Gosh, how snooty some posters on this thread are. Just because I won't be goaded into saying it's lunch and dinner. It might be to some but to me it's dinner and tea, always has been and always will be. Neither way is right or wrong (although I suspect certain lunch and dinner posters will insist otherwise).
I had a working class upbringing in Leeds, I say dinner and tea. I would never hold a 'dinner party', if people come round they come for their tea or just for something to eat. When I eat in a restaurant I generally trust that the menu I'm handed by the waiting staff is the correct one for whatever time of day (I may be northern but I am not stupid Debrajoan so go and be patronising to someone else). When I make a reservation I ask for a table at the time I wish to eat, the name of the meal is not mentioned.
I'm off out now, need to get some things in for tonight's tea and need to be back before dinner!
I wasn't patronising you, you berk, and if you take another look at my post, (No 108), you'll know that I wasn't, that's if you are not stupid, as you claim not to be.
You originally said, probably due to your northern affiliation, that to you, a meal at midday is dinner.
I merely pointed out that if you went into a restaurant at midday you'd have to order from the LUNCH menu.
Even in a backwoods, out in the boonies place like Leeds, the restaurants know that at midday, civilised people eat lunch.
It might be dinner time in your northern head, but the restaurant would be serving lunch.
I wasn't patronising you, you berk, and if you take another look at my post, (No 108), you'll know that I wasn't, that's if you are not stupid, as you claim not to be.
You originally said, probably due to your northern affiliation, that to you, a meal at midday is dinner.
I merely pointed out that if you went into a restaurant at midday you'd have to order from the LUNCH menu.
Even in a backwoods, out in the boonies place like Leeds, the restaurants know that at midday, civilised people eat lunch.
It might be dinner time in your northern head, but the restaurant would be serving lunch.
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Got it! It's blue touch paper, STAND BACK!
Before I went to university it was breakfast, dinner, supper. Since I've moved away (though I have since moved back in which confuses my family now), I started calling them breakfast, lunch, dinner.
I just think it sounds nicer, and makes more sense to me, dinner generally being the biggest meal of the day which is usually in the evening rather than between 12-2..
Also I just don't like the word supper, but can't bring myself to call it tea. I don't like either of those terms and don't have a reason for my dislike.
But when i was a kid it was always
breakfast
dinner
and tea (had Sunday dinner at home and dinner at the weekends & had tea at home / went out for tea).
Never used to say going out for dinner then (probably because we rarely did it).
So now
Breakfast
Lunch (quite new)
Dinner (going out for)
& Supper (at home).
Breakfast
Lunch
Supper
and
Dinner on occasions, instead of supper, when going out for formal evening meal, or dinner party at home
Tea was the early evening light meal I gave the children, before they were old enough to stay up for supper.
That thread on whether midnight is the start of the next day or the end of the previous day has reminded me of the somewhat contentious topic, going by how it has gone down on here before, of the naming of the three main meals in a typical day.
It's been a while since we last attempted to settle this pressing issue so I feel it's time for the next round.
Do you say breakfast, dinner and tea or is it breakfast, lunch and dinner? Or even breakfast, lunch and tea? Maybe you can't quite make up your mind?
I'm in the "breakfast, dinner and tea" camp myself.
Breakfast, dinner and tea. I grew up with those terms because you have your dinner at dinner time and tea at teatime so it's just confusing when people say they're having their lunch at dinner time and dinner at teatime, it's pointless confusion.
This confuses me too. I have my lunch at lunchtime usually about 1pm. How's that dinner time?
As a kid (when home):
Breakfast
Lunch
Supper (when dining at home)
Dinner (when dining out)
As a kid (when boarding at school):
Breakfast (7:30AM) Edit: my memory is bad. I think it's actually 7AM? No idea.
Elevenses (11AM)
Dinner (lunch) (1PM-2PM)
Tea (weekends only) (5PM)
Supper - 6PM (week days) or 7:30PM (weekends)
Now:
Breakfast
Lunch
Supper (when the meal is light)
Dinner (when the meal is heavy)
Comments
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Supper (late dinner)
I'm not a savage.
We used to call them lunch ladies when I was at school and the jobs are often advertised with the job title "catering assistant" these days.
I wasn't patronising you, you berk, and if you take another look at my post, (No 108), you'll know that I wasn't, that's if you are not stupid, as you claim not to be.
You originally said, probably due to your northern affiliation, that to you, a meal at midday is dinner.
I merely pointed out that if you went into a restaurant at midday you'd have to order from the LUNCH menu.
Even in a backwoods, out in the boonies place like Leeds, the restaurants know that at midday, civilised people eat lunch.
It might be dinner time in your northern head, but the restaurant would be serving lunch.
The tea I have is what I drink.
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Got it! It's blue touch paper, STAND BACK!
Lunch
Dinner
Tea is a hot drink.
Lunch
Dinner
Although on Saturday its brunch and dinner maybe supper
Sundays is breakfast lunch and tea
If I just had a sandwich at midday I'd call it 'lunch' because dinner has to be a proper meal
I just think it sounds nicer, and makes more sense to me, dinner generally being the biggest meal of the day which is usually in the evening rather than between 12-2..
Also I just don't like the word supper, but can't bring myself to call it tea. I don't like either of those terms and don't have a reason for my dislike.
It is also an evening meal.
Heathens.
confuses the hell out of me when people talk about dinner / dinner time at lunch time.
also confuses me when people talk about tea when they mean dinner, I always think they're asking for a cuppa.
Mine is:
Breakfast
Lunch
Tea (as in bread-and-jam and some cake at 4:30pm)
Supper (main evening meal).
I have the tea meal every day - it's a bit of me-time before o/h gets home.
But when i was a kid it was always
breakfast
dinner
and tea (had Sunday dinner at home and dinner at the weekends & had tea at home / went out for tea).
Never used to say going out for dinner then (probably because we rarely did it).
So now
Breakfast
Lunch (quite new)
Dinner (going out for)
& Supper (at home).
Funny and strange how things or habits change.
Lunch
Supper
and
Dinner on occasions, instead of supper, when going out for formal evening meal, or dinner party at home
Tea was the early evening light meal I gave the children, before they were old enough to stay up for supper.
Breakfast/lunch/(dinner or supper).
Brunch is between breakfast and lunch.
Tea is between lunch and supper, as in tea time.
For me, but there are variations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_%28meal%29
This confuses me too. I have my lunch at lunchtime usually about 1pm. How's that dinner time?
Breakfast
Lunch
Supper (when dining at home)
Dinner (when dining out)
As a kid (when boarding at school):
Breakfast (7:30AM) Edit: my memory is bad. I think it's actually 7AM? No idea.
Elevenses (11AM)
Dinner (lunch) (1PM-2PM)
Tea (weekends only) (5PM)
Supper - 6PM (week days) or 7:30PM (weekends)
Now:
Breakfast
Lunch
Supper (when the meal is light)
Dinner (when the meal is heavy)
lunch
tea
Dinner
Dinner
Dinner
Batman
Breakfast
Brunch
Lunch
(afternoon) tea
Dinner
Supper (before bed)