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I am from Trentino and rye bread (or "black bread" as we call it) is the only kind of bread I eat nowadays.
What we call black bread is as black as it gets. Rye, malt, syrup, brown sugar and the top anointed with coffee.
It's absolutely amazing, but not something you want to eat every day, it's just too heavy.
What Urania93 means with "black bread" is what we call mixed bread. It's rye or wheat mixed. Or rye, wheat, oat and barley all mixed together. It looks like this:
This looks like some kind of a pie.
(When I was reading English literature in my childhood, I was always wondering what "pudding" was and I pictured it as some kind of dessert))) As in something sweet.
What else do you have as part of "national cuisine?"
And - do you have black bread?
(inquiring minds want to know... )
We don't have black bread. Only in the import part of delicatessens. I remember travelling to Berlin 2 weeks after the wall came down, by train, and eating in the East German restaurant car run by Mitropa. I had what they described as "hearty farmer's cheese sandwich", which was two pieces of very black bread with a slice of cheese so thin, I could clearly see the grain of the bread through it
"Pudding" describes a wide range of foods, as many savoury as sweet. A classic British food is a blood sausage known as "black pudding". Went right out of fashion, now back in. Eaten in small quantities with a cooked breakfast, or as a garnish with flash fried scallops. A slightly "acquired" taste.
Then there is the classic "steak and kidney pudding" which in London was served with oysters back in the day, and still is by "Rules", the oldest restaurant in London.
This is Yorkshire Pudding with sausages - though traditionally could be made other "left-over" meats - and called "Toad In The Hole" (this is a nifty version with "pigs in blankets" - sausages wrapped in bacon)
And here's a sweet "treacle" pudding - served, of course, with custard - or what the trendy restaurants all call "Creme Anglais" these days!
And finally, you can keep your fruhstuck, petit dejeuner (the worst excuse for a breakfast on planet earth), ontbijt, desayuno, colazione........the Great British Fry Up is the finest way to start your day! Wholemeal toast and freshly squeezed orange juice on the side, naturally.
And finally, you can keep your fruhstuck, petit dejeuner (the worst excuse for a breakfast on planet earth), ontbijt, desayuno, colazione........the Great British Fry Up is the finest way to start your day! Wholemeal toast and freshly squeezed orange juice on the side, naturally.
Breakfast in France : tartines, butter, jam, dipped in coffee, hot chocolate or cereals, maybe a croissant or pain au chocolat or a drink of whatever you like. But I think we don't have a real breakfast here, some don't even have one, like me, or if they have it's just a cup of coffee with nothing else.
Am I the only one to mix rice with mashed potatoes, that gives a sort of rice pudding but not sweet ? I eat that with fried fish and ketchup. And coke mixed with lemon juice.
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Originally Posted by Ariete
What we call black bread is as black as it gets. Rye, malt, syrup, brown sugar and the top anointed with coffee.
It's absolutely amazing, but not something you want to eat every day, it's just too heavy.
What Urania93 means with "black bread" is what we call mixed bread. It's rye or wheat mixed. Or rye, wheat, oat and barley all mixed together. It looks like this:
This is, more or less, what I meant:
There's only one and unique form of breakfast:
The rest is uncivilised barbarians
Breakfast on Sunday can look like that in Austria:
But is it breakfast or brunch? And mainly I meant the bacon, eggs, beans and similar things.
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Good one.
