Even at school when we had the 'lunch register' every morning, and we had to shout whether we were having a school meal or a packed lunch. We'd have to shout shout 'dinner' if we were having a school meal.
They'd have liked me then. I refuse to call my lunch "dinner" because I have "dinner" at night, and I'd have told them that in no uncertain terms whether they liked it or not. So I guess I'd have had to shout "School lunch" if I was eating one of the school's lunch meals.
Anyway, after the last time wth the original thread with the same title as this one, I think I'll leave this one well alone now as to not get into any more arguments.
But before I do, I'll just answer the thread question by saying that I have brunch at lunch time (as it's my breakfast and lunch rolled into the one meal). I have dinner at night. And tea is something I drink. To me, that's the way it always has been and always will be, but everyone's different, and different people will call their meals different things, which is fair enough.
I always call the midday meal, lunch and my evenng meal dinner. Nearly all catering establishments refer to "lunchtime menus" I have never seen dinnertime menus advertised for midday meals,
When I were nobbut a nipper we had 'school dinners'.............at midday. !!.............which we paid for with 'dinner money'.............we didn't go back to school at 6 pm for our school dinner.......... :cool:
Not that I eat all of them , but if I have something at teatime then it is tea , if it is a meal later on then it is dinner. To me tea consists of sandwiches or crumpets , tea etc and is a fill me in until dinner a few hours later.
I'm breakfast, lunch and dinner person. Tea is something I drink (rarely) except on Sundays when occasionally I have my dinner at lunch time depending what we are doing during the day.
At school though, it was always "School dinners", never "School lunches", but my mother would ask me what I had had for lunch. Daft innit.
I say it is lunch if it is something like sandwiches, but if it is a 'cooked meal' then I'll call it dinner. Tea is always tea though, whether midday meal is lunch or dinner.
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Wasn't this subject done to death in a previous thread a few months ago ?
This thread will reach 1000 posts when Dundee_Mark et al get round to posting.
They'd have liked me then. I refuse to call my lunch "dinner" because I have "dinner" at night, and I'd have told them that in no uncertain terms whether they liked it or not. So I guess I'd have had to shout "School lunch" if I was eating one of the school's lunch meals.
Anyway, after the last time wth the original thread with the same title as this one, I think I'll leave this one well alone now as to not get into any more arguments.
But before I do, I'll just answer the thread question by saying that I have brunch at lunch time (as it's my breakfast and lunch rolled into the one meal). I have dinner at night. And tea is something I drink. To me, that's the way it always has been and always will be, but everyone's different, and different people will call their meals different things, which is fair enough.
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Edit. F*ck it...too late. :eek:
When I were nobbut a nipper we had 'school dinners'.............at midday. !!.............which we paid for with 'dinner money'.............we didn't go back to school at 6 pm for our school dinner.......... :cool:
It's OK.........I heard they settled their differences over lunch, erm ...........or dinner..............
Don't worry Pam. As I said, I'm not going to cause any arguments. Call your meals whatever you want to.
Not that I eat all of them , but if I have something at teatime then it is tea , if it is a meal later on then it is dinner. To me tea consists of sandwiches or crumpets , tea etc and is a fill me in until dinner a few hours later.
When you go out for your lunch break do you call it dinner break?
Yeah...or dinner hour (even if it's not an hour long break :rolleyes: )
At school though, it was always "School dinners", never "School lunches", but my mother would ask me what I had had for lunch. Daft innit.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner/tea (interchangeable).
Lunch (1pm) and supper or dinner in the evening, are my chosen words. Nobody I know calls them anything different. Bucks is the region.
Brunch
Lunch
Early Dinner (anything before 1800)
Dinner
Late Dinner (anything after 2030)
So if the main meal is in the middle of the day and a light meal in the evening, then I'm having dinner and tea, in that order.
If the main meal is in the evening, with a light meal in the middle of the day, then it's lunch and dinner.