title: Default option in select tag not working in laravel 5
body: <p>I have this issue:
  in Controller:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$countries=mytable::lists('country');
  return view('myview', ['countries'=&gt;$countries]);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In view:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{!!Form::select('Country', $countries, $item-&gt;Country)!!}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><code>$item-&gt;Country</code> is the <code>country</code> of the <code>user</code> and it should be the default option already selected. However, what I get is the list of countries in alphabetical order... as it comes from the database.
  My question is what am I doing wrong? Why the select tag doesn't get the default option ?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>