Second breakfast

	Part of the Meals series
	Common meals
	Breakfast • Brunch • Lunch • Tea • Dinner • Supper
	Components & courses
	Amuse-bouche • Appetizer • Entrée • Main course • Side dish • Salad • Drink • Dessert • Fruit • Cheese • Nuts • Entremet
	Related concepts
	Food • Eating • Cuisine • Etiquette • Buffet • Banquet

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Second breakfast (or Zweites Frühstück, Drugie śniadanie) is a meal eaten after breakfast, but before lunch. It is traditional in Bavaria, and in Poland. In Bavaria or Poland, special dishes are made exclusively to be eaten during second breakfast. In Vienna, Austria the Second Breakfast is referred to as Jause. It is typical to eat four to five meals a day in these locations.

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The second breakfast is typically a lighter meal or snack eaten around 10:30 in the morning. It consists of coffee, pastries such as monkey bread and the like, or some sausages. The typical sausage is a white sausage, Weißwurst, which is considered the specialty of Munich. The sausage is prepared during the early morning to serve during the second breakfast. It is served with pretzels, sweet mustard, and wheat beer. The meal is roughly similar in concept to the British elevenses, though elevenses is little more than a colloquial term for a mid morning snack. In Poland second breakfast usually consists of some snacks like sandwiches, or pastries, but may consist of light dessert type dishes like chocolate pudding or kisiel.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit, the hero, Bilbo Baggins, eats a second breakfast. In the preface to The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien mentions that Hobbits prefer to eat seven meals a day. In the film adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring one of the hobbits, Pippin, references second breakfast in a line of dialogue.

In Thomas Mann's book The Magic Mountain, frequent and detailed references are made to second breakfasts. Beer is served along with "cold cuts on toast". Sometimes food from the first breakfast appears again such as oatmeal and fruit.