Breakfast (when I have time)
Lunch (but Dinner at school)
Tea (But Dinner when we are entertaining)
That's just one couple!!!!
Alan
Lunch (but Dinner at school)
Tea (But Dinner when we are entertaining)
That's just one couple!!!!
Alan
What do you call that meal?
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most restaurants I've been to have a "lunch" menu for day meals (12-5ish) and their evening menu is usually a dinner (or for the nicer ones - a la carte!) menu. Does anyone know anywhere they call their daytime menu "dinner".
Originally Posted by moogiechompy:
“most restaurants I've been to have a "lunch" menu for day meals (12-5ish) and their evening menu is usually a dinner (or for the nicer ones - a la carte!) menu. Does anyone know anywhere they call their daytime menu "dinner".”
“most restaurants I've been to have a "lunch" menu for day meals (12-5ish) and their evening menu is usually a dinner (or for the nicer ones - a la carte!) menu. Does anyone know anywhere they call their daytime menu "dinner".”
Good point
I think the etymology is fascinating. I wonder why 'dinner' is used for both... and how the 'lunch box'/'dinner lady' split came about...
Originally Posted by Elanor:
“Reading the 'what have you eaten today?' thread made me wonder...
Who calls the meal in the middle of the day lunch, and who calls it dinner? And what do you have in the evening?
I was brought up having breakfast, lunch, and dinner (at about 7-8pm) and since moving to Derbyshire my brain has been confused a bit by colleagues and friends who have dinner at midday and tea in the evening (at about 6pm) so that now I tend to say breakfast, dinner, and dinner, although if I spend time with my parents then I quickly fall back to breakfast, lunch and dinner.
My auntie has supper in the evening (she's posh though) - a word I don't think I've ever used for a meal (apart from fish suppers, when I lived in Scotland for uni).
What do you call them?”
“Reading the 'what have you eaten today?' thread made me wonder...
Who calls the meal in the middle of the day lunch, and who calls it dinner? And what do you have in the evening?
I was brought up having breakfast, lunch, and dinner (at about 7-8pm) and since moving to Derbyshire my brain has been confused a bit by colleagues and friends who have dinner at midday and tea in the evening (at about 6pm) so that now I tend to say breakfast, dinner, and dinner, although if I spend time with my parents then I quickly fall back to breakfast, lunch and dinner.
My auntie has supper in the evening (she's posh though) - a word I don't think I've ever used for a meal (apart from fish suppers, when I lived in Scotland for uni).
What do you call them?”
I have breakfast, lunch and supper (at 7ish). If I have tea, then it is genuinely a cup of tea and a slice of cake or whatever, at about 4.30ish .....
I found this article, which is quite interesting:
http://www.history-magazine.com/dinner2.html
http://www.history-magazine.com/dinner2.html
Originally Posted by Elanor:
“I found this article, which is quite interesting:
http://www.history-magazine.com/dinner2.html”
“I found this article, which is quite interesting:
http://www.history-magazine.com/dinner2.html”
Thank you for posting that - very interesting
Originally Posted by Elanor:
“For the people that have dinner in the middle of the day - what do you call the box you'd take sandwiches etc to work in?”
“For the people that have dinner in the middle of the day - what do you call the box you'd take sandwiches etc to work in?”
Piece box.
Breakfast in the morning
Lunch in the afternoon
Tea in the evening
Dinner is when our lunch or tea is so big they are usually combined (ie Christmas Dinner, A Chinese Buffet and 3pm, Going out for a meal between lunch and tea time really, combining both meals.
Lunch in the afternoon
Tea in the evening
Dinner is when our lunch or tea is so big they are usually combined (ie Christmas Dinner, A Chinese Buffet and 3pm, Going out for a meal between lunch and tea time really, combining both meals.
Fascinating article Elanor - I love the social history that attaches itself to such small words
Breakfast in the morning (although I only eat breakfast on high days and holidays)
Lunch at lunchtime
Dinner at 20:00ish.
