I choose 《What your lunch
says about you》from 6 minute English to be my topic.
This week’s question is “How long is the
average lunch break in the UK? And the answer is 25 minutes.
A survey from 2012 showed a third of
Britons eat exactly the same thing for lunch every day! And it’s mostly
sandwiches. According to food writer Bee Wilson,she said that they were what
you had in an emergency. It’s was a kind of makeshift lunch when you couldn’t
get anything better.
The view on eating the same thing every day
from philosopher Julian Baddini said: What lunch says about us is that we’re
still very much stuck in this kind of quite functional, efficient, utilitarian
attitude of how we should construct our daily lives.
In Today’s vocabulary, I learned a new word
“utilitarian”, it means designed to be practical rather than beautiful.
Interesting, isn't it? I used to have sandwich for lunch, almost everyday, when i was a graduate student in Texas.
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