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loqu wrote:I don't know if it's related, but what we Andalusians call almuerzo has the generic name comida in other parts of Spain (for example, Catalonia and the Valencian Land), while their almuerzo is our desayuno.
loqu wrote:We call both of them desayuno. Lots of people don't do the first desayuno and eat first at mid-morning, maybe that's why.
linguoboy wrote:loqu wrote:We call both of them desayuno. Lots of people don't do the first desayuno and eat first at mid-morning, maybe that's why.
Why does everyone get a second breakfast but us?
vijayjohn wrote:linguoboy wrote:loqu wrote:We call both of them desayuno. Lots of people don't do the first desayuno and eat first at mid-morning, maybe that's why.
Why does everyone get a second breakfast but us?
We barely even eat one breakfast! Why bother with two?
linguoboy wrote:Actually I was expecting someone to say, "Because you already eat half the food in the house for your first breakfast," given this is what Europeans think our first meal of the day looks like:
http://i.imgur.com/ASO3EV5.png
mōdgethanc wrote:Here's an interesting question: In your culture (that includes regional cultures, like of North America) is breakfast typically sweet, savory, both, or neither?
Johanna wrote:Some have filmjölk instead of yoghurt, but it has lost a lot of ground in the past decade or so.
mōdgethanc wrote:Only Americans would eat that much bacon. Everyone knows that in Canada it would be a huge plate stacked with peameal, and in England it would be sausages.
Here's an interesting question: In your culture (that includes regional cultures, like of North America) is breakfast typically sweet, savory, both, or neither?
I'd rather have shredded wheat.
linguoboy wrote:How hard is it to make your own filmjölk?
Johanna wrote:Some have filmjölk instead of yoghurt, but it has lost a lot of ground in the past decade or so.
Varislintu wrote:EDIT: I did some research and people seem to be saying that filmjölk doesn't exist in Finland, but that it's close to our surmjölk.
Varislintu wrote:We have fil and we have mjölk, and yoghurt of course, but I'm not entirely sure what your filmjölk is. At least if it's not sourmilk (surmjölk/piimä).
I'll definitely try some if I have the chance.
EDIT: I did some research and people seem to be saying that filmjölk doesn't exist in Finland, but that it's close to our surmjölk.
Aurinĭa wrote:I have a yoghurt machine, but it doesn't work very well, and anyway I'd succeed in letting the filmjölk go off. Sometimes I eat a lot and sometimes not; with yoghurt it's easy to get some from the shop and start again, with filmjölk it wouldn't be.
vijayjohn wrote:My parents always make their own yoghurt and FWIR don't use any machinery other than an oven and a microwave.
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