The names and details of these Elevenses vary by country:
Australia et New Zealand : In Australia and New Zealand, elevenses are known as " tea morning ”and take place around 10:30 am. Many workplaces organize teas in the morning for staff to welcome new employees, for great occasions special like a anniversary. or simply as a regular event. Food will sometimes be provided by the company, but employees will often be expected to bring food. food to share.
Belgium : In Belgian Dutch, this type of snack is called a tienuurtje, literally a "little 10 hour". A tienuurtje usually consists of one or more biscuits or a piece de fruit and can be accompanied by fruit juice or hot chocolate. Many parents give their children a tienuurtje to eat during the mid-morning school break. A similar type of snack for the afternoon break is called a vieruurtje, literally "small (one of) 4 hours".
Chile : In many Spanish-speaking cultures the elevenses is observed as the once (in Spanish, once means "eleven"). However, in Chile it switched to the afternoon, sometimes replacing the traditional dinner.
In the national survey on consumption diet 2010-2011, around 80% of Chileans reported having had one once. This is due to the fact that it sometimes replaced the dinner traditional in Chile, which only 30% of the population reported having. Here the dinner traditional means a good meal with vegetables, meat, volaille and fish. The once looked like a light version of British High Tea (See Tea)
Another widespread, but unfounded, popular etymology for the word in Chile is that priests (in other versions, workers or women) once used the expression tomar las ounce (in Spanish: "drink the eleven") in reference to the eleven letters of the word " Schnapps "to hide the fact that they were drinkingalcohol during the day.
Colombia : In Colombia, it is common to have a collation named ounces. It mainly consists of hot chocolate, coffee or tea with corn cake, rolls ou crackers, usually taken around 17:00 p.m. In the morning, the to taste consists of the same type of food but his name is media nueves. It is usually served between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Hungary : Elevenses in Hungarian is called Tíz-órai which translates to "10 o'clock", referring to "the 10 o'clock meal". It's about a coffee break between Breakfast and breakfast, when it's time for a meal light and or an collation. In schools, the break breakfast early is called Tíz-órai break. Along with the word Elevenses, Tíz-órai is often referred to as Tenses "Tenzeez" by Hungarian-Americans and Hungarian-British.
Netherlands : In the countries of Frieze Western people had a meal Similar called konkelstik (served at konkeltoid, the right time for konkelen, a verb meaning "to make a visit").
Poland : In Poland, the drugie śniadanie (literally. " second breakfast ") is eaten in the middle of the morning. Rather than a large piece de sausage Or other meat, however, as the second breakfast German, the Poles prefer a pastry more light, similar to a dessert ou sweet with a drink hot, more like the " coffee break "American.
Spain : At Pays Basque, it is common to take a collation in the middle of the morning composed offoodstuffs rich en protein like eggs or delicatessen like bacon, sausage, on painCalled hamarretako (literally "10 o'clock (snack)") or hamaiketako ("11 o'clock (collation) ").
In Spain there is a break between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., called lunch (in Latin American Spanish it means breakfast). In jobs requiring little physical effort, it may be a breakfast light composed of a coffee, Juice, An infusion with some sucre or an collation by Almonds, noix or biscuits. In work of great physical effort, there is usually a sandwich or a fried egg with some ham and cheese.
United Kingdom : The Elevenses, consumed at 11 a.m. (11 AM) as the name suggests, usually consists of tea or coffee, often with a few biscuits. Sometimes toast to chocolate bars are consumed in place.
United States of America : During the first decades of the 19th century, elevenses consisted of drinking whiskey. In modern times, hourly workers take a break known as coffee break, usually around 10:00 a.m. Often this is done in a break room and small snacks can also be eaten.
It is common for young schoolchildren to take a short break collation called collation in the morning. This is offered in the morning before lunch, usually between 9 a.m. and 00 a.m. This snack is common in schools for children under the age of six. Older children are not offered snacks during school hours, but instead should eat only their midday meal, called lunch, during school.
Only a small population of Americans take British elevenses.
In popular culture: For the elevenses, Winnie-the-Pooh preferred the miel on pain with some concentrated milk. Paddington Bear would often take elevenses at the antique shop on Portobello Road run by his friend Mr. Gruber, for which Paddington would buy rolls and Mr. Gruber would do cocoa (hot chocolate).
In the Middle-earth stories of JRR Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), it is a meal eaten by the Hobbits between the second breakfast and breakfast.
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