to argue that Yes pain au chocolat are a breakfast item?

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I'm not really a big eater in the morning, but something I do eat on occasion are pain au chocolat. I've had them 2 days in a row along with some fruit juice.

DH this morning says that they are not a breakfast item as they have chocolate in them. AIBU to kill him and eat my damn chocolatey goodness

YANBU. I often get them. Midweek they encourage my DC out of bed. Europeans are always scoffing cakes and things for brekky. We're European!

yanbu.

In this house homemade banana and choc muffins are a breakfast item.

They are in this house. According to MN I expect we will be told otherwise though.
All food groups to be represented at breakfast.

They clearly are (although probably not the healthiest breakfast to have regularly).

Thank you!

Of course its a breakfast item! Enjoy op....

They are definitely a breakfast item! To the extent that I would consider eating one in the afternoon a bit odd

DH has them for pudding

Pain au chocolate, much like an almond croissant or a cinnamon danish, are all breakfast items. Does that mean all those awful cereals with chocolate in are designed for another time of day? Is there a specific cutoff when chocolate becomes acceptable? Eat the chocolatey goodness.

YANBU Definately a breakfast item. The other brilliant French chocolate based breakfast is a massive mug of hot choc to dip bread and butter into
Lush. Even the British have cocopops for petes sake!

Of course they are! DM always used to give them to us for pudding too, though. Now I believe she was just Englishly confused :o

Ooo how continental...
I love them and not just for breakfast

hands round pain au chocolat

cocopops are an accepted breakfast cereal aren't they? Aren't they chocolatey?

I'm in Lyon. Pain au chocolat for breakfast here is par of the course.

Oh yes. Unequivocally a breakfast food.

My local Tesco has them in the 'Morning Goods' aisle, along with English muffins, American pancakes, and waffles.

Breakfast, for sure .

I can't imagine eating them any other time tbh.

Plus Coco pops are chocolate, as everyone has said.

Of course they are!
Here in France people buy pains au chocolat for breakfast, or sometimes for the children's goûter.

(Hi goodnessgraciousgouda! I am not far from you - If I could drive I would have taken the DCs to the Parc de la Tête d'Or today)

Oh man, wish I had some in the cupboard...

They most definitely are breakfast and are eaten at breakfast in school holidays here. We also eat brioche and croissants with Nutella too. Very calorific and probably not the most nutritious start to the day.

Oh yes they are perfectly acceptable Why does he think chocolate isn't a morning food?

I thought they were a breakfast item (from my one visit to Paris) and it hadn't occurred to me to eat them at any other time.

They are a Sunday breakfast item here.

No chocolate on schooldays.

Definitely. Still remember my french exchange aged 12 / 13? with a massive mug of hot chocolate and a pain au chocolat to kick-start the day. (Though never adapted to dunking it in the hot chocolate as they all did.) Really nice way to begin imo.