Frances Kemmish wrote:
> Robert Bannister wrote:
>
>> Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:
>>
>>> I think that the heat moves things out a bit at mid-day and the cool
>>> of the
>>> evening moves them back a little.
>>
>>
>>
>> Not just weather - life style. In most of the famous Russian novels,
>> the aristocracy have breakfast (zavtrak) around noon, a meal whose
>> name I have forgotten in the early evening, dinner (obyed) towards
>> midnight and supper in the small hours of the morning.
>>
>
> In "Buddenbrooks", by Thomas Mann, which I read in English, the family
> always ate "first breakfast', and then another breakfast later in the
> morning. I don't know what term was used in the original though.

"Zweites Frühstück" (second breakfast) is still the normal term in
Germany for what we might call 'morning coffee'. Manual workers and
tradesmen, who start work very early, will commonly stop for '2nd
breakfast' at about 9 am.

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Rob Bannister