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Are helicopters common on Australian ranches?

What are the standard breakfast staples for whatever country/region you're in? (There are a lot in the US - eggs, bacon, sausage, ham, hashbrowns, pancakes, waffles, bagels, muffins, toast, doughnuts, fruit, cereal, etc. - I don't usually eat breakfast, but cereal is generally my go to.)

Is there some built up mythos of The Old West or Native Americans in Germany? I lived on a reservation when I was younger and there always seemed to be German tourists at the trading post.

My family usually eats plain steamed buns or steamed scallion buns with peanut butter and jam and eggs for breakfast. It's east/west fusion, so it's not standard at all.

My family eats toast with cheese or tomatos, churros, or muffins with coffee to drink.

Believe it or not, there's a Wild West theme park in Germany. I find that non-Americans are more into the whole Wild West thing than Americans. For Americans, it's more about history. For non-Americans, it's more John Wayne, Gun Smoke and The Magnificent Seven. Less history and more Hollywood's take on it. Or to bit it another way, less Wild Bill Hickock and Sitting Bull and more "cowboys and indians."

I suppose that's sort of true. And I like some of the Wild West stuff myself, but so much of it exaggerated or just plain wrong that I have to do just as big of a suspension of disbelief as for the physics in Speed or the aircraft in Top Gun or really, honestly, the medicine in almost any TV show, medical dramas included.

Nobody I know calls them ranches here (I'm thinking stations? same thing?). I know a few of the larger properties have helicopters or light aircraft (usually if they run cattle or sheep and have too much land to find them on foot). We have 47 hectares, which is 116ish acres, so I check the fences, water pumps, and move the cattle on foot with my dog or on my horse, sometimes I take the ute (er. pickup if you are from the states) if I have heavy stuff to move. Unless my brother has it, in which case, I lug 25kg bags of feed across a kilometer long paddock and over a creek with no bridge using my arms, because the wheelbarrow doesn't like the creek (and on those days, I hate my life). I wish we had a helicopter. I would seriously sell my soul for one.

Yes, sorry, stations. It's ranches here, cattle or sheep or horse. And most of the working ones that I know, the ranchers and cowhands herd and drive the cattle on horseback and often have dogs that help with the herding. Then again, there are some huge ranches and some very rich ranchers out there, so they could use helicopters, but loud flying machines plus animals that could get spooked just seemed like a weird combination to me.

I assume by Ranches you mean farms? The bigger ones sometimes own a helicopter. You can also rent them. They're kind of expensive to keep and maintain (fuel!) so it would really depend on the purpose of the farm and how big it is.

In Germany and eastern Europe there is a lot of love for the idylical "Wild West" and Indians. See Karl May for example.

Especially in former Czechoslovakia, there was a rather large organization of people who called themselves Trampers. These people idolized the old west, they wrote country and folk music, dressed in american stylized army clothing, wore cowboy hats...

It was seen as a sort of a rebelion against the regime. People who activelly opposed the regime and tried to sabotage it were often Trampers too.

Our imagined Wild West has probably nothing to do with what really happened except for few base facts but it was a form of survival, bonding and fun in a bigotted and close-minded world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_tramping

A traditional full English breakfast is fried egg (occasionally scrambled), sausages and bacon, with some combination of: tomato, mushrooms, baked beans, black pudding, hash browns, potato scones. A full Scottish breakfast is about the same thing except haggis is always included. The big difference as far as I can tell is that sweet things for breakfast are not traditional here, though they're coming more into fashion.

However that would generally be only for weekends/going out for breakfast/whatever - I imagine normal weekday breakfasts in the UK are about the same here as in the US.

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