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Lunch in The United Kingdom

If you get hungry during work hours, you can just ¹⁾grab a sandwich or a bag of ²⁾crisps or a ³⁾slice of pizza. In the English speaking world, that would be absolutely normal and no one would be taken by surprise seeing you eat a ⁴⁾greasy sausage with fried chips covered in salt, which by today’s standards is considered to be very unhealthy.

As we mentioned in the previous articles, lunch, the abbreviation for more old-fashioned luncheon, is not the main meal of the day, which of course is dinner. (The typical English dinner is on our list of articles, just stay with us.) You would not fill your stomach with even more food after such a ⁵⁾hearty breakfast as we described earlier. Something ‘lighter’ or smaller is more reasonable around midday, isn’t it? If you want to have something healthier, go for an apple, banana or other piece of fruit that isn’t full of fat, oil, refined sugar and other ⁶⁾carbohydrates. Sandwiches can be very filling and crisps ⁷⁾savoury at the same time but everyone should mind their health and watch the type of food they consume.

If a piece of pizza or a ⁸⁾bar of chocolate seem unbelievable, go to an English school ⁹⁾canteen and see for yourself. You might be lucky if you find any vegetables on the menu. The majority of students have brought a packed lunch anyway carrying sandwiches, bags of different kinds of crisps, bars of chocolate or anything resembling that. The word ¹⁰⁾snack comes in mind which is not very far from the truth.

When discussing the typical English lunch, lines like ‘nothing healthy is ever eaten’ or ‘how can anyone eat that stuff?’ come up and the tone is rather hopeless than angry. But why not change that? Are you tired of the never-ending series of ham and cheese put in a sandwich? Prepare your own light salad at home and show your colleagues that not every lunch means another two-hour work out to keep the same weight.

¹⁾grab – vzít, uchopit (ve spojitosti s jídlem je méně formální výraz používán jako ‘dát si’)

²⁾crisps – brambůrky, čipsy (v americké angličtině chips)

³⁾slice – kousek, plátek, krajíc

⁴⁾greasy – mastný, olejový

⁵⁾ hearty – vydatný

⁶⁾carbohydrates – sacharidy

⁷⁾savoury – chutný, slaný

⁸⁾bar – tabulka (čokolády), tyčinka (čokolády)

⁹⁾canteen – kantýna, jídelna

¹⁰⁾snack – svačina, menší jídlo