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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by niftich on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @01:26AM (#12076912)
I grew up in central Europe and we traditionally ate open-faced sandwiches of artisan bread or bread rolls. You'd top it with some margarine or cream cheese, salami and cold-cuts, thin-sliced cucumbers or radishes, or serve fresh bell peppers on the side. In the US, Subway's deli sandwiches come close, albeit I've found them much heavier, in both the amount of bread, and the sheer quantity of meat.

I too wish that more fast food restaurants served lunch alongside breakfast, instead of exclusively breakfast in the mornings.

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by eru on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:55AM (#12077228)
Traditionally, you top it with butter, not margarine.

Turkish and German breakfasts are pretty awesome. (See http://theheureka.com/how-to-be-german-part-1 for an outsiders comment on German breakfast.)

French breakfast is: typically a black coffee and a cigarette. (Add a croissant, if you want to pig out.)

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by cel1ne on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:57AM (#12077447)
Viennese breakfast: 1 bread with butter, 1 egg, 1 orange juice + 1 coffee.
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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by sevensor on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @08:57AM (#12078601)
Breakfast of champions.
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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by bobwaycott on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:53AM (#12077225)
This reminds me of Paris. I'd drink at the local bar until the sun was rising, and have a croque-monsieur before walking back to the apartment for a brief sleep.
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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by bbcbasic on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:25AM (#12077341)
Now THAT sounds like the life!
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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @12:24PM (#12080343)
> I too wish that more fast food restaurants served lunch alongside breakfast,

Most fast food restaurants serve their normal lunch/dinner menu all day, with restricted breakfast hours. Some also have breakfast all day, but this is notable. (Some don't even have a breakfast menu at all.)

The restaurants that have all day breakfast but not all-day lunch/dinner menus tend to be (usually, chain) sit-down restaurants, not fast food (or even fast-casual) restaurants.

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by niftich on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @12:48PM (#12080540)
McDonald's does not serve lunch before 11 or 10:30. The rationale used to be that eggs and burgers need different temps on their grill, but now that they serve all-day breakfast I'm not sure what they do. Regardless, mornings are still breakfast-only.

Burger King does actually serve lunch at all hours.

Wendy's doesn't open until 10, and doesn't have a breakfast menu.

Taco Bell does has a separate breakfast menu. Most of their stores now open at 7, and they start serving lunch items at 9. They stop serving breakfast between 9 and 10.

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by douche on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @01:29AM (#12076923)
I wish there were places in the States that made those little sandwiches. Was in Berlin recently, and every corner bakery makes them. Delicious, and super cheap.
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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by trentmb on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:10AM (#12077054)
> I wish there were places in the States that made those little sandwiches.

Your home? I've found that they can make whatever I want...

EDIT: This wasn't a cuckold joke- just a remark that you can to a large degree command your diet

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by Dutchie on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @06:46AM (#12078010)
Non-native speaker here. Why could this be understood as a cuckold joke? (My dictionary says this about cuckold: "The husband of an adulteress, often regarded as an object of derision.")
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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by gjm11 on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @09:20AM (#12078720)
Because "Your home? I've found that they can make whatever I want..." suggests that _qhtn is in the habit of getting breakfast at douche's home (and can get "anything I want"!), and that douche doesn't know this.
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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by douche on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:27AM (#12077112)
Haha, I doubt you're giving me horns

Of course when you make it yourself you can do whatever you like (although you lose the economies of scale).

Trying to get something on the go in this area pretty much means you're reduced to Dunkin Donuts, Mickey D's, or whatever paltry offerings the gas station Quik-e-mart carries, though.

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by trentmb on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @03:16AM (#12077308)
> Haha, I doubt you're giving me horns

Sorry- a bit sauced. I wasn't!

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by jonah on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:15AM (#12077065)
You can get Bánh mì in many places in the US which sound similar.
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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by tluyben2 on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @05:01AM (#12077662)
Interesting; that does look like a certain type of sandwich popular in the EU. Where does the name come from?

I'd personally be looking for something like this;

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5vJPM91yqH4/UYzAqHKG0GI/AAAAAAAACM...

and that's not that easy to find abroad. Bad cheese or bad bread but usually both unfortunately.

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by jonah on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @05:06AM (#12077688)
It's Vietnamese.

For what you pictured, just buy some nice cheese and bread and make them and stuff them in a ziploc bag or tupperware.

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by eru on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @08:28AM (#12078452)
That bread looks a bit too soft to satisfy a true Central European.

Schnitzelbrötchen is also good.

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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by jeroen on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @05:42AM (#12085012)
Yes, it's Dutch bread, which is much softer than German bread.
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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by Cerium on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @02:20AM (#12077089)
Bagel shops? You will have to choose a shop that cooks the bagels with the desired density. The bagel shop I go to will put whatever combination of eggs, bacon, cold cuts, cream cheese, vegetables, and avocado I ask for.
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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by tluyben2 on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @04:57AM (#12077650)
Bagels are very far removed from the sort of thing you would get in a typical bakery or sandwich shop here. So much that I could eat a granary sandwich from my local bakery any time, no matter what I ate before, while I can eat a bagel if i'm very hungry and everything else is closed. I tried as my wife loves them but they are not related IMHO besides that they are considered 'bread'.
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Re:We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert by cylinder on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @10:14AM (#12079113)
Maybe something like this? Opened not long ago in Manhattan: Duran Sandwiches 62 Madison Ave Flatiron New York, NY 10016 (212) 576-1000

http://www.yelp.com/biz/duran-sandwiches-new-york?utm_source...

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