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Jackie123 Posts: 35 Joined: 14th Apr 2013 Location: England | quotePosted at 10:03 on 17th April 2013 What do you call your evening meal were you come from ? Me being curious again lol as l noticed that in different parts of Britian they call their evening meal by different names. The main meal of the day here is in the evening & we call it 'tea' . When l lived in Birmingham we always had our main meal at 12 oclock so was called 'dinner'. l much prefer that but even though hubby comes home for 'dinner' lm just too busy to prepare a heavy mid day meal,even though l think he would prefer that.So;'dinner' at 12 here is light, ie soup or salad. My daughter in France always cooks twice a day and their eveing meal at 8 oclock is always a 3 course meal with wine and they never put excess weight on , l cant work that out. Jackie |
cathyml Posts: 23275 Joined: 25th Jan 2010 Location: South Africa | quotePosted at 18:07 on 17th April 2013 Here in South Africa the evening meal is called Dinner or Supper! Tea is for afternoon snacks and Lunch is any midday meal! |
Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | quotePosted at 09:58 on 18th April 2013 Ha, ha, ha good question Jackie because unless weve had Dinner here we don't have Tea! Dinner to us is anytime midday to 1pm 'ish' and we have tea because we are so hungry having had dinner such a long time ago! If we plan not to have dinner, we have a lunch (meaning something lighter) maybe a sandwich or a snack. A snack might be a piece of fruit (SA of course) with biscuits, cake a bar of chocolate and a cup of tea or coffee. Supper to me is having something to eat at 8 or 9pm (Chinese most likely) the wrong time to eat apparently, but helped down with a golden nectar for safety reasons of course. Bet you wished you hadn't asked now eh? LOL |
James Prescott Posts: 25952 Joined: 11th Jan 2010 Location: UK | quotePosted at 10:42 on 18th April 2013 My idea of dinner is a snack at 12pm then we have our main meal at 5pm which we call tea-time--we dont have anything else then until breakfast time at 7 am,only on a sunday do we have a cooked brealfast.i am feeling hungry this minute.  |
Ken Marshall Posts: 804 Joined: 20th Jun 2012 Location: Australia | quotePosted at 04:50 on 19th April 2013 In Australia we have lunch at noon or a bit later. Some people call the evening meal tea while others call it dinner. Edited by: Ken Marshall at:19th April 2013 05:07 |
| Jackie123 Posts: 35 Joined: 14th Apr 2013 Location: England | quotePosted at 09:49 on 19th April 2013 l did some research..The word 'dinner' in England is from a old french word 'disner' meaning breakfast.Oringinally dinner refered to the first meal of a two meal day-- a heavy meal accuring about noon,which broke the nights fast in the new day. So when lm eating my 'diiner' at 'tea' time, lm really eating my breakfast lol. |
Rod Burkey  Posts: 554 Joined: 2nd Sep 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 11:10 on 19th April 2013 Dinner has, for me, always been the main evening meal, with lunch taken in the early afternoon. Supper is a very light snack prior to being embraced by Morpheus. |
| MikeT Posts: 1190 Joined: 2nd Apr 2013 Location: England | quotePosted at 12:02 on 19th April 2013 Dinner is between 12 noon & 1pm Tea between 5 & 6pm Supper between 8.30 & 9pm Lunch is what I used to take to work with me, & eat at Dinner time!! |
| rustyruth Posts: 18773 Joined: 23rd Oct 2012 Location: England | quotePosted at 15:35 on 19th April 2013 Same here Mike, and a packed lunch is eaten at dinner time in this house too |
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