Eurobeakfasts

OP, I think in most, maybe even all, parts of Germany what you saw is breakfast food, not lunch food. MTL's saying is true for the Netherlands, and possibly also for Scandinavian countries (not sure). Workplace cafeterias are a big source of complaints among expats in the Netherlands: there is no hot food for lunch. Bread and cold meat or cheese only.

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In Sweden lunch is a warm fork & knife dish. People usually go out for lunch to nearby restaurants, where "dagens rätt" (the dish of the day) is served, between 11 and 14. In larger work places there are lunch restaurants, where there are usually three or four dishes to choose from, and salad buffet.

Eurobreakfasts are there for one reason and one reason only.

To be gathered up and shoved into your backpack for a picnic lunch down the track.

DD
I do it sometimes. I'm not a morning person, and all I can swallow in the morning is coffee, possibly a banana and yoghurt.
I can make a sandwich, wrap it in a tissue and take it with me. (the way cheaper travellers have been known for).

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<hr>what the hell kind of place have you been staying in to get fried beans on a full English? Baked beans, yes, fried, noooooooooooo.<hr></blockquote>

WRONG ANSWER!

Fried, yeeeeeeees!

I always tip the canned beans into to bacon fat and tasty grubbit residues in the pan and FRIE them. Don't you?

If so, why not?

Quelle richesse...!!!!

Mishmish at #4 - sorry but you are wrong on a couple of your assertions-

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<hr> no toasts unless cold and packaged<hr></blockquote> Your are wrong here - toast is the norm in UK
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<hr>and certainly no fresh veggies,<hr></blockquote> perhaps not any peas or broccoli for breakfast but tomatoes are very common..

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<hr>no cooked starches (such as rice, cream of wheat or oatmeal)<hr></blockquote> This is tosh - what about Porridge?

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<hr> (no) egg things or pan fried meat of any type.<hr></blockquote> err - see full english breakfast replies

Europe is a wide and varied continent and most of the things you mentioned are eaten somewhere or other over here...

Desayunos Españoles consisten de un churro, (o, pan tostado con mantequilla, o un cuernito), un cafecito y un cigarillo.
They were not suffficient to support life as I know it. Fortunately, we found that bars often have the better breakfasts. At this bar, between Sol and the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, Los Pinchitos, we found sardine and chorizo sandwiches (separately) to sustain us until lunchtime.

As we traveled northward, we found that English vacationers had to some degree influenced the local breakfasts. Here, at Pastelería El Vejo, in Reinosa, Cantabria, we enjoyed sumptuous full breakfasts. They were exceptional.

We have served a Eurobreakfast, as described in the OP, to unwitting guests.

This has made me hungry. I'm going to go make some biscuits, bacon and scrambled eggs.

(n)

Vinny - yeah, I know. But it's what it says on the tin ;)

'bull - er, no. Due to caring about my arteries, and having tastebuds, that sounds one of the most vile things I have ever seen on here. Besides, when I can be arsed making a full English, the snags and bacon are done in the oven, way, way easier and less messy.

Chinese porridge as breakfast is good because it it light. Nasi goreng ( Malay fried rice ) and roti prata with curry ( Indian pancake ) could be a bit heavy for breakfast but they are very popular among the locals.