Oh yes the famous nation of Europe. An entire continent full of nations and different cultures been rendered down to the stereotypes of the occupants of a single city.
Americans need to get out more.
Seriously, what country is this even applicable to? Russia?
France
Still, or 90s France?
Damn struck a nerve huh
I’m not from Europe. But I agree with them. A dumb meme is a dumb meme
And what community did you think you were in again?
imagine if someone is complaining about Americans, and interchangeably refering to Canadians/mexicans/Argentinians…
You damn Americans, always saying sorry with your mate thermos, carnival music mariachis…
If they did it in a meme they posted in a community with shitpost in the name I can’t say I would pay it much mind or take any personal offense to it, no. That seems to be a uniquely European thing
Fuck heads already do because they say “America refers to all of Americas, not The United States.”
But also, as a Californian I apologize a lot and listen to mariachi music. You know that states can be culturally as different as nations, right?
Thanks for clearly stating why the world makes fun of American stupidity
You know that states can be culturally as different as nations, right?
no. they are not, and you only say that, because you have no idea how different cultures can be. California and NY are still American, speak English, eat similar food, do similar sports… whatever difference between California and NY is nothing compared Spain and France.
Yeah let’s all just ignore the utter ignorance that this image demonstrates.
It’s in a community with shitpost in the name I don’t think you’re supposed to take it seriously bud
… Did you forget the /s?
No, actually. I think it would unironically be better to get all your calories and nutrition from bread, cheese, and sausage than to have a diet consisting of any variety of high-sugar, ultra-processed food.
Also breakfast is completely optional and its promotion as “the most important meal of the day” is a scam to sell more cereal, milk, and eggs. I will die on that hill.
My hill to die on is that breakfast is the only meal that you can work the calories off all day. Eat what you want for breakfast but have a lighter lunch and even lighter evening meal.
Well technically you’re burning the same number of calories regardless of the time of day they were consumed, and two meals per day is a lot easier to keep at 2000 calories (as a rule of thumb - different for everybody) than three meals per day.
Personally I like to keep the digestive process dormant for as long as possible. Eating breakfast makes me hungrier throughout the day, so I end up snacking more than I otherwise would. I’ve never been a breakfast eater though so I’m pretty well wired not to break fast until lunch.
Edit: also heavy foods require rest and digestion that I do not have time for most mornings
Also breakfast is completely optional
Yes for some, no for others? When I was a kid I hated having breakfast. My stomach would feel weird if I ate within the first two or three hours of being awake. But now, I need something. Nothing heavy. Some toast and peanut butter is good enough. If not, I get sick to my stomach. I would assume I’m not the only one who is like this.
aha, hence why I said optional. If you want/need it, have it. If you don’t want or need it, it doesn’t actually harm you in any universally applicable way to just wait until lunch.
Valid point. touché
This is the Parisian breakfast. Nothing compared to the Lyonnais breakfast
Well I’m definitely going to need a a Parisian breakfast after having all of that
Damn I want to go to Lyon now
Oooh le saucisson aux pistaches dans la broche. Gourmand !
Fou de fafa
Cheese is a snack food/dessert as far as I know. Hence, doubt (x)
Beaujolais ? Closer to Lyon… 😁
Surely they don’t eat that much cheese as part of their breakfast
You’re right, they don’t.
The other two cheese platters are out of shot.
This picture HAS to be AI. The cheese wheels are getting progressively smaller. 2 cups of wine. The sauce bowl is barely bigger than a grape ñ. That purple sausage? in the middle looks like a turd. The pickles in the edge are even smaller than the grapes. Sausage baked into pound cake for breakfast seems odd.
The cheese wheels are getting progressively smaller
Different cheeses are different sizes. I’m no cheese master but I think it’s a comté, a brie, and a Camembert in order of size.
2 cups of wine
Two glasses for two people? You share a cheese plate. We aren’t selfish fat idiots in Europe.
The sauce bowl is barely bigger than a grape
What do you mean, its almost the size of all the grapes together? We don’t drown all our food in gallons of sauce like mad men. The food itself actually has taste opposed to whatever McD serves for breakfast.
That purple sausage
Look up a Saucisse Sèche d’Auvergne. They do look like that.
The pickles in the edge are even smaller than the grapes.
It’s cornichons. They are that small.
Sausage baked into pound cake for breakfast seems odd
It’s bread. Not cake. Bread and sausage is extremely common together. I’m not French and haven’t seen this variation but in and of itself this would be a stupid indicator of AI.
Reverse image search shows it 3 years ago. Not AI.
