What do you call your evening meal?

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NO

My sister runs a tea room in the L.A. area, so I have some authority on this answer.

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No. And tea where l'm from, is sweet and iced. Actually, sweet tea is the most common drink to accompany lunch and supper meals.

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Nice. Sounds very civilised.

Did you succumb to the temptation of your past its "Best by" Branston pickle? If not, I'm sure you'll be fine.

I once took some fish to the till in the supermarket, marked down. The plastic seal had snagged and was loose. The girl would not sell it to me because the packaging was damaged. When I pleasantly said I did not mind, she looked at me as if I was some kind of needy low-life, became brusque, dismissive.

I just shrugged my shoulders and took my other things, wondered if she had ever been in an actual fishmongers shop where all those glassy-eyes fish copses wait inspection laid out on cold marble, then handled, wrapped in plastic and greaseproof.

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I feel your pain. I was brought up with sweet milky tea to accompany meals. Working-class as we were, Mum had aspirations, so we would sip from Royal Albert fine bone china, elaborately gilt and decorated cups and saucers, milk and sugar bowl table centre. Tea from a pot — leaves n'all.

I weened myself off sugar in tea in my twenties, but I was in my thirties before I could drink coffee without it.


We have a set of china cups and saucers in a cupboard we have not used since the seventies. A wedding gift from an aunt. We tell ourselves don't get shute, keep them as a backup for when posh visitors turn up unexpected. I think the moribund aluminium teapot would let us down, though.

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thanks for clearing that up — though I'm still trying to get my head around a tea room that does not serve afternoon tea.qQQkTYHcHy7gS4o3

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This might seem to be a fatuous question, but I call it dinner. However, my gf insists it's called tea and says dinner is what you have in the middle of the day - but I call that lunch.

Normal everyday, its supper.

A dinner should be for an occasion or something more elegant.

I have for many years subscribed to the KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid; and will accede to stupidity)The evening meal is the evening meal, End of.

Whilst you are sleeping, you are extremeley unlikely to eat: you are fasting. When you awake, the first food that you consume effectively breaks that fast, hence many English language users would call that Break Fast, usually presented as breakfast, though the French, of course, call it a little meal. (My son used to take his breakfast to bed to eat before he slept to save time in the morning, he's now a nearly 50 yo director af a multinatioanal who considers his own just teenage son wierd!).

Here in the UK, the norm is possibly for the next meal to be post-noon, 13:00–14:00, often called lunch, though in publishing we tended to have working lunches from about 12:30 to 16:45 — one had to get back to the office, There may have been a coffee/tea-break around 11:00, often called 'Eleveses'.

High Tea, a delicate and formal arrnagement, beloved of the Hibernians, was a comparitive rarity, but could be indulged if one had not had a working lunch, usually taken about 15:00.

Dinner was taken either at home, between 17:00 and 18:50 if young children involved, or 19:30 onwards if involving adults either at home or elsewhere.

Supper is a late light repast to stave of the hunger pangs of the nights' sleep and enforced fast.

Fortunately, having reached the maturer non-paid working years, today the first meal is effectively Brunch, there may be a mid-afternoon coffee and chockie biscuit (pity no café und kuchen), followed by a relatively light evening repast: might nibble on cheese and biscuits later with the wine.

dinner

Dinner

It can be breakfast, lunch, dinner/supper depending on which side of the world I will be sleeping in.

Supper, I only call it dinner for Sundays or special occasions.

Dinner

At present time, it's breakfast as I'm in the GY shift.

Dinner

Lunch is the middle of the day, dinner is at night.

But, what about second breakfast?

I'm in the South East, UK and we generally use dinner here.

I normally eat my main meal either side of 6 so I think of it as teatime, a throwback to my childhood. Lunch was always dinnertime then but I now think if it as lunch or often a brunch. I rarely have an official one but as a schoolboy we always had supper about 9 before we went to bed. Takes me back lol. If I go out for a meal in the evening that may be called dinner. I was and am from South Wales, UK.

In France, nowadays dinner and supper are almost synonymous. However, a lot of people will call it dinner if it happens before 9pm, and supper if it happens later. While it's become rare in more rural areas, having supper is still frequent in metropolitan areas, because a lot of evening shows (plays, concerts) happen at the time people would have normally eaten dinner, and some decide to eat later instead.

Originally, and until the Industrial Revolution radically changed people's daily schedules, supper was actually a meal you had in the middle of the night. In the Middle-Ages, people woke up after sleeping for about 3 hours to eat a broth or a soup (hence the name "supper") and went back to sleep after that...

Just a little warning for those who are used to have dinner around 6pm and plan on visiting France: most restaurants don't open in the evening before 7 or 8pm... So if you're not going to cook by yourself, that leaves you with 3 options: 1) wait till a little later, 2) buy something at a bakery to help you wait the extra hours, or 3) eat fast-food, since those will be open at 6...

In the Upper Midwest where I grew up, the evening meal (whether at 5pm or 9pm) was called supper. However, having lived on the West Coast I got disabused of that, and the evening meal for me is always dinner.

A big, formal afternoon meal, such as at Thanksgiving, can also be considered dinner.

Except maybe unless it starts during the usual lunchtime (before 1:00-ish), in which case it is often called a luncheon, to distinguish from an ordinary informal lunch.

That's it. There is no tea meal in America. Tea is a drink here, period.

Food on a plate.

Dinner or tonight rabbit food!

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Just a little warning for those who are used to have dinner around 6pm and plan on visiting France: most restaurants don't open in the evening before 7 or 8pm... So if you're not going to cook by yourself, that leaves you with 3 options: 1) wait till a little later, 2) buy something at a bakery to help you wait the extra hours, or 3) eat fast-food, since those will be open at 6...

Ha! Try eating out in Madrid before 10pm!