• tempest@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    North America has long had sweet treats as breakfast or early morning food so I’m surprised you’re surprised.

    Things like Danish, donuts, pop tarts, toaster strudel, breakfast cereal… Etc etc

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        3 months ago

        I mean we have a cereal that’s openly marketed as just a box full of mini chocolate chip cookies

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          3 months ago

          Everyone knows those cereals are for kids and only as a special treat, not an every day thing.

          If someone wants to have banana Nutella crepes for breakfast once a month I don’t think that’s a big deal. But having toast with Nutella every day (or cookie cereal) is not a normal thing to do.

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      3 months ago

      Hold up the Dutch straight up put chocolate sprinkles onto buttered toast and you’re coming at exclusively at the US? And Danish were named after somewhere. Strudel… that sounds awfully germanic… I think Europe is gaslighting us. Also I’ve had European milk chocolate, holy shit.

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        3 months ago

        The danish aren’t all overweight though. 50% of white people in the US are now. 60% or more of the general population last I checked, and it takes an immigrant on average 7 years to become as overweight as the average American.

        So something is different.