Free "Continental" Breakfast

So I'm checking out various web sites to procure a hotel room in Middle America. I've done this dozens of times over the years. A pretty standard added-value incentive at these establishments is a free continental breakfast.

This time I thought to ask the question: Which continent?

I understand that the term originated in the U.K. and referred to a menu that might be found on the "continent", meaning Europe.

But there are other continents, right? Am I getting an Australian breakfast, or an African one? Asia or South America? Lots of different cultures, with wildly varying menus, reside on these large islands jutting out of our ocean-dominated planet.

Maybe American hotel chains should experiment with breakfast and tie it in with other current corporate crazes like "outsourcing" jobs to other countries and the "global market." How about if a Holiday Inn in Topeka, Kansas served an Egyptian-flavored "continental" breakfast? Surprised travelers would enter that cozy little counter top kitchen/dining room and take in the pleasant aroma of slow-cooked fava beans, accented with lemons, olive oil and garlic. Just the thing to get you St. Louis by lunch!

Or how about a Ramada Inn in Boise, Idaho surprising guests with a top-of-the-morning meal from Ecuador: strong black coffee, hard cheese and fried plantains. Elvis Presley had a weak spot for deep fried anything, so he'd be happy.

Anyway, just wondering...