Britains have
mostly breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper. It is a little different then we
have because we eat three times a day. For breakfast they usually have a cup of
tea or coffee, rolls and butter. But others like porridge or cornflakes with
milk or cream and sugar, bacon and eggs. Their breakfast is at the same time as
us is.
They have lunch
about 1.00 p.m. (we have dinner at that time). It is almost impossible for Englishman
to come home for lunch. They make it at
home and take with themselves. It can be cold meat, potatoes, salad and pickles, with a pudding or fruit to
follow. Sometimes Englishman has 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 can 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, cake or biscuit.
Tea making in
England is an art. The hostess first of all rinses the teapot with boiling
water (this is called 'warming the pot') before adding four or five teaspoonfuls
of tea. The amount of tea varies, of course, according to the number of people
present. The pot is then filled with boiling water and covered by a tea-cosy to allow the tea to infuse for five minutes. English
people seldom put lemon juice or rum
in their tea, usually they have it with milk.
A typical
British meal for dinner is "meat and two veg". They put hot
brown gravy, (traditionally made from the juices of the roast meat, but more
often today from a packet!) on the meat and usually the vegetables. One of the
vegetables is almost always potatoes.
Sunday lunch
time is a typical time to eat the traditional Sunday Roast. Traditionally it
consists of roast meat, (cooked in the oven for about two hours), two different
kinds of vegetables and potatoes with a Yorkshire pudding. The most common
joints are beef, lamb or pork; chicken is also popular.
