Traditional Meals in Britain
The usual meals in Britain
are: breakfast, lunch, tea and supper. Breakfast is generally a bigger meal
than they have on the Continent, though some English people like a continental
breakfast of rolls, butter
and coffee. But the usual English
breakfast is porridge or cornflakes with milk or cream and
sugar, bacon and eggs, marmalade made from oranges with buttered toasts and
tea or coffee. For a change, you can have a boiled egg, cold ham or,
perhaps, fish.
People in Britain generally have lunch
about one o'clock. The businessman in London usually finds it impossible to
come home for lunch, and so he goes to a cafe or restaurant; but if he
is making lunch at home, he has cold meat, potatoes, salad and pickles
with a pudding of fruit to follow. Sometimes people have a mutton
chop or steak and chips followed by biscuits and cheese, and
some people like a glass of light beer with lunch.
Afternoon tea you could hardly call a
meal but it is a sociable sort of thing as friends often come in then
for a chat while they have their cup of tea with cake or biscuit.
In some houses dinner is the biggest
meal of the day. In a great many English homes people make the midday meal the
chief one of the day, and in the evening they have the much simpler supper - an
omelette or sausages, sometimes bacon and eggs, and
sometimes just bread and cheese, a cup of coffee or cocoa and fruit.
Some people also have «high tea». They
say there is no use for these afternoon teas where you try to hold a cup of tea
in one hand and a piece of bread and butter about as thin as a sheet of paper
in the other. They have it between five and six o'clock, and have ham or tongue
and tomatoes and salad or sausages with good strong tea, plenty
of bread and butter, then stewed fruit, with cream or custard and
pastries or a good cake. And that's what an Englishman calls a good tea.
Answer the questions.
1. What do people eat for breakfast in Britain?
2. When do people generally have lunch?
What do people eat for lunch?
3. What is afternoon tea?
4. What is the chief meal of the day? What
does it consist of?
5. What do people in Britain
eat for the midday meal and supper?
6. What is high tea?
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