>She and all her family before her, made a waffles but they eat them as snacks, not breakfast food.

I'll concede on waffles being Belgian then.
Myself, I'll stick with Belgian chocolate - heavenly!

I wonder where the idea of pancakes and waffles for breakfast originated? The Dutch seem to like pancakes and Eastern Europeans are fond of blini.

I posted a while ago that I had heard that breakfast was important when people were travelling on the wagon train to the West. The fires were still going from the night before, so it was the best time to cook a hot meal, pancakes were quick, easy and filling.

One of my American friends was amused when she met some elderly American ladies in a tour group in Paris. One of them turned to her and said "Do you know, they gave us bread for breakfast!"