Do continentals eat cheese and jam sarnies for breakfast?

[Emeye]

Just been told that I am not cultured enough as I've never heard of or seen continentals eating cheese and jam sandwiches for breakfast.

I have been to Europe quite a bit, and I do know they serve a very wide selection of meats, cheeses, breads and jams etc for breakfasts in European Hotels, but I've not come across this delicacy.

Or am I an uncultured peasant?

[Melman Giraffe]

It's a wind up

[Hugo a Gogo]

they don't believe in sarnies at all

[Emeye]

Melman Giraffe said:

It's a wind up

I don't think it's a wind up, I think they are just being thick. One of the girls has seen cheese and jam on the same breakfast platter and therefore decided you eat them together.

Bear in mind this is Oldham.

[grumbledoak]

Not sure if it is a wind up or not, but it certainly isn't true.

That said, cheddar and marmalade on toast is nice (horrible combination on bread, somehow).

[TonyHetherington]

They eat cheese for breakfast, maybe with some nice fresh cut bread.

They eat jam for breakfast, maybe on a croissant for example.

They don't mix the two though

[RumpleFugly]

Not sure who exactly you are referring to as continentals, but my Polish girlfriend and her family have the cheese and jam sandwich. Sometimes hard cheese, sometimes cream cheese.

Seems more common over there. Surprisingly tasty, too

[whoami]

I eat cheese and jam on toast.

[Mobile Chicane]

I've seen my Estonian relatives eat 'quark' - a soft cheese a bit like smooth cottage cheese - in a bowl with a blob of jam in the middle for breakfast, but never a hard cheese with jam, and never in a sandwich.

Cheese and ham together in a roll is a common breakfast combo - sure you didn't mishear?

[Gargamel]

The Swiss serve cheese and cold sliced meat for breakfast, and jam. not necessarily in the same roll.

[Emeye]

Mobile Chicane said:

I've seen my Estonian relatives eat 'quark' - a soft cheese a bit like smooth cottage cheese - in a bowl with a blob of jam in the middle for breakfast, but never a hard cheese with jam, and never in a sandwich.

Cheese and ham together in a roll is a common breakfast combo - sure you didn't mishear?

I'm pretty sure as it turned into a mass debate The girl who started this stunningly intellectual office debate thinks herself a bit posh and is always bragging about her trips to Dubai etc and her house in Salford Quays. This is just another one of her attempts at making herself look superior and cultured and failing miserably.

[whoami]

It's perfectly common.

[sunbeam alpine]

I know several continentals who eat cheese and jam (together) sandwiches for breakfast.

They learned that from me

[Scottman]

Not sure about other countries, but many people in Denmark enjoy eating bread and cheese with jam on the top for breakfast.

My wife and I are half Danish, she loves the cheese and jam combo; whereas I am not so keen.

[matrignano]

I'm always bemused by the fact that "Foreigners" really believe that we Continentals actually eat that stuff for breakfast because. I'm sure they form that opinion solely based on what hotels in the Continent serve for breakfast.

In reality, we, like almost everyone else in the developed Western world, tend to have sweet rather than savoury breakfasts, usually toast/bread with butter and jam, and milk & cereals.

[FiF]

As mentioned above Scandinavia one often sees the cheese and jam combo.

Frankly I don't know the background as to why people are trying to rip into this poor girl but they are the ones showing up a lack of worldly experience.