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whole evening until closing time. At lunchtime you can get sandwiches.
In the evening many pubs serve "basket meals" (especially chicken and
chips served in a basket) at the bar. Some pubs have restaurants where
you can get a complete meal.
Among the traditional dishes you’ll find available at many pubs are
the following:
 Bangers and mash – sausages and mashed potatoes. Filling and
tasty.
 Bubble and squeak – cabbage and premashed potatoes. Chopped
and fried into a delicious hash. Usually eaten with cold meat.
 Cornish pastry – pastry pillow bulging with meat, onion and
potato.
 Cottage pie – minced meat with onion, covered with a thick
layer of pre-mashed potatoes, then baked.
 Pork pie – minced pork in aspic jelly and thick pastry crust.
Served cold
 Scotch eggs – hard boil eggs rolled in sausage meat and bread-
crumbs and deep fried. Serves hot or cold.
 Shepherd’s pie – very similar to cottage pie, but usually made
with beef or lamb.
 Steak-and-kidney pie/pudding –a mainstay of the British diet for
centuries. A rich mixture of steak and kidney with a pastry of
suet pudding crust. Sometimes includes mushrooms-or even
oysters. A pub favourite.
 Veal, ham and egg pie - similar in presentation to pork pie, with
minced veal and ham surrounding hard-boiled eggs.
Good humour and good temper give English pubs their
character. If you go there regularly, the owner will try to get to know
you. He will remember what you usually drink and may become your
personal friend. The pub is the place where you meet people. You get to
know other regulars. Each pub has its own customers who go there every
night, to drink one or two pints, slowly, and to have a game of dominoes
or to play darts. Most pubs have a piano and on Saturday night the
customers may gather round it and sing. The songs they sing are the
same all over England.

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