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Name_not_found wrote:
Nothing beats a good southern breakfast though

Yes

Yes indeed housil! From the photo it looks like you're either in a shopping mall here in America or mebbe an airport food service area?

As for a good southern breakfast however NnF, in 1989 I attended the U.S. Army NBC school at Ft. McClellan Alabama for a secondary MOS, and it was there that I first tried Hominy Grits with my sausage gravy and biscuits. I learned that people either absolutely love them or they cannot get them down, not one person did I meet who could take 'em or leave 'em. For me it was and still is a texture issue.

Grits are...nasty!
To be truthfull, most food items made from ground 'cow corn' is nasty...
Anything that has to be soaked in LYE to be ...edible...
Just my opinion, mind you.

rationtin440 wrote:Yes indeed housil! From the photo it looks like you're either in a shopping mall here in America or mebbe an airport food service area?

You are right. This was the Mall at Peachtree Center Atlanta GA

Harrrumph. Just for that, I'm going to go fix myself a big bowl of cheesy grits - and I'll grin with every spoonful.

Well RockyRaab, that sounds very un-yummy. If I were to try that I'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference in appearance between what I ate and what I threw up!

housil wrote:Bypah, I can reassure you.
This is what you get in the US if do you order one in lack of real bread - we have 600 different kinds of bread - also a huge amount of crisp rools. Also there is no pate, no cheese, no sliced sausage

This is, how a real continental breakfast looks ever morning on our table

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...and at least, we don´t have bagels over here

Olli, I know. I was in Europa 25 years ago and I remember how nice continental breakfasts are with their varieties of breads, cheeses, pates,sausages and other yummy cold cuts.
If I'm not mistaken the bagels although are Jewish of origin, are an American tradition from the east coast.

Hello Rattattoo

The digestive biscuit is delicious...and its name is a bit misleading....it's not a "health" food....it was just a healthy sounding name that the biscuit people dreamed up. It's made with oats, flour, sugar and butter (or other shortening) and is about 4mm thick. It's not too sweet (so it is lovely buttered with cheddar cheese on the top) but it is a sweet biscuit...so it is a joy with a nice cup of tea. The best ones are made by McVities and they also come half covered in chocolate and those are called Homewheat (an even healthier sounding name for an even less healthy product!). We don't put cheese on the chocolate ones!

I don't really think that there is a European or American equivalent to British Biscuits. It's being cut off on an island that does it!

If you can get hold of old British Ration packs they had something in them called an Oatmeal block....and it was kind of a digestive biscuit. Best to search online for McVities though and try and get hold of the real deal!

Rationista wrote: We don't put cheese on the chocolate ones!

Come on - give it a try...