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Wow -- never got offered chocolate for breakfast during the years in Bruxelles, but don't doubt it. For us, breakfast was usually an expresso (NOT 'espresso' -- see my recent rant/post on SE) and a croissant.

Occasionally, one of us would troop up to the French-speaking patisserie for something nice like a creme tart, or else troop down to the equi-distant Flemish-speaking bakery for some fresh white bread (never a baguette or baton at breakfast, please -- we were such snobs).

On holidays, solar eclipses or other rare occasions such as wins by the Belgian national football [soccer] team, eggs cocotte were the rule.

There was always, of course, chocolate muesli. Not "Mueslix" whatever the heck that is on the American grocery shelf.

Yea, the waffles are for tourists, but also for hungry Bruxelloises at Metro stops on the way home. :)

All in all, the Belgian breakfast is a complement and a compliment to the natural way of eating things to which all humans should subscribe, which is expressed here by way of mantra:

Small Breakfast, Large Lunch, Small Dinner.

@Solid Skink: despite the white bread, northern Europeans don't have the obesity problems Americans have, eh? There's a lesson in that, similar to the "French Paradox," I think

Ah, to live in Belgium or Netherlands. Can anyone get me a job over there?

tell them to come to new orleans. our idea of fixing a sinkhole in the middle of the road is to fill it with gravel over and over again until it swallows a car, then maybe do something. maybe it will make kfc more socially acceptable here. popeyes arent be fixin no roads.

In this economy, I for one will take their money thankyouverymuch. Now, does anyone have the phone number for Hooters?

@applecore:

I don't know, but I'm going to keep my eye on the Fuddrucker's sign all the same.

I don't know - it's kind of making me feel better about having KFC cravings lately. If I were eating one of my guilty pleasures, I'd feel better at least knowing the advertising isn't just more junk cluttering up my life.

It says "ice" in Korean phonetically! hahahah!!

Oh my goodness, I miss the corn ice cream novelties I used to eat in Beijing. Those didn't have the chocolate shell or whatever that is, though - just mildly corn-flavored ice cream wrapped in something like a Communion wafer. On a stick!

Daniel doesn't know what he's talking about. I blogged about the corn ice cream a long time ago. It's awesome!

I had a sweet corn popsicle in thailand and it was amazing. Sweet corn is all over the place in SE Asia, and I liked pretty much all of it :)

http://picasaweb.google.com/daneatsthroughasia/Thailand#5200271863649978242