Why Americans Eat Dessert for Breakfast
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I would like to see different breakfasts! Russian breakfast is so good! Or Japanese! ♥️♥️♥️
try oatmeal with milk and sugar that is the most danish breakfast i can think of
you like breakfast now?
I grew up in France, first time I ate pan cakes in an American restaurant they put a very small scoop of vanilla ice-cream on top. As a kid I felt so happy to have ice cream for breakfast, I put the whole thing in my mouth, only to find out it was butter 🤢🤮
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@hahaimabitch1 thanks, its good to know I wasn't the only one who got tricked by this 😂😂😂
Happened to a friend lmao
butter is good for you
Oh nooo 🤢🤢
American parent- "No, you can't have cake for breakfast, don't be silly. Now be quiet while I make fried cake that we'll pour liquid sugar on"
E X A C T L Y
We have pancakes like once every three months on average. I eat cereal pretty much every morning.
@@user-zy7xy8sf9o you gotta be kidding me...
Wait do Americans actually cereal and pancake every day? Sorry I’m Asian
I’m pretty sure there is something healthy, i thought it was originally oatmeal
As a Mexican, i remember being so upset with my mom for not letting me eat cereal as breakfast, but now i'm really greatful with her for not letting me do that, i have really good breakfast habits now
Yes amigo, instead of being loaded with sugar and speedy Gonzales outta there you sat and ingested a good nutritional meal.. your mother did not burrito around the Bush and knew whats best for you,
Her tacotics worked and she didn't string bean you along
Eh
Cereal siempre a sido un desayuno bastante pobre.
Siempre anda dejando a uno con mas hambre 😂
@@History_Nurd Si jaja, solo lo llegué a comer cuando se me hacía tarde para ir a la escuela y eso que tenía que pedir permiso para hacerlo
IM IN LOVE WITH THE LOCO
Recuerdo ver las series en canales como cartoon network o disney XD donde salian los personajes desayunando leche con cereal y apenas nada mas
y yo de chiquito super confundido porque mis padres tambien nunca me dejaron comer cereales asi tipo azucarados y de colores
Puede que no haya entendido por qué en esos momentos pero ahora
Muchas gracias padres por no haberme dejado comer cereales azucarados--
As a Sri Lankan kid , I always wanted stuff like Donuts , cereals for my breakfast but my mother never allowed me. Instead she mostly gave me a homecooked 3 course breakfast starting with a cup of black tea then a cup of herbal Porridge and rice with 2-3 vegetables nd an animal protein item. Now as an adult who living alone in Europe , Im extreamly grateful to my parents for raising me with good food habits.
Where in Europe xd there are lot of people from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka in Croatia
Oh, that sounds really good.
Your mother is a wise wife
In America, we'd never have veggies for breakfast, even though that's really healthy 😋 🙃 😅 🙄 😐 🙂
Try slavic breakfast : coffee with 3 cigarettes
жиза...
Bangladeshi here couple cup of tea with 2 cigarettes.
Dutch breakfast : milk with 1 joint
@@soch3418 yum !
Why is this so true... I feel exposed.
Me as an asian:
Breakfast: rice
Lunch: rice
Dinner: rice
which asian are you
Filipinos😂
If you are Korean, you usually eat kimchi with every meal which is good for you. I lived in South Korea for 8 years and now I love kimchi!
Me as a latino:
Breakfast: beans
Lunch: beans
Dinner: beans
true
As an '80s and '90s kid I have all the memories of "breakfast is the most important meal of the day!" and then people eating things that really suggest that's not at all the case. It's really nice to see someone talking about this objectively and encouraging people to question it.
It's all marketing propaganda. Along with lobbying in the government to tell us to eat 7-11 servings of carbohydrates on a food pyramid. Now we know that equates to 7-11 servings of sugar a day.
I'm with you on that with some 70's thrown in. It still amazes me how deeply advertising and marketing spiels were accepted as fact and how gullible society was. A company funds a self serving study and the outcome is now scientific fact.Case in point, cereals with 40% sugar received a heart foundation healthy tick.
It's crazy to me, born and raised in the U.S. I always assumed these "American Breakfast" foods were reserved for a special occasion, like a big family breakfast. And I guess that's because my mom only let me eat this way on the rare occasion we went out to a diner or something. We did eat non-sweet cereal, but the sweet stuff was only purchased once on a blue moon as a dessert item. I guess now, as an adult, I noticed people commenting on me eating things like rice and beans for breakfast and I thought, "hm, but why wouldn't I eat this for breakfast?" Then came the realization that a lot of people, even as adults, eat dessert for breakfast!
Eh i don’t really like the video cus it makes it seem like we just wanted to eat this shit. Nah traditional American breakfast; eggs, bacon, toast, and coffee has a historical reason. Before industrialization many families were laborers and farmers, eggs were cheap and easily attainable, and bacon was readily accessible with pigs being common livestock in many towns and family farms. Of course grains were important to grow and america basically ran on coffee since its inception. Like most big businesses the grain industry went on an advertising frenzy, marketing cereals and seed oils as healthy alternatives by being ‘low fat’, ‘low cholesterol’, and ‘easily digestible for quick energy’, theres a big market for “on the go food” as fast food is prevalent in the US.
It's funny that we eat rice and beans everyday at lunch in Brazil. It sounds really weird for us to have them for breakfast. I never saw nor heard about anybody here doing that.
@@Guizambaldi actually it's not uncommon for people in early rise or labor intensive jobs to have the same food they have for lunch as breakfast in brazil, esp on poorer or rural areas. not to mention it is served in public schools, and some kids have that as first meal of the day
Ya most people don’t eat the very heavy stuff everyday
As a non-American I do like American breakfasts but I just can't imagine having that like every morning.It's more like a treat than proper everyday breakfast for me.
