Bread rolls with soup, popular in Europe?

[heart-of-wessex]

Hello all,

Having done many UK Coach touring I'm used to hotels offering bread rolls with soup on the starters. I've been to mainland Europe before but always eaten out so First time this week I've done a coach holiday to Austria with overnight hotel in Saarlouis, both hotels do soup for starters but no bread rolls, the one here in Austria seems to do some cruton style balls, but I assume bread rolls with soup isn't a thing in Europe?

Mind you finding normal English Breakfast tea instead of flavoured tea isn't easy either

 

[Donny Dave]

Mind you finding normal English Breakfast tea instead of flavoured tea isn't easy either

Just stick with coffee, easier all round.

 

[Jamiescott1]

Don't think I've ever had soup in Europe. Have a few times in North America where they serve it with crackers (like cheese biscuits)

 

[zero]

Which meal are we talking about?

 

[Fragezeichnen]

Creamed soup is rarely seen, but lentil stew, gulasch, soljanka etc. is a common thing to eat, either with bread rolls or sliced bread.

At village festivals lentil stew is staple, usually served from a (literally) bomb-proof soup cauldron. Makes a nice alternative if you don't fancy Bratuwurst.

 

[Sun Chariot]

At village festivals lentil stew is staple, usually served from a (literally) bomb-proof soup cacauldrt.

Genius! when I opened that link, I burst out laughing. Now I need to make space for one in the garage.

On my Balkan travels in the second half of the 1990s, I ate a lentil stew out of an edible dough-based bowl akin to a giant seep-proof Yorkshire pudding. Very filling and actually rather good. Fatty liver, no doubt, though...

 

[AM9]

Genius! when I opened that link, I burst out laughing. Now I need to make space for one in the garage.

On my Balkan travels in the second half of the 1990s, I ate a lentil stew out of an edible dough-based bowl akin to a giant seep-proof Yorkshire pudding. Very filling and actually rather good. Fatty liver, no doubt, though...

A similar thing is available in a delightful restaurant called 'Svarta Kaffid', in Reykjavik. They serve hearty soups in a hollowed out cob loaf. Excellent value and very warming when needed, (which is most of the time in Iceland).

 

[Gloster]

Gulaschkanon was the German forces’ nickname in World War II, and quite probably before, for a Mobile Field Kitchen.

 

[heart-of-wessex]

Sorry I did mean evening meals as part of 3 course meal (starter, main, dessert) so far every day there's two different soup options but no bread rolls to go with it, I've always liked mopping up the soup with the roll, no other bread option either, just thought maybe it's not a thing in Germany or Austria

Breakfast there are rolls as mentioned above yes maybe I could pinch one then!

Reminds me of breakfast at the Holiday Inn outside Amsterdam Schipol, the Chinese would stuff their bread rolls in cases and handbags, we used to call the China Southern flight the Breakfast Roll flight

 

[Busaholic]

There's me

Sorry I did mean evening meals as part of 3 course meal (starter, main, dessert) so far every day there's two different soup options but no bread rolls to go with it, I've always liked mopping up the soup with the roll, no other bread option either, just thought maybe it's not a thing in Germany or Austria

Breakfast there are rolls as mentioned above yes maybe I could pinch one then!

Reminds me of breakfast at the Holiday Inn outside Amsterdam Schipol, the Chinese would stuff their bread rolls in cases and handbags, we used to call the China Southern flight the Breakfast Roll flight

There's me thinking bread rolls were unique to these isles!

 

[Sun Chariot]

There's me

There's me thinking bread rolls were unique to these isles!

Only stodgy ones are unique to these isles

 

[Acey]

Had a bread roll with smoked bacon soup at some godforsaken hour in a service station on a German Autobahn !

 

[route101]

Only stodgy ones are unique to these isles

Rolls in England are stodgier and doughier. Scottish rolls are lighter and/crispier.

 

[hexagon789]

Rolls in England are stodgier and doughier. Scottish rolls are lighter and/crispier.

Scottish rolls are mostly composed of burnt ashes in my experience... very light and crispy...