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.
Quote by DanielleX
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.
Quote by Green_Man
In the Mid-West of the United States, it was common that older farmer folks would call the noon meal dinner. For them, it was a formidable meal keeping them going all day while they worked the land.
Then, after they got home from working and the family gathered around the table they had supper. They really had no idea what lunch was.
For city folk, it was much more common to have lunch in the middle of the working day and then have dinner after arriving home. If they were better off they might eat a late evening meal called supper. I'm sure that was common in Europe as well.
Nowadays if I am referring to the meal in the middle of the day it is lunch. The meal later, after work is over, is called either dinner or supper. It is interchangeable.
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Do you guys in America even have a meal that anyone calls "Teatime"?
I suppose in the UK, "Tea" (as food) was the thing posh people had at about five in the afternoon, ritually sipping tea and scoffing jam and scones to keep them going until the evening meal they called "dinner".
Dinner for us plebs was what we ate at lunch.
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My Gran's not posh but I've heard her talk about 'High Tea.' for a light snack at about 3pm.
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