Poll: I have a score to settle

What is it?

  • Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

    Votes: 619 63.6%

  • Breakfast, Dinner and Tea

    Votes: 264 27.1%

  • Or some other weird combination... So PANCAKE!

    Votes: 91 9.3%
  • Total voters
    974
dmpoole said:
So why do you Southerners have dinner ladies in your schools?

No matter what any of you southerners say you will always lose on this point.
For decades it was always called dinnertime and the meals were served by dinner ladies.
Even in our factories they were called dinner ladies and dinner was served at noon-ish.
You are not going to win just because you changed a word to try and be posh.
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So much anger!
 
dmpoole said:
I use it for southern softies who decided to change the word.
We hard northerners already know what it is.
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The funny thing is that I have always though it depended on the actual meal and not the time at which it was consumed.

Breakfast is obviously always Breakfast as it breaks the fast from the night before.

As for the others, when I was a kid I used to go to my Grans and have Dinner at about Noon, it was called Dinner because it was the main meal of the day and the family all used to come home from work and eat together.

These days we have Dinner in the evening, simply because it is when as a family we eat our main meal. We each have lunch at noonish as that is the time when we eat something larger than a snack, but is not the main meal of the day.

On a Sunday we have Dinner at 1pm, so Whether you call it Dinner or Tea is entirely subject to the time in which you eat your main meal rather than any correct convention dependent on where you live.

I suspect that up in the northern provinces historically factory workers went home for Dinner at Noon/1pm and the convention stuck.
 
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'Dinner' is ambiguous, so I say breakfast - lunch - supper. 'Tea' is afternoon tea i.e. cakes and English tea. 'Cream tea' is scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam, a tradition from Devon.
 
ubersonic said:
It can be either, Dinner means the largest meal of the day, usually either lunch or tea.
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Agreed on the dinner front, although strictly speaking Tea comes before Supper.

I've never really cared what I call it, and have only known one person to take umbridge to it being called lunch.
 
breakfast is first meal of teh day, lunch is second dinner is third, and it is still morning if i haven't eaten breakfast!
 
Phate said:
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
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This, only this and nothing but this. :)

Phate said:
Yes I'm having an argument with a Northerner :p
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I used to go to the cricket with a northern mate of mine from Uni (Blackburn born). EVERY cricket match he'd try to argue it was breakfast, lunch and tea. No, no, no, it's breakfast, lunch and then dinner.

Raikiri said:
Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea is something you drink.
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Word. :cool:
 
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