/ck/ - Food & Cooking

By the way, Amerifats, this is how traditional English and Scottish working classes used to eat and why they stayed so lean and healthy:

7am - breakfast. Usually porridge, but occasionally a boiled egg with toast. Toast on the side too. Marmalade and butter, or maybe Marmite. Tea.

11am - elevenses. Tea and some kind of sliced cake or biscuits. My nan used to make fruit cake so we would have a slice of this with some butter spread on it.

1pm or about - dinner. We don’t call it lunch. ‘Lunch’ is something posh people did. They ‘lunched’. Usually something like mince and tatties, or pie and chips, or stew and rice or tatties or whatever. Almost all of it comes with some kind of veg (hence the expression ‘meat and two veg’). On sundays, you have a ‘roast dinner’ which again is some kind of meat with potatoes (both roasted and mashed if you’re from the north east), veg, gravy and maybe Yorkshires to soak up any extra gravy. Tea.

4pm - high tea. Tea. Usually cake or biscuits but usually more. Posh people have scones and cream and jam. We used to just have buttered scones, usually toasted, or my nan’s drop scones (which is like a mini pancake).

6pm/7pm - tea. This is what you all call ‘dinner’. Usually something small but if you didn’t have dinner earlier then you’d have similar at this meal. Tea.

9pm - supper. This is a very small meal before bed. You usually have this if you had a large dinner (lunch) and a small tea. Usually something like a sandwich and a cup of tea. Or soup and maybe a sandwich. Usually very small. In my family, this is when we would get out the cheese board. Few slices of cheese on some digestives and a cup of tea.

And this ^ is how we used to eat traditionally and why we could not only build empires as we were fuelled throughout the day, but also why we looked like mean, keen, loving machine gods. The more you know, Amerifats.