People having cornflakes in hotels abroad

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I have stayed in many hotels across Europe. Why do many British people have cornflakes for breakfast? The most boring breakfast.
I have different things to what I have at home

It's why the Buddhist vegan diet is so bland, it was a belief across a lot of religions. The Japanese traditional diet is considered the oldest example of that belief.

I wish my life was so free of worries, stresses and strains that I felt the need to comment on others people’s breakfasts choices.

I very rarely have cereal at home, and if I do it's never cornflakes, it's fruit and fibre.

So there's every chance that, if I am staying somewhere with cornflakes or rice krispies or some other cereal from my childhood, that one of the days I'm there I'll have some, for nostalgia's sake.

Judge away. Honestly, if what you are doing on your holiday is studying what other people are having for breakfast then I'm probably having the better time anyway.

Is that why I got banned from Premier Inn?

I’ve never had corn flakes, I might try some next time I’m at a hotel buffet!

C'mon OP you know why; it is because us Brits are all ignorant, insular, bigoted smoothbrains who are inherently suspicious of foreign things like croissants and fruit. All other nationalities are better than us with their more cultured, adventurous, eclectic outlook on life. If only we had somebody who could instil some of those magical foreigners' joie de vivre into our uniformly dour national psyche.

Wait - maybe you could do it?

It's a reasonable question to ask. I sometimes wonder if all the people who flock round the breakfast buffet really eat like that at home? I mean, I would LOVE to have pastries for breakfast at home but I'd be the size of a house by now if I did that - I have no self control when croissants are concerned.

I would guess that some people like the predictability of cornflakes (having been with a man who would eat the same things at the same time of day, every day of the year, Christmas included). Some like the novelty (I don't have cornflakes in the house). Maybe they've got a huge lunch coming up and don't want to spoil their appetite. Maybe they are hungover and cornflakes is all they can manage.

It might be a dull question, but dull questions have validity too!

I don’t eat cornflakes at home and sometimes I am just over all the unhealthy cheap filler buffet breakfast food.

I've sadly not been abroad for over 10 years.
When I do, I will not be spending an expensive holiday eating cheap processed children's shit cereal!

Ooh…….get you with your fresh figs 🙄

People go on holiday for all different reasons. Food may not be the reason they've gone somewhere new... Live and let live.

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I sometimes wonder if all the people who flock round the breakfast buffet really eat like that at home?

The answer is very definitely, no.

If you go away and plan to eat like you do at home, you are doing holidays wrong.

I'm loving the competitive porridge making at 8am on Sunday.

Imagine going on holiday, having breakfast and looking forward to the day, thinking about what interesting or relaxing things you can do- but instead you look at what other people are eating and judge them.

Isn't that the fun part?

She wasn't wondering idly though.
She was judging.. its the "its the most boring breakfast"

As you can see for many posters its a bit of a novelty. Hence to them not a boring breakfast..

On a side line I really fancy cornflakes now and I know we haven't got any... wonder if I can talk.dh into going to the shops...

Comfort food
Convenient
May be wary of eating foreign food
Cautious of hygiene or buffet hot foods
Neurodivergence
Allergies or intolerance
Eating disorder
It's a normal breakfast meal

It doesn't effect you

I'm trying to recover from an Eating disorder and I hate people looking at or judging my food choices. It's a really sensitive topic for me so i make sure that I leave people alone when it comes to what they eat. You don't know what people are dealing with. It won't be that deep in most circumstances but you can never be sure.

Well, as a Coeliac, depending on how well geared up the hotel or B&B it, it may be one of the few options I can eat!

I have visions of the OP as a little Miss Marple, following people around the breakfast buffet trying to subtly provoke them into speaking so she find out which nationality they are.

I have coffee every morning at home. I drink it in bed. I do the same on holiday too.

Great advice. I hope things are going well for you. I never look at people's plates or judge what they're eating for that very reason. 💐

This thread needs to be more Mumsnet. Are they wearing pyjamas and Ugg boots while they eat their cornflakes?

Why does it make a difference whether they eat it at home or in a hotel? They're probably having something else after anyway if it's a buffet

I once had egg and chips for breakfast when on holiday. It was very nice. I look forward to visiting London again.

It's none of your business what others have for breakfast! Maybe just each your own?