Sweet Italian Breakfast- Myth or Reality. ☕ - Easy Italian 243

In Italy, breakfast is always sweet. Cornetto, cappuccino, brioche, cakes. Is it really like that, or is it just a stereotype? Let's find out together! What's your typical breakfast like? Coffee with milk, then a slice of toasted bread with spreadable cheese and jam. Eggs, toast, and avocado. Well, my typical breakfast actually varies. I like to mix it up. I like to change my outfit depending on the weather, whether it's hot or cold. But in the morning I usually drink tea—green tea—often with some biscuits, or maybe, I don't know, some toast. I really like peanut butter with raspberry jam. Right in the American style, but it's absolutely delicious. The toasted bread. And yet in summer, when tea then starts to be a bit, how should I put it, hard to drink, I eat Greek yogurt, for example, with cereals or with dried fruit and fresh fruit. What's your typical breakfast like? Mine is salty, I always prefer it salty, toast or cappuccino. Mine is a brioche, a snack bar over there, and a cappuccino, made by machine. Well, my breakfast is the classic Italian breakfast, slightly revised, shall we say, in an English style. So let's start with the premise of beginning with a rich coffee, soy milk, scrambled eggs with bacon. and a protein shake, since I follow a healthy diet and have been doing fitness for many years. Well, usually, very standard, I almost always have milk, coffee, and milk and cookies. Or sometimes I switch to a croissant, but usually milk and cookies. Sometimes I use tea when I don't have milk at home, I mean, but always sweet, milk with biscuits. It's quite light—just a few crackers, three or four with jam, and a cup of tea, that's enough. My typical sweet breakfast usually consists of cookies, milk, toast, and similar things. Coffee with oat milk, and on Saturdays and Sundays, a Rioche cappuccino—I allow myself that. A coffee with some biscuits or tea with some biscuits—nothing special. Hi Fotis! Good morning, I have just woken up. What's your typical breakfast like? You've arrived just in time, because I have to go do it now that I've just gotten up completely. The typical breakfast in Italy, especially up here in the north, would be a brioche, a croissant, or a cornetto—basically the same thing. What do you drink? The very classic Italian beverage, cappuccino. A macchiato and a chocolate cookie, please. Can you order breakfast in Italian? If you want to review the useful words and expressions for ordering breakfast in Italy, I recommend doing our exercises. Come? Just join the Easy Italian community. Every week we prepare fun activities for you to review the content of each video. To learn more, click the link in the description. Do you prefer sweet or savory breakfast? That was salty, but recently, because usually I had my usual breakfast with biscuits. Instead, now I've discovered that the savory one is much better. Why is it much better? Because it leaves you a bit more alert in the morning, less weighed down. That's what they were saying; I tried it myself, and it really does work. Do you prefer sweet or savory breakfast? In Italy, when I'm in Italy, I prefer a sweet breakfast because it's also very widespread, I think, here. You'll find it from the bar all the way to the pastry shop, all the way to the famous bakeries that are now booming throughout Italy. On the other hand, when I'm abroad, I might prefer a savory breakfast. Sweet, sweet, 100% sweet. My preference leans more toward savory, because I find it a bit healthier, so to speak. I mean, I'd rather have breakfast with, I don't know, some baked ham, as I was saying, a bit of scrambled eggs, rather than sweet cookies that might still be fatty and harmful to our body, here you go. Then actually, I'd also like that savory one. The reason I often make it sweet is that I have less time and therefore do it more quickly, in short. I'll eat three or four cookies, maybe packaged ones, warm up the milk for a moment, and I'll be done faster. But having time, I would very much like to make the savory one too, yes. At home, I generally prefer sweet things, but when I travel, I like savory ones because they give me energy and keep me going throughout the day. Sweet in general. Do you ever usually have a savory breakfast? It mostly happened abroad, but consuming such large amounts of fat starting from morning seems a bit excessive to me. Do you prefer sweet or savory breakfast? Sweet, then if I wake up late, also savory, it kind of depends on what time I wake up, maybe. It depends a bit on that, but I usually make it sweet. It's sweet. Sweet all my life. Why? I like sweet things, whereas my daughters, for example, prefer savory ones; between a slice of pizza and a cake, they prefer pizza. If I go out to a restaurant, I'll definitely get dessert, the rest is optional. You never have a savory breakfast? It depends, it depends on her, but it depends, it depends on that. How often do you have breakfast outside the home? Nowadays, hardly ever, when I travel. When I'm in Parma, where I live, I usually always do it at home. And when you take someone out, what do you usually order? Cappuccino and brioche. How often do you have breakfast outside the home? Every weekend, always—actually, I even have an Instagram page dedicated specifically to breakfasts; the link is below, isn't it? What's the name of your page? Briochettini. What do you usually have for breakfast when eating out? Then my absolute favorite is a croissant or brioche with apricot jam. That's what we used to say, but now that times have somewhat evolved and trends have also changed, I'm more of a fan of chocolate penne, Swiss penne, or cinnamon rolls— I really love cinnamon—these are my favorite, so to speak. And what do you usually drink? The cappuccino. How often do you have breakfast outside the home? Once a week, at most two. And what do you usually take out of the house? Cappuccino and croissant. I always, almost every day for work, so