I’m Japanese and I like American breakfast. But I don’t like eating them for breakfast.
What is ur warframe ign ?
@@nidakaruyan7809
You mean Online Game Warframe?
Sorry, I haven’t been playing since BlackOps
When I travel US.I try to eat Americanized Food as possible.
Like an American Diner.Wake up late around 10:00am and eat at diner.
Crispy Bacon,couple Sunnysideups,
graycolored no skin type sausage ,
toast with plenty butter dripping,
and strawberry Jam. And drink plenty light taste coffee.
Then you get full and light a cigarette and think about
where to go and what to eat.
That’s an heavenly moment for me.
I am Hmong American and I sometimes make American breakfast for dinner.
fried sausage links/patties, eggs, and orange juice with white rice.
@@user-oq5yr1kp1d wait, u actually used to play lol ?
As a Brazilian, a cup of coffee with milk, bread with cheese (very rarely ham or eggs) and a fruit gets me going and is all I ever crave in the mornings. I could not stand a breakfast so "rich" in fat, as the one with bacon and pork, or so full of sugar either.
Trinidad here (Caribbean) and it’s the exact same! And it was how I was raised :) Coffee and some bread and cheese, and if you really get lucky, a banana/apple/grapes
YES! fellow brazilian here! my breakfast nowadays is dark coffee without sugar, bread and eggs (sometimes cheese or light cream cheese with it) and papaya. i change fruits sometimes but it’s usually one rich in fibers. i love that we don’t have the culture of eating cereals or too much fat in the breakfast, it turns to bad habits so quick…
If you're swinging an ax all day high fat diets were essential. Those breakfasts come from the 1800s from lumberjacks and railroad workers because of the constant labor they needed the fuel
I've been living in Brazil for a few months now and even the 5 year old children here get coffee for breakfast. Bit weird to me😮
Our breakfast is much healthier than in the US, but I think we overeat bread and exagerate on coffee. And we have two breakfasts, morning and afternoon.
A friend who had lived in Japan showed me a fairly quick, tasty breakfast dish: break an egg into a bowl of hot rice, stir it to until the egg is mixed thoroughly with the rice and lightly scrambled, then season with a little soy sauce. It's delicious and surprisingly filling.
Only possible with eggs from japan because of their strict regulations in place. As an Asian it's a fairly common breakfast consisting of toast, eggs and sometimes rice. Pair those with a coffee and you're good to go.
Sounds amazing, thanks! I'll try
Sorry but just reading your comment made me feel sick. 🤢
I need something light for breakfast.
@@Osmone_Everony not everything is about you, alright? If it doesn't sound like your thing just scroll past it.
@@teissi I wasn't even talking to you!
Coming from a Filipino household, Breakfast for me is whatever didn't get eaten from the previous night.
That's a good breakfast. Any soup included hopefully? I love soup at breakfast. Grandma used to do that. May she rest in peace.
Coming from a single person who cooks a lot of food and routinely has leftovers, this is my preferred method of breakfast
Lol, yass, but we usually like bread in the morning with coffee. Though, I don’t really like coffee, so I eat the bread.
I sometimes wake up too late in the summer, so I just eat lunch. My aunt gave us some Pork Sinigang in a Ube Ice cream container. It was so goodd. Then with some green beans with squash my mom made the other day. Soo good and more vegetables!
Totoo yan last night leftover rice is goona be friedrice in the morning
Coming from an indonesian household. My mom absolutely would only cook once a day if could, twice is the maximum, so our dinner is usually our earlier breakfast left over. But then again, my house almost never left anything out, we simply eat everything.
Every American:
"But then I started travelling, and I discovered people around the world have other customs".
lol
It's crazy how it comes as a shocker for them...
I met a family from Michigan in NYC who didn't know we didn't really play baseball and American football in Europe...
Also, the food was gross and so unhealthy in so many restaurants. I was not used to so much added sugar and whatever in my food so I even got sick once. I just feel bad for the people who grow up eating this food and get so used to it they can't tell how bad it is for them.
@@hobog12777 yes, I get what you mean but it's a problem they also have in Brazil and I bet they have in Russia as well. They are three really big countries who share a lot of cultural factors internally (not among the three of them, I mean) so it's harder to travel outside and easy to think that the neighbours do the same as you do.
About the sugar and unhealthy food, I like some dishes from the US but I agree, they are generally way more elaborated and unhealthy. Unfortunately, also these are cultural habits and many other countries in the world follow the same pattern!
Despite having a really good diet, here in Italy many kids are having breakfast with Italian snacks which are charged with sugar and certainly not healthy. And it's a trend that's been there since I was a kid. Bad habits die hard!
americans just livin in their bubble
In this case he's probably feigning his ignorance for the purpose of engagement. An old writing trick when covering subjects that you expect your readers/audience to be unfamiliar with is to pretend to be unfamiliar with it yourself going in or to recount the process of how you became familiar with it, if you watch a lot of documentaries or "edutainment" (particularly the stuff aimed at kids) you should have an idea of what I'm talking about. It helps to craft something of a narrative around otherwise boring information dumps where your audience could easily tune out.
After all "guy explains American breakfast" is inherently less interesting than "guy discovers how interesting non-American breakfast is, realizes that American breakfast is stupid, and then incorporates non-American food into his own breakfast"
I doubt that there are any Americans out there that would actually be surprised by the fact the different people have different morning meals or different ideas of when to eat.
my fav healthy breakfasts
- oatmeal w/ nuts (pecans usually) ontop & banana slices
- overnight oats w/peanut butter
- plain greek yogurt w/ granola and strawberry slices (basically a parfait)
So good that sounds like a healthy way of eating your breakfast Oatmeal 🥣 great job and thank you.
