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Husband is French, from a family where 3-4 courses, with wine, is the norm for lunch and dinner. Now that we are living in Europe full-time we have also adopted the same tradition. Most days he comes home for lunch and we have a few courses, always with wine. If he has to have a quick meal, like a sandwich then, no, no drinking.

Rarely do we drink anything other than wine, however, and never anything other than wine for lunch.

(I say this about the wine now, but when we were living in Prague and he could not come home for lunch he and his colleagues that drank knocked back a dirtcheap lunch and a 1/2 litre of beer each lunchtime as did all of the Czech, it seemed.)