The difference between continental breakfast and American breakfast

1, continental breakfast

In terms of food, cakes (Bouriaud bread, croissants ...) and tomato toast (containing olive oil) or butter jam are the main foods.

2. American breakfast

In addition to bread, American breakfast also takes eggs and meat as the main elements. Eggs are prepared according to diners' tastes (fried eggs or scrambled eggs), and the meat is usually sausage, cured pork or fried bacon. You can also add vegetables.

Second, drinks are different.

1, continental breakfast

Drinks are usually coffee, milk, tea, or Paraguayan tea (the last one mainly exists in South America), and a cup of freshly squeezed sour juice, usually orange juice.

2. American breakfast

American breakfast usually has only coffee and no juice.

Extended data

American breakfast has the following three meanings:

1. Western breakfasts in star-rated hotels are generally divided into "continental breakfasts" and "American breakfasts". The American breakfast here has its own fixed items. Different hotels have different breakfast contents because of different stars and grades, but in general, they are all the same.

Second, the traditional breakfast in all parts of the United States may only be popular in some parts of the United States;

Third, the breakfast provided by American community restaurants.

American traditional breakfast:

The United States is an immigrant country, so the American breakfast brings together the breakfast contents of Britain and continental Europe, and the items are complicated.

For example, there are boiled oatmeal, sausages, potato chips, biscuits, bread slices, soft cakes, waffles, doughnuts, French fried bread slices, English muffins, croissants, Danish buns and so on. Coffee, a daily necessity.