What is the difference between difficult and different?

[Duffy]

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #112 "Postcard: France", question 6

But here it is quite ......... as they only have a bread roll and tea or coffee.

(a) difficult
(b) different
(c) distinct

English Grammar Tests, Elementary Level

ESL/EFL Test #112 "Postcard: France", answer 6

But here it is quite different as they only have a bread roll and tea or coffee.

Correct answer: (b) different

Your answer was: incorrect
But here it is quite difficult as they only have a bread roll and tea or coffee.
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why is different

[Alan]

Hi,

The reason is that a comparison is being made between France and England at breakfast time. That's why it says: 'here (France) it is quite different (from England).

Alan
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[Violino]

Hi,
I wonder why it couldn't be:
"But here it is quite difficult (to eat big breakfast), as they only have a bread roll and tea or coffee (so not too much components to make big breakfast)."

Best regards,
(as always, even if I don't write them:) )

[Shyone]

Because in context with the question asked before different makes more sense than difficult.
The big breakfast at home is mentioned already and the writer of the postcard wants to make the receiver aware of the difference.
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[Violino]

So maybe I'm thinking too much Polish, because such a sentence in Polish is fine. Actually, both are okey and sensible.

At home I can eat big breakfast, because I have a lot of componenst to do it. In France it was different. At the hotel in Paris I found it difficult to eat big breakfast, because there was only a bread roll so there wasn't any posibility to eat like at home.