Do continental Europeans eat food alongside coffee, or is that mostly an American thing?
>>7388655
mostly an American thing. Europeans usually try to stay healthy unlike our plump friends across the pond.
>donuts
Americans pls. Not that I'd mind if you all died earlier but don't you ever think of yourselves and your future?
I wouldn't call it necessarily American. I know people who like to have little cakes and or biscuits with coffee or tea, and plenty of people who don't. I've lived many years in both eastern and western Europe and can say that there's a fairly equal amount of people from both categories.
But now proceed with pol/int banter
>>7388659
Said the American.
Sweet pastries are common as breakfast food in Italy, etc.
>>7388674
Italians are fat too tho.
We don't drink coffee, so no.
As for tea, sometimes we eat things with it. It's surprisingly common in Russia too.
I enjoy a little semen on the side
>>7388655
>Caffeine and chocolate for breakfast
Murrica.
>>7388676
Yeah they also happen to make the best food in Europe.
It's easy to stay skinny on culinary shitholes such as scandi and northern europe.
>>7388676
Italians are some of the skinniest people in europe. "Italian" americans are another story
I dunk my biscuits in my tea, I'm also kinda weird because I leave the teabag in while I drink it. I don't really drink coffee unless that's all there is and I take it black.
>>7388678
>We don't drink coffee
Huh, I always thought it was drunk all around the globe.
Austria - traditional coffee houses sell many types of torte or scone to be paired with the coffee.
Old thinking was that having coffee without food was poor for good digestion.
Austrian Einspaenner is BEST coffee.
>>7388705
>culinary shitholes such as scandi and northern europe
I quite enjoy my fermented fish, thank you.
Here in Germany we often eat to coffee plunder or cake. My favorite's to coffee are Franzbrötchen and Pfannkuchen ( some call it Berliner oder Krapfen ).
>>7388655
Most Americans I know skip breakfast and just have coffee until lunch. But then, I work with a bunch of spastic coders. maybe we're a different breed.
>>7388790
No, I'd say that's pretty common. I work in a lab at a university and it seems like it's mostly the Chinese and Indians that actually eat breakfast. Everyone else tends to just have coffee and *maybe* a bagel or doughnut on the rare occasion someone brings a box in.
>>7388655
everyone does, just different things
in some countries they eat pastries, in some countries they eat cookies, in some countries they eat cakes
donuts are simply not as common as other things
>sweet food goes well with a bitter drink
You think the rest of the world has no tastebuds?
>>7388790
>But then, I work with a bunch of spastic coders. maybe we're a different breed.
Almost definitely. I mean, I just drink coffee till lunch, too, but I work IT help desk.
>>7388655
Yes they do it in Europe, for breakfast. Anyone saying that Europeans don't eat fattening pastries and shit is 100% wrong. I live in Spain now and they eat crossiants with chocolate for breakfast (and for merienda), chocolate with churros or other pastries (shit is dank), gigantic pastries stuffed with cream, or cookies, all of which they dunk in coffee, tea, or chocolate. In fact in Spain it's Lent now and there's tons of specialty pastries like pestinos, torrijas, various roscas and rosquillas, and etc.
I honestly don't know how everyone and myself stay thin, I guess it's because you walk everywhere and eat a tiny dinner, but don't let the "Euros only eat healthy food" meme fool you. They just don't do it EVERY single day and eat more moderately
>Pic related, common pastry where I live
>>7388841
What a waste of beautiful crema
>>7388717
They are lying and you'd have to be ignorant of a large section of human history to believe him
>Donuts
>Not my daily pumpkin pie square
Quite savage desu
>>7388655
we have something called "Kaffee und Kuchen" in the afternoons, usually once per week
>>7388655
In America you have to say "food alongside coffee"
In Sweden they actually have a word for it: fika
>>7388674
Yeah but you omitted a few considerations my friend, Italians will surely have a nice cornetto alongside their cappuccino (less than a cup of coffe and milk) but we're talking about ONE item that probably has 1/3rd of the kcals of a donut, occasionally on their walk to go have breakfast at the bar; you Americans will go with your 6pack of donuts with alongside half a liter of coffee, ordered from a drive-in fast food.
>Must know the difference
>>7389237
I would love to know where you get your idea of the average american. Donuts are pretty rare for most people. They tend to be something someone picks up to share at the office once in awhile. We do drink a shitload of coffee though. Not everyone can devote 4 hours a day to breaks and meals.
