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Culture 1 If you want to be thought of as a solid, reliable pillar of your community when youre 50, you cant be an irresponsible, corner-cutting exploiter at 25.You determine your reputation by deciding who and what you are and by keeping that lofty vision of yourself in mind, even when youre having a rip-roaring good time. -William Raspberry Journalist Slang a bundle: a lot of money. A: Your new car is really nice.“ B: It should be. It cost me a bundle! chicken (adjective or noun): cowardly. Fred will never ask Lucy for a date. Hes chicken / a chicken. chow down: eat. Its almost 6:00. Are you ready to chow down? Culture QuoteCulture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.Jawaharlal NehruConfucius They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Quote of The DayImagination is everything. It is the preview of lifes coming attractions. - Albert EinsteinQuote of The DayImagination is everything. It is the preview of lifes coming attractions. Albert Einstein5The key that unlocks energy is desire. Its also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited. - Earl Nightingalea cinch: something thats very easy to do.A: How was the test?B: It was a cinch. I finished it quickly and I know that all my answers were correct.crash course: short course designed to give a lot of knowledge/information in a very short time.Toms company is sending him to a business meeting in Istanbul.Should he take a crash course in Turkish?far-fetched: difficult to accept; difficult to believe. That storys pretty far-fetched. Nobodys going to believe it.Food of BritainSome people have their biggest meal in the middle of the day and some have it in the evening, but most people today have a small mid-day meal - usually sandwiches, and perhaps some crisps and some fruit.We have three main meals a day:Breakfast - between 7:00 and 9:00, Lunch - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m. Dinner (sometimes called Supper) - The main meal. Eaten anytime between 6:30 and 8:00 p.m. (Evening meal)Traditionally, and for some people still, the meals are called:Breakfast - between 7:00 and 9:00, Dinner (The main meal) - between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m. Tea - anywhere from 5:30 at night to 6:30 p.m.On Sundays the main meal of the day is often eaten at midday instead of in the evening. This meal usually is a Roast Dinner consisting of a roast meat, yorkshire pudding and two or three kinds of vegetables. BreakfastMost people around the world seem to think a typical English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, mushrooms and baked beans all washed down with a cup of coffee. Now-a-days, however, a typical English breakfast is more likely to be a bowl of cereals, a slice of toast, orange juice and a cup of coffee.The traditional English breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, sausages, fried bread, baked beans and mushrooms. Even though not many people will eat this for breakfast today, it is always served in hotels and guest houses around Britain.The traditional English breakfast is called the Full English and sometimes referred to as The Full English Fry-up.Many people, especially children, in England will eat a bowl of cereal. They are made with different grains such as corn, wheat, oats etc.In the winter many people will eat porridge or boiled oats. lunchMany children at school and adults at work will have a packed lunch. This typically consists of a sandwich, a packet of crisps, a piece of fruit and a drink. The packed lunch is kept in a plastic container.Sandwiches are also known as a butty or sarnie in some parts of the UK.Some favorite sandwiches are prawn and mayonnaise, tuna and mayonnaise, ham and pickle sandwiches.The evening meal is usually called tea, dinner or supper. A typical British meal for dinner is meat and two veg. We put hot brown gravy, (traditionally made from the juices of the roast meat, but more often today from a packet!) on the meat and usually the vegetables. One of the vegetables is almost always potatoes. What is a typical English Dinner like today?The traditional meal is rarely eaten nowadays, apart from on Sundays. A recent survey found that most people in Britain eat curry! Rice or pasta dishes are now favored as the British Dinner.Vegetables grown in England, like potatoes, carrots, peas, cabbages and onions, are still very popular. The Sunday Roast Dinner Sunday lunch time is a typical time to eat the traditional Sunday Roast.Traditionally it consists of roast meat, (cooked in the oven for about two hours), two different kinds of vegetables and potatoes with a Yorkshire pudding. The most common joints are beef, lamb or pork; chicken is also popular.Beef is eaten with hot white horseradish sauce, pork with sweet apple sauce and lamb with green mint sauce. Gravy is poured over the meat. Pies in EnglandPies are very popular in England. Pies are a baked dish consisting of a filling such as chopped meat or fruit enclosed in or covered with pastry ( a mixture of flour and butter).A pork pie consists of pork and pork jelly in a hot water crust pastry and is normally eaten cold. Steak and Kidney pieA traditional English dish consisting of a cooked mixture of chopped beef, kidneys, onions, mushrooms and beef stock. This mixture is placed in a pie or casserole dish, covered with a pastry crust and baked until crisp and brown. Cornish pastie / Cornish pastyA type of pie, originating in Cornwall, South West England. It is an oven-cooked pastry case traditionally filled with diced meat - nowadays beef mince (ground beef) or steak - potato, onion and swede. It has a semicircular shape, caused by folding a circular pastry sheet over the filling. One edge is crimped to form a seal.Cornish pastie in the days of the miners, used to be half savory and half sweet, all wrapped in one piece of pastry. That way it was like a main course and dessert all in one.Favorite fruit (sweet) pies include:Apple pie Rhubarb pie, Blackberry pie, A mixture of fruits such as apple and rhubarb or apple and blackberryTraditional drinks in BritainBritain is a tea-drinking nation. Every day we drink 165 million cups of the stuff and each year around 144 thousand tons of tea are imported. Tea in Britain is traditionally brewed in a warmed china teapot, adding one spoonful of tea per person and one for the pot. Most Britons like their tea strong and dark, but with a lot of milk. Years ago, the milk was poured into the cup first, so as not to crack the porcelain. The traditional way of making tea is:Boil some fresh cold water. (We use an electric kettle to boil water)Put some hot water into the teapot to make it warm.Pour the water awayPut one teaspoon of tea-leaves per person, and one extra tea-spoon, into the pot.Pour boiling water onto the tea.Leave for a few minutes.ServeIf someone asks you if you would like a cuppa, they are asking if you would like a cup of tea.If someone says let me be mother or shall I be mother, they are offering to pour out the tea from the teapot.Tea Words and phrasesTea break, High tea, tea time, tea party, tea towel and many more terms have derived from the tradition of drinking tea. Tea breaks are when tea and biscuits are served. The traditional time for tea breaks are at 11:00 am (Elevensee) and 4 pm in the afternoon. If something is not quite to your taste, its probably not your cup of tea. e.g. Windsurfing is not my cup of tea.After tea (the traditional 4 clock tea)This is a small meal, not a drink. Traditionally it consists of tea (or coffee) served with either of the following:Freshly baked scones served with cream and jam (Known as a cream tea) Afternoon tea sandwiches - thinly sliced cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off. Assorted pastries Afternoon Tea todayAfternoon tea is not common these days because most adults go out to work. However, you can still have Afternoon tea at the many tea rooms around England.Afternoon tea became popular about one hundred and fifty years ago, when rich ladies invited their friends to their houses for an afternoon cup of tea. They started offering their visitors sandwiches and cakes too. Soon everyone was enjoying Afternoon tea. High tea (the traditional 4 clock tea)The British working population did not have Afternoon Tea. They had a meal about midday, and a meal after work, between five and seven oclock. This meal was called high tea or just tea(Today, most people refer to the evening meal as dinner or supper.) Tra