Daily photo theme day: breakfast

Updated to the most current list with permalinks generated by Gerald in Hyde (see below). Thank you Gerald!

A dual-purpose post as we're celebrating Swiss National Day today. Birchermüesli (Wikipedia) or just muesli is probably familiar to many people. Dr. Bircher-Brenner the inventor of Birchermüesli was born in Aarau (the capital of my canton, Aargau) in 1867 and and in 1904 he established a sanatorium in Zürich. The original recipe from around 1900 consisted of apples, rolled oats, sweetened condensed milk and lemon juice. Fresh milk wasn't used back then because of concerns of bovine TB and the like. Nowadays, yogurt is often used though what I have here is made with cream which is what I prefer.

The bread is called Weggen or Weggli and this one pictured here is a special edition for 1st August which explains the little Swiss flag. The Edelweiss is from a potted plant.

To my Swiss readers: If you're attending one of the August 1st brunches (www.brunch.ch) and have a blog post or photo about it you would like to share, please leave a comment.

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Go see what other people are eating for breakfast around the world:
1 Adelaide, Australia - 2 Newcastle, Australia - 3 Shanghai, China - 4 Rabaul, Papua New Guinea - 5 Paris, France [Eric] - 6 Melbourne, Australia [John] - 7. Rotterdam, Netherlands - 8 Wellington, New Zealand - 9 Saint-Petersburg, Russia - 10 Singapore [Keropokman] - 11 Evry, France - 12 Toulouse, France - 13 Hyde, UK - 14 Sydney, Australia [Sally] - 15 Haninge, Sweden - 16 Wailea (HI), USA - 17 Budapest, Hungary - 18. Naples (FL), USA - 19 Ampang (Selangor), Malaysia - 20 Saigon, Vietnam - 21 San Diego (CA), USA [Felicia] - 22 Stayton (OR), USA - 23 Rome, Italy - 24 Bucaramanga, Colombia - 25 Selma (AL), USA - 26 Sharon (CT), USA - 27 St. Louis (MO), USA [Strangetastes] - 28 Cypress (TX), USA - 29 Villigen, Switzerland - 30 Montréal (QC), Canada - 31 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 32 Bandung (West Java), Indonesia - 33 North Bay (ON), Canada - 34 Seattle (WA), USA - 35 St. Paul (MN), USA [Kate] - 36 Cleveland (OH), USA - 37 Greenville (SC), USA - 38 Wassenaar (ZH), Netherlands - 39 St. Paul (MN), USA [Carol] - 40 Prague, Czech Republic - 41 Stavanger, Norway - 42 Twin Cities (MN), USA - 43 Monte Carlo, Monaco - 44 Château-Gontier, France - 45 Kajang (Selangor), Malaysia - 46 Stockholm, Sweden - 47 Menton, France - 48 Albuquerque (NM), USA - 49 Mexico (DF), Mexico - 50 Cape Town, South Africa - 51 Boston (MA), USA [Fénix] - 52 Sequim (WA), USA - 53 Melbourne, Australia [Michael] - 54 St. Kilda, Australia - 55 Maple Ridge (BC), Canada - 56 Nottingham, UK - 57 Brookville (OH), USA - 58 Mainz, Germany - 59 Cologne (NRW), Germany - 60 Oslo, Norway - 61 Al Ain, UAE - 62 Inverness (IL), USA - 63 Manila, Philippines [Pusa] - 64 Zurich, Switzerland - 65 Toronto, Canada - 66 Bellefonte (PA), USA - 67 Mumbai, India - 68 Nantes, France - 69 Grenoble, France - 70 Calabria, Italy - 71 Paris, France [Jeremy] - 72 Moscow, Russia - 73 Lyon, France - 74 Austin (TX), USA - 75 Hong Kong, China - 76 Joplin (MO), USA - 77 Tokyo, Japan - 78 Seoul, South Korea [Sunkyoung] - 79 Kyoto, Japan - 80 Chandler (AZ), USA - 81 Kansas City (MO), USA - 82 Singapore [Andrew] - 83 Sydney, Australia [Nathalie] - 84 Miami (FL), USA - 85 St. Louis (MO), USA [Soosha-q] - 86 Arlington (VA), USA - 87 Selma (NC), USA - 88 Olympia (WA), USA - 89 Port Angeles (WA), USA - 90 La Antigua Guatemala - 91 Anderson (SC), USA - 92 Riga, Latvia - 93 Norwich, UK - 94 Baton Rouge (LA), USA - 95 Lubbock (TX), USA