>>7389237
Coffee, just coffee, is probably the most common breakfast in the US for anyone that isn't a child.
Donuts and shit like that are rarer than you think.
Eh. Sometimes when I have a pastry with my coffee, it cuts some of the sweetness out of it, and the coffe tastes a little too bitter.
>>7389626
I guess from your crappy b-tier films, and since i saw your crappy families go eat stacks pancakes accompanied by eggs and bacon.
>>7389237
you know what 1/3 kcal of a donut is? ~80 cals.
fuck tard
>>7388750
me2, I'm a Southerner hill billy and i primary eat a Nordic diet because i live on the cost and it makes me feel special
>>7389164
this is why i don't trust you
>>7388701
Helped us put a man on the moon.
>>7389781
Translation: I have no clue
>>7389781
>stacks pancakes accompanied by eggs and bacon.
Why does this trigger Euro-peons so much?
>>7390060
you put a man on the moon
and now most of your men are the size of the moon
>>7390018
Exactly
>>7390085
They either can't afford it or sharia forbids it.
>>7390085
Because its disgusting like your like of culinary culture, or better put, your immense ability to produce disgusting things.
>>7390094
I wager you met with a room full of non Americans in order to come up with that.
>>7388655
We do but it doesn't tend to be that sort of huge greasy doughnut. Usually a wafer of sorts, or light sandwich.
>>7388655
I'm Finnish and I drink coffee with proper meals.
>>7388764
Pfannkuchen are pancakes and not Berliner/Krapfen are dougnuts mate. No one calls Pfannkuchen Berliner..
Australian here.
It is common to drink black coffee with breakfast. If people meet at a cafe they will often buy a flat white and sometimes pair it with a muffin or croissant (but never a fucking donut)
>>7389781
stop watching crappy b-tier films anon
I will never understand why Europeans act like all American movies are michael bay mindless violence, yet all you people seem to watch is michael bay mindless violence
>>7390585
They endeavor to believe nonsense like a trip to Detroit will be like a Rambo movie.
>>7390331
>coffee with breakfast
>coffee at coffee break
>coffee with lunch
>coffee at second coffee break
>coffee with dinner
every day
#justfinnishthings
>>7390585
Fun fact, a muffin can have up to 800 calories while a donut typically has 250-400. A croissant isn't exactly low-calorie either, typically having 300-400. The donut is the healthiest of the three. Nice false sense of superiority, europoor.
>>7390121
Please explain how pancakes, eggs, and bacon are disgusting.
>>7390662
>Finnish people drink 8 cups a day
What the fuck man
>>7390685
>Nice false sense of superiority, europoor
lern2read
I wasn't talking about the calorie count though. Adults don't eat fucking donuts in normal countries because of the ghastly sweetness of them; though I guess I am trying to explain this to someone from a country where it's normal to eat cereal with fucking marshmellows in it
>>7390702
>implying adults in the US eat either of those things for breakfast
I like a good coffee or black tea alongside a bread and cheese breakfast (or similar). My parents used to drink coffee for breakfast too.
I don't drink when eating other food for breakfast, like ceral, it doesn't mix well in my opinion.
For lunch I almost never drink anything, mostly I drink coffee/water afterwards. My colleages at work don't drink anything while eating lunch either.
It really depends. Coffee and bread or cake or biscuits works most of the time.
Ausfag here, all our cafes sell cakes and pastries etc too. Mostly I only see middle-aged ladies buying them while they yak to their friends for hours in the coffe shop, people getting takeaway tend to just take their coffee and go. I sometimes get a sweet pastry with my coffee in the morning but most of them are too rich for me.
>>7390702
A guy I know apparently drinks 15+ cups of coffee on days when he's doing the books for his business. Dunno how his liver still works
>>7390720
Germany btw.
>>7390712
Then what are you eating?
>>7390726
>Dunno how his liver still works
I've got a friend who is a cyclist so he's a big guy. He would drink at least the equivalent of 10 espresso shots on a normal day.
He literally:
>wakes up at 3am
>has a coffee
>rides in one direction for an hour
>has a coffee
>Rides home
>comes to uni, gets a coffee
>Then one coffee for every 2 hours after
>>7390750
That's fucking disgusting, i bet he's not healthy at all
>>7390758
He's like 6'5 and has the quads of a t-rex and the chest of a pigeon. I'm honestly worried he's going to have a heart attack some time soon
>>7388705
I do agree that too many swedes have no idea how to cook food and that Italy probaly has the most interesting food culture in Europe.
