title: Showing a value from the DB in a blade in laravel
body: <p>Within an <code>&lt;option&gt;</code> tag, I'm trying to add the selected country from the DB. </p>
  
  <pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;option&gt;
  {{ Auth::user()-&gt;cpreference()-&gt;where('qatype',1)-&gt;select('country')-&gt;first()}}
  &lt;/option&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The output showing in the dropdown is as below :</p>
  
  <pre><code>{"country":"Algeria"}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I only show the country name ?</p>