Independent of whether this is AI or not, this is how such plates look like. It’s sad if that is so far out of someone’s reality they have to call the AI card.
No offense. I’m sending this from a place where a meal like this would unfortunately cost me at least 5 of my kidneys 🥹
As a Scottish lass, I’m going to shut my fucking mouth.
Don’t worry, Americans are still up a hill trying to find a wild haggis.
They’re slippery wee cunts. The trick is to chase them anticlockwise round the hill so their short leg is on the downhill side. Then they fall over when they try to run.
Joke’s on them, haggis is illegal in the US
Don’t compare all of Europe to France! The French love their despresso, that’s on them.
They clearly have not been to a Swedish breakfast buffet.
On the “Europeans” side that’s at least 2 decades out of date.
The expresso coffee part is still true in a good part of Europe, but pretty much everywhere in it nowadays only a small fraction of people smoke and even those who do can’t actually do it inside a coffee shop because they’re not allowed to smoke there anymore, which spoils a great deal of the enjoyment of having a morning coffee.
I live in Germany and work with Turks, Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians, a Greek and a Slovenian. This meme is accurate for all of us. Weekends are a different story of course but in my experience this is indeed the true business day continental breakfast.
Is it? I was just in London a couple months ago, the amount of people smoking and vaping there was honestly shocking.
I grew up in the 1980s and trust me it’s a microscopic fraction of what it used to be. You used to be able to cut blocks out of the air. If you sat at the back of a cinema you would be lucky if you were able to see the screen through all the haze. That’s all gone now.
As a fraction of the total it’s still a small percentage, unless things changed a lot in the 5 years since I moved out of there.
Yes, but not in the balkans. Went to Bosnia and was served an espresso and a cigarette as an addition to breakfast. It was even on the menu. I should mention that i only asked for a coffee.
It was a culture shock that you can smoke indoors there, especially since I hate smoking.
Wonder what’s so good about coffee and cigarettes combo
Former smoker here. The flavor combo is amazing, and both act as stimulants, and I could get my fix for both addictions in one go.
that hippie speedball is beautiful when done right too
I had never heard this term but that’s dope
I haven’t smoked in 8 years- and every morning when I have my coffee I STILL think, “fuck, a cigarette would elevate this whole experience just right.”
Don’t start. Bad idea.
If you’re a pooping-challenged individual, it really helps knock that out whenever. And that always puts a smile on anyone’s face
Probably the same as sex and cigarettes.
Or alcohol and cigarettes.
Double the high.
Former smoker — don’t try it, but trust that it’s awesome.
It’s a culture that doesn’t eat any damn vegetables, so they need weapons-grade stimulants to get anything out in the morning.
While we’re shitting on breakfast culture in Europe I think that Italians have the worst. They have messed up daily rhythm (siesta and then dinner late in the evening)… Actually no, that’s not an excuse. They have garbage breakfast culture, period.
Literally everyone else’s breakfasts are awesome.
please explain in detail these awful italian breakfasts because like greek food i have yet to find a dish in the culture i dislike
The interwebs seem to have a consensus of cappuccino and a sweet pastry
Scrambled eggs or pancakes are the limit of the imagination I’ve seen from Italian restaurants. But most places have pastry or some variation of a sandwich that’s going to be mostly bread.
Stayed in Rome and Florence for a week. The only breakfast stuff we found were indeed either sweet pastries or biscuits, accompanied by fruit and cheese.
How many Italian breakfast dishes you see around 😄?
i only buy sandwiches, coffee and passata at the the italian deli/cafe in town. they bake the best foccacia
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Siesta is NOT Italian
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what do you mean “garbage breakfast”? Tell me what do you think most of Italians eat at breakfast
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Dinner late in the evening is not on the entire penisula
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Siesta is barely a thing in Italy any more unless you’re like 70+ and rural lol. But a brioche stuffed with ice-cream is the king of breakfasts what are you on about
Granted, I know Italy only from a tourist perspective.
Every damn restaurant closes in the summer in the middle of the day. So do many shops.
Italy rarely have breakfast restaurants - or at least what I’d consider a breakfast restaurant. Some variations of a premade ready to go sandwich ain’t it. And the good places ain’t open in the morning, but rather during brunch hours and serve brunch/lunch more than breakfast.
brioche stuffed with ice-cream
I know you’re joking. You’re kidding, right? :)
Sicilian ice cream sandwiches are a real thing and they are basically the best thing that’s ever happened to breakfast cuisine
Unfortunately, the one on the right may be more healthy
Smoking cigarettes is the number one cause of heart disease and cancer globally. If you smoke, quitting is the biggest thing you can do to improve your health
Nah, obesity and high blood pressure are the top causes of heart disease, but smoking is also a major risk factor. Bad food and cigarettes are awful for you. Just drink a coffee and pursue an affair like a good Frenchman.
