Read the text.ng all day.british meals. toys there.rdrobe andwexander already has some ideas about typical british food. the usual meals arebreakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. breakfast is generally a bigger meal than theyhave on the continent, though some english people like a "continental” breakfastof rolls and butter and coffee. but the usual english breakfast is porridge or cornflakes with milk or cream and sugar, bacon and eggs, marmalade (made from 3oranges) with buttered toast, and tea or coffee. for a change you can have a boiledegg, cold ham or perhaps fish.they generally have lunch about one o'clock. the businessman in london usuallyfinds it impossible to come home for lunch, and so he goes to a cafe or restaurant; but if they can make it home for lunch, they have cold meat (left over probablyfrom yesterday's dinner), potatoes, salad and pickles, with a pudding or fruit tofollow. sometimes we have a mutton chop, or steak and chips, followed by biscuitsand 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 friendsoften come in then for a chat while they have their cup of tea, cake or biscuits.in some houses dinner is the biggest meal of theday. they begin with soup, followed by fish, roastchicken, potatoes and vegetables, a sweet, fruit andnuts, coffee. but in a great many english homeswe make the midday meal the chief one of the day,and in the evening we have simple dinner - anomelette, or sausages, sometimes bacon and eggs andsometimes just bread and cheese, a cup of coffee orcocoa and fruit.
