Breakfast
Breakfast is taken very seriously all over Canada, and with prices averaging between $5 and $12 it's often the best-value and most filling meal of the day. Whether you go to a cafe, coffee shop or hotel snack bar, the breakfast menu, on offer until around 11am, is a fairly standard fry-up - eggs in various guises, ham or bacon, streaky and fried to a crisp, or skinless and bland sausages (except for Nova Scotia's famous Lunenburg sausage, a hot spicy version pioneered by settlers from Europe). Whatever you order, you nearly always receive a dollop of fried potatoes (called hash browns or sometimes home fries). Other favourite breakfast options include English muffins or, in posher places, bran muffins, a glutinous fruitcake made with bran and sugar, and waffles or pancakes , swamped in butter with lashings of maple syrup. Also, because the breakfast/lunch division is never hard and fast, mountainous meaty sandwiches are common too. Whatever you eat, you can wash it down with as much coffee as you can stomach: for the price of the first cup, the waiters/waitresses will - in most places - keep providing free refills until you beg them to stop. The coffee is either regular or decaf and is nearly always freshly ground and very tasty, though lots of the cheaper places dilute it until it tastes like dishwater. In the big cities, look out also for specialist coffee shops, where the range of offerings verges on the bewildering. As a matter of course, coffee comes with cream or half-and-half (half-cream, half-milk) - if you ask for skimmed milk, you're often met with looks of disbelief. Tea , with either lemon or milk, is also drunk at breakfast, and the swisher places emphasize the English connection by using imported brands - or at least brands that sound English.
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