Dinner / Tea / Supper???

[Innovindil]

To me dinner isn't a time. It simply reflects the biggest meal of the day. During the week dinner is at 6-7pm but on Sundays when everyone is together at around 1pm then it's Sunday dinner. 

[Beliall]

what about second breakfast?

[fuchsntf]

1 hour ago, Innovindil said:

To me dinner isn't a time. It simply reflects the biggest meal of the day. During the week dinner is at 6-7pm but on Sundays when everyone is together at around 1pm then it's Sunday dinner. 

At a carvery ..

[fuchsntf]

How the civilised do it...

 

 

Anfang der 1990er Jahre nahmen die meisten Deutschen drei Mahlzeiten täglich ein, und zwar üblicherweise morgens zwischen 6 und 8, mittags zwischen 12 und 14 und abends zwischen 18 und 20 Uhr. Am Wochenende verschieben sich Frühstück und Abendessen oft zeitlich, während die Zeit für das Mittagessen unverändert bleibt.

 

whats difficult to understand, other than they forgot abendbrot...

Then there is Petit dejeuner..dejeuner...diner..

 

This us all Wimpies & Mcdonalds fault..!!

 

[Smudge]

In the 70/s we were invited for supper at about 8:30. I had driven home from work, had dinner at home with the children and was later expecting a light cheese supper with wine etc.

No so. it was a full meal with beef and two veg. Unfortunately our understanding of the upper cut Staffordshire County Set laid us bare. Notwithstanding, our friends forgave our Leicestershire ways and loved us anyway. 

Edited 15 August 2021 by Smudge

[Free Falling Foxes]

Schools have dinner ladies. They are there around 12/1 pm. I guess there's the answer.

 

Cue someone coming back with 'They're lunchtime supervisors'

Come on, how many people call them that?

Edited 15 August 2021 by Free Falling Foxes

[Raj]

7 hours ago, fuchsntf said:

Breakfast...midmorning-tea...Lunch....teatime with biscuits or cake...Scones/on holidays....Dinner....Supper..... latenight/Midnight - take-away...Sleep.

 

But honestly.You can have Dinner at Lunch, and supper at dinnertime.Then there is all.-day breakfast.it depends how Work & sex pans out...

Shift/Shop- workers, could have Breakfast at 23:00 hrs,at Work just After Dinner/supper at 19:00hrs at home and tea-Time at 03-4:00hrs.

 

One can go on a holiday/Business Trip the other Side of the world,with different Time Slips &  People amusingly say, "I dont  drink in the morning"...

I mean what do you do on a world-cruise, or even as an an Astronaut,with spacewalks..

 

 

 

WTF...Get out of here

..now!!!!!

[Flamey]

8 hours ago, Unabomber said:

5ish? Are you primary school age? No offence 

My teacher told me not to answer questions like this in an online forum.

 

Seriously though, that was the system I was taught growing up. Nowadays it's Breakfast/lunch/dinner (6-7pm)....supper is a thing of the past  and never referred to. Also, Sunday 'lunch' is called Dinner still.

[Big Dave]

Dinner is the main (non-breakfast) meal of the day, so could be either (for example) 1pm or 6pm.

 

[Webbo]

When I get home from work, I have my tea, followed by a "mashed" cup of tea. 

[fuchsntf]

3 hours ago, Raj said:

WTF...Get out of here

..now!!!!!

I am already ...out of here....wheyyyyy,whooooo,dippidyyy

[Raj]

1 hour ago, Webbo said:

When I get home from work, I have my tea, followed by a "mashed" cup of tea. 

FFS Webbo....

[Carl the Llama]

Breakfast, lunch, dinner. 

Dinner, dinner, batman.

[Fox92]

Breakfast, dinner, tea.

 

Supper sounds like something for the upper classes.

Edited 15 August 2021 by Fox92

[lgfualol]

People eat a sandwich at lunch time and call it dinner? 

[Filbert_Ross]

18 hours ago, whoareyaaa said:

Dinners at dinner 12/1pm, Tea at 6pm?

As kid it was that for me. 
 

now it's lunch then dinner 

[whoareyaaa]

1 hour ago, lgfualol said:

People eat a sandwich at lunch time and call it dinner? 

What about a Sunday dinner some people have it at 12/1 some in the evening 4/6

 

None of it makes sense 

[Parafox]

Lunch: This is considered a more working-class term. School lunches in the mid 20th century were always called "School Dinners" and it is felt this is where the confusion came from. The traditional Sunday lunch (usually consisting of Roast Beef and Yorkshire Puddings) is also often called Sunday dinner or a Sunday Roast.

 

Afternoon tea: Traditionally eaten around three to four in the afternoon, and though popular since the 18th century, it went into decline after World War II. The popularity of this treat is now back, though more for holidays and weekends than a daily event.

 

Tea (when meaning dinner and not the drink): This is considered a mainly northern working-class term. When used in this context, it is eaten early evening and will often be the main meal of the day on returning home from work.

 

Dinner: This is dinner and eaten from early to the late evening, used in the same way around the world.

 

Supper: Supper can also be an evening meal but when attached to an invitation changes slightly. An invitation to supper would mean the arrangement is more casual than an invitation to dinner, which is usually more formal. Supper is also considered a hot or cold snack before bedtime but again more a working-class term when the evening meal was served around 5 p.m. meaning by bedtime many would be a little peckish.

 

Who knows? Who cares? Food, eat it.

[Fox92]

6 hours ago, lgfualol said:

People eat a sandwich at lunch time and call it dinner? 

Yes.

 

6 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Tea (when meaning dinner and not the drink): This is considered a mainly northern working-class term. When used in this context, it is eaten early evening and will often be the main meal of the day on returning home from work.

 

This is exactly me.

Edited 15 August 2021 by Fox92

[jonthefox]

Breakfast lunch dinner for me. 

[rachhere]

Controversial stuff. For me it's...

 

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner in the evening if what I am having is a proper main meal, otherwise I would call it Tea (e.g. if I was having something like soup and bread)

Supper would be if I had skipped a main meal and having more of a light meal later on in the evening 

[Nick]

There is a north south thing here as others have stated already.

 

For me though I wonder if it’s a wealth/class/poverty thing.

 

As a kid dinner was at lunch time in school hours - this was your hot meal for the day as it was always sandwiches for tea hence it being dinner time, the dinner hour and the dinner bell/ break etc...

 

So for kids in free school dinners it was your dinner - something arguably wealthier families had in the evening.

[Jattdogg]

 

Not that i am but what if you're a shift worker??? 

It could be:  Dinner, breakfast, lunch

 

Personally, it's breakfast, lunch,  dinner in this house.

[Beliall]

Dinner is the big meal between 12pm and 8pm. sunday lunch could be a roast dinner. christmas dinner is served at lunchtime (ish) at least in my house. to me anyway, dinner is the main meal of the day. breakfast, lunch, dinner, or breakfast, roast dinner, and tea i suppose though i never call it that. its just a snack

[Sir Shep]

9 hours ago, rachhere said:

Controversial stuff. For me it's...

 

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner in the evening if what I am having is a proper main meal, otherwise I would call it Tea (e.g. if I was having something like soup and bread)

Supper would be if I had skipped a main meal and having more of a light meal later on in the evening 

This, and only this!