Tea with Milk Tea is British national drink. 56 million people drink it all over Britain every day. Almost half of the country dunks tea. Tea came from the Far East in the 17th century. At that time it was very expensive. The word tea covers many social traditions. Teatime is the afternoon meal of sandwiches, care and tea to keep away hunger between lunch and dinner. Working people have tea at about 11 o'clock in the morning for a snack and call it tea-break or elevenses. The British drink mostly Indian tea.

Most people around the world seem to think a typical English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, mushrooms and baked beans all washed down with a cup of coffee. Nowadays, however, a typical English breakfast is more likely to be a bowl of cereals, a slice of toast, orange juice and a cup of coffee. In the winter many people will eat "porridge" or boiled oats. What is a typical English Breakfast?

English Breakfast The traditional English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, baked beans and mushrooms. They eat cereal with cold or warm milk. They have a toast with butter and marmalade and some fruit or fruit juice. They drink tea or coffee in the morning. The traditional English breakfast is called the 'Full English' and sometimes referred to as 'The Full English Fry-up'.

Lunch If you go to Britain to study English and you stay with a family you will almost certainly be given a "packed lunch" to eat for your midday meal. Some factories and schools have canteens where you can eat but the packed lunch is the most common thing to eat. A packed lunch normally consists of some sandwiches, a packet of crisps, an apple and a can of something to drink, for example, coca- cola. The contents are kept in a plastic container and you take it with you when you go to school or work. The quality of the packed lunch can vary from terrible to very good, it all depends on who makes it.

Things are changing and most British people eat meals from many different countries for example spaghetti or curry. In fact you could even say that the British don't eat much British food. However the most typical thing to eat for dinner is "meat and two vegs". This consists of a piece of meat accompanied by two different boiled vegetables. This is covered with "gravy" which is a sauce made with the juice that was obtained when the meat was cooked. One of the vegetables is almost always potatoes. The British eat a lot of potatoes. Dinner

There are hundreds of variations of sweet puddings in England but each pudding begins with the same basic ingredients of milk, sugar, eggs, flour and butter. Many of the puddings involve fresh fruit such as raspberries or strawberries, custard, cream, and cakes. Bread and butter pudding is old English favourite English Puddings

Traditional Cream Tea English people like tea. They usually have scones, butter, cream, milk, marmalade and strawberries with their cream tea. By the way, English people do not say Good appetite.