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

Exactly. I call them the ‘wide eyed’ threads.

‘But why do some people not drive / not want kids / have only one kid / put their Christmas trees up in November?’

I can happily reserve the right to think some things are daft or not to my taste while accepting that other people are happy with them.

Yes same. Going say to the east makes my routine very thrown for a few days with jet lag.

eating a normal breakfast helps -I may add more yoghurt or fruit juice but I stick to known food.
as lunch and dinner out will be more local meals -and a lot of rice also doesn’t help my stomach either.

DebbieSavage
Is it really British people who are like this or just English people actually? I find that the Scots and Welsh are much more open to embracing the food of another culture, whereas English people stick with the same stodgy inedible crap that the country is (in)famous for.
Am Irish and if someone was to stereotype our nation based on my food they’d say the same- I am a cornflake eater and I adore fry ups!! If they were to stereotype based on dh they’d say all Irish were healthy! 😂

Ps enjoy your holiday op!!

Now I'm wondering if the OP is sneaking around with a notepad checking that only English people are eating cornflakes. What does she do if a French family indulges in this Englishness? Congratulate them for eating foreign food or berate them if they are in Spain for not eating paella for breakfast?

I might be overthinking this post...

So, you've spoken to every English person and found out they're all exactly the same in their attitude to food?!
😂😂

Enjoying holidays is about finding the right balance of new and known.

You don't want to replicate your home and you don't want to change everything at once. So what if (part of the) breakfast goes the known way?

She won't. She'll be policing food intake.

I really want a bowl of cornflakes now.

I’m English. I don’t know anyone who won’t try other cuisines. All my family and friends eat an array of different foods. Are you basing it on one or two English people you know?

I can't bear the thought of a big greasy fry up in the morning but thousands of others will disagree with me .
But I've never judged them for it and I'm sure they don't judge me for my cornflakes and/or toast !I

I have to eat a high fibre cereal at home, but I miss cofrnflakes, I had them for breakie before school growing up. Which is why I always treat myself to them on holiday.

OP - they are foreign cornflakes. And it is foreign milk. An entirely different experience to Kellogg's Cornflakes and Tesco milk. So they are experiencing breakfast in a different way. Discuss.

It does seem a rather ignorant post. I’m pretty sure that poster doesn’t know me or anyone I know so they don’t know the eating habits of all English people. They probably had one experience of one English person who does their weekly shop at Greggs.

It also seems a bit rich a Scot complaining about stodge when the deep fried Mars bar originated there.

Don't have a go at me. She started it.

I presume thats what they like. Maybe they aren't there for the food.

You said "you're right about the English".
That's what she's challenging.

I was just agreeing with @DebbieSavage who spotted this cultural truth.

True! 🤣

I have Weetabix for breakfast on holiday. I don’t like sugary pastries first thing in the morning and it means my bowels don’t clamp shut and I can enjoy the things I actually want to try for lunch and dinner. Hope that’s OK.

You were talking nonsense.

I am English. I only eat stodgy English food, like all my fellow Englanders.

Obviously, eating familiar foods while abroad on holiday is not just the preserve of the English. Most hotels serve a wide variety of cuisines for breakfast and I often see the people of other European countries eating the foods from their own cultures like dutch cheeses and meats etc.

You rarely see anyone embracing the English fry up other than Brits but I do see British people abroad tucking into ham, cheese, pastries, fresh fruit and yoghurt abroad.

Was @DebbieSavage talking nonsense? What is nonsense about it?