When i was little i hated having to rush eating breakfast before school. When i was in college i started appreciate my grandma forcing me to eat big breakfast before classes coz i got very hungry by 11am. Being Asian i love my breakfast. It’s usually rice+hot soup & veggies. It was a big culture shock when i saw the breakfast menu in my dorm food hall.
This guy looks really pissed off at breakfast
Finn Crawford 😄
Probably he didn't eat his breakfast that's why
He is not a morning person
I don't think he likes fruit loops either.
He must be a real cool guy to hang out with....👎
This guy look uncurably pissed
Pissed as in pissed off or pissed as in drunk? (Im in the UK pissed means drunk to me haha)
@@sarahroberts7374 pissed off I think
@@sarahroberts7374 pissed off
I would be too if I lived my whole life in America.
Haha cheers guys 😂👍
I find it very interesting that American breakfast is so big and filled with sugary things and then (for what I've seen) lunch is a just a sandwich. I honestly cannot fathom eating just a sandwich for lunch
The hell kind of americans you been seeing that eat just a sandwich for lunch?
If I have a sandwich, it's typically on hearty bread and something substantial. The typical American white bread sandwich isn't my thing either.
This is not a thing lmao
I usually only eat 1 big meal a day lol
@@RevanPorkinsits all lies people are just food addicts and think more is better but all its going to do is make you very overweight
In Poland it is normal to eat daily like bread or roll with ham, cheese some vegetables like tomatoes or cucumbers. It just never gets old and it's much healthier than fried beacon/eggs.
Eggs are healthy tho and can fit nice on the bread or you can soft boil them or eat them scrambled but yeah too much fried egg can be unhealthy
American breakfast: Full of desserts
Filipino breakfast: **left overs from last night’s dinner**
Breakfast is still better though because the rice is now garlic fried rice and there's a fried egg.
Me staying up late: What's breakfast, and what does morning mean?
@@haotianwu3304 Gamer?
Andre Ortega that person was saying that because they stay up so late, once they wake up it’s no longer morning because they’ve slept past it therefore, they don’t know what morning because they always sleep past it and they don’t know what breakfast is because they’ve never eaten in the morning
I can relate
*Meanwhile, Indonesian*
Breakfast: Rice
Lunch: Rice
Dinner: Rice
everything must be with RICE
No rice no life
@@budisoemantri2303 rice is good
I am Indonesian and I eat a lot of rice
dont forget the occasional indomie
In my country there is a thing called qaymoq or kaymak(natural cream that is taken from milk while processing the milk homemade) which is very delicious with bread. Then there is natural butter which is quite yellowish, brownish which is also extremely delicious and natural.Furthermore, We don't drink coffee much but tea mostly.
As an American who counts every ounce and gram of macros, it’s kinda terrifying how scary how much added sugar there is in things you’d think would be clean.
I'll have a cup of sugar, a slice of pork fat, and two fried slobs of butter.
Oh and a diet coke
@@tahamohammad1741 Obviously, diet coke makes it healthy
They are saying diet coke is the most unhealthiest.
*fried slobs of butter and bread
replace sugar with high frutose corn syrup and you're set!
Other: should we eat breakfast or not
*Me: Wakes up at 1 pm*
watching this video after waking up at 1 AM
I mean, technically breakfast is just the first meal you eat after waking up, no matter what time it is.
I woke up at like 3pm today
Or 5 pm
Me: 7am and I still haven’t fallen asleep yet
We vietnamese here have such a strong breakfast. A whole bowl of phở or bún bò or anything they are all very nutritious. With a drink usually some mild ice tea or if you are wealthier you can have orange juice or milk
I didn't even live in America, yet the place/area where I lived was really Americanized, so I often ate American-style breakfasts. I think that really messed up my relationship with sugar and food, as I gained a lot of weight, had an unhealthy sugar addiction and mostly ate junk growing up. Luckily, I'm in a healthy place now. I'm naturally a breakfast person, but i eat nutritious and well-portioned breakfasts that keep my satisfied yet are beneficial for my health. I don't really think many people realize how much your food habits growing up can affect your relationship with food as you get older
"If enough people are interested" just drop the 30 minutes long video
Right?? Like why did he ask
Yes please, we want the video. No question needed!
@@mcboni3928 like the comment on top for the video
YEAH!!!!!
p l e a s e
Me as a mexican:
Breakfast: tortilla
Lunch: tortilla
Dinner: tortilla
Don’t feel bad I’m pretty much chicken chicken chicken lol but you’ve inspired me maybe I’ll try chicken wrapped in n tortillas next 🤔😂
You should be ashamed, if something makes me proud as a Mexican is all the delicious options we have for breakfast (and for all the meals of the day for that matter) and you come here with some stereotypical bullshit
@@samynator0904 I’m sorry are you joking or just bored because there’s no way you can’t tell everyone on this post is joking please tell me you’re kidding and not that pressed/uptight.
@@samynator0904 lmaoo calm down, it was a fucking joke.
A bottle of Corona.
Hey Johnny, try the Mediterranean breakfast usually has some type of bread with a type of cheese, olives or olive oil (to dip with), some eggs (boiled or pan fried). The type of bread or cheese depends on the region in the Mediterranean. In my opinion this is the most balanced breakfast you can have. Hope u enjoy it 😊
labneh, manakish zaatar, hummus hits different
As a Greek the only breakfast in my house used to be coffee and cigarettes
As an Italian, we have a cornetto and coffee, must've missed the notion
let,s be honest 90% of mediterranean breakfasts are coffe and some small piece of something if not nothing
I think I love this man. The topics you cover… makes so happy.
