is for enjoying the passing thoughts of aristocratic Hitlerites and the fiery sermons of patriotic communists. it's not for algoslop

>>18070387
>Wake up at noon
>Open shop at 1
>Take lunch at 2
>Back to work at 3
>Clock out at 7
>Dinner at 9
>Bed at 2 am
Repeat

>>18074812
listen to how the normie sputters and seethes when you shatter his beloved idol (breakfast)

you're not supposed to eat so early, faggot!

>>18074904
And the government didn't have to trick people to keep eating like that as the work got easier

>>18070375
good thing I don't give a shit about breakfast then. if i want breakfast foods ill eat them whenever I want.

>>18070375
I don't see why Italian food is so acclaimed.

isn't waking up and pouring a bunch of acidic hot coffee and nothing else into your stomach bad?

>>18072607
The sliminess of the egg fouls the coffee

>>18071651
The heat of the sugar cooks the egg

I learned about this in LOTE (languages other than English, high school Italian). Italians will mostly have a coffee and maybe a biscotti for breakfast, and usually a fairly light dinner too. Apparently lunch is where it's at, apparently they do a whole spread, and it's the origins of the idiom "eyes bigger than one's stomach".

>>18071545
Yeah you're probably in America or some shit right now, ay.

>>18075879
being real here, like 90% of businesses dont even get any customers until after 1pm
almost no point even being open in the morning in most industries
i work in hotels and honestly all I do in the morning is watch netflix, easiest $24/hr of my life

>>18072607
kek, I knew that was coming and still laughed

>>18073839
Maybe a ciggie or toscanello if I want to really relax
There, your life is complete

>>18074904
>>18074799
Blue collar people still exist you fags

i refuse to eat pastries for breakfast. pastries are ok as a dessert when you've already satisfied your need for protein and nutrients. but how can you wake up and want to eat a cooked paste of fat, sugar and flour? as your first fucking meal of the day? how is that a good start? and why is it such a big thing in so many cultures?

>>18074904
Kek I get up at 3:30 am to do a physical job and don't eat until 11am and it isn't shit breakfast food when I do. You people sound fat and hypoglycemic.

>>18070434
>, a slice of cheese,
how hard were you dropped on your head

>>18073839
post your battlestation.

>>18076508
>a biscotti
A. Biscotto. Biscotti is plural. So 'a' wojld be incorrect. And we're speaking English. Just call it a fucking cookie.

>>18076568
seen this meme a few times now, what's the source? The heat of the rice cooks the egg, referring to asians mixing raw egg into steamy rice? why is this even a meme? does the heat of the rice not, in fact, cook the egg??