Breakfast of Champions

The Swiss, or at least the Swiss-French, are very good at breakfast. Can you imagine eating Escargots for breakfast? I can. If it means brown cinnamon dough covered in creamy hazelnut paste and then wound into a bun that beats any Cinnabun you've ever tasted. I am partial to the Tart aux Noisettes (pictured on left), because if I'm going to be eating sugary goodness for breakfast, might as well go all out and glaze the top of it. Some might prefer the Apple Tarts, (pictured on the right) which are like sugary hot pockets with an apple cinnamon filling. These are chunks of real apples, not something processed in a plant. These pastries were made, THIS MORNING, in the basement of the bakery. I watched. As a side note, after writing this post I realize that I'm no longer going to put up with any Swiss people complaining to me that Americans are disgusting for eating a short stack of pancakes at breakfast. I don't know what it is they have against pancakes, and particularly the syrup, (although they have a point because the pancakes come with an egg, sausage links, hash browns and six choices of syrup), when they're eating this kind of thing for breakfast.