“Kids, you’re not having cake for breakfast. You’re having fried cake with liquid sugar for breakfast” -Jim Gaffigan
Me reads this: Lies lies! He says cakes right there! After saying cake... Wait what...
And that is the reason my mom let me eat cake for breakfast, she was like “just have milk with it” (this was of course usually only after someone’s birthday..since you know, we had cake in the house)
Americans: Dessert for Everything!
South Asian: Rice for Everything!
That applies to Southeast Asians too.
Southeast Asians too. Damn, we Filipinos can pair any food with rice lol.
Rice for breakfast varies in India. There are certain rice dishes mainly eaten for breakfast like Lemon, Tamarind or Tomato fried Rice and Lentil or Milk cooked Rice. Other than these, Idli-dosa are common rice based dishes.
@@gazibizi9504India has a plethora of cuisines ....but some of the stuff we eat includes : - 1) Parantha ( stuffed parantha) 2) poha 3) upma
These dishes have variants....
Plus, this is only my experience ^^
@@pratishthashukla4325 are idli-dosa eaten from where you're, maybe not common?
I love this guy. Just recently discovered him and working my way from most recent to oldest... I love the relevant content. He's the younger version of me but I learn many things I did not know. In fact, he has changed my mind about some concepts too which is difficult since I pride myself on being as well read as possible in multiple languages.
Once I saw pop tart in a store here in Israel. So I bought it to try. They said it’s very tasty. Also trey said it should be frozen or heated , well I think it should be thrown away😂. Just some weird chemical tasting cookie
If you can get shakshuka for breakfast in Israel you really don’t want pop tarts
Street food in Israel is unreal 🤤
yeah i am from the uk & we eat a ton of junk food, we do have the fried breakfast, cereal & toast as standard. but eating a pop tart made me feel sick... it tasted like the cheapest possible sweet pastry & jam, that had been preserved for 50 years.
americans shine a lot in fresh savoury food, all their processed or sweet food is awful
I ate one once. It was cardboard with sugar (Poland)
💯 I tried pop tarts once. Couldn't even swallow the first bite. Spit it out and threw the rest away. 🤮
I really want to see his breakfast
And dessert. Spot the difference
Sugar...
White Sugar...
Because he's American...
Americans only eat white sugar for breakfast...
White sugar matters
Make a tier list of breakfast foods
Don't we all?
Same
I like how easily you can tell who is and isn't American in this comment section.
am i American??
@@user-no9im9px6e no, holland
Schindlabua i am not from holland...
Well, duh.
Woah am I American
I love the 30 minute videos man, I love watching tour Channel on my lunch break to stay informed and keep learning
I’m Canadian (which means we eat breakfast exactly the same as Americans) and I totally agree with you, even as a kid I absolutely hated the culture of loading up on sugar for breakfast I don’t like super sugary foods, I like eggs and bacon for sure and sausage and beans and hash browns but the whole waffle/pancake/cereal/doughnut thing is insane to me, especially since it’s advertised as nutritious that’s just blatant BS.
"I bet a lot of you watching don't eat breakfast"
I bet a lot of us don't even wake up in the morning
To be fair, I also don't go to bed in the evening anymore.
Same i go to bed at night instead
Four thirty, every morning, I have to chug coffee like it's going out of style tho.
Hey it's still eleven... thirty. I knew I had to go to bed because I saw the sun rising.
I usually wake up around noon (when I’m not working) and just combine my breakfast with lunch. You can save an entire meal that way.
I'm french, my breakfast is made from coffee, cigarette, a croissant and a touch of nihilism.
stop, i’m only human. my heart wasn’t made to beat this dramatically in response to a freakin’ youtube comment
Can't skip the nihilism. I alternate between that and a dose of spleen.
@Taiwanlight they have Kierkegaard.....
@@angrybuddha7613 i really should do a video about the real french breakfast.
oliveavelo oui
I really love what you're doing Johnny! Great topics and beautiful presentation
As an American I grew up craving these breakfasts and it wasn’t until I got super busy and I couldn’t eat breakfast due to toke issues, a few years later all the cravings and sweets and sugars went away. I grew to appreciate all the delicious and healthy foods that don’t need sugar and traveling to other countries inspired me to improve my diet and health. Overall, probably not letting my children have sugary breakfasts lol
"I want to show you some of those breakfasts".
*never shows us those other breakfasts*
It's a scam
Now I‘m sad
But he did show them
Literally the only thing I cared about
Watch past 11 minute mark, it brief but it’s there
nothing says "international House Of Pancakes" like a diner which is only available in america and only serves american style pancakes
IHOP is available in more than just America, but yeah they should most definitely get some other parts of the worlds pancakes on the menu that would be great
lmao
we have ihop here in saudi arabia
Lmao what... other parts of the world don’t eat breakfasts like ours so how would IHOP add in other countries pancakes lmao did you miss the point of the video... if IHOP wants to have the “I” they should have breakfast dishes from other countries that ARENT pancakes.... like eggs rice tomato and toast.... or fruits with eggs and a croissant(non chocolate drizzled or overly sugared) lol
@@cosmiccoco6889 you're saying that for a pancake resturant to deserve their name they need to not just sell pancakes? how is rice or toast any better? just alternate forms of empty carbs with next to no nutritional value
Breakfast in Ecuador is a cup of coffee or milk, buns, sometimes with butter or jam, and two boiled eggs or scrambled. Some men have more substantial breakfast in the lowlands with plantain, fried fish or beef stew, and rice.