Take out the cig and it definitely is
Cafestol is the main contributor of cardiovascular disease due to coffee (hugely increases cholesterol). Get filtered coffee, or even better, black/mate tea, Matcha/green tea, Guarana or Guyausa (most of which have the reverse effect on cholesterol btw).
I like how different people have said each different item is the main cause of heart disease
main cause of heart disease is having a heart
Yeah, such a terrible thing. Let’s remove it! :D
Don’t mind the Aztec decorations in my clinic. :D
oh i see we’ve met before
Now can we stop being so mean to those poor heartless megacorp voting shareholders?
rare we talking
or
edit: also, no.
Joke’s on you guys because reading my comments is the main cause of heart disease gottem
Straight up didn’t know this, but I don’t and have never drank coffee and am the only man in my family without cholesterol issues.
Yeah, genetically predisposed here, will likely die of a stroke sometime. Though green (and other) tea, Guarana and Guyausa have lots of cholesterine reducers.
Do you have a source on that?
Sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafestol
And some of the ingredients in the alternatives (some of them in coffee too).
So it sounds like cafestol is the most potent cholesterol synthesis agonists, but that it is in such small amounts in the beans that using a paper filter essentially eliminates it entirely. Even without a paper filter, its low enough that the studies show that you would need to drink more than 4 cups a day of unfiltered coffee for it to start having any sort of impact.
Ok, fair point.
metal filter work too?
Much less effective from an (admittedly brief) look around. The finer filtration you get with paper apparently helps filter it out, but it’s such a small amount that even if you were just chewing beans it doesn’t appear to matter.
oh yeah those neuroprotective issues are more important to me than the cardiovascular ones. YMWV
Lived in Europe my whole life and never seen anyone pair coffee and cigarettes as part of their breakfast
What part of europe are you from my friend?!?
Vatican City
Well i hardly expect the pope to be a smoker
I know it as Greek Breakfast.
It can be enjoyed anywhere or any time, but it’s best served on a balcony in underwear. Greece happens to be a good place to get it in the morning all year round.
we call it the Parisian if it includes healthy amounts of hatred (Parisian Lite without the hatred)
When I smoked coffee and cigarettes were one of the best combos.
How in the hell do you smoke coffee? Please, tell us your secrets!
I smoked coffee on a field trip to Quebec in the 8th grade. I somehow was able to buy a bowl, and we had nothing to smoke so put coffee in it and put it up in our hotel room. Set off smoke detector. Broke the coffee pot. It was a real mess.
The eighth grade French classes no longer take field trips to Quebec. This was only a small reason why. Co-ed 13 and 14-year-olds on six hour bus rides, two nights in hotels essentially unsupervised. This was the 2000-2001 school year. What a time to be alive.
you can smoke liquids in a cold smoker
Unfortunate missing comma…
In my experience that very much depends on the part of Europe you’re in: the “expresso in the morning” thing is mostly common in Southern Europe and France and back in the day when smoking was much more common and was actually allowed indoors in public venues, people having a ciggy and a morning coffee at a cafe was a pretty common sight.
Places in Europe without the whole tradition of coffee places serving expressos never really had this kind of “breakfast”.
Coffee and sweet pastry, or just coffee is something I commonly saw in Italy (and only Italy)
Then you have clearly done something wrong, just this morning as I stepped out the train at 5 there was a guy with blue collar clothes, cigarette + energy drink. Fast forward one hour and saw a construction worker with a large coffee, cigarette and croissant. This was in rural Switzerland, but I think its even more common in the cities.
Not sure it’s wrong to be surrounded by healthy people. Maybe it’s just older generations doing that
That’s because you didn’t go to a european high school
I did
Oh…
This is also the reason why Metamucil doesn’t sell in Europe. Seriously: just looking at the left picture gives me constipation.
(I understand that the pic is a joke, but anyone who has a coffee and a fag after breakfast can attest to their wonderful laxative powers.)
C’mon, your version of that is literally fentanyl
Fuck, that one on the right looks so good, but only missing a croissant.
I’ve seen european overweight statistics. It’s both of these combined.
Europe consists of extreamly different countries… Breakfast in Sweden is completely different from breakfast in Italy.
So not sure about what any european stats actually mean… Also tons of immigration from the middle east where people are not slim.
