The green and yellow colors come from the flag in the times of the monarchy. Yellow is the color of the Habsburg dynasty and green is the Braganza dynasty color. Republicans decided to maintain the colors but now they Represent Brazil's forests and lush fields. Lunch on the other hand is more complex. To eat lunch while you're working is incomprehensible to most Brazilians, who leave their offices to eat with their colleagues and friends in restaurants and caf s scattered around town.
Dinner times range from the early evening till late at night, and nearly always involve the family.
Brazilians rarely eat with their hands and find it humorous when you do so. They instead use a fork and knife throughout the meals they enjoy. Geographically speaking, Brazil is not a land of many contrasts. Crystalline shield rocks underlie most of the country and make for a landscape of flat horizons, hilly uplands, plateaux and low lying mountains. The native inhabitants mostly consisted of the nomadic Tupi-Guarani Indians.