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BRITISH MEALS
The usual meals are breakfast, lunch tea, dinner and supper. Breakfast is
generally a bigger meal than you have on the Continent, though some English
people like a "continental" breakfast of rolls and butter and coffee. But the
usual English breakfast is porridge or "Corn Flakes" with milk or cream and
sugar, bacon and eggs, marmalade (made from oranges) with buttered toast,
and tea or coffee. For a change you can have a boiled egg, cold ham, or
perhaps fish.
We generally have lunch about one o’clock. The businessman in London
usually finds it impossible to come home for lunch, and so he goes to a cafe or
restaurant; but if I am making lunch at home I have cold meat (left over
probably from yesterday’s dinner), potatoes, salad and pickles, with a pudding
or fruit to follow. Sometimes we have 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.
In some houses dinner is the biggest meal of the day. We had rather a
special one last night, as we had an important visitor from South America to
see Mr. Priestley.
We began with soup, followed by fish, roast chicken, potatoes and vegetables,
a sweet, fruit and nuts. Then we went into sitting-room for coffee and
cigarettes.
But in my house, as in a great many English homes, we make the midday
meal the chief one of the day, and in the evening we have the 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.
But uncle Albert always has "high tea." He says he has no use for these
"afternoon teas" where you try to hold a cup of tea in one hand and a piece of
bread and butter about as thin as a sheet of paper in the other. He’s a
Lancashire man, and nearly everyone in Lancashire likes high tea. They have it
between five and six o’clock, and they have ham or tongue and tomatoes and
salad, or sausages, with good strong tea, plenty of bread and butter, then
stewed fruit, or a tin of pears, apricots or pineapple with cream or custard
and pastries or a good cake. And that’s what they call a good tea.