A traditional English breakfast a very big meal – sausages, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms.... but nowadays many people just have cereal with milk and sugar, or toast with marmalade, jam, or honey. Marmalade or jam are not the same. Marmalade is made from orange and jam is made by other fruit. The traditional breakfast drink is tea, which people have with cold milk. Some people have coffe, which is made with just hot water. Many visitors to Britain find this coffee disgusting.
For many people lunch is a quick meal. In cities there are a lot of sandwich bars, where office workers can choose the kind of bread they want – brown, white, or a roll – and then all sorts of salad and meat or fish to go in the sandwich. Pubs often serve good, cheap food, but hot and cold. School – children can have a hot meal at school, but many just take a snack from home – a sandwich, a drink, some fruit, and perhaps some crips.
On Sundays many families have a traditional lunch. They have roast meat, either beef, lamb chicken, or pork, with potatoes, vegetables, and gravy. Gravy is a sauce made from the meat juices.
The British like food from other countries, too, especially Italian, Chinese, and Indian. People often get take away meals – you buy the food at the restaurant and then bring it home to it. Eating in Britain is quite international.
