The food people eat

What about the food people eat? I know a man who only eats natural foods; he takes a lot of vitamins. I have never seen anybody who looks so ill. I like good food and I think most healthy food is really tasteless. For breakfast I usually have toast and coffee, and at weekends when I have more time I have bacon and fried eggs. If I get hungry in the middle in the morning I have a bar of chocolate then for lunch a sandwich (made with white bread, of course). After a day's work in the office I am pretty hungry and in the evenings I like a big meal of meat and potatoes. My ill- looking friend is horrified by what I eat; his breakfast is a piece of wholemeal bread with a cup of herbal tea and then for lunch he has rice, and in the. evenings, beans and a salad. He says it is very good for him but I'm not sure.

There is nothing wrong with being healthy and keeping fit, but with some people it is almost a religion. Nothing can make me go jogging. No, thank you, I'd rather sit and have a cup of coffee and a cigarette while the joggers are out running around the streets. I get my exercise walking to the bus stop on way to work.

Do you agree with this opinion?

Sandwich

In 1752 there was a very famous English politician. Everybody knew about him because he enjoyed playing cards so much. One night he stayed at the card table for 24 hours, and he ate nothing but a slice of bread with a piece of meat inside.

His name John Montague Sandwich. The English name for sandwich comes from this man. John Montague is dead but the sandwich lives on.

Sandwiches were great favourites in Victorian England. It was the custom to "take" afternoon tea at about four o'clock, and many rich families ate sandwiches at this time. Cucumber sandwiches were very popular, The servants always cut the crusts off the bread, so the sandwiches were very small and delicate. Sandwiches are less elegant now and often, much bigger. The American comic strip character Dagwood. Bupstead is famous for his "Dagwood1' sandwiches which have up to ten slices of bread packed with different fillings all one on top of the other. The English eat millions of sandwiches every day. They are a typical "snack"' meal because they are easy and quick to prepare. You can buy sandwiches if you don't want to make them yourself. There are thousands of "sandwich bars" and cafes and even some restaurants that sell them.

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Учебно - методическое пособие по практике речи для I курса с дополнительной специальностью

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