Elevenses

Elevenses (pronunciation: /ᵻˈlɛvənzᵻz/) is a short break taken at around 11 a.m. to consume a drink or snack of some sort. The name and details vary between countries.

In Australia and New Zealand elevenses is known as 'morning tea', and can occur at any point between the start of the working day and lunchtime. Many workplaces organise morning teas for staff to welcome new employees, for special occasions such as a birthday, or simply as a regular event. Food will sometimes be provided by the business, but often employees will be expected to bring food to share.

In many Spanish-speaking cultures, elevenses is observed under the name la once (the eleven in Spanish). However, in Chile it has shifted to the afternoon.

In West Friesland country people had a similar meal called "konkelstik" (served at "konkeltoid", the proper time for "konkelen", a verb denoting "making a visit").

Elevenses typically consists of tea or coffee, often with a biscuit.

In Euskadi it's common to have a mid-morning snack consisting on high-protein food like eggs, bacon or cured meats on bread, called hamarretako (literally "10 o'clock snack") or hamaiketako ("11 o'clock snack")

During the first decades of the 19th century, elevenses consisted of drinking whiskey.

In Israel it called "ארוחת עשר" (Hebrew: "10 o'clock meal"), mostly eaten at schools & kindergartens in the form of homemade sandwiches, often accompanied with a fruit or other snack, after the second hour of the schoolday & before the big break. It also occurs in major unionized workplaces, such as factories & customer services reception centres, where workers are handed tea.

Elevenses in Hungarian is called "Tíz-órai" which translates to "of the 10 o'clock" referring to "the meal of the 10 o'clock." This is a break between breakfast and lunch when it is time for a light meal or snack. In schools the early lunch break is called a "Tíz-órai" break.

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