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The usual meals in England
The usual meals in England arc breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. Breakfast is usually a bigger meal than they have on the Continent, that is in European countries. In the morning an
Englishman has his favourite breakfast of cornflakes with milk and sugar or porridge (often oatmeal porridge) followed by fried bacon and eggs. If you are having breakfast in a restaurant you, first of all, help yourself to cornflakes with milk, which can be warm or even hot. Then a waitress will come up to you and ask if you would like "cooked breakfast", by which she means fried bacon or sausage and eggs hot from the oven. Then you are to have marmalade (made of oranges) with buttered toast, tea or coffee. The latter is either black or white. For a change you can have a boiled egg, cold ham, or perhaps fish. In English households breakfast is often a quick meal, because the father of the family has to get away to his work, the
children have to go to school, and the mother has her housework to do.
In offices and in colleges they often have a quot;coffee break" at about 11 in the morning. You have a cup of coffee or tea, or a glass of juice with some cookies, and for half an hour you are free to do what you choose: talk with your friends, have a quiet walk in the garden or just sit comfortably in an armchair watching TV.
Lunch is often the biggest meal of the day taken at 1 or 2 clock in the afternoon. It is midday meal which consists of two courses a meat course or a fish course accompanied by plenty of
vegetables. After it comes a sweet pudding or some stewed fruit or ice-cream. Here are some possible variants of lunch menu:
1) smoked turkey breast and assort. Salad. Peach melba;
2) cold pork and assort. Salad. Fruit cheesecake;
3) smoked mackerel and assort. Salad. Queen of puddings.
Most Englishmen like what they call good plain food. Fried
fish and chips are very popular. In the streets of both small and
large towns you may come across Fish and Chips Shops with lots
of people inside and even outside chewing the delicious food.
You have noticed that the English do not take soup at
midday. They say that it fills them without leaving sufficient room
for the more important meat or fish course.
English people drink a lot of tea. Some people have tea for
breakfast, tea in the middle of the morning, tea in the afternoon,
tea at tea-time and tea with supper. Afternoon lea is hardly a meal.
It may be a cup of tea and a cake, taken in the sitting-room or at
work. For some people it is a social occasion when their friends
come in for a chat over their cup of tea. But some people like to
have the so-called “high tea” which is quite a big meal
oatmeal porridge – овсяная каша
peach melba – ломтик персика
Fish and chips.
The English have a special taste for fish and chips.
Everybody seems to have a fish and chip supper at [home at least
once a week, and you discover the shops in the side streets of every town.
The shops are usually run by two or three persons, often a
man and his wife. Cod, haddock and plaice sell at about a shilling
a piece and potato chips at about 6d. a portion.
The pieces of fish are dipped1 in a mixture of flour and
water and then dropped into deep boiling oil for a few minutes.
They come out crisp and hot and are then wrapped in grease-proof
paper, so that the customer may take them away.
Some shops have a small cafe where the visitor can eat his
fish and chips without taking them home. Towards the end of the
evening there is a large demand for chips alone to be eaten out of
paper bags in the streets.
Questions:
1. What other hot meals and snacks are sold in the street of a
modern town?
2. Is "street catering" popular with public at large?
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1. The usual meals in England are breakfast, lunch and dinner.
2. An Englishman;s favourite breakfast is cutlets and potatoes.
3. By quot;cooked breakfast" they mean fried bacon or sausage and eggs hot from the oven.
4. It takes an English family quite a lot of time to have breakfast.
5. In offices and in colleges they often have a "coffee breakat about 11 in the morning.
6. Lunch is often the biggest meal of the day taken in the evening.
7. One of the most popular foods in England is fish and chips.
8. The English are very fond of soup and have it whenever they can.
9. English people drink a lot of beer.
10. Tea in the afternoon may be a social occasion when people come in for a chat over a cup of tea.
11. English people do not like cheese and it is a tradition with them to finish the last meal of the day with a trifle.
12. Packed lunches are very convenient because people can take food with them when they go on an excursion or for a long walk.
Find the answers to these questions in the text.
1. What are the usual meals in England?
2. What does an Englishman;s breakfast consist of?
3. Why is breakfast often a quick meal in English households?
4. What can you have at a coffee break?
5. Lunch is often the biggest meal of the day, is;t it? What
does it consist of?
6. Do most Englishmen like plain or exquisitely cooked food?
7. Can you prove that the English like good plain food?
8. Why don't the English like soup?
9. What is the favourite drink of the English?
10. What do people have at quot;high tea"?
11. What are the names under which the evening meal goes?
12. English people have cheese to finish the last meal of the day with, don't they?
13. Why do people carry packed lunches on Sundays and on holidays?
14. What does a packed lunch consist of?
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Afternoon lea is hardly a meal
Is "street catering" popular with public at large?
What do people have at quot;high tea"? 11
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