In browsing Lee Jackson’s Victorian London Dictionary, I decided to research more about the food of that era, specifically their meal habits. One I found particularly interesting was breakfast. In Victorian London, breakfast was widely served at 9:00am. “So hungry London breakfasts, but not uniformly well, at nine o’clock in the morning.”  With the exception of the upper class, who dined at 10:00am.

Their breakfasts mainly consisted of poached eggs, rashed bacon, bread and butter, etc. “I want to know how many thousand eggs are daily chipped, how many of those embryo chickens are poached, and how many fried; how many tons of quartern loaves are cut up to make bread-and-butter, thick and thin; how many porkers have been sacrificed to provide the bacon rashers, fat and streaky…”

Many also had fish with breakfast, being that London had a large fishing industry. Overall, I found all of these discoveries very interesting, as a glimpse into what life was like in Victorian London.