Europe is fat because of immigrants? LOL
Italy is the thinnest or one of the thinnest (depending on the year and the specific study) countries in Europe and it’s still too fat and getting fatter.
I asked chat gpt about this since my own experience is definently that immigrants (from middle east) are usually not slim.
Here is a what it said:
Yes — there is credible evidence that immigration has been associated with changes in obesity levels in Europe (and other high-income regions) over the past ~20 years, though causality is complex and effects vary by group. Here is a breakdown of what the research shows, the mechanisms, and important caveats.
✅ What the evidence shows
A systematic review on migrants found: “migrants may arrive in new countries with a health advantage … but unhealthy weight gain in migrant populations may lead to similar or greater obesity risk compared with native populations 10-15 years after migration.”
In Norwegian Institute of Public Health data: children (~8 years) with an immigrant background in Norway had higher prevalence of overweight/obesity than children with no immigrant background.
A meta-analysis found among immigrants/refugees: overweight prevalence ~37%, obesity ~23% across studies.
A study of pre-pregnancy obesity in immigrant vs non-immigrant women in Norway found that obesity increased in both groups over time; immigrant status did not protect against the upward trend.
A study of immigrant adolescents in Spain found that prevalence of overweight + obesity among Latin-American immigrants was higher than that of Eastern-European immigrant adolescents; and higher than the native Spanish adolescents in one sample.
🔍 Mechanisms and contributing factors
Several plausible mechanisms by which immigration could influence obesity trends:
Acculturation / lifestyle change: Migrants from countries with lower obesity prevalence may adopt host-country dietary patterns (often higher in processed food, sugar, fat) and sedentary behaviours over time.
Socio-economic position (SEP): Many immigrant populations face lower SEP, which correlates with higher obesity risk in many high-income countries. However, in the Norwegian children study parental education (a SEP proxy) did not fully explain the higher obesity prevalence among immigrant background children.
Pre-migration exposure + selection: Some migrants come from countries with rising obesity rates; previous exposures may carry risk. The migration “selection” effect (healthier people migrating) may diminish over time.
Time since migration: The evidence suggests obesity risk rises with length of residency in the host country.
Cultural, environmental, built-environment factors: Access to healthy food, physical activity environments, language/cultural barriers in health promotion can affect immigrant populations disproportionately.
⚠️ Important caveats & limitations
The research often focuses on immigrant groups specifically, not purely on the national obesity rate aggregated across all residents. So linking immigration → national obesity rate rise requires caution (there are many confounders).
Longitudinal, causally-attributed studies are fewer. Many are cross-sectional (immigrant vs non-immigrant at one time).
Variation across origin country, host country, generation (first vs second), gender, age-group is large. Immigrants from some regions show higher risk than others.
The effect size attributable to immigration, compared to other drivers (e.g., general diet change, sedentary lifestyle, macro socioeconomic trends) is unclear. For example, the study of France/Spain found that most of the difference in overweight between immigrants and natives was due to “coefficients” (i.e., unobserved factors) rather than observable characteristics.
Data for the 20-year span in some places is limited.
📋 Summary statement
Immigration into European/high-income countries is associated with higher obesity risk in immigrant sub-populations and may contribute to national obesity trends — especially via lifestyle change, socio-economic disadvantage, and acculturation effects. But immigration is one of many interacting factors; it is not the sole or dominant driver of the obesity rise in Europe.
If you like, I can check quantitatively how much of the obesity rise in specific European countries can be statistically attributed to immigration (versus other factors).
ChatGPT is a shit source.
Not really.
I routinely see north Africans in my local Lidl buying half a cart of flour packets.
Your diet being mainly refined carbs is not exactly good for being fit.
There aren’t nearly enough MENA or sub-saharan african immigrants to explain Europe’s surging overweight- and obesity-rates. And IDK what kinds of people you are seeing, most MENA people I see here in Germany are thinner than the average German.
You and me both. Certain areas and shops feel like middle east over here. :) But the Lemmy audience doesnt like those opinions. Its the truth though.
Right. And Alabama and Massachusetts are basically the same place.
It’s amazing to me how folks group states together.
Alabama and Massachusetts are definitely a lot closer culturally than Sweden and Italy
Berlin breakfast: Kaffee, Kippe, Koks
Bochum breakfast: Kaffee, Kippe, Korn
The holy trio
In the US we label breakfasts by the grits/no grits line.
Half the country doesn’t even know what grits is
instant grits?
The Mason Dixon line?
Maybe, though you don’t really see grits everywhere in Maryland.
FAKE NEWS! The cigarette packs are now all black.
Otherwise spot on.
And it should be a pack of gitanes.