My grandparents took me to Florida as a kid and I was so happy to have just donoughts with sprinkles every morning at the villa complex. Suffice to say when we returned to the UK they were like absolutely not. On the weekend though I might have a cinnamon swirl or a strawberry croissant with a coffee instead of the usual plain crossant but in the week I’d rarely feel hungry let alone crave for something sweet.
This didn’t really explain why it’s like this. Diner breakfast came from our farming days. Most of America used to be a farm. We ate foods from the farm that were incredibly calorie dense in order to maintain the energy to do farm work. Cereal breakfast came from the 40s and 50s. No longer on farms, but still lacking a lot in transportation in our gigantic country, we had basically no fresh food. Hence everything came in a can or a box (you know all those weird preserved food recipes from the 50s) We just continued these two traditions.
Underrated comment. I was waiting for information like this from the video but it never appeared..
That's a remarkably clear and logical explanation.
Thank you, explained it best on the most simplest and understanding way. It all really comes down to tradition, literally every culture is like this. Surprised people in the comments are acting like they are any different
I just found this guy’s channel and most of the videos I see don’t even answer the title. Like this one is just shitting on breakfast and the one about China is a call to reform capitalism.
Good job you completed this guys video.
We Vietnamese just eat anything we want, there are no definitions of breakfast or lunch or dinner food, you just eat what you like
Im american and I eat like this. People think its weird that ill eat spicy hot wings for breakfast
Was amazed when my friend said she ate pho for what I usually consider breakfast....i was so jealous.
I lived in Vietnam for a year and a half (US citizen) and I loved the lack of distinction. Nothing like squatting down for a bowl of Bun Cha or Bun Bo Hue for breakfast (or any first meal of the day for that matter)
When I was in China, we ate leftovers for breakfast. It was reheated rice with leftover veggies and meat stir frys.
Like a natural human
.
I as a Indian, my favourite breakfast is
In sweet version- panjiri( a powder of roasted whole wheat flour in ghee mixed with with powdered roasted peanuts, almonds, cashew nuts, coconuts and some powdered raw Indian sugar called khaand) with a glass of milk.
In savoury- upma with some buttermilk. Upma is a savoury samolena dish with some peanuts and cashew nuts. It's quick to make and take only 5-10 minutes, very less oil and salt.
As a Swede, my usual breakfast is oatmeal (I think it was called idk in Swedish it’s called havergrynsgröt) with applesauce on it (again, not sure that’s what it’s called so please correct me if not but we call it äppelmos) and milk around it and with that I usually have a cup of coffee
We don’t necessarily eat those “desserts” every single day. My family will only eat them on holidays and sometimes the weekends. Normally I eat toast, eggs, or an apple.
the quarentine sleep schedule has me eating only when i get hungry.
@@gangstasteve5753 and that's like every 5 minutes 🤣
That sounds nice, every morning for me as a kid was some veriation of sugary cereal, oatmeal, or a waffle😔
@@its2frikkingamgotosleep466 you may have a disorder my dude, that’s not funny but concerning-I hope you get the help required.
The cereals are also deserts in a way according to his consideration.
"If you want a video on the other breakfasts"
Dude that's the main reason I stayed in this video.
Exactly.... First time I feel click baited on this channel :/.
@@PeakHumanLife yea but its not clickbait, he explained why Americans eat dessert for breakfast
Fr, I thought this was going to be a personal tour of other breakfast foods he found worth while
Definitely also want to watch that
@@VenusSucksIsn't it though if its one of first things he mentions in the video as a thing he'll talk about?
Ok, sure. it's not clickbaitin a title, but there was a promise which was not fulfilled (concept of clickbait)
this video was a great watch! very well edited and interesting topic!!
as a -personal- Chilean experience, i used to drink some Milo with warm milk and toast with butter as a quick breakfast before school
for me, now its usually coffee and bread with any topping i can get my hands on, be it marmalade, pork pate, or mashed avocado (to many north americans? basic, to Chile? sometimes expensive, depends on economy lol)
and if im feeling more special, i would make myself a bowl of yogurth with chia seeds and banana, but that's bcs i like the texture and what not, yeah.
tho i do gotta say, dinner is not the usual you would think of "another meal that is similar to lunch" its more of a "breakfast but in the evening" and somewhat maybe more packed with options/food, its called "once" it has an interesting story or theory behind its name.
Once is, well, what you might guess from what i said before: bread, coffe or tea, any topings for the bread, maybe a cookie or some pastrie if you have that as a treat. To me personally: once is (like lunch time) a moment to spend with the family and talk about anything, in comparison to breakfast, which i personally take alone, and so does my family, because we wake up at different times.
Yep! that's all, thank you for the video!!
WE NEEEEED THAT FOOD VIDEO: Breakfasts from around the world incorporated into your diet
imagine if he did a colab with binging with babish
@@maroonglass5943, That’d be cool.
Southern European Breakfast Culture:
1. Simple toasted bread with butter and latte/cappuccino/cafe au lait
Either that or
2. Espresso and a cigarette (and taking a dump afterwards)
Same thing in brazil,bread and coffe with milk
@@bocasuja22 I will reply the same thing. Our breakfast is pretty basic but have variations too, like cake of corn or fubá, cuscuz (I don't know how to named in English) but it's something more northeastern.
@@lohaye3260 its cornmeal cake,in brazil typically the breakfast food is something you can eat with your hands and doesn't require cooking i said bread to exemplify the more common.
