Meals

Breakfast is the first meal of the day; brunch is a late breakfast with breakfast and lunch dishes; lunch is the noon meal, usually smaller than dinner and often eaten quickly; supper is a light evening meal; dinner is an evening or large noon meal. Many people always say either «dinner» or «supper» to mean their evening meal. Then there’s no difference between the two. Raw means not cooked at all; well-done means cooked completely. These words can be used for meat or vegetables or fish, while the other words here are only for meat. Rare means just cooked a little bit; medium means the meat is pink inside; medium-rare is between medium and rare. Soft drinks are sweet, carbonated drinks without any alcohol; hard drinks are made with liquor: vodka, bourbon, gin, tequila, etc. Beer and wine are not usually considered to be hard drinks. Straight and on the rocks are ways of serving liquor. Straight means out of the bottle, not mixed with anything; on the rocks means with ice cubes. You order food to go when you want to take it somewhere to eat it. You get a doggie bag when a restaurant meal is too big for you to finish there and you want to take the rest home with you.