Alexander already has some ideas about typical British food. Breakfast is generally a bigger meal than they have on the Continent, though some English people like a"continental" breakfast of rolls and butter and coffee.hey generally have lunch about one o'clock.Afternoon tea you can hardly call a meal, but it is a sociable sort of thing, as friends often come in then for a chat while they have their cup of tea, cake or biscuit.In a great many English homes, they make the mid¬day meal the chief one of the day, and in the evening they have the much simpler supper — an omelettes, or sausages, sometimes bacon and eggs and sometimes just bread and cheese, a cup of coffee or cocoa and fruit.