Phil

knock you out, if thrown at your head from 100 paces? If those aren't the darndest things to try and break into and chew, I don't know why so many hotels serve them for breakfast and they taste like dust. What happened to good old fashioned European bread?

hmm

I wonder in which of the 30 something countries you found those rolls...

Super

I'd like to see you throw a roll 100 paces (unless a dwarf does the pacing)and hit someone on the head

Al Godon

I think Phil was wandering around Paris with a severe case of jet lag. Being somewhat disoriented he got into the Army Museum by mistake. What he thought was the breakfast bar was a cannon ball display. He is still wondering why no coffee came out of the<BR>barrel of the canon. <BR>

s.fowler

Aw..... give Phil a break -- he's using hyperbole to describe and experience we've all had which is how to get to the delicious soft center of the roll without a crowbar. Man -- those outer crusts can be TOUGH without the right implements

CaptainCrunch

And God forbid you have breakfast in bed....the crumbs! I love those rolls, but Phil's right.<BR>While we're on about food, does anyone know an affordable hotel room in Paris that has coffee making supplies? Last time I think I scared those French guys when I crawled down for my morning coffee.

elvira

I've stayed at different(2* or less usually) hotels in France, Italy, Spain, UK, etc. and found that 2 out of 3 things get done right at breakfast: good croissants and bread, lousy juice; good juice and good coffee, lousy rolls; good juice and good bread, abominable coffee. And if there is a selection of cereals, you can pretty much kiss off everything else.<BR><BR>I just stayed in a 3* hotel in Paris: good coffee and good bread, juice that tasted like cat p**s (not that I've ever HAD cat p**s, but this is what I imagine it would taste like).

x

It probably was Cats P***. It is a special brekkie treat in France (first introduced by a group of Domincan Friars from Chartes in th fourteenth century

JOdy

I love those round rolls in Italy that are all crispy crust and no centers ! which I knew what they were called!

Dayle

Those rolls can also be used for a game of bocci ball - in a pinch!

scarlett

Phil, next time,skip those plain little rolls and go for the chocolate croissants.Soft,easy to eat and yummmy.<BR>What is the point of eating if there is no chocolate?

Capo

Phil, if you were served rock hard breakfast rolls, it must have been a mistake because Europeans normally reserve those for pelting American tourists in pink jogging suits.

???

Not sure what you're talking about, but "good old fashioned European bread" IS hard. Awful American supermarket bread is soft.

Another???

Bread and rolls that are baked in a proper bakery are supposed to be crusty from the outside. The ones that are sold in plastic bags in supermarkets and have been baked days ago are soft also from the outside.

carolyn

Scarlett, honey, I'm with you!

Phil

I wondered if anyone would take me literally! I am surprised that some of you haven't had those tasteless rock hard rolls. I know good European bread is harder than American bread such as Wonder Bread, but those rolls "take the cake". I hadn't been to Europe for a while and, in Italy at least, these rolls were served for breakfast at most of my hotels. I like crunch with tasty bread inside, but, well, maybe it is just me. That should be my biggest worry, right?

Lana

Phil, I know what you mean. I think the quality of rolls has gone down to a new low. Some, of course, are still good, but there is a really cheap brand that keeps coming up in some hotels. Maybe using them as bocce balls is a good idea. No chocolate in my hotels either, except the Ala in Venice, delicious.

Pam

Aren't these rolls like the ones in America? Like heat n' serve?

Rosie

Yes, yes, the chocolate at the Ala in Venice!!! The rolls there are good for bocce balls too, I win every time !!

Alice Twain

I am greatly surprised you have ever ben served rolls for breakfast in Italy. You know, here we do not use at all that kind of bread, bakeries do not make it. In case you have been served any, they were probably an industrial product that the hotel bought just for foreigners, and fatory products are for the most part CRAP. Why didn't you try true fresh italian bread instead, with a little butter and a little jam spread upon it.