Food and meals 3.

Food and meals 3.

Around four o´clock it is teatime. In Britain the traditional tea consists of sandwiches, cakes, fruit pies, biscuits and tea or coffee. In this country an afternoon snack is not common.

An evening meal which is served around 7 o´clock is called dinner in Great Britain. It is the main meal of the day. It consists of soup or some other starter, then the main course (meat and fish and vegetables), a dessert and finally perhaps cheese and biscuits. Beef and mutton or lamb are much more favoured than pork. Later in the evening some people have another meal called supper. It consists of sandwiches, cold meat, vegetables, some milk, tea or coffee.

The Czech evening meal is not so nutritious if people have a hot meal at midday. It may be some cold meat, salami, ham cheese, eggs, bread or rolls and some vegetables. Some people prefer a hot meal too. They may have pancakes, potato pancakes, pizza, pasta etc.

On some special occasions such as Christmas, traditional food is served both in Britain and in this country. Fish soup, fried carp and potato salad are typical for Christmas Eve dinner.
Traditional Czech cuisine is a big unhealthy, but at present people start changing their eating habits. They start cooking more vegetable meals, they become vegetarians or try some kind of foreign (Chinese) cuisine.