From the realms of brunch-obsessed London, my best friend recently sent me a screenshot of a tweet that was going viral on the Twitterverse. “Italy went so mf hard on dinner and lunch that they had nothing left to give for breakfast… just coffee and the worst pastries you’ve ever tasted,” it read. Hundreds of comments flooded in, and over 10k people duly re-tweeted.
The responses for and against Italian breakfasts were impassioned on both sides, and made for a good chuckle over my own Italian breakfast. Some people, clearly, were not fans: “Cornetto tastes like stale panettone Christmas cake,” tweeted one user. “Cantucci are like hard breadsticks with some nuts in it,” wrote another. And there was a lot of hate for “weird pre-made toast in plastic bags”–fette biscottate–best enjoyed with marmalades, stracchino or chocolate spread.
