NationStates Jolt Archive

Ok, so in another post a lot of people got off post and started talking about what they call the meals eaten at different times of the day.

I call breakfast the early morning meal but if we get up late and eat about 10 or 11 AM as we usually do on Sunday we call it brunch.

Lunch is the light meal eaten around noon. Even if it is a big meal I still call it lunch, but Mrs. C who grew up on a Southern farm calls it dinner if it is a big meal and lunch if it is a light meal.

I grew up in a suburb of Boston, and call the evening meal supper or dinner. (umm, why did we eat dinner around 1PM on every Sunday and have a light supper?)

Anything you eat between main meals is a snack. Unless you are in the UK. When I was there a light mid afternoon "snack" was called tea.

So what do you call your meals and snacks?

Oh, and in the military we always had "midnight chow" which was usually the same meal served at breakfast but could also contain leftovers from the evening meal which was called...evening chow. :tongue:

I was in Boston last year and watched the wholetown come out for the Red Sox victory parade. And I brought back a Red Sox t-shirt to Melbourne Australia to prove it. We don't play much baseball here, preferring cricket in the summer, but we like to eat.
We're pretty much the same as you:
Breakfast
brunch (on weekends sometimes)
Lunch at midday
Dinner or "tea" at around 6 pm
"Supper" is still used for a lateish evening meal.

I grew up with breakfast, dinner and supper. Brunch was what happens on Saturday when everyone wakes up at 10am and eats everything left over from the week.

From my youth, breakfast was in the morning, lunch was at about noon, and dinner/supper were interchangeable terms for the evening meal. Brunch is what happens when you eat after 10 AM as a feeble excuse to ingest between 1500-2000 calories in peanut-butter based pancakes or bacon-wrapped sausages at a single seating.

Oh, and in the military we always had "midnight chow" which was usually the same meal served at breakfast but could also contain leftovers from the evening meal which was called...evening chow. :tongue:

I usually call evening chow dinner chow.

Growing up it was breakfast, lunch and dinner/supper. We never really used brunch for anything as any meal before lunch was called breakfast. Dinner implied a bit more formality or importance than supper.

It was always Breakfast
Morning tea ( snack between Breakky & lunch)
Lunch
Afternoon Tea (snack)
Dinner
Desert
Supper was then a gcup of hot choccy before bed...

But... what about second breakfast?

0000-0359 Midnight feast / munchies
0400-0959 Breakfast
1000-1059 Brunch
1100 Elevenses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevenses)
1101-1159 Brunch
1200-1359 Lunch
1400-1539 Afternoon Tea
1600-1659 Tiffin
1700-1859 Dinner
1900-2259 Supper
2300-2359 You may stop eating now in preparation for your midnight feast

Weekdays:
0700-0800 - Breakfast (provided I have enough time)
1130-1230 - Lunch
1600-1800 - Dinner
2100-2300 - Supper

Weekends/Holidays:
1200-2300 - Dinner

I don't associate meals with times of the day. So whatever happens, breakfast is always the first meal of the day, lunch is the rushed affair to help you keep going, and dinner is the big fuck-off affair with brass knobs on it that you have when it's getting close to having to go to bed again.

I have served a 3-course dinner at 9 in the morning. It was awesome. I'm also surprised that I didn't hurt myself in the process.

there's aamiainen(breakfast,lounas(lunch),päivällinen(dinner) and iltapala(don't know what's it's name in english)

Weekdays it's:
Breakfast - between 7 and 8 am
Lunch - between 1 and 2 pm
Dinner - between 6 and 9 pm

Weekends/holidays/etc:
Breakfast - first meal of the day
Snack - anything between breakfast (see above) and dinner (see below)
Dinner - last meal of the day

On weekends breakfast and dinner can be the same meal.

Hey Stalin!
You're English yet you neglected to tell everyone about "elevenses"
Even Paddington Bear has marmalade sandwiches for his elevenses!

Breakfast - Lunch - Tea.

It's a Scottish (northern?) thing.

Same as in Australia Chumbly - but we don't keep our oatmeal in our sporrens!

Breakfast, then lunch, then tea. Although in Yorkshire most people say they have breakfast, then dinner, then supper. That's my old turn of phrase for you, though.

Breakfast is at around 0700, lunch at 1310, Tea, which is what dinner is called in England, at 2000 or so.

Same as in Australia Chumbly - but we don't keep our oatmeal in our sporrens!
That's only to hunt haggis with.

Breakfast is at around 0700, lunch at 1310, Tea, which is what dinner is called in England, at 2000 or so.
Lies and foreign propaganda, in Yorkshire most people call lunch 'dinner' and tea 'supper'. And they don't eat packed lunches, they eat 'pack-ups' - crazy, crazy times.

Breakfast- 0700 to 1000
Lunch- 1130 to 1400
Dinner- 1700 to 1900

No, I don't eat that long, that's just the usually time slot.

Breakfast (Whenever I get up). Lunch (11;00 To 1:00). Snack. Snack. Snack. Dinner(4:00 to 7:00, anytime.). Snack. Snack. Mindnight snack. Before bed snack. Snack. Sleep.:D

Lies and foreign propaganda, in Yorkshire most people call lunch 'dinner' and tea 'supper'. And they don't eat packed lunches, they eat 'pack-ups' - crazy, crazy times.
That's not just Yorkshire, that's a Midlands thing too. Or east Midlands, at least.

And I call 'tea' 'dinner', so who knows what's going on there.

West Midlands is lunch, tea, South West is lunch, tea or lunch, supper if you're upper middle class.