On some days, I'll have tea at half four (usually cup of coffee/tea and slice of cake/biscuits) if I had a light lunch, then supper (cheese on toast/soup/cheese & crackers) at tennish. My son eats his evening meal at six and I call that dinner, but my partner calls it tea
Breakfast in the morning (although I only eat breakfast on high days and holidays)
Lunch at lunchtime
Dinner at 20:00ish.
On some days, I'll have tea at half four (usually cup of coffee/tea and slice of cake/biscuits) if I had a light lunch, then supper (cheese on toast/soup/cheese & crackers) at tennish. My son eats his evening meal at six and I call that dinner, but my partner calls it tea
ok for me its
breakfast 8ish
lunch(if its asandwhich or somthing i dont need to cook) dinner if its a cooked meal 12ish
tea if i had a cooked dinner at lunch time lol / dinner if i had a cold lunch 6ish
breakfast 8ish
lunch(if its asandwhich or somthing i dont need to cook) dinner if its a cooked meal 12ish
tea if i had a cooked dinner at lunch time lol / dinner if i had a cold lunch 6ish
The only time the word "Dinner" comes into my vocabulary is Christmas day. My mum still says "have you had your dinner?"
When I lived at home, my dad all his life, came home for his main meal of the day at around 12-1pm so that was "dinner" So it was always breakfast, dinner, tea.
When I left home I had breakfast, lunch whilst at work, and tea (my main meal) at around 6.30-7pm.
On the rare occasion that I am going to eat in the evening at a restaurant, then I'm going out for "a meal" not dinner!
When I lived at home, my dad all his life, came home for his main meal of the day at around 12-1pm so that was "dinner" So it was always breakfast, dinner, tea.
When I left home I had breakfast, lunch whilst at work, and tea (my main meal) at around 6.30-7pm.
On the rare occasion that I am going to eat in the evening at a restaurant, then I'm going out for "a meal" not dinner!
8am - Breakfast
9.30am - Second breakfast
11am - Elevenses
12pm - Brunch
1pm - Tiffin
2pm - Lunch
4pm - Tea
6pm - Dinner
8pm - Supper
10pm - Late night snack
I don't eat much lol
9.30am - Second breakfast
11am - Elevenses
12pm - Brunch
1pm - Tiffin
2pm - Lunch
4pm - Tea
6pm - Dinner
8pm - Supper
10pm - Late night snack
I don't eat much lol
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! 
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=426686
Anyway:
Morning - breakfast
Mid-day - dinner
Evening - tea
Night - supper
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=426686
Anyway:
Morning - breakfast
Mid-day - dinner
Evening - tea
Night - supper
Originally Posted by Calista^:
“This is a regular argument in our house! Hubby is a Londoner and I'm Derbeian!
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
is my way of saying it.
Hubby's is
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Obviously it is regional, bit like the cob and roll/bap discussion that regularly happens LOL”
“This is a regular argument in our house! Hubby is a Londoner and I'm Derbeian!
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
is my way of saying it.
Hubby's is
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Obviously it is regional, bit like the cob and roll/bap discussion that regularly happens LOL”
Agreed with the breakfast,dinner, tea but when it comes to what we call t-cakes or tea cakes cant agree sorry
You can't have dinner at lunch time...
Personally
Breakfast
Lunch (doesn't matter if big or small)
Dinner/Tea (Dinner if larger, Tea is small)
It all really depends on your background and family I guess...
Personally
Breakfast
Lunch (doesn't matter if big or small)
Dinner/Tea (Dinner if larger, Tea is small)
Quote:
“In the United Kingdom, dinner traditionally meant the main meal of the day. Because of differences in custom as to when this meal was taken, dinner might mean the evening meal (typically used by upper class people), or the midday meal (typically used by working class people, who describe their evening meal as tea). Vestiges of the English class system remain in the choice of word for the evening meal - a person with upper-class antecedents might use neither "dinner" nor "tea" but, confusingly, "supper" for a less formal meal (which people in the North use to refer to a hot, often milky, drink such as cocoa or hot chocolate and biscuits, taken immediately before retiring for the night).
