Lunch Time/dinner Time

[albaqwerty]

this discussion has probably been done to death on here.

Himself yesters said that the student alba will be in at dinner time. For me, that's between 5 and 7pm
Lunch is between noon and 2pm
According to himself, dinner time is between noon and 2, and it's teatime between 5 and 7.

So I asked him what does he eat when he gets up in the morning?
Answer, food.

Jeez!!

[mccfluff]

breakfast - before 11 (but i have been known to eat my lunch by 10)
lunch 12-2
dinner - after 6ish

[ummmm]

I'm the same as you.

Tea in a drink.

[mccfluff]

modern.....

[albaqwerty]

lol triggs, never thought you were a mod :-D

[2sp_]

Breakfast - the first food you have before lunch, so yes that can include a mars bar at 11.30am if you've not had anything else.

Lunch - 12noon to 2pm

TEA!!!! - 5pm to 7pm

Dinner is what posh folk have, or what you eat on Christmas day.

[ummmm]

I'm certainly not posh :-)

[2sp_]

Don't fight it, ummmm. You can't hide class!

[albaqwerty]

aah, a mars bar at 11.30, that explains a lot about himself :-D

no, it's not deep fried.

[Traci66]

Breakfast lunch dinner here, which confuses the grand kids if they ask for something after lunch and I tell them they can have it after dinner, they always insist they've just had dinner.

[Dee Sa]

lunch at lunch time [12 to 2pm] & dinner at night[from 6pm]
Sunday there's brunch late breakfast and early lunch all rolled into one.

[friedgreentomato]

Dinner is the evening meal, luncheon is the afternoon meal and high team is at 4ish

[albaqwerty]

I just knew he was wrong!!

Thank you :-)

[2sp_]

Have you ever tried a deep fried mars bar, Alba?

I can't say it really appeals to me.

[cazzz1975]

I have always used breakfast, lunch and dinner. I am not posh at all!

[Quizmonster]

One cannot hope to explain the meaning of dinner better than simply by quoting what The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has to say..."The chief meal of the day, eaten originally and still by the majority of people about the middle of the day, but now, by the professional and fashionable classes, usually in the evening."
School meals are called school 'dinners' for the very simple reason that the vast majority of pupils who attended state schools when such meals were first provided were (still are?) the children of working-class parents. And the working folk of Britain do, by and large, still speak of the midday meal as 'dinner'. Obviously, therefore, that usage would be carried over from home to school.
It is not a case of anyone's meal-list being right or wrong. It is clear that this whole thing is almost entirely a matter of perceived class and - to some extent - geography.

[DTCwordfan]

Breakfast before 10.00
Brunch 10-12
Luncheon - 12 noon to 2pm
Afternoon Tea - 3pm - 5.30pm (just had a scone with Cornish Clotted Cream and Jam, jam on the scone and cream on top) along with tea.
Dinner - 7.30 - 9pm.

[petal54]

I think that work time breaks are often called odd things,like lunch @ 10..00hours,which when not work'd be brunch.I call'mid day; meal lunch,'posher' eve meal dinner,otherwise supper,4-5 pm tea

[CheekyChops]

Breakfast, dinner and tea where I'm from!

[hellywelly4]

Dinner - midday. School dinners, not school lunches!