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Перевидите There are four meals a day in an English home: breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner.
Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is at about 8 o'clock in the morning, and consists of
porridge with milk and salt or sugar, eggs — boiled or fried, bread and butter with marmalade or
jam. Some people like to drink tea, but others prefer coffee. Instead of porridge they may have
fruit juice, or they may prefer biscuits.
The usual time for lunch is 1 o'clock. This meal starts with soup or fruit juice. Then follows
some meat or poultry with potatoes — boiled or fried, carrots and beans. Then a pudding comes.
Instead of the pudding they may prefer cheese and biscuits. Last of all coffee — black or white.
Englishmen often drink something at lunch. Water is usually on the table. Some prefer juice or
lemonade.
Tea is the third meal of the day. It is between 4 or 5 o'clock, the so-called 5 o'clock tea. On the
table there is tea, milk or cream, sugar, bread and butter, cakes and jam. Friends and visitors are
often present at tea.
Dinner is the fourth meal of the day. The usual time is about 7 o'clock, and all the members of
the family sit down together.
Dinner usually consists of soup, fish or meat with vegetables — potatoes, green beans, carrot and
cabbage, sweet pudding, fruit salad, ice-cream or cheese and biscuits. Then after a talk they have
black or white coffee.
This is the order of meals among English families, But the greater part of the people in the
towns, and nearly all country-people, have dinner in the middle of the day instead of lunch. They
have tea a little later — between 5 and 6 o'clock, and then in the evening, before going to bed,
they have supper.
So the four meals of the day are either breakfast, dinner, tea, supper; or breakfast, lunch, tea,
dinner
