The Dutch have lot of delicious stuff to eat with your breakfast. If you visit Holland, you really should try some of them. All articles mentioned are available in any Dutch Supermarket. Normally you find them all about the same place near the bread, coffee and tea stands.

Beschuit

Biscuit rusk or Dutch rusk is like a complete;y dry toast. The Dutch like it at breakfast, put some butter on it and then one of the things mentioned below. It is very crispy light eat able. Some Dutch prefer to eat it with cheese. This is also OK of course. You buy them in any supermarket, packed in roles. Handle them carefully, they may break easily.

Hagelslag

Hagelslag consists of small staves of choclate. the choc;ate is covered with a very thin sugar layer. They taste a bit crispy. You can buy them in milk chaoclate flavour and pure chocolate flavour. Sometimes you will see fancy flavours like mocca or caramel als well. For kids there are versions containing "funnies" small eatable figures mixed with the choclate. Especially nice to eat on "Beschuit" Hagelslag meails something like hail.

Chocoladevlokken

Chocolate flakes are a variation of Hagelslag. They consist if flat thin pieces of chocolate. Less crispy and more expensive, but worth trying both on your bread or on beschuit.

Muisjes

Muisjes (mice) are very popular as well. On the package you will read texts like "vruchtenhagel" (fruit hail) or "anijshagel " ( aniseed hail). The Dutch normally will call them "muisjes"(little mice). The name stems from the birth mice. These have similar size and consist of aniseed seeds covered with blue, rose and white sugar. These are served normally when a child is born on beschuit. Our mice are different. They consist of sugar, flavoured with fruit or aniseed. Also very good on beschuit.

Pindakaas

Pindakaas, or peanut butter consists of a paste of peanuts. It smells a bit dirty and looks dirty as well (light brown).Many Dutch love it.During recent years many variants appeared. Pindakaas with pieces of peanuts, with Sambal Oelek etcetera.

Chocoladepasta

Chocolate paste is a paste like peanut butter, but now chocolate is the basic flavour. You eat it on bread, instead of butter. Kids love to combine it with hagelslag as well. Variants may contain hazelnut paste.