In this video, I talk about breakfast in France. You'll learn vocabulary words about food in France and a little bit about French culture 🙂 If you liked the video, don't hesitate to like it and subscribe to the channel, it encourages me a lot!!! Thank you

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 0:54 - The pastries
• 1:55 - French toast
• 3:08 - The bread
• 4:00 - Butter
• 4:36 - The fruit jam
• 5:00 - Cereals
• 6:30 - The eggs
• 7:04 - Drinks (fruit juice, tea, coffee...)
• 7:58 - Conclusion

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Transcript video breakfast in France

Hello everyone. I hope you're all well. So today we're going to talk about breakfast. In France, breakfast is the first meal of the day. In this video, you'll learn some new words about food in French. But you'll also be able to discover things about French culture, about what we eat in France.

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The first thing you need to know about breakfast in France is that the French love viennoiseries. So, what are "viennoiseries"? Viennoiseries are foodstuffs found in boulangeries, so they're somewhere between breads and pastries. So it could be, for example, a croissant, a pain au chocolat, a brioche or chouquettes.

These are very fatty and very sweet foods, so, as you can imagine, the French don't really eat them every day, because it's really not very healthy, and it would mean going to the bakery every morning to get your viennoiserie. On a day-to-day basis, we don't really eat this, it's more for weekends or special occasions, or when we don't have time to have breakfast at home and just pop into the boulangerie before going to work.

Another traditional breakfast in France is French toast. We call it pain perdu because we're going to use bread that would be lost, so we'd have to throw it away if we didn't make this recipe. In fact, we're going to use sliced bread that's several days old, a little hardened, a little stale. So we'll take this bread, soak it in a container of milk. Then we'll soak it in another container with an egg that we've beaten, and then we'll put it in a frying pan with a little butter.

We cook it on both sides and once it's ready, we sprinkle it with a little sugar. So again, we don't really eat this every day, it's a traditional breakfast, but it's true that we do this quite rarely. Firstly, because we don't often have time to cook in the morning.

What do we actually eat for breakfast every day in France? Of course, there's the traditional baguette de pain.

So often, there's this cliché, this stereotype of the French walking around with a baguette under their arm. So, it's really an image, the French don't do that, but on the other hand, the French really do eat a lot of baguette. In the morning, you can also find another type of bread, sliced bread. This could be farmhouse bread, for example, or bread with seeds. In the morning, you can also eat rusks. Rusk is like toast, small rectangles or squares of already toasted, fairly hard bread. So we buy this at the supermarket, already packaged.

On baguettes, sliced bread or rusks, we generally eat butter. In France, there are several types of butter. There's sweet butter, semi-salted butter and salted butter. So, as you can imagine, in sweet butter there's no salt, in semi-salted butter there's a little salt, in salted butter there's a lot of salt, so it tastes salty. We also often put jam on our toast or bread. It could be strawberry jam, orange jam, apricot jam or, for example, cherry jam.

Another very common breakfast in France is cereal. I think it's a very common breakfast all over the world. So, kids will pretty much eat cereal every day. So in a bowl, they'll put cereal with cold milk. But adults often eat cereals too. For example, in the morning, I like to have muesli. Muesli is rolled oats, often with seeds and dried fruit, and I put it in milk, yoghurt or fromage frais.

So, fromage blanc is a bit like yoghurt, but a little thicker, a little fatter. It's also got more protein, so it gives you a bit more energy for the day. I'll put muesli with yoghurt, for example, and I'll cut up pieces of fruit and put them in a bowl. For example, in summer, I'll have peaches or apricots. In winter, apples or bananas.

As you can see, in France, the classic breakfast is rather sweet. In other countries, breakfast is more salty. But it's true that I also like to eat savoury food in the morning. For example, I'll put a bit of cheese on bread or I'll make myself boiled eggs with "mouillettes". So mouillettes are little sticks of bread that you dip in egg, or I like to make fried eggs.

But it's true that in France, that's not the norm, it's not common to do that in the morning or at weekends when you have a bit more time. So, for drinks in general, adults go for coffee or tea.

Kids, they'll take cocoa powder in milk instead. So it can be a hot chocolate or cold milk with cocoa. Very often in France too, we will have a glass of fruit juice with our breakfast.

The most common is orange juice. You can either buy it in a carton at the supermarket or in a bottle, or you can squeeze it yourself, which means you get fresh orange juice. So, you make it yourself in the morning. But there are also other fruit juice flavors, like grapefruit juice or apple juice, for example.

That's it for today, I hope you were able to learn some new vocabulary words about food in French, but also that you were able to learn some new things about French culture and especially the culinary culture of food in France. If you liked the video, don't hesitate to put a like and above all, subscribe to the channel to see more content. See you soon.