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· Favourite songs
· Pub visitors
· Healthy food
· The main pub drink
· Pub food
· " Cheers"
· A regular customer
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AMERICAN MEALS
Americans usually have three meals a day. Breakfast usually comes before eight o’clock in the morning, since most people have to be getting off to work and children have to leave for school. Lunch is served between twelve and one o’clock, and dinner, the main meal, is generally between six and eight in the evening.
Breakfast in America may be orange juice, toast and coffee, or juice and cold dry cereal with milk. Lunch in America is usually a small meal – a sandwich, salad or soup.
People who work must either brown-bag or get it near their work place. School children take sandwiches, fruit and cookies along with them or eat in the school’s cafeteria.
Brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch that many Americans enjoy on Sunday. Scrambled eggs or omelets are often served along with other, regular luncheon dishes. It is usually served about eleven in the morning.
Many fine restaurants have a traditional Sunday brunch where it is served from around 10 a. m. until mid-afternoon.
Dinner is ordinarily planned around a meat course, pork, or various fowl such as chicken or turkey. Ground beef is called hamburger and ground pork is sausage. In addition to meat, an American dinner often includes potatoes or rice, and a green or yellow vegetable. Fresh salad is also frequently served. Coffee, tea and milk are generally served with a dessert after dinner, but not always. Sometimes a typical dinner may include an appetizer, such as soup or fruit salad. The word “supper” can be used in place of dinner.
Сравните американскую и русскую еду. Что общего у нас есть? А что различается?
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EATING OUT IN NEW YORK CITY
A wide variety of dining pleasures awaits a visitor to New York City. The least costly alternatives are those used by many natives at lunch time: street vendors, fast food places and delis.
Street vendors’ offerings – hot dogs far $ 2. 00 or less – are fast, inexpensive and very “New York”. Hot dogs (also called “franks” or “frankfurters”) are a kind of sausage placed inside a bun. They are often made from pork and can be steamed, boiled, or grilled.
The fast food places, such as McDonald’s and Burger King are much the same everywhere in the United States. They offer a pretty standard fare: hamburgers, French fries, and coke (Coca-Cola), at a pretty standard price. A meal will rarely exceed $ 4. 00 per person. Hamburgers are made from beef, not ham, and served in a round bun. They are often eaten with tomato, or lettuce, or onion, mustard, and ketchup. A hamburger with melted cheese is called a cheeseburger. There are also some other kinds of burgers with other names, such as the jumbo burger (very big), mushroom burger, or bacon burger, depending on the extra ingredients added.
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With so many people traveling in cars, fast food places can be found all along the highways. If you are in a hurry, you can drive round to a “drive through” window and pick up your food packed in a paper bag without leaving your car. Likewise, other fast food places may have “drive-in” facilities. A waiter will meet you in the restaurant’s parking lot, take your order and deliver the food to your car, where you can eat in the relative comfort of the parking area.
Along highways and in town, “diners” give you a fine opportunity to have a quick snack. They are small-size restaurants, traditionally shaped like a railroad car.
Another option, the delis – short for delicatessen – offer sandwiches and assorted salads. Americans eat a lot of sandwiches, especially for lunch. They are made with two pieces of bread and a filling. Some common fillings are: tuna fish, eggs, ham, chicken, turkey, roast beef, cheese, and peanut butter and jelly. Some sandwiches are served hot, for example, a hot roast beef sandwich. Another special type is the “club sandwich” which is made with three pieces of bread and two fillings between them. One common sandwich is called a BLT, which means bacon, lettuce, and tomato. Although the bill delis may run as high as $ 8. 00 per person, their advantage is quick service, and of course, as the name implies, the food is delicious.
Another relatively inexpensive is the gourmet take-out shop stocked with foods for home or picnic.
Some places call themselves “family restaurants”. This usually means home style cooking. The food is almost as reasonably priced as in delis or better cafeterias.
In a cafeteria you walk through a line, choose your food, put in on a tray, pay at the end of the line, and carry your food to a table.
Turning to foreign cuisine, New York City’s excellent and inexpensive offerings include pizza and a wide choice of Chinese and Mexican food. Pizza comes in two varieties – thin-crust “Neapolitan” and thick-crust “Sicilian” – and is served by the slice or by the pie. The best Chinese food, of course, is in China-town. To snatch a quick taste of Mexican cooking one may go to Taco Bell or Taco-Time, where you will be offered tacos, chunks of marinated and broiled meat rolled in tortillas (flat bread made from wheat or corn) or chili, a spiced (“hot”) seasoned dish of beef, beans, chili peppers, and tomatoes.
Ответьте на вопросы:
1. Do you know what the least inexpensive offering in New York is?
2. What kinds of burgers do you know?
3. What is the standard menu in the fast food places?
4. Where can people travelling in cars have their snack?
5. What does BLT stand for?
6. Americans eat a lot of sandwiches, do not they?
7. Where do Americans enjoy Chinese and Mexican food?
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