B2S1 Let's eat American style

Breakfast vocabulary (click on the word 'breakfast')

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What's an American diner? Let's find out...

The American food is very various. Contrary to what we can think, they don’t just eat hamburgers, fast-food, pizza, chips and things like that.

They have lunch between 11:35 a.m. and 12:35 a.m. and they have dinner between 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.. They have a snack at 10:00 p.m. (for example: an apple, cookies, …).

In restaurants, meals are not expensive.  Today’s specials is “les plats du jour” in French, there are 2 or 3 dishes with a choice of lot of sauces : Italian dressing, French dressing, blue cheese, thousand islands, Ranch. Some restaurants propose “all you can eat” in french “tout ce que vous pouvez manger”.

 Baked beans, burritos, meatloaf whith mashed potatoes , Caesar salad , Philly cheese steak sandwich,  jambalaya and chili con carne ( from South America) are the main dishes .

 For dessert, chocolate cake is very popular.  Americans are particulary fond of muffins, cookies, apple pie, cheesecake, donuts …

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How to make American pancakes:

  

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LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

Here is the trailer:

extract n°1 : ordering breakfast in an American diner