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AIBU?

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

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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

OP posts:

squoosh · 14/04/2015 16:38

A slice of meat pie followed by a bowl of apple crumble sounds eminently more tempting than a bowl of soggy cornflakes!

Lilymaid · 14/04/2015 16:39

Nothing better than a selection of viennoiserie (including pain au chocolat) for breakfast with a bowl of hot chocolate or café au lait.

FrenchJunebug · 14/04/2015 16:50

actually pain au chocolat can be either a breakfast item or a gouter item (i.e. 4 o'clock).

EvansOvalPiesYumYum · 14/04/2015 16:53

Anything you want to eat first thing in the morning is a breakfast item ( isn't it )

We flip from full English Breakfast, to Pain au Chocolat or plain Croissants, to pancakes with bacon and maple syrup, to scrambled egg with smoked salmon, mushroom omelette, toasted sandwich (or leftover curry, cold pizza or Chinese takeaway).

You can have sweet, or savoury, or sweet & savoury - It's whatever you fancy or whatever you've got.

Is it only the chocolate your DP has an issue with OP, or is it simply anything that's sweet? Either way, he's wrong, completely wrong. x x x

londonrach · 14/04/2015 16:55

I had hot cross buns for breakfast this morning. Anyone else enjoying them at the moment...

EvansOvalPiesYumYum · 14/04/2015 16:56

Danish pastries are delicious for brekkie (or doughnuts) - Yummy yum yum

(I eat leftover reheated roast dinners sometimes, for a Monday breakfast)
Mmmmm - really sets me up for the day

limitedperiodonly · 14/04/2015 17:03

I'm not against chocolate or jam fans but I've got into crumpets with lashings of salty butter again for breakfast.

I don't know why I always thought of them as a winter thing. It's warming up but in the mornings it's still cool enough to enjoy them in all their crunchy, squidgy, buttery, drooly goodness.

EvansOvalPiesYumYum · 14/04/2015 17:18

A lightly toasted bagel with butter, peanut butter and jam

Pancakes with Cadbury's Chocolate spread (not Nutella), golden syrup and a blob of cream.

LikeABadSethRogenMovie · 14/04/2015 17:18

I used to live in Paris and would get one most days, walk DC1 to Jardin de Luxembourg while he napped and enjoy it in the sunshine. I'm presuming it was the walking that kept me so slim because it sure as Hell wasn't the pastries

squoosh · 14/04/2015 17:19

I can't get on with bagels, they're just too doughy for me. You need to set aside at least 45 mins to eat one.

EvansOvalPiesYumYum · 14/04/2015 17:20

Well, there's your exercise for the day, surely?

limitedperiodonly · 14/04/2015 17:28

Boiled bread is terrible. I used to visit beigel bakeries at 1am with friends because I liked them more than I liked cream cheese, smoked salmon and jawbreaking rolls served up with a snarl.

squoosh · 14/04/2015 17:36

You're a good friend. I'd have only gone along if I was promised I'd get a slice of cheesecake.

JemFinch · 14/04/2015 17:41

My theory is the French feed their DC chocolate for breakfast and send them to school so they don't deal with the sugar high. Their afternoon snacks aren't chocolate.

Seems like a good idea to me

malefridgeblindness · 14/04/2015 17:41

I have a stock of waitrose frozen pain au chocolat and pain au raisin in my freezer. Dc can have them for breakfast any day or for gouter. Having them as part of lunch or dinner would be odd.

malefridgeblindness · 14/04/2015 17:44

JemFinch the gouter is the after school snack and it is quite often sweet - perhaps a pastry or cake or some poached fruit or baguette with Nutella or jam...

TheMagnificientFour · 14/04/2015 17:46

How can you have Pain Au Chocolat for pudding?

Now THAT is unacceptable.

TheMagnificientFour · 14/04/2015 17:47

Or baguette with 2 squares of chocolate inside.
That was my snack when I was a kid.

ljwales · 14/04/2015 17:54

They are a holiday breakfast item only, I like to have a good figure.

limitedperiodonly · 14/04/2015 18:17

It's not even good cheesecake squoosh. It's not creamy enough.

Judaism has some fine points but cuisine is not one of them. Chopped liver v chicken liver with butter. No contest.

I had a much-beloved Jewish boyfriend but it was never going to last. But it was fun while it did.

I like to think of myself as the critical friend v his mother

She won.

GuybrushThreepwoodMP · 14/04/2015 18:20

DH likes to have toast with butter and then a thick layer of that red beet sugar on it (vergeoise brune). Ugh. I'm amazed that I even married him.

Morelikeguidelines · 14/04/2015 19:40

Yanbu. They are a breakfast item. They are certainly not pudding.

fourteen · 14/04/2015 19:44

In Danish supermarkets in the cereal aisle you can get packs of breakfast chocolate.

It's chocolate in thin slices which you melt onto a piece of bread. Yum.

Royalsighness · 14/04/2015 19:52

YANBU, they are a staple in this house.

fourteen · 14/04/2015 20:26

In Danish supermarkets in the cereal aisle you can get packs of breakfast chocolate.

It's chocolate in thin slices which you melt onto a piece of bread. Yum.

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