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 claims, "I came all the way in a lifeboat, and ate marmalade. Bears like marmalade." He tells them that no-one can understand his Peruvian name, so the Browns decide to call him Paddington after the railway station in which he was found. Paddington's Peruvian name is ultimately revealed to be "Pastuso" (not to be confused with his "Uncle Pastuzo"). Bond originally wanted Paddington to have "travelled all the way from darkest Africa", but his agent advised him that there were no bears in Africa, and thus it was amended to Peru, home of the spectacled bear. They take him home