Meals and cooking
bacon and eggs, marmalade with buttered toast and tea or coffee. For a change they can have a
boiled egg, cold ham, or fish.
English people generally have lunch about one o'clock. At lunch time in a London restaurant one
usually finds a mutton chop, or steak and chips, or cold meat or fish with potatoes and salad, then a
pudding or fruit to follow.
Afternoon tea can hardly be called a meal. It is a substantial meal only in welltodo families. It is
between five and six o'clock. It is rather 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. But in great many English homes, the
midday meal is the chief one of the day, and in the evening there is usually a much simpler supper
-- an omelette, or sausages, sometimes bacon and eggs and sometimes just bread and cheese, a
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