But i think you actually would appriciate game and oven baked root fruits.
>>7390702
No one eats lucky charms for breakfast over the age of 12. And no one eats a fucking donut for breakfast unless it was cheat day or there were some at work.
Seriously, don't you have an arab dick to go be raped by? You faggots sure spend a lot of time thinking about America and how much better we are than you.
>hurr durr donuts unhealthy we better than u
>durr backtracking i didn't mean calories, it's not like calories make you fat
Most people in the US skip breakfast entirely, or have eggs and toast if they do eat it. Seriously, you know nothing of us, you stupid piece of eurotrash. My state has a bigger economy than your entire country.
>>7390776
>hurr durr donuts unhealthy we better than u
please point to where that was said
>eurotrash
again
>>7390776
>i didn't mean calories, it's not like calories make you fat
>Americans can't into nutrition
>>7388869
pleb alert
>>7390702
Finnish and norwegian coffee is usually weaker roast and brew than swedish, but the coffee quality is often good in all countries compared to the rest of the world.
Coffee is however essential to live through the winter and we just keep up our addictions during the summer.
"Swedish coffee is so stong it would kill a small animal" - Big Steve
>>7390799
>point
>your head
>what is sarcasm
Baguette here.
The 3 most common moments to have a coffee :
>An espresso after a meal
>At work at the shitty coffee machine
>For breakfast
Out of the 3, only the breakfast one usually calls for something to eat besides it unless you are the "cigarette + coffee for breakfast" kind of person.
ITT, salty Americans with a little Butthurt syrup drizzled on top
>>7388717
Countries usually have a tea culture or a coffee culture, depending on a large amount of geopolitics and interesting history but normally just which reached them first.
USA, Canada, Germany, France and Italy have pretty big coffee cultures, whereas the UK, Ireland, Russia, and Morocco have tea cultures. Both drinks are widely consumed in all these countries, though.
I might get a donut with my coffee once a week or once every two weeks. Been trying to cut out those pointless calories though so I'm going on 3 weeks here. I miss my nice Asian donut man
>>7388655
Sweden here, we traditionally have cinnamon buns and other "coffee breads" (kaffebröd) with our coffee. Older people might just have a danish cookie or two.
>>7392520
>having a Danish in sweden
>>7392525
We don't call them Danish though, just American name for it.
>>7388764
pfannkuchen=berliner
dummkopf
>>7392525
>Eating Gravy on a Turkey in Turkey
>>7392452
>USA
>culture
Pick one
>>7390845
Finland here.
Coffee strenght varies greatly, my dad makes dish water but grandad makes flightpetrol.
Spoon per cup is pretty standard and the most popular coffee is lightly roasted.
>>7388700
frenchman detected
switzerland here
many do not eat anything with their coffee here. orobably the reason we had 10.3% in 2008 as we drink coffee all the time.
interesting that the usa didn't show up on the cups chart. probably enjoying soda instead.
>>7388659
Everyone that can afford to occasionally eats confectionaies.
The difference is some cultures have a concept of balanced diet and more generally balanced life while others are consumerist and prefer strict fad diets punctuated by binging.
pic related
Id follow a strict fad diet of tsukasa if i could.
>>7388659
Donuts are good for a breakfast food
It has sugar for a quick burst of energy, and carbs to sustain you through to lunch
But you're an idiot and wouldn't think of that.
I drink brandy next to my coffee to be sincere famalam
>>7390702
How do the Brits drink more coffee than the Italians?
>>7393124
>orobably the reason we had 10.3% in 2008
perhaps next time you get drunk and post on 4chan you should consider peoples curiosity. now im gonna switch the tab or play a movie and never see your reply asking what the fuck you actually had 10.3 percent of. dick
>>7390726
coffee is good for the liver.
>>7388860
Spain is kind of an outlier when it comes to diet. You guys eat more shitty food than anyone who else apart from maybe us in Britain.
You are man-tit central
>>7393533
>>7388655
Having a croissant/pain au chocolat/mattentaartje alongside a coffee for breakfast is also very common in Belgium.
Donuts are pretty American though. I like to dunk my donut in my coffee like Joe DiMaggio
>>7393482
Italians have culture. Same reason everyone eats more pasta and drinks more wine than they
>>7393482
Italy uses tiny 4oz cups
>>7393569
yes, for espresso.