Large formal evening meals are invariably described as dinners (hence, also, the term dinner jacket which is a form of evening dress).
School dinners is a British phrase for school lunches – reflecting the fact that such school meals were originally provided chiefly for the children of the working class, who typically had their main meal in the middle of the day – and women working in school canteens are generally known in the UK as dinner ladies.
Ambiguity can be avoided by using lunch for the midday meal.”
“In the United Kingdom, dinner traditionally meant the main meal of the day. Because of differences in custom as to when this meal was taken, dinner might mean the evening meal (typically used by upper class people), or the midday meal (typically used by working class people, who describe their evening meal as tea). Vestiges of the English class system remain in the choice of word for the evening meal - a person with upper-class antecedents might use neither "dinner" nor "tea" but, confusingly, "supper" for a less formal meal (which people in the North use to refer to a hot, often milky, drink such as cocoa or hot chocolate and biscuits, taken immediately before retiring for the night).
Large formal evening meals are invariably described as dinners (hence, also, the term dinner jacket which is a form of evening dress).
School dinners is a British phrase for school lunches – reflecting the fact that such school meals were originally provided chiefly for the children of the working class, who typically had their main meal in the middle of the day – and women working in school canteens are generally known in the UK as dinner ladies.
Ambiguity can be avoided by using lunch for the midday meal.”
It all really depends on your background and family I guess...
Im from down South and when moved upto West Yorkshire was asked what I wanted for dinner at work and I was like errr I wont be at work at dinner time, then after a discussion realised that up North they call lunch dinner, confused the hell out of me:
So to me its :
Brekkie/Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
So to me its :
Brekkie/Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Sorry for resurrecting this thread but today's Observer contains The Observer Book of Food in which it has a section named "What Do You Call It?".
"Breakfast: The first (and to many the most important) meal of the day. The word suggests the breaking of the 'fast' since dinner.
Lunch: An abbreviation of 'luncheon', it is used to mean a meal in the middle of the day (once the preserve of dinner), and originally referred to any light meal inserted between two more substantial ones .
Dinner: A more formal meal eaten either at noon or more often at around 8pm in middle- and upper-class homes.
Supper: A lighter, informal family meal that comes after dinner, It can also be used to describe a meal eaten instead of dinner, often an hour or so earlier than usual. The word is derived from the French souper.
Tea: In working-class homes, tea refers to the main evening meal. Confusingly, in middle- and upper-class homes, tea can be a late-afternoon snack, often consisting of small sandwiches, cakes or scones."
So there we have it: the definitive guide to meals of the day...
...I don't know whether I'd believe it as the whoever researched the book screwed up with Club biscuits - they claimed the golf ball wrapper was milk chocolate and the Jack of Clubs was plain, which I'm fairly certain was the other way round
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"Breakfast: The first (and to many the most important) meal of the day. The word suggests the breaking of the 'fast' since dinner.
Lunch: An abbreviation of 'luncheon', it is used to mean a meal in the middle of the day (once the preserve of dinner), and originally referred to any light meal inserted between two more substantial ones .
Dinner: A more formal meal eaten either at noon or more often at around 8pm in middle- and upper-class homes.
Supper: A lighter, informal family meal that comes after dinner, It can also be used to describe a meal eaten instead of dinner, often an hour or so earlier than usual. The word is derived from the French souper.
Tea: In working-class homes, tea refers to the main evening meal. Confusingly, in middle- and upper-class homes, tea can be a late-afternoon snack, often consisting of small sandwiches, cakes or scones."
So there we have it: the definitive guide to meals of the day...
...I don't know whether I'd believe it as the whoever researched the book screwed up with Club biscuits - they claimed the golf ball wrapper was milk chocolate and the Jack of Clubs was plain, which I'm fairly certain was the other way round
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Originally Posted by Mark™:
“NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=426686
Anyway:
Morning - breakfast
Mid-day - dinner
Evening - tea
Night - supper”
“NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=426686
Anyway:
Morning - breakfast
Mid-day - dinner
Evening - tea
Night - supper”
Same here.
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