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AUDREY BROWN

Hello, I’m Audrey Brown, and I’m an associate lecturer at the Open University. Today we’ve come to the university’s Walton Hall campus, to the canteen, to see what the staff here do for lunch. So we’re going to ask them why they’ve chosen to eat at this time today. What reasons are they giving?

SPEAKER 1

I’m eating at this time today because it’s my lunch break, and I normally eat lunch at lunchtime.

SPEAKER 2

This was the time I have spare between meetings.

SPEAKER 3

I normally eat at lunchtime. That’s when I’m hungry.

SPEAKER 4

Why did – we don’t normally eat at this time, do we?

SPEAKER 5

We got hungry.

SPEAKER 6

Because we were hungry and a bit bored.

SPEAKER 5

Hungry and bored.

SPEAKER 4

Yeah. Friday. I think you eat a bit early on a Friday.

[LAUGHTER] SPEAKER 7

Well, for lunch. [LAUGHS] Yeah. It’s lunchtime.

SPEAKER 8

I’m actually particularly hungry at the moment. But you know, every day around this time, I just feel like whether to break up the day, you know, just come to the Hub and grab some food.

SPEAKER 9

Because it’s lunchtime. I’m diabetic, so I need to eat at regular times through the day.

SPEAKER 10

It’s normally the time we feel like eating, just when lots of stomachs start rumbling.

SPEAKER 11

Yeah. I normally see it as more of a break from work, too. So when I feel my energy levels completely depleting, too, that’s when I know I need a break. And it happens at different times throughout the day, actually.

It might vary from between about like 11:30 to about 1 o’clock

SPEAKER 12

I always eat around 1 o’clock so that I can meet my friends. So we all come from different departments and meet up together in one place to eat lunch together.

SPEAKER 13

I’m very, very hungry. I couldn’t wait until later.

AUDREY BROWN

So what reasons did people give for eating? Is it because they’re hungry, or just because it’s lunchtime? What other reasons do people have for eating?