British traditional foods include meat, potatoes, flour, butter and eggs. Common dishes are shepherd's pie, cottage pie, and fish and chips. Pubs are an important part of British culture where people socialize over meals. The traditional full English breakfast includes eggs, bacon, sausage, beans and tomatoes. School lunches cost around £1.60 and typically consist of sandwiches, crisps and fruit. The evening meal has become more varied but traditionally includes meat and vegetables with gravy. Afternoon tea features sandwiches and scones. Scotland is known for haggis and salmon while Wales is famous for laverbread and bara brith cake.

1. British Traditional Foods
Eating in Britain

2.  The staple foods of Britain are meat, fish,
potatoes, flour, butter and eggs. Many of
British dishes are based on these foods.

3.  These three platefuls of food were served
up in a pub. I would say that they are
enormous portions and not what a typical
British person would eat in one sitting:
Steak and Kidney Pie with chips and salad
Cornish Pastie with chips, baked beans
and salad Chicken Salad

4.  Cottage Pie (made
with minced beef and
vegetables topped with
mashed potato.
 Shepherd's Pie and
Cottage Pie are very
similar. Shepherd's Pie
is made from lamb
whereas Cottage Pie
uses beef.

5.  Public Houses (Pubs)
The word pub is short for public
house. There are over 60,000
pubs in the UK (53,000 in
England and Wales, 5,200 in
Scotland and 1,600 in Northern
Ireland). One of the oldest pubs,
Fighting Cocks in St. Albans, Pubs are an important part of British
Herts, is located in a building life. People talk, eat, drink, meet their
that dates back to the eleventh friends and relax there.
century.
Pubs have traditional names which date back over 600 years. Some
typical names are The Chequers, The White Swan, The Crown, The
King's Arms, The Red Lion and The White Horse. People often refer to
the pub by its name when giving directions: Turn left at the Rose and
Crown. There is usually a sign outside the pub showing the pub's name
with a picture.

6.  In British schools, children can
usually choose between a hot or
cold dinner provided by the
school or a packed lunch taken
from home. Some children are
entitled to a free school dinner,
but most children pay for theirs.
 Lunch break is from 12.15 at
noon to 1.15 p.m. and children
may have a school meal or bring
a packed lunch.
 School lunches are priced at
£1.60

7.  Pasta
twirls
 Mince
beef
 Lasagna

8. MEALS and MEAL TIMES
 Some people have their biggest meal in the middle of the
day and some have it in the evening, but most people
today have a small mid-day meal - usually sandwiches,
and perhaps some crisps and some fruit.
 British have three main meals a day:
 Breakfast - between 7:00 and 9:00,
 Lunch - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m.
 Dinner (sometimes called Supper) - The main meal,
eaten anytime between 6:30 and 8:00 p.m. (Evening
meal)
 Traditionally, and for some people still, the meals are
called:
 Breakfast - between 7:00 and 9:00,
 Dinner (The main meal) - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m.
 Tea - anywhere from 5:30 at night to 6:30 p.m.

9. BREAKFAST
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.
 The Traditional English Breakfast without the fried bread. The
traditional English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon,
sausages, fried bread, baked beans and mushrooms. Even
though not many people eat this for breakfast today, it is always
served in hotels and guest houses around Britain.
 The traditional English breakfast is called the Full English and
sometimes referred to as The Full English Fry-up.
 Many people, especially children, in England eat a bowl of
cereal. They are made with different grains such as corn, wheat,
oats etc.
 In winter many people eat "porridge" or boiled oats.

10. LUNCH
 What is a typical English lunch?
Many children at school and adults at work
will have a 'packed lunch'. This typically
consists of a sandwich, a packet of
crisps, a piece of fruit and a drink. The
'packed lunch' is kept in a plastic
container.
 Sandwiches are also known as a butty or
sarnie in some parts of the UK.

11. DINNER
 The evening meal is usually called 'tea', 'dinner' or
'supper'.
 What is a traditional English Dinner?
A typical British meal for dinner is meat and "two veg".
We put hot brown gravy, traditionally made from the
juices of the roast meat (but more often today from a
packet!) on the meat and usually the vegetables. One of
the vegetables is almost always potatoes.
 This traditional meal is rarely eaten nowadays, a recent
survey found that most people in Britain eat curry! Rice
or pasta are now favoured as the 'British Dinner'.

