Elevenses is a break between breakfast and lunch, when it is time for a light meal or snack. In schools the early lunch break is called a "Tíz-órai" break. Parallel to the word Elevenses, "Tíz-órai" is often called Tenses "Tenzeez" by Hungarian-Americans and Hungarian-Britons. For elevenses, Winnie-the-Pooh preferred honey on bread with condensed milk. Paddington Bear often took elevenses at the antique shop on Portobello Road run by his friend Mr Gruber, for which Paddington would buy buns and Mr Gruber would make cocoa (hot chocolate). In the Middle-earth stories by J. R. R. Tolkien ("The Lord of the Rings"), it
Paddington Bear characters were 2D drawings. In one scene, Mr Brown is seen to hand Paddington a jar of marmalade that becomes 3D when Paddington touches it. Animator Ivor Wood also worked on "The Magic Roundabout", "The Wombles" and "Postman Pat". The series was narrated by Michael Hordern. In the United States, episodes aired on PBS, on the syndicated series "Romper Room", on Nickelodeon as a segment on the programme "Pinwheel" and on USA Network as a segment on the "Calliope" (TV series) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as well as in between preschool programming on The Disney Channel as