MEALS IN ENGLAND

MEALS IN ENGLAND

The usual meals in England are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner or — in simpler houses — breakfast, dinner, tea and supper.

For breakfast Englishmen often have porridge or cornflakes with milk or cream and sugar, bacon and eggs, ham with buttered toasts and tea or coffee. For a change they can have a boiled egg, cold ham, or fish.

English people usually have lunch at about one o'clock. At lunch time in a London restaurant you can have a mutton chop, or steak and chips, or cold meat or fried fish, potatoes and salad, then a pudding or fruit.

Afternoon tea can hardly be called a meal. It is a substantial meal only in well-to-do families. It is between five and six o'clock. It is rather a sociable sort of thing, as friends often come for a chat while they have their cup of tea, cake or biscuit.

In some houses dinner is the biggest meal of the day. But in great many English homes, the midday meal is the chief one of the day, and in the evening there is usually a 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.

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