>>7393573
Yes, which is measurably a lesser amount of coffee.
>>7392581
Having no culture is in fact a form of culture.
>>7392581
Not recognizing a nation's culture just means they've successfully disseminated it globally. Claiming the U.S. has no culture either means admitting that your own culture has been massively influenced by it or that you're an American with an inability to look at your own country objectively.
That said, it's a shitty culture, but it's there.
>>7388817
Machinist here and my schedule is; non-stop sipping of (weak) coffee all day long from 5:00am until quitting time, (3:30-4:30pm) with “lunch” at 9:00am off the roach coach, (in fact pretty good cafeteria food) then dinner at 6:00pm or so, followed by a bit of snacking here and there in the evening, going to bed around 11:00pm.
>>7390735
>Then what are you eating?
Like lower American life expectancy rates and higher murder rates, our numbers are skewed by substantial numbers of Blacks and Mexicans, who tend to be fatter (while dying sooner and being more prone to commit murders) then Whites.
>>7394263
The pie chart has to be wrong
>>7388655
canafag
i drink coffee with meals, or alone. never with sweet food. i find eating sweet food with coffee makes it taste bland
>>7394287
No, that's accurate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States
Canada on the other hand, has lots more Asians and they tend to live a lot longer and commit far fewer crimes, skewing their rates in the other direction.
ITT: Unnecessary hostility
Ignorance should not beget arrogance.
Yes. Every morning I get myself a cup of coffe alongside piece of bread with a slice of goat cheese slapped on top.
Norway.
>>7392581
Only culture in the world with its own name, I believe.
>Not having a glorious fika with some non-glazed cardamom spiced cinnamon rolls
Can you still remember
When little things made you happy?
And can you still remember
When simple things made you smile?
>>7394424
Shut up Hippe
>>7394440
Thats groce hanz
>>7394440
>Goats cheese for breakfast
>>7390776
So why are your obesity and beetus rates through the roof? Fat piece of shit, I was in Dallas last year and while I dont mind Americans in general as a people the food-related gluttony I saw was off the rails.
>>7390095
You're literally retarded if you think a cornetto is 80 calories. Or any form of pastry.
>>7393836
This is almost true.
>>7395815
Averaging with your lifestyle it just as might be.
Enjoy your 5 min drive to your crap-food drive-in.
>>7390702
>5 cups in Denmark
I get extreme jitters after two and feel very sick. I just can't increase my treshhold.
>>7388655
I have French family and their breakfast is usually bread, cheese, pastry with butter and jam and coffee. Sometimes eggs or fruit too
>>7390776
Why is it that every time you americans answer to even the slightest critique of your country you go all: FUCKING EUROPOORS! SUCK MUSLIM DICK YOU KEKS! USA! USA! USA!
>>7390776
>My state has a bigger economy than your entire country.
oh my
>>7393541
Mattentaartjes aren't common breakfast food at all.
netherlands
>>7394548
>attends celebration
>WHY IS EVERYONE EATING LARGE AMOUNTS OF FOOD?
Reminder that Alabama has a higher economic worth than England.
>Kaya toast and coffee
Malaysian breakfast feels
Is this a genuinely naive question, or are Americans just this thick?
Coffee and croissant is the norm in France, if not most of continental Europe.
>>7396142
>Coffee and croissant is the norm in France, if not most of continental Europe.
It's because americans they invented everything, just because they bastardized european traditions.
>>7396173
*think they
>>7396142
>Coffee and croissant is the norm in France
Every croissant I've ever had has pretty much tasted like butter so now I'm wondering if this what inspired the bulletproof coffee, which is butter in coffee.
I don't know where the bulletproof thing came from but I wouldn't be surprised if was another American bastardization of a french tradition. >>7396173
>falling for the caffeinated jew
>>7396017
Not much different from how we make fun of americans, calling them fat patriotic mexicans.
>>7390182
at least you can get more than one european into a room.
>>7396007
What a bitch
>>7396142
>implying it's somehow "thick" or naive not to know how countries on the other side of the world eat breakfast
u serious m8
>>7388655
I'll drink coffee with just about god damn anything. Lunch, dinner, etc. Then again, my eating habits are a bit... sloppy. Being a student has a big influence on it. Finland consumes the most coffee per capita in the world. You go to a friend's house for any reason at all and you expect to get coffee. Used to be common for almost any occasion.
