Denglish 21: Eggs, Cheese and Meat – High Standards for A Proper German Breakfast

My wife eats a lot of traditional German meals. For breakfast, she often arranges her plate with a semi-hard boiled egg beside a slice of dense, seedy bread, which is covered with some kind of fattening dairy spread or a horrifying layer of soft organ meat. Before we lived together, I tried to emulate this meal in order to better understand her culture; I tossed a hunk of French bread on a paper plate with some sharp cheddar cheese and a slice of pepperoni, then sent her a picture of it:

ME: “Did you see my totally German breakfast?”

THE WIFE: “…I did. It’s a start.”

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