Second breakfast
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| Elevenses |
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Second breakfast (or Zweites Frühstück, Drugie śniadanie) is a meal eaten after breakfast, but before lunch. It is traditional in Germany, more specifically Bavaria, and in Poland. In Germany, special dishes are made exclusively to be eaten during second breakfast. It is typical to eat four to five meals a day in these locations.
The second breakfast is typically a lighter meal or snack eaten around 10:30 in the morning. It consists of coffee, pastries, or some sausages. The typical sausage is a white sausage, Weißwurst, which is considered the specialty of Munich. The sausage is prepared during the early morning to serve during the second breakfast. It is served with pretzels, sweet mustard, and wheat beer. The meal is roughly similar in concept to the British elevenses, though elevenses is little more than a colloquial term for a mid morning snack. In Poland second breakfast usually consists of some snacks like sandwiches, or pastries, but may consist of light dessert type dishes like chocolate pudding or kisiel.
In J. R. R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit, second breakfast is one of the six meals a day that well-fed hobbits will eat.
