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

I'm not a breakfast person at all, so a holiday breakfast is usually skipped or I go for something light.

You would have been appalled by my mast holiday in Turkey OP - I ate the same bland meal every day. Because I was pre surgery and was in agony if I wasn't careful.

Hope that helps you unhoick your judgy pants.

Hotel breakfasts are buffets. Nobody is only having cornflakes. They’re having them as a little starter before they move on to the continental bread, cheese, pastries etc.

Also, supermarkets the world over all sell cereal, so clearly people outside the UK also eat it.

I’ve just come back from a trip to Africa. In most of the hotels and lodges we stayed at, we were usually the only British people and everyone else was from other parts of Europe. I can assure you plenty of them were eating cereal at breakfast.

Finally, you don’t get a medal for eating a croissant. You’re not some kind of sophisticated world traveller just because you select yogurt instead of toast. It’s laughably gauche to think otherwise.

This is me too. The cereal is my starter! I also take a pastry up to my room, in case I get hungry during the evening too.

Does it matter what other people do?

Has anyone said they couldnt possibly eat more than 5 cornflakes, and that would fill them up for the whole holiday, yet....?

Weve lost sight if what a normal breakfast is....

(A bowl would feed their family of 4 for a fornight!)

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Which is not a problem, if it is her own!

No, that's bound to happen. Have we lost sight of a healthy portion?

Yes! But only if they're English.

You want to hear what Italians, Spanish, French people and lots of other cultures would say if they were served up 'local' dishes for breakfast or any other meals, particularly the older generations when staying abroad.

Maybe they eat croissants for breakfast every day at home and then they go on holiday and think “Ooh, cornflakes! I’ve not had them in years!”

I sometimes love a wee bowl of cereal on holiday as somehow the ‘forrin’ milk makes it taste better!

Maybe they like cornflakes. It's nobody else's business anyway.

Early mornings when the stomach is waking up for people would be why I think lots like something familiar. I don’t eat corn flakes at all but DH does. The person congratulating themselves having Asian breakfast, guess what half my family are Asian and though I myself have eaten Asian breakfast many a time I just don’t fancy congee or milk tea or whatever sometimes and love myself some marmite on toast and plain old Yorkshire tea.

It’s good to embrace local culture but it doesn’t make anyone better if they eat local food.

A lot of upset stomachs don't come from poor hygiene though. Many people have delicate stomachs that are capable of being upset without this factor - eg sufferers of IBS, coeliacs, intolerances to name but one or two. A poster above mentioned the unsettling effects of flying, or sometimes just a change of water will suffice. It's more common than you think, especially as you get to middle age.

Exactly

Hit and bloody miss? The cheek of some people.

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Another factor being the type of holiday

if I am on a relaxed beach holiday then yes a large long breakfast is great.

if I am off to theme parks or a day site seeing I don’t want a massive big breakfast sitting awkwardly in my stomach all morning. I want something light -so cereal as normally do in uk.

I always picture you as Dame Katy Denise. Go on, hit me up with some flowers.

Because of free will.

You can’t win ‘em all 😁

Debbie; never change. I think on the migration threads you were more hit than miss 💕

Human beings are creatures of habit.

I agree! It all seems a bit dull and boring (especially considering the cost of a hotel breakfast….) I always love the spread and variety and treat it as an
Indulgence I wouldn’t ordinarily have. But maybe others have tricky digestion or similar

Cornflakes are American so it’s only the Americans that are not allowed to eat them outside America. It’s technically foreign food for us English. HTH.

Don’t most people have more than just one item at a hotel buffet breakfast?