Que quiere desayunar?

January and February 2010

"What would you like for breakfast?", we are asked in Argentina. The first time we heard the question we thought this was the beginning to a great breakfast, imagining fruit, yoghurt, cereal and pancakes. But soon we learn that what this means really is "Would you like Tea or Coffee? With milk?". Yes, that's the choice offered in most hotels, accompanied by stale bread and sometimes tiny croissants. Maybe the breakfast is a reflection of the massive Italian immigration into Argentina. But what speaks against this theory, is the often low quality of the "coffee".