Meals and Cooking Every person starts his or her day with breakfast. The English breakfast is a bit better, as it consists of one or two fried eggs, grilled sausages, bacon, tomatoes and mushrooms. The English have tea with milk and toast with butter and marmalade. As a choice one may have corn flakes with milk and sugar or porridge.
In Great Britain they have dinner at five or six. Soup may be served then, but one should not be misled by the word “soup”. British soup is just thin paste and a portion is three times smaller than in Ukraine. A lot of British prefer to eat but “Fish and Chips” shops are very popular with their take-away food. The more sophisticated public goes to Chinese, Italian, seafood or other restaurants and experiments with shrimp, inedible vegetables and hot drinks.
Supper in Ukraine means one more big meal at seven. The table groans with food again. In England it is just a small snack - a glass of milk with biscuits at ten.
Most Ukrainians have never counted calories and they are deeply convinced that their food is healthy. Some housewives may admit that it takes some time to prepare all the stuff, including pickles, home-made preserves and traditional Ukrainian pies and pancakes. But they don’t seem to mind too much and boil, fry, roast, grill, broil, bake and make. Paraphrasing a famous proverb one can say: ‘What is a Ukrainian man’s meat is a British man’s poison’.
Answer the questions 1. What does the English breakfast consist of?
2. At what time do British have their dinner?
3. What shops are very popular with their take-away food?
4. Where do the more sophisticated public go to?
5. Why have most Ukrainians never counted calories?
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At the restaurant In all large cities there are plenty of restaurants, cafйs, cafeterias, self-service dining-rooms, etc. All the large hotels have dining-rooms or restaurants.
You can have breakfast, dinner, lunch or supper at any restaurant. Every restaurant offers you dinners ”table d’hфte”. These meals are known as regular dinners. It means that you are served with meals of several courses, at a fixed price. “Table d’hфte” is cheaper than “table а la carte”. “Table а la carte” means such meals which are ordered course by course, from the menu card, each dish separately. At the restaurant each little party of guests has its own table. In the evening you can see several people dancing at the far end of the room, near the orchestra. One of the waiters is standing near the table where there are cold dishes of various kinds. He is holding a tray with two wine-glasses on it.
In summer, when it is very hot, you can also order cold, refreshing beverages, such as: soda-water, juice, lemonade or beer. In summer people also eat a lot of ice-cream. At a restaurant you can get all kinds of meals, hot dishes as well as cold ones.
