Breakfasts in hotels

kwest

One of the meanest people I have ever known would always ask for a doggy bag to take home any food left on her plate when going out for a meal. It made me cringe. She was not remotely hard up.
I would not ever consider taking extra food for later. it is demeaning and would spoil the whole experience of having a meal out if I was with anyone who thought it was o.k. to be skulking around with bags of left over food.

I liked reading your post. A relative had an 80th birthday and one of the guests, after the main course was finished, went around with her freezer bag collecting all the bits of food left on the guests plates. It was sooooooooo embarrassing. She said it was for her cat. Poor cat!

And I’ve poached a few tips from the thread👍🏻🍳🥚

Well, it's been an egg-cellent post, even though some got in a scramble! 😂😂😂

Galaxy

An emotional rollercoaster.

Filled with imaginary pastries and boiled eggs. Like the Father Christmas film by Raymond Briggs when St Nick gets food poisoning in France..also for being a glutton

An emotional rollercoaster.

It has been quite a journey 😂😂😂

JaneJudge

mabon1

You are stealing and greedy to boot, shame on you.

Who? 😂 who would have thought it would get to 14 pages long ..

😂 It might be me, but I'm still satisfied weeks later! 😂😂

I regret nothing!

So pleased that you had a great time JaneJudge.

I expect this is the longest thread you've ever started, Jane.

The greedy British, the greedy French, the greedy Dutch, definitely the greedy Germans and the Greedy Italians (at the hotel where we stayed in Italy recently),
The greedy students, the greedy wedding guests, the greedy carvery customers who pile their plates to overflowing . . .
They all play a part in making others feel better.

mabon1

You are stealing and greedy to boot, shame on you.

Who is that directed at? No-one is stealing or being greedy - but you are being very rude!

Glad to hear you had such a lovely hotel break for your anniversary JaneJudge 🥂

(I’m a little disappointed you didn’t sit a croissant into the bottom of your handbag and take a photo of it to post on this thread. I’d love to see the reaction 😆)

mabon1

You are stealing and greedy to boot, shame on you.

Who? 😂 who would have thought it would get to 14 pages long ..

You are stealing and greedy to boot, shame on you.

Many years ago we went to France to see the eclipse of the sun. At the hotel there was a big display of food for a continental breakfast. People descended on it like a plague of locusts filling bags with food. By the time we got there there was hardly anything left. Our friend asked for more and the waiter said there was no more “the greedy British have stolen it all” and in truth they had.

Sounds like a really nice hotel.

Oh, that sounds lovely, JaneJudge - glad you enjoyed your break!

Lovely!

I'm back. We just had the cooked option. The food was out of this world really. I felt I'd eaten too much rich food in a 3 day sitting but it was lovely. The hotel made us home made macarons for our anniversary which was a lovely touch. I feel I have been spoiled

For us it's a big non-no. I agree on taking a banana or a wrapped biscuit if you're travelling with a small child but anything more than that is just greedy, not done. If you plan to spend the day somewhere with no shops or restaurants you can always ask the staff for a packed lunch. We use a hotel where they do just that on simple demand, they provide you with a nice hamper if you want to have lunch on the beech. Or they might tell you to take anything you want from the buffet, and charge you extra, or not! Much better than popping food in your handbag 😊

DH is a big fan of tomato juice but, disappointingly, it's often from this premixed tomato juice cocktail bottles.
Once while staying in Malta we found that German women just cleared the buffet breakfasts leaving nothing for us! The hotel staff just shrugged. We ended up having to go earlier and earlier to get anything and shamelessly pushing to grab something edible.

JaneJudge

I really wouldn’t have put ricotta and eggs together tbh but it was actually lovely. The tomato juice hit the fruit button. Why has fresh tomato juice gone out of fashion? It’s so lovely and refreshing

That sounds lovely. And I agree with you about the tomato juice - I love it too.

I have loved this post, thank you.
Would just like to add two things.
I don’t eat breakfast, never have. Just don’t feel like it. My Husband might have cornflakes then some bacon and tomato. We do love a hot cup of tea though.
We’ve lived in France for ten years. Breakfast on holiday is usually mainly pain au raisin or croissants, sweet yoghurt and jam, maybe cold meats and cheese!!? Never bacon and sausage. People are usually given limited amounts of the yogs/cold meats etc. seems to be little waste.
However, it was sad to see our local Chinese banquet restaurant being exposed to lots of greed. €14.00 euros per head was for all you could eat. Even knowing that I’ve seen couples stacking their plates Sky high with Chinese prawns and maybe a tablespoon of rice. Nothing more than returning to the buffet for the same again, sometimes twice. No thought of other diners and I think that’s similar to this breakfast post. I found it to be an embarrassing thing to do, sad to say, they were almost always Brits. Maybe it’s in the DNA for some holiday goers. If you need every penny worth and it consumes your holiday experience then go camping, take your own food and have a lovely time. Slaughter me for this view if you wish. Not Bovvered xxx

I really wouldn’t have put ricotta and eggs together tbh but it was actually lovely. The tomato juice hit the fruit button. Why has fresh tomato juice gone out of fashion? It’s so lovely and refreshing