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Jean Bean and I were just talking about this yesterday
We figured that fuul, tameya, olives, cheeses, aish, tomatoes,eggs were the staples and Jean mentioned a cereal?? Jean what was it called???
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The women I work with always have boiled eggs and flat bread in their bag for breakfast. My one TA always has oodles of fruit and she carries cream cheese and tomatoes with her as well.
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quote:Originally posted by Lady Ferret: The women I work with always have boiled eggs and flat bread in their bag for breakfast. My one TA always has oodles of fruit and she carries cream cheese and tomatoes with her as well.
I have one colleage who eats Molto
baby jam filled Molto's.............oh yeah! Posts: 3416 | Registered: Oct 2007
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i got really addicted to bran stars with plain yoghurt over the summer. I can't stand cereal that makes the milk sweet!
whenever i've had breakfast with egyptians it's been stuff like bread with white cheese and olives or tomatoes. Fuul and eggs with basterma are popular too, but you mustn't forget the milky tea! Or my worst nightmare, dairylea/la vache qui rit.
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Thanks for all the responses. What are 'aish' and 'molto' please? And...wow...real Arabs(Arabs who live in the Middle East, yes? No?) eat chocolate spread on bread for breakfast? I kind of thought that even city-bound people from Damascus all the way down south to Cairo and sidewards to the Gulf states and Algiers, Benghazi, and so on, would have a tendency to avoid processed foods
I just love the traditional Arabic staples like humus, babaganoush, stuffed vine leaves and many others. Pretty much the sort I'd have for lunch or dinner, but I've always wondered about the breakfast bit. Any Bedouins here? How do they eat? Pardon the bad spellings
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Avoid processed foods! You ever been to Cairo?
Molto are sweet croissants, I love the chocolate ones...
My friends all drink nescafe for breakfast and I have even known the kids bring in Cinnabon for breakfast! This is a bustling metropolis where people work long days and grabbing something from the store is normal.
For lunch the girls either get kushari from the lush lush lush store in Korba or a KFC!!! depends who is doing the dinner run.
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quote:Originally posted by mel: Thanks for all the responses. What are 'aish' and 'molto' please? And...wow...real Arabs(Arabs who live in the Middle East, yes? No?) eat chocolate spread on bread for breakfast? I kind of thought that even city-bound people from Damascus all the way down south to Cairo and sidewards to the Gulf states and Algiers, Benghazi, and so on, would have a tendency to avoid processed foods
I just love the traditional Arabic staples like humus, babaganoush, stuffed vine leaves and many others. Pretty much the sort I'd have for lunch or dinner, but I've always wondered about the breakfast bit. Any Bedouins here? How do they eat? Pardon the bad spellings
Don't believe what they're telling you, they're just messing with your head.
We actually drink camel piss and eat dates all year long.
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never known any to have chocolate spread on bread for breakfast! never seen that bread here either, I would kill for a normal crusty loaf
vader stop being vader
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quote:Originally posted by Ayisha: never known any to have chocolate spread on bread for breakfast! never seen that bread here either, I would kill for a normal crusty loaf
vader stop being vader
have you tried making your own bread Ayisha? Posts: 3416 | Registered: Oct 2007
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quote:Originally posted by Ayisha: never known any to have chocolate spread on bread for breakfast! never seen that bread here either, I would kill for a normal crusty loaf
vader stop being vader
have you tried making your own bread Ayisha?
Yes, lets not go there
TL that is more like an Egyptian breakfast Posts: 15090 | From: http://www.egyptalk.com/forum/ | Registered: Jul 2004
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