Traditional Meals in Britain

The usual meals in Britain are: ...

Breakfast is ... than they have on the Continent, though some English people like a , butter and coffee.

But the usual English ... is porridge or cornflakes with milk or cream and sugar, bacon and eggs, marmalade made from oranges with buttered toasts and tea or coffee. For a change, you can have a boiled egg, cold ham or, perhaps, fish.

People in Britain generally have lunch ... .

... you could 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 with cake or biscuit.

In some houses ... is the biggest meal of the day.

Some people also have ... . They say there is 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.

They have "high tea" between ... , and have ham or tongue and tomatoes and salad or sausages with good strong tea, plenty of bread and butter, then stewed fruit, with cream or custard and pastries or a good cake. And that’s what an Englishman calls a good tea.

Dinner is the most substantial meal of the whole day. It is usually eaten at ... .

On Christmas Day ... is traditionally cooked for dinner. It is usually followed by Christmas pudding.