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

108 replies

TheWindsOfWinter · 14/04/2015 08:51

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 Grin

OP posts:
popcornpaws · 14/04/2015 12:25

My grandpa ate cake for breakfast every morning and lived to the ripe old age of 97!
YANBU

OneTwoManyLots · 14/04/2015 12:25

Not for breakfast? The fool!

We have them for breakfast a few times a week. Only one of us is a morning person so the chocolatey goodness makes getting up less painful for the rest of us.

I'm big on healthy eating and nutritional meals but leave that fuss for lunch and dinner. Breakfast time is just about getting something into my DC.

But as pudding. Pudding?. Madness.

UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea · 14/04/2015 12:35

There is no bad time to eat a pain au chocolat - breakfast, lunch, dinner or any time in-between.

There is no bad time to eat anything with the word "chocolat" in the name.

RabidFairy · 14/04/2015 13:06

Pastries are my favourite breakfast, but I keep them for special occasions or if we have guests. This weekend was DSs birthday and we had guests so we had pain au choc and teacakes for breakfast. Yum!

squoosh · 14/04/2015 13:11

Teacakes for breakfast! Don't tell the OP's husband, he'll have an attack of the vapours.

Allalonenow · 14/04/2015 13:17

Breakfast is meant to contain chocolate and cake I'm sure.
(I often have mine with a big cup of hot chocolate Smile)

mrsmeerkat · 14/04/2015 13:22

They are a breakfast item but habits like that have me with a skirt I cannot get my arse into... Nom nom Grin

Love them though!

Off them though...

Scholes34 · 14/04/2015 13:35

Certainly a breakfast/brunch item - have to be eaten before noon and with coffee. Though I must admit to preferring a pain aux raisins.

Pain aux raisins before noon, Eccles Cake after noon (and I've just eaten one at 1.30 pm). They're not a million miles apart, but to eat them the other way round would just not be right.

OTheHugeManatee · 14/04/2015 13:35

They are a breakfast item in France, where they were invented Hmm

According to your DH's logic, what are Coco Pops? They have chocolate in so can't be for breakfast.

squoosh · 14/04/2015 13:38

Pain aux raisins before noon, Eccles Cake after noon

Is that a variation on the old proverb 'breakfast like a king and lunch like a lord'? Smile

CloserToFiftyThanTwenty · 14/04/2015 13:38

Of course they are! With a mug of thick hot chocolate too in some French households Shock

(No obsession with eggs for breakfast on LaNetduMeres I bet)

ConfusedInBath · 14/04/2015 14:13

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chipmonkey · 14/04/2015 14:15

They are the BEST breakfast item!

Purplepumpkins · 14/04/2015 14:17

Ooh their my breakfast coffee treat in a morning!! yummy

ApprenticeViper · 14/04/2015 14:28

Defo breakfast gear in our house. DP buys them for DSC when it's his weekend, and they've never asked for them as pudding after any other meal.

I agree with PPs; if chocolate stuff can't be for breakfast, what's with Cocopops, Krave and the multitude of cereal bars and Nutrigrain-type bars with chocolate in?

(I also had chocolate sponge cake off a breakfast buffet in SE Asia - if it wasn't a breakfast food, why would they have put it out there?)

Stinchcombebabycafe · 14/04/2015 15:03

Whatever you eat at breakfast time is a breakfast item. Simples!

GuybrushThreepwoodMP · 14/04/2015 15:03

DH and I disagree on this. He is French and believes that breakfast should include sugar or chocolate or both. I believe that breakfast should be savoury and involve bacon, eggs or both. Or toast and marmite. Only acceptable sweet breakfast is yogurt with fruit.
Or marriage survives this ok, I just make sure he doesn't feed our toddler pain au chocolat every day for breakfast.

As an aside, we once went to mil house for dinner (in France where she lives). She had made crêpes and served them with nutella, honey, ham, sugar, and lemon. For a main evening meal. No savoury course. It was like my works was turned upside down and my childhood dreams had come true. But I felt very uncomfortable with it.

GuybrushThreepwoodMP · 14/04/2015 15:05

*jam

GuybrushThreepwoodMP · 14/04/2015 15:06

Sorry. My post was totally incoherent. Such was my discomfort with the concept of chocolate breakfasts or entirely suger-based dinners.

ArcheryAnnie · 14/04/2015 15:15

I did wonder how the ham came into it....

squoosh · 14/04/2015 15:17

Guy you're clearly still shaken up by the experience!

Middlerose · 14/04/2015 15:23

Leave the bastard. And take the pains with you.

McButtonwillow · 14/04/2015 16:21

I've been inspired by this thread to purchase some on my impromptu trip into tesco's today. The dc are gong to be so happy in the morning Smile

KurriKurri · 14/04/2015 16:35

There are no rules -breakfast is just that - something you eat to break your fast - all items are acceptable - some are more healthy than others obviously, but the same can be said of lunch and tea/dinner.

My Dad always used to eat left overs from the previous night meal for breakfast - so he would eat things like a slice of meat pie and a bowl of apple crumble for breakfast, followed by a mug of very strong coffee with honey in it.
He was an ex POW so was of the 'eat whatever is available' school of thought, he never bothered with food rules. Grin

ClumsyNinja · 14/04/2015 16:36

I love pastries for brekkies on a Sunday. I usually buy the JusRol ones that you bung in the oven.

Now I'm not in the UK, I really really miss the Waitrose frozen mini pastries.
They were the yummy bollox.