By all indications Cristina took it seriously:
I had an English breakfast in honor of the "Anglais" and noted just how bad that kind of a breakfast could be. I think the French must take a certain pride in seeing how bad they can make English food and still have English and Americans come back. This Canadian ain't coming back for that anytime soon, but then again the French are far from famous for breakfast or petit dejeuner. It is so much an afterthought that lunch is called dejeuner too. Dejeuner means "break" the "fast". The food the French eat in the morning is insufficient to break the fast it seems so they have to give it another go at lunch. Contemplate that the typical French croissant for breakfast is a Viennese origin bread roll. It's as if the French had no idea of their own what to have for breakfast.
Typical French breakfast is a huge bowl of café au lait in which you dip day old pieces of a baguette on which you may have already put butter or jam, or both, and trying to get this into your mouth before it degenerates and drops off into the café au lait as it inevitably will start to do. Then the really exciting part is drinking up the café au lait au bread au jam with greasy buttery circles decorating the beverage. And this doesn't break the fast. It is a culinary mulligan in France.
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