[Sca-cooks] Sweet or Savoury breakfast?

[Stefan li Rous]

  Margaret FitzWilliam mentioned:
> When we were in England, the "traditional English breakfast" was a
> wonderful thing--cereal, toast, bacon, eggs, sometimes sausage, fried
> tomatoes, fried mushrooms, and tea. Mmmmm.

Hmmm. So, where did the term "Continental Breakfast", meaning a simple 
pastry and maybe some juice, come from? I always thought that this 
referred to Europe, including England. But maybe this term came about 
in comparing English rather than American breakfasts to the ones in the 
rest of Europe?

Stefan
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