Thursday, May 17, 2012

How Do You Say "Big Breakfast" In French?

I haven't had a McDonald's breakfast that wasn't a sandwich in such a long time.  I even forgot that they offered anything except a McMuffin, or McGriddle.  While on my quick trip to Canada, one morning I decided that I would order the "Big Breakfast", and it still came in a styrofoam container and everything.  It's as if these breakfast platters became frozen in time.  I also learnt a little something about the difficulties of living in a bilingual country.
In English Big Breakfast is very straight forward, it's the biggest breakfast meal they have on offer.  In french however using the word "big" presents a little bit of a problem, since breakfast in french is petit dejeuner (little lunch).  So a big little lunch really doesn't make much sense at all.  What I love is that the "big" breakfast in English Canada, is simply a traditional breakfast in French Canada.  It's appropriate in my book, since at least 3 of the 5 biggest breakfasts I've ever had in my life were in Quebec.

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