Well in Croatia it is for sure nr. 1
Nr 2 so true 🙌
You're speech is very VERY understandable. I like this, 'cause I can practice my English when I'm watching You're videos. I love it. Thanks ❤❤❤
Interesting topic! Thank you for the video!
He’s right... America adds sugar to everything. Especially breakfast items.
Edit: When I said sugar I meant “sugar” of every kind including high fructose corn syrup, powdered sugar, and everything in between.
no we don't we add corn syrup.
@@dougnapier6441 I was about to say that XD Corn syrup is way cheaper and waaay worse. It contains fructose that can only be stored in the liver so you get fatty liver if you eat too much.
Mexican sugar cane is tariffed so we use corn syrup from the midwest instead. If you go to a store you can buy a product called Mexican coke. The difference is Mexican coke uses sugar cane and our soda uses corn syrup. My father swears how much better the Mexican coke is.
If you read labels, it's literally in everything!
@@dougnapier6441 corn syrup is worse my guy, look at the dr rhonda patrick podcast with joe rogan just search up: corn syrup joe rogan dr rhonda
It's not only americans, Italians often eat sweets with espresso in the morning, very different from scandinavian breakfast
the difference is we eat only a single croissant, and drink a cappuccino/espresso with it. That's it.
@@AccendinoMCM Well in America we don't eat a huge breakfast everyday. For most people it is a small quick meal and the diner style is not usually made often.
@@AccendinoMCM in Croatia aswell. If I have time I boil an egg or something. But when in hurry than a croisant and coffee
@@AccendinoMCM if you think Americans have a huge stack of pancakes and corn syrup for breakfast each day, you've been severely misled
@@hegotdrip1319 and a lot of italians just skip breakfast altogether or just drink a quick espresso... It goes both ways.
I havent eaten a croissant + cappuccino in months now. It's more of a summer thing for me and my friends.
It's not only Americans, it's also Dutch people which love eating pancakes and other sweet foods for breakfast.
i'm swedish and raised in a fairly health-focused household. sandwiches, oatmeal and müsli were staples along with a LOT of milk and sourmilk. often with some sliced fruit. birthday breakfast could be pancakes with fruit, syrup and cottage cheese, orange juice and sometimes even sweetened cereal!
"if you're interested" come on don't pretend you don't know we want it
More like don't pretend like you haven't already filmed and edited it
@@user-ty4jy4cp3r Glass half empty kind of person?
Yeah I'm sure he's not going to use that footage unless we realllyyy show we want it haha. 😋
@@user-ty4jy4cp3r lol
"We just deemed it necessary to fry it in butter, and then put more butter on top..."
*France: "But is there butter in the batter?"*
There is though 😂
@Nikolaij Brouiller B'en je sais, mais j'apprécie votre élaboration.
Feel free to correct grammar things, il y a trop longtemp depuis que j'ai vécu en France.
But yeah, the American ideal for efficiency has led to more/bigger food items or meal portions, for less money, often at the expense of - among other things - richness of flavor. (Also, both sugar and margarine are cheap)
There's a real flavor difference between margarine and butter in the U.S., but there's an almost equal difference between American butter and French butter.
And idk if it's fair to throw all American flour under the bus, but it is dumb that bleached flour is standard, and you have to be intentional to seek out non-bleached (aka normal) flour.
@@melkmelo8448 But is there butter and bread to be had with the butter and pancakes?
Nikolaij Brouiller
You’re not wrong.
Also, margarine is basically hardened oil. It disgusts me.
@Nikolaij Brouiller I mean surrendering would be pretty salty
I felt so cheated that the video ended without showing
1. More of the world and what they eat.
2. You sharing your updated breakfast which kind of ties into the prior.
I really enjoy your posts!!! Keep them up the amazing work and posts.
I ate cookie crisps for breakfast when I was a kid, THAT was what my dad called eating dessert for breakfast.
In Germany we say: eat breakfast like a emperor, lunch like a king and dinner like a beggar
There is that idiom in spanish too!
We also say that in french !
here in India too
I used to believe in that until I found out it's a shitty ass advice!
My conclusions so far : skip breakfast, skip artificial sugar, eat in intervals of about 3 hours, eat natural, excercise daily. Your body will thank you for life!
Same here in Egypt!
Sometimes when people talk about teenagers for a brief moment I think I still am one, but then I remember I'm nearly 40.
Same, im 27 and i have to remind myself of that fact sometimes lol
guess were all kids traped in adult bodies
@MKULTRA I remember being a teen during the global pandemic. It was the roaring 20’s and I was just a year shy of graduation. Then, then there was the plague...
This scares me
Yep, I just do less drugs now. Otherwise still kickin it everyday!
I LOVE American breakfast! Honestly, you can go savory or sweet or mix the two. You can also go healthy or non-healthy…or mix the two. Favorite meal of the day. 🙌
Russia: Any type of milk-based porridge (rice, oat, buckwheat, barley, millet, semolina etc) with berries or fruits preserves + bread with butter and cheese + tea.
Nice breakfast from my childhood.
america is like that one who friend you had as a child who could do whatever he wanted like "damn he gets to eat dessert for breakfast" but then you grow up and realize oh he just didn't have someone who cared for what he ate or did
100.
True dat😥
thats the best metaphor ive read about this
Bruh
Exactly right
He looks so angry the whole time lmao
Ikr 😆
Truly the mood for 2020.
it's passion
I just stumbled across you on YT....this is my second video...... good stuff. Thanks!
as someone who lives in argentina i am surprised by the fact that in the united states they tend to standardize everything from breakfast to house models (suburbs) but even here, desserts for breakfast are not completely escaped: such as churros, croissants, donuts, cereals and yogurt. but in my experience with breakfast I have had a rejection of yogurt because as a child I liked to have it from time to time, but as an adult I began to feel the consumption of yogurt was too heavy for breakfast
Churros for breakfast. I never seen anyone do that
@@aaronlo9651it’s a tradition in Spain
This felt like just watching the intro to a much longer, more thoroughly researched video essay - only for it to end after the introduction. Come on, dude, where's the rest of the video?
Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking, I was really interested in hearing more about the different types of breakfasts around the world or more in depth on why we eat dessert for breakfast. I know he says at the end that he didn't want to make the video too long but that's exactly what this kind of video really needed. Or if it was a guaranteed "yeah, ima post a part 2 so stay tuned" it's more of a "if there's interest, I'll post the part 2 of all the foods" he already spent all of the time recording this already (the B-roll footage) so why not just say it'll be a guaranteed part 2/more in depth on this subject? Idk, feels like a bad cliffhanger, I'll stick to it and wait for when he posts the breakfast analysis video but I was kinda hoping that after watching this I would come away with some different breakfast ideas.
@@trivialarmor7007 It looks like his next video has come out. By the Title it sounds like he is going to be going over each nation's breakfast one video at a time.
A considerate aspect of this video is that he has explained American breakfast for viewers who aren't familiar with American breakfast.
right, Americans tend to view the world as America
It always bothers me when people say 'AMERICAN' breakfast; like everyone in a nation of over 328 million people eats the same thing. I have egg whites and fruit for breakfast, a lot of Americans I know do too. Rather than focusing on reddit's American stereotypes it would be more helpful to show a nuanced view of how people eat in different areas of the country.
@@Nick-qm7qc I know what you mean . Lots of people have oatmeal with fruits over there . Pancakes are more like a special meal on Sundays instead of an everyday breakfast .
as a non-american it's very helpful for me. Just imagining eat that type of foods every morning just makes me sick though (for anyone that maybe will said "then just don't eat it", I'm a teenager in a quite forcing family, so just imagine that you're FORCED to eat those because maybe apparently your parents is a boomer and believe in sweet breakfast supremacy, ughh I'm sick already)
@@Nick-qm7qc Well of course there is variety in every population, that goes without saying. In this video he is simply discussing what the _majority_ of Americans typically eat for breakfast. The majority of us *do* eat pancakes, waffles, eggs & bacon, or cereal for breakfast usually
I have a cup of coffee before noon but have a big early lunch. I literally have no appetite in the morning so I stopped forcing myself to eat breakfast. This works for me 💯!
Well, I definitely sympathize with not wanting a sugar bomb in the morning, but toast is also a common breakfast food in the US. I know plenty of people that just have buttered toast and coffee for breakfast if they don't want anything heavy or sugary. I personally like something called a "breakfast sandwich," though I don't know how popular that is (I know at least one fast food restaurant has something similar called a Breakfast Jack). It's basically toast, with fried eggs, a slice of ham, and a slice of cheese, which I think is somewhere between a full diner breakfast and just plain toast. I'm not sure if you could really call my breakfast much of a dessert, though I definitely get how people would say that about pancakes with syrup or breakfast cereals.
Why is this guy asking me “if I’m interested”. Literally everything he makes is interesting!
I was so looking for this comment!
So you said "it would be 30 minutes long" and I immediately said I'm there lol. I love when you go on these super nerdy deep dive cultural rants. It amuses me greatly.
Yes, please to the breakfast video!!
Jasmine Tracy - couldn’t agree more!
Absolutely agree!
Scandinavian breakfast has to take the cake for being the healthiest, while still being light and "breakfast-esque" (no meats, nothing fried, quick to prepare etc) for lack of a better term. Usually the swedes will have knäckebröd (dry, thinly sliced, bread-like vessel for hard-boiled eggs, cold-cuts or something else), or Solgryn (basically just oats with milk and maybe a few teaspoons of sugar on top, which can also be cooked into porridge, which i believe is quite common in all of Scandinavia. Norwegians will most likely eat the same things as the swedes with perhaps a few modifications like kneip-brød (wholegrain bread). Danes also favor porridge, oats with milk, granola with Skyr (Icelandic yoghurt-type milk-based protein-rich substance) with fruits and granola or something of the like. Usually pots and pans are not used, with the exception of porridge-making, since we work 8-4, instead of the american 9-5. Additionally, we need to reserve some time to scrape the ice off our windshields in the winter 😂
Nice video! Yes please share your insights on breakfast culture and options :D
I get nauseous when I eat sweet foods in the morning. In germany we generally have bread rolls or slices with toppings. Yeah some people eat jam or a chocolate spread on their bread, but thankfully a sweet breakfast isn't the standart
Here in Canada, it's generally the same. However Canada is more diverse when it comes to population, so we have more culture in breakfasts.
We also eat Müsli. The unsweetened Version of Cereal.
I do too get nauseous if I have sugary food in morning.
Me too! In fact, I get nauseous whenever I eat sweet food instead of usual food
@Alibay Zamat most of the müsli i've eaten doesn't have them
American breakfast : pancakes & cereals
Indonesian : whats breakfast? We eat rice 3 times a day.
woi, malaysia also same
nasi lemak, nasi goreng and nasi kandar
Breakfast: Nasi Goreng
Lunch: Nasi Soto
Dinner: Nasi whatever
rinse and repeat.
well, sarapan bubur bukan nasi...
@@BekBobek still counts as rice...
Yep Cambodia too but sometimes we also eat white porridge which is just really rice with more water right?
Thank you for this video. I really enjoyed your view of breakfast, which is a meal I don't eat, but one which I have strong opinions about. And that is what it comes down to, opinions, as that is what most statements are about food and when to eat it.
