FOOD AND RESTAURANTS
My eating habbits are various. Between 6-7 o´clock I have a dinner, witch consist from rolls or butter of bread, and butter with ham and cheese. About 12 AM I have a dinner. My favorite dinners meal are pasta with ketchup, cheese, pork meat, or chicken breath with cheese and ham. Evening food must be light, that´s why I not eat a lot in the evening. Usually I eat roll with tomato and cucumber. My favorite drinks are black earl grey tea with honey and lemon, orange juice and pepsi cola light. I don´t like alcohol drinks.
In our country daily meals usually start with breakfast, which consists of something to drink — tea (with milk or with lemon) or cocoa, warm or hot milk, black coffee — 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.
Quite a lot of people eat cereal for their breakfast —cornflakes or muesli — they also sometimes add various ingredients like yogurt, raisins, chocolate, stewed fruit, walnuts, hazelnuts etc. Breakfast usually takes place between 6 and 7 o’clock.
Around noon (but in our school sometimes at half past two p.m.) we have our lunch which is warm and consists of some soup, a main dish, something to drink and salad or dessert. Soups are either vegetable soups (potato, tomato, pea, bean, carrot, parsley, celery, mushrooms) or meat teas (beef tea, tripe, chicken, hen or goulash soup etc.) Some people cook fruit soups (e.g. strawberry soup).
The main dish can be either sweet — e.g. strawberry or plum dumplings, pancakes with jam and cream, baked yeast dumplings (Czech buchty), doughnuts etc. Or we can have some meat or fish or poultry with some vegetables such as potatoes, chips, rice, Czech dumplings. pasta or bread. We distinguish the following types of meat: beef. pork. veal, mutton, lamb and we can prepare it in various ways — roast it. grill it, boil it, bake it or stew it — we can mince or smoke some kinds of meat. Poultry is things like chicken, hen, duck, turkey, goose. Lots of people in our country eat rabbits. The main fish cooked in our country is carp (it is a traditional Christmas meal — fried carp and potato salad) and trout.
An evening meal may be either warm or cold. Cold and quick supper may consist of some pate on bread or rolls, kippers or some spread.
Typical Czech meals include: Tripe soup, potato soup, ..kulajda“ soup (mushrooms and potatoes boiled in a little bit of sour cream soup), roasted goose and sauerkraut and Czech dumplings, roasted sirloin beef in sour cream sauce and Czech dumplings, roasted pork and sauerkraut and Czech dumplings, Moravian sparrows (roasted fat pork offcuts)‘ and dumplings, Spanish birds (rolled beef steaks filled with salami, pickle, egg and mustard), potato pancakes, fruit dumplings with cream, baked yeast dumplings, potato or ..hairy“ dumplings, fried cheese (smazeny syr) etc. Traditional Czech cuisine is however a bit unhealthy and people can get fat. Many families prefer to cook more vegetable meals, they become vegetarians or try some kind of foreign (Chinese) food.
I haven´t got a good attitude to cooking. I dislike it, I am not good at it. Most people go to a school, office or factory canteen but some prefer going to a restaurant or having a fast lunch in a buffet or a snackbar or buying something at street stalls.
Traditional British breakfast consists of a glass of fruit juice and cornflakes with sugar and milk. Sundays are reserved for their big cooked breakfast consisting of e.g. boiled or scrambled eggs or fried bacon and eggs with perhaps sausage or tomato or fried bread. The typical British break is 5 o’clock tea. It is usually fairly strong and eaten together with some cakes or biscuits
About 6 o’clock most families have their evening meal or ..dinner“. It may be cooked or cold. The English are fond of cakes and pies. They are a nation with a very ,,’sweet tooth“.
Fast food is a typical feature of both British and American life styles. In a restaurant you can eat national dishes, but there are food stalls and places where you can either buy various types of food to eat as you walk along the streets or take it away and eat at home. The Americans call fast food restaurants ,,cheapies“. These places — McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s (in America also Kentucky Fried Chicken and Mrs. Winner’s) usually offer beverages (Coca-Cola, „Pepsi-Cola, tea, coffee, milkshakes…), some solid food like roast chicken and chips, hamburgers, sandwiches, pizza, salads or desserts (apple, cherry pie). You can put pickles, mustard, ketchup, onions or tomatoes on your hamburgers too. The oldest types of fast food are seafood stalls or shops — usually fish and chips.