12. TEA
 Tea in Britain is traditionally brewed in a
warmed China teapot, adding one spoonful
of tea per person and one for the pot. Most
Britons like their tea strong and dark, but with
a lot of milk.
 Years ago, the milk was poured into the cup
first, so as not to crack the porcelain.
 The traditional way of making tea is:
 Boil some fresh cold water. (use an electric
kettle to boil water)
 Put some hot water into the teapot to make it
warm.
 Pour the water away
 Put one teaspoon of tea-leaves per person,
and one extra tea-spoon, into the pot.
 Pour boiling water onto the tea.
 Leave for a few minutes.
 Serve

13. AFTERNOON TEA
 AFTERNOON TEA (The traditional 4
o'clock tea)
This is a small meal, not a drink.
Traditionally it consists of Tea (or
coffee) served with either of the
following:
 Freshly baked scones served with
cream and jam (Known as a cream tea)
 Afternoon tea sandwiches - thinly sliced
cucumber sandwiches with the crusts
cut off.
 Assorted pastries

14. HIGH TEA
 HIGH TEA (The traditional 6 o'clock tea)
The British working population did not have Afternoon Tea. They
had a meal about midday, and a meal after work, between five and
seven o'clock. This meal was called 'high tea' or just 'tea'.
 (Today, most people refer to the evening meal as dinner or supper.)
 Traditionally eaten early evening, High tea was a substantial meal
that combined delicious sweet foods, such as scones, cakes, buns
or tea breads, with tempting savouries, such as cheese on toast,
toasted crumpets, cold meats and pickles or poached eggs on
toast. This meal is now often replaced with a supper due to people
eating their main meal in the evenings rather than at midday.

15. Did you know?
 If someone asks you if you would like a cuppa, they are
asking if you would like a cup of tea.
 If someone says 'let me be mother' or 'shall I be mother',
they are offering to pour out the tea from the teapot.
 Tea Words and phrases
Tea break, High tea, tea time, tea party, tea towel and
many more terms have derived from the tradition of
drinking tea.
 Tea breaks are when tea and biscuits are served. The
traditional time for tea breaks are at 11:00 am
(Elevensee) and 4 pm in the afternoon.
 If something is not quite to your taste, it’s probably not
your cup of tea.

16. Traditional Foods of Scotland and
Wales
Scotland
 Scotland is famous for its
game
and salmon, the national dish is
haggis and neeps (innards and
offal chopped up with spices
and cooked in a sheep's
stomach, served with mashed
turnip). Glasgow is the home of
the deep-fried Mars bar.

17. Wales
Traditional Welsh foods include:
 Laverbread - It's basically
boiled seaweed (Laver is a kind
of edible seaweed).
Laverbread is often served
rolled with fine Welsh oatmeal
into little cakes and fried into
crisp patties with eggs, bacon
and cockles for a traditional
Welsh breakfast.
 Bara Brith - A rich cake
 Welsh Rarebit - melted cheese
on toast.

18. Take away food in England
 Take-away meals are very popular and
most towns have a selection of Indian,
Italian, Chinese and Greek Restaurants.
 Fish and chips is the classic English
take-away food and is the traditional
national food of England. It became
popular in the 1860's when railways began
to bring fresh fish straight from the east
coast to the cities over night.

19.  Fish (cod, haddock,
plaice) deep fried in
flour batter with chips
(fried potatoes) dressed
in malt vinegar. This is
England's traditional
take-away food or as
US would say "to go".
Fish and chips are not
normally home cooked
but bought at a fish and
chip shop ("chippie" ) to
eat on premises or as a
"take away"

20.  The fish (cod, haddock,
plaice) is deep fried in flour
batter and is eaten with
chips. Traditionally, the
fish and chips are covered
with salt and malt vinegar
and, using your fingers,
eaten straight out of the
newspaper which they
were wrapped in. Now-a-
days small wooden forks
are provided and the fish
and chips are wrapped in
more hygienic paper.
 In the north of England,
fish and chips is often
served with "mushy peas"
(mashed processed peas).

21. What food was "invented" or discovered in England?
 1762: The sandwich
was invented in
England.
We have a town
named Sandwich in
the south of England.
John Montagu, the
Earl of Sandwich
invented a small
meal that could be
eaten with one hand
while he continued
his nonstop
gambling.

22.  1902: Marmite was invented in England.
Marmite is dark brown-coloured savoury
spread made from the yeast that is a by-
product of the brewing industry. It has a
very strong, slightly salty flavour. It is
definitely a love-it-or-hate-it type of food.

23.  Did you like?
 Let’s go in England to taste the delicious
food I’ ve told you about!

24.  Grupul Şcolar
Tehnologic “Ion
Mincu” , Tg-Jiu
 the 9th E grade
 Iulia Nănuţ,
Teacher of English
2007