On entering, with a quarter of an hour to spare, your idea was a cutlet and a glass of claret.

In the face of the refreshment-room waiter, the notion appears frivolous, not to say un-English.

You order cold beef and pickles, with a pint of bitter in a tankard.

To win the British waiter's approval, you must always order beer in a tankard.

The British waiter, in his ideals, is mediaeval.
There is a Shakespearean touch about a tankard.