That’s okay, hotel breakfasts are almost always awful in my experience.
If there’s bacon and sausage, no matter how sad looking, it’s American breakfast.
Continental breakfast is European style — bread, butter, and jam, pastries, maybe some yogurt. Hardboiled eggs if you’re lucky.
Dame, where in the world are you staying. Most hotels in my country have good to amazing breakfast and I have never heard about paying for breakfast.
In the US, most “free” (or included) hotel breakfasts range from bad to terrible. There are some exceptions, but they are few and far between.
Whereas my experience in Scandinavia was the opposite. Breakfasts were generally included or at least offered, and they ranged from alright to amazing. The only issue I had was that they all seemed to be following the same playbook (more or less). Some more variety would be nice.
Like the other guy said, this is the US we’re talking about. Please tell us what country you’re from so I can come verify your claim myself.