Food and meals 2.

Food and meals 2.

In this country daily meals usually start with breakfast as well, but the food is not so rich. We usually have something to drink- tea, coffee, cocoa or hot milk – and something to eat e.g. one or two slices of bread and butter and cheese or eggs, ham, salami, jam etc. Instead of bread we can eat rolls or buns or we can have something sweet – cakes, doughnuts or gingerbread. At present quite a lot of people eat cereals with various ingredients.

The midday British meal is called lunch and is usually fairly light. It often consists of a salad, ham and cheese sandwiches, pizza or hamburgers.

The Czech midday meal is the main meal of the day (the English would call it dinner ). It is usually a three-course meal which consists of soup, the main course and a dessert. As for soup we can choose from bouillon, clear ( beef, chicken, vegetable, with liver balls) soups and thick soups (potato, tomato, mushroom..) The Czech menu often offers the favourite dish – roast pork, dumplings and cabbage or sauerkraut. Another typical main dish is a fried pork chop with boiled potatoes and a vegetable salad, Vienna steak with potato salad or goulash with dumplings.

Sometimes another speciality is prepared – fruit dumplings with cottage cheese. After the main dish we may drink tea, lemonade, juice, coke, mineral water, men prefer drinking beer or wine.