Coming from Germany we do have a lot of people consuming cheap high sugar cereals (that were introduced to us after WW2 by the US). If your family didn't follow that trend it probably goes with the narrowed down version of the classic "continental breakfast": Sourdough or bread roll sandwiches with sliced meats, (cottage) cheese and some vegetables like cucumber, bell pepper, carrots or tomatoes. Or topped with jam or nutella if you're a sweet tooth. Some also swear on eating porridge or joghurt/milk and oats and fruits. All this is a bit more convenient than actually cooking for breakfast as you can easily take the sandwiches and vegetables with you in your lunch box (which we use for breakfast as well). On weekend/days off you'd usually just go with a more wider range of breads, charcuterie, dairy products and also occasionally cooked/fried eggs.
To be clear for the non-traveled Americans that may see this, an _actual_ European "Continental" breakfast is as described above, not the stacks of single-person sugar cereal and stale donuts offered by most American hotels. The EU breakfasts I've seen tend to be a wide array of sliced fruit, cheeses, breads, meats, and a variety of tea, coffee, and juices. And most patrons only choose a few of those, not multiple plates like a US buffet. The fare also tends toward local produce over shipped because that's what the markets have, and tends to be (much) fresher as a result.
Breakfast is whatever you want it to be. If I microwave last night's lasagna, it's breakfast.
I tried to make my ex understand that a nice slice of yesterday's cold pizza is just as good as a danish... Never worked.
Damn right
I ate a can of soup for breakfast and my mom asked if I was quote "Smoking marjuana"
For real sometimes my breakfast is my left over chips from yesterday
Yes! But you're talking about real food😉
I'm from Japan and my mother made rice, miso soup, baked fish, natto (fermented soy), home made pickle by nuka, nori (seaweed) etc. I think I was eating most healthiest breakfast. My mother is 83 yo and her passion is playing table tennis with her group of friends and very competitive!
Wish u healthy life
Is that a semla on your profile pic? :o
Happy to see Japanese people on English vids :D whenever they comment it’s very entertaining to read and man do you have a menu these Indian dishes have variety but we so less of that variety
Sounds delicious!!! I love natto! Did you have tamagoyaki also?
Natto is the healthiest of the lot. Gut bacteria increases lifespans by 40%. I simply drink probiotic water culture which is a poor cousin of natto. Eat natto everyday on an empty stomach.
Hey Jonny, Thanks for taking the time to put all this on CZcams. From the beginning of the video, I felt you looked like a faraway cousin. Funnily enough, I have a great-great Aunt who moved out from Switzerland around 1850. It might be of interest to know what I always believed where certain habits of breakfast come from. As you can imagine, in Switzerland we are proud of the rich cheese, Milk and Yoghurt production. Being a farmer you therefore have to get up at dawn and tend to your livestock. Now the breakfast at around 8am contained hashbrowns (we call it Roesti) served with eggs and bacon, which makes sense because the farmers needed energy to be able to work hard as labour was physically intense. Hoping to inspire you to visit this country ... Also you might like to discover the muesli - another original from Switzerland.
My mom was from Japan, and I love Japanese breakfast! She would have tea, miso and some fruit. I indulge in American breakfast when we go out. But I do enjoy a good yogurt with fruit, almonds and the occasional cereal. But my dad was from the south, so she learned to make biscuits and gravy, skillet cornbread and other faves for my dad. That was good, too. But i choose japanese style any day!
Me : * about to go to bed
Johnny Harris : Why Americans eat dessert for breakfast
Me : " Good question "
Lol I’m about to go to bed
not even an American, huh
Ah fellow Indonesian i see.
bruh who goes to sleep at 8???
@@orestisanastasopoulos9145 it's like 8 in the evening, so I don't think so
me, a vietnamese
breakfast: leftovers on rice
lunch: leftovers on rice
dinner: some new food
rinse and repeat
Hey what about the rice?
This is the best way to eat. Super easy
That sounds amazing
Forgot leftover rice xD
And you're fitter, and healthier than the average American. Good job! Probably happier too.
I grew up in Europe and loved sweet things as a kid. I remember visiting the US and tasting Froot Loops for the first time but they were sooo damn sweet and sugary I could not eat them! :O
something i noticed is that whenever im running late for school and need to eat cereal im always super exhausted in p.e class as opposed to when i have bacon and eggs or something
I'm surprised you didn't go after the sugar industry in this one and how they contributed to the American obesity epidemic. It's thanks to them we have dessert for breakfast or put sugar in everything.
its not only the sugar. there is tons of ingredients in american food that are forbidden in europe that cause cancers and make you more fat then just sugars. american food quality is disgusting.
@@metalvideos1961 do you perhaps have any examples for that? I'm European and very clueless about American food composition
@@metalvideos1961 thanks I just read it and wow... pretty shocking indeed. I used to wonder why tons of American brands aren't sold here but now I know very well why.
It's truly awful. Not only the food makes you develop health problems over time but Healthcare itself is expensive as hell. Genuinely wondering how any person in their right mind can call the US the best country. They're being fed the poorest quality food, charged loads for Healthcare, tuition as well is expensive as heck even though it's cheap af or even free in some countries, high gun violence rate, etc...
Big Sugar gives diabetes, then Big Medicine sells you insulin.
US government subsidizes sugar.
The most important meal of the day, a bowl of sugar.
ADDICT
My friend in Secondary school went to America with his family and when he came back he brought pop tarts. I remember being hyped to eat it but when I finally ate it, it was toooo sweet
Love this guy, Funny and informative. Class!