FOOD

DISCUSSION
 What is your favorite food?
 What is your favorite drink?
 Who cooks in your family?
 What fruits do you prefer?
 What vegetables do you
prefer?
 Do you prefer to eat unhealthy or healthy food?
 Do you like to go to a restaurant or café?
 ENGLISH MEALS
The English take four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner
or supper. In England breakfast time is between seven and nine, lunch
time is between twelve and two, tea is between four and five and dinner or
supper time is between seven and ten.
In some English houses lunch is the biggest meal of the day – they
have meat or fish, vegetables, fruit or pudding. Some people who go out
to work have sandwiches and coffee.
In the afternoon, at tea time the English, as you
know, like to have a cup of tea with milk. Some
Englishmen have their dinner late in the evening.
For dinner they have soup, fish or meat, vegetables,
pudding and fruit.
For supper they usually have a glass of milk and a
cake or a cup of tea and a sandwich.
But there are people who like to have some more
things to eat for supper – cold meat or fish. Then they
usually try to take a good walk after supper: “after
dinner sleep a while, after supper walk a mile”, the
English proverb goes.
 AMERICAN FOOD
What is «American» food? The answer is that it is part Italian, part
British, part German, part Mexican, part Chinese… When people from
other countries came to live in the US, they brought different cooking
traditions. Some of them opened restaurants. Today Americans enjoy food
from all over the world. Over the years some foreign dishes changed a
little.
Doughnuts were originally from Holland. In 1847 a young American
boy told his mother that her doughnuts were never cooked in the middle.
He cut out the center and his mother cooked them — and they were very
tasty!
Maybe the US is most famous for «fast foods». The first fast food
restaurants served hamburgers, but now they serve other kinds of food too.
Inside there is often a «salad bar», where you
can help yourself to as much salad as you want.
Americans eat a lot, and when they go to a
restaurant, they don't expect to be hungry
afterwards. Most restaurants will put a lot of
food on your plate — sometimes it can be too
much. But if you can't finish it all, don't worry:
they will give you a "doggy bag" and you can
take it home.
Most Americans now have a light breakfast instead of the traditional
eggs, bacon, toast, orange juice and coffee. But on weekends there is more
time, and a large late breakfast or early lunch is often eaten with family or
friends.