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English food customs

I’m going to do my talk about the English food customs.
• Breakfast - between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m.
• Lunch - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m.
• Dinner - The main meal of the day. Eaten anytime between 6:30 and 8:00 p.m.
• Afternoon tea + high tea
• Some other things you should know about the English food

BREAKFAST
A traditional English breakfast (picture) consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, baked beans and mushrooms. The traditional English breakfast is called ‘Full English’ and sometimes it’s called ‘The Full English Fry-up’.
Now-a-days the people don’t eat the traditional breakfast I just describe; today a typical English breakfast is more likely to be a slice of toast, orange juice and a cup of coffee.

LUNCH (picture)

The English lunch is not really special in our eyes. The most typical food of the lunch is a sandwich. Sandwiches are also known as a 'butty' or 'sarnie' in some parts of the United Kingdom.

Sunday Roast (picture)

On Sundays the main meal of the day is often eaten at midday instead of in the evening. On Sunday they eat the traditional Sunday Roast. It consists of roast meat, two different kinds of vegetables and potatoes with a Yorkshire pudding.

DINNER

Dinner is the evening meal. It’s the main meal of the day. Except on Sunday, like I already told you. The evening meal is usually called ' tea ', ' dinner ' or ' supper '.
The traditional English dinner is not very different from our dinner. A typical British meal for dinner is meat and two vegetables. One of the vegetables is almost always potatoes.

This traditional meal is rarely eaten nowadays; a recent survey found that most people in Britain eat curry! Rice or pasta are now favoured as the 'British Dinner'.

Traditional desserts/afters/puddings

The most traditional and well known home-made puddings are:
Apple or rhubarb crumble, often served with thick cream, ice cream or custard. (picture)
Bread and butter pudding, (picture)
Spotted dick, (Also called Spotted Dog)
is a sponge pudding with sultanas and raisins (picture)
Trifle, is made with layers of sponge cake, custard, jam or fruit and Whipped Cream. (picture)
Custard is a thick, sweet mixture. It can be served as a hot sauce, poured over a dessert, or as a cold layer in, for example, a trifle. (picture)

AFTERNOON TEA

The afternoon tea has been considered by Anna Bedford in 1840. She got hungry between lunch and dinner, around 4 o’clock. So she asked her chef to make some tea, cakes and sandwiches for her. She really liked this idea, and she started to invite her friends to her house for an afternoon cup of tea. Soon all her friends started to drink this afternoon tea at home too. They started offering their visitors sandwiches and cakes too. Soon everyone was enjoying Afternoon tea. In 1880 the ladies dressed themselves in special dresses with a loose middle so that they could eat nicely much.
It’s a small meal, not a drink. Traditionally it consists of tea served with: (picture) freshly baked scones, afternoon tea sandwiches and assorted pastries
Freshly baked scones - served with cream and jam (it’s also called cream tea)
Afternoon tea sandwiches - thinly sliced cucumber sandwiches.
Assorted pastries

HIGH TEA (picture)

This picture isn’t correct, because it’s more likely to be an afternoon tea. High tea is a meal which is eaten around 6 o'clock. In the past it was a heavy meal to quench the hunger of the farmers who have worked the whole day. The afternoon tea is much lighter. So this will be an afternoon tea.
(picture) Traditionally, the high tea consists of salty meals. But now-a-days it also consists of delicious sweet foods. This meal is now often replaced with a supper for people who eat their main meal in the evenings rather than at midday.

Another thing you should know about the English food…

Is about the sausages the English people ate during the war. There was famine. And the people in England made sausages with a little bit of meat en the rest of the sausage was filled with water, so it looked like you eat more then you actually did.

And of course I’ll tell about the traditional English take-away…

Fish and chips

(picture) we all know about fish and chips it’s fish deep fried in flour batter with chips (fried potatoes). This is England's traditional take-away food. Fish and chips are not normally home cooked but bought at a fish and chip shop also called "chippie".