If you go to a hotel in Britain and ask for a typical English breakfast, you'll
probably get bacon and eggs, sausage, mushrooms, baked beans and tea and toast. When porridge or fruit juice are offered as well, the meal is sometimes advertised as a "full English breakfast". But how many people in England actually eat an English breakfast? Only one person in ten! In fact, today's English breakfast is more likely to be nothing! One in five people say all they have for breakfast is a cup of coffee#and many children go to school without eating anything!

Lunch

If you go to Britain to study English and you stay with a family you will 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 usually consists of some sandwiches, a packet of crisps, an apple and a can of something to drink, for example, Coca Cola. The quality of packed lunch can vary from terrible to very good; it depends on who makes it.

Fish And Chips

Fish and chips is the classic English take-away food. It is usually bought ready cooked at special shops - fish and chips shops (or 'chippies' as they are sometimes called) - and taken away wrapped in paper to be eaten at home or outside. If you go to a fish and chips shop, you'll be asked if you want salt or vinegar to be sprinkled over your chips. Be careful because sometimes they give you too much!

British Dinner

A typical British meal is meat and 'two veg'. A gravy covers the meat, and one of the vegetables is almost always potatoes. The British eat a lot of potatoes. However, this meal is rarely eaten nowadays - most people in Britain are eating curry. In fact, the most recent survey found that curry is now Britain's most popular meal!