The United States is a country of immigrants, so the American breakfast brings together breakfast items from the United Kingdom and continental Europe, with complex items.

For example, there are boiled oatmeal, sausages, hash browns, biscuits, slices of bread, pastries, waffles, sweet rolls, French toast, English trifle, croissants, and danishes. Coffee, milk, tea, and juice are generally necessary.

In the past ten years, cold oatmeal, that is, pre-cooked puffed oatmeal, including: rice popsicles, shredded wheat, wholemeal, corn flakes, oatmeal, etc., with milk or yogurt, has become very common. The unique American steaks and egg burgers are rarely seen in Europe and are generally only sold in American fast food restaurants.

In some areas, breakfast includes country-style broth, corn soup, Mexican tortillas, corn patties, pork rolls, and fish steaks. Depending on the population source of the area, these breakfasts are not popular in other areas of the United States.