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If you are going to be properly British during Dickens time, you should start eating 10 meals a day:
everything2.com/index.pl
Enjoy!
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Enjoy!
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Re: Start Eating!
Tue, November 25, 2008 - 1:10 PMWhat an amusing little piece of bourgeoisie fiction. -
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Re: Start Eating!
Tue, November 25, 2008 - 1:26 PMSounds sort of hobbitt-y to me -
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Tue, November 25, 2008 - 3:59 PMGrow hair on your toes and everything
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Tue, November 25, 2008 - 4:35 PMMy Traditional English Friend (now an American) just returned from a month visitng her family in Romford---and most of the photos she brought back show them eating: at home, in pubs, in restaurants. She doesn't eat like that at home, she said, but in England everybody was eating and drinking and socializing all the time and the food was mostly terrific. "High Tea" is more of a working family evening meal around 6PM, often served with meat. Afternoon Tea is around 4PM (SEE the Victorian Duchess of Bedford for more details.) -
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Re: Start Eating!
Tue, November 25, 2008 - 7:25 PMI think the link is a BIT overdone (although Hobbits basically ARE country folk; I doubt Tolkien made up "second breakfasts," and if you'd woken at dawn, eaten a bit, and tended crops and animals for hours, you'd want something substantial before noon, TOO!)
My British ex-in-laws definitely had tea every day (not low and high, but something at four to tide them over until dinnertime) and definitely a bedtime snack of some sort, and bedtime WAS generally eleven-ish.
Definitely formal, but I'd say that my brief experience with Brits is that they're more likely to sit down and eat a bit of something together than to shove snacks in their mouths when the mood takes them, which is what too many of us Americans do! -
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Tue, November 25, 2008 - 7:28 PMI hate how Tribe doesn't let us edit. What I meant to say was that the link over-formalizes the rituals of eating, as if every man, woman and child in the country has low tea at 2:00 sharp, but it wouldn't be a BAD thing for those playing middle- and upper-class (and deserving poor) to think of eating as a ritual and fellowship rather than a way to fill the hole between gigs!
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Re: Start Eating!
Tue, November 25, 2008 - 7:33 PMAgreed. For the middle and upper classes you're looking at four meals:
Breakfast
Dinner (lunch)
Tea
Supper
Lower and working classes were lucky to get dinner (lunch) which is/was the biggest meal of the day. For the poor, that was really their only meal of the day. Thankfully gin was cheap.
Also, if you notice on the link the OP provided there is a disclaimer at the bottom admitting it is misleading and really only applies to rich colonials, of which the denizens of Dickens' London are most certainly not. -
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Wed, November 26, 2008 - 9:59 AMBut wouldn't it be fun to make fun of them?
You know how we used to respond to people when they would ask where someone was? We would say that they were in the loo. Well, now we can say that they are stuffing there face again and I ain't had nuffin to eat all day. -
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Re: Start Eating!
Wed, November 26, 2008 - 12:12 PMQuite frankly my English cousins seem to be eating and drinking all the time. Every time I visit them in Coventry my Aunt is always hovering asking me if I want or need anything. Coming from living 3 years in NYC, I about told her to sit down and let me take care of myself! In fact my first visit with them when I was 18, it seemed like all we did was eat. They eat a bit less now but it's still more than the normal 3 meals a day. Either way I thought the site was a fun find.
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