in the morning at the station I treat myself to my nice toast, If I bring the eggs with me, I'll make them at home and then eat them on the train later. Only occasionally, because of work, construction sites, and such things, only occasionally, but almost always at home. What do you usually order when you go out for breakfast? Brioche with Nutella and macchiato milk, simple, chill for sure. How often do you have breakfast outside the home? May. Well, usually at most once or twice a month. No more, in short, no. What do you usually order? I'm usually very, very routine-oriented; with this cappuccino and croissant, it's always empty, strictly empty, with nothing in it. Always empty, always, always? Always empty, always empty; in fact, whenever I go out with my friends, they tell me I always have the same breakfast. Every now and then they tell me, "Come on, change, try something else," but no. I'm very habitual about this. How often do you have breakfast outside the home? It depends; sometimes it's a little treat I allow myself—say one or two, on average once a week, though sometimes I skip it, it just depends a bit. And what do you usually take out of the house? Ah, a classic, soy cappuccino since I can't drink milk, and a croissant. We only go out of the house when we're out and about, staying at a hotel—which happens occasionally—or otherwise we usually do it at home. Even on weekends, for example, do you have breakfast at home? Yes, yes, we don't usually go to the bar, especially since my wife only drinks coffee, so... Is it useless? How often do you have breakfast outside the home? Not often, I must say—maybe once a month—but I always do it at home, honestly. And usually, when you're out, what do you order? Cappuccino, lactose-free because I'm intolerant, and a classic brioche, usually this one. Hardly ever lately. And usually, when you have breakfast outside the house, what do you have? A croissant, a coffee. How often do you have breakfast outside the home? Once a week, no more than that. But it's more convenient at home—I wake up and then go to work; I don't find the commute so convenient. or a moment of pleasure to enjoy during vacation or on weekends. And what does she usually have for breakfast when eating out? A sweet thing that could be either a local specialty from the place I was. Or the classic croissant, or if I see some homemade cakes, I go for the homemade cake. In your opinion, is your breakfast different from the breakfast your parents or grandparents had? Well, I'm Bolivian, so no, it's always been like this—a savory breakfast every morning. So I don't know why I never asked my grandmother what breakfast she used to have, But at the end it was always that, brioche, latte macchiato, cappuccino. But even my dad, in the end, was a bit on the salty side too—ham in the morning. Yes, it is a bit different from mine, yes, even from my parents—it is different. Absolutely yes, let's say my parents, who are 60 years old They were perhaps a bit more accustomed to drinking water with bread, milk, water with bread, and all those things, or dry biscuits, and so on. In your opinion, is your breakfast different from the breakfast your parents or grandparents had? Yes, certainly absolutely, now we have all the useful tools to understand even all the nutritional principles, macronutrients and so on, so one might also choose based on these specific aspects of prevention and nutrition. What did your grandparents eat, for example? What did the grandparents eat? Probably coffee and cake, perhaps. As for homemade cakes, very simple ones, one might even say lacking in ingredients, but tartes—I don't know. My grandparents, yes, but not my parents. My parents have pretty much the same breakfast as I do, and I think my grandparents did too—I'm quite sure it was different. What did you used to eat? Do you remember? In my opinion, they probably ate bread and oil, did something like that, yes, I think so, if I'm not mistaken, yes. Where am I from? I'm not from Abruzzo, that's why, perhaps for this reason. Is your breakfast different from that of your parents or grandparents? No, I don't believe it, I don't believe it—I've been used to this more or less, yes, it's always been like this, I've always had this breakfast, I mean. Do you follow family traditions? Absolutely. Maybe yes, because as a child there was milk, perhaps with bread from the previous day, and yes, jam too, sometimes, not always, perhaps. Then it's different, because, as we said, times have changed, so maybe my parents have breakfast with slices of dry toast and jam a bit more old-fashioned, so to speak. Is there a typical Florentine dessert you eat for breakfast, or something typical? A typical Florentine dessert is sponge cake, more or less, and sometimes whipped cream is added inside—it's a true Florentine specialty. Apart from that, there isn't much in the way of desserts here. In your opinion, is your breakfast different from the breakfast your parents or grandparents had? Partly from my parents, in the sense that certainly cookies, crispbread, jams—something we've carried over even from our grandparents—probably, whereas perhaps Greek yogurt with seeds is something a bit more innovative. As for my grandparents, I don't know why they always lived far away from me, so I don't know how they used to have breakfast, but in my opinion, biscuits were always there, so that's a real classic, you could say, among Italians. Have you maintained the tradition? More or less partly, we maintain partly modernize. What do you usually have for breakfast when eating out in Sicily? Outside, granita and brioche, of course. Fantastic, we're done. What's your breakfast like? Sweet or savory? What do you usually eat? Write it in the comments. Hello. Wait. I can't remember anymore. Instead, let's start with this question. Fasting. It does not come from fasting. Indeed, he is fasting. Is he fasting because he is fasting? Is it a fast because it's a fasting day? What's up?