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
-BA- said:
I just love how people justify their argument (quite incorrectly I might add) that it must be dinner at LUNCH because dinner ladies are called dinner ladies.
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Because all around the country they are called Dinner Ladies and this name goes all the way back (at least) 70 years when my Dad started school.
There is no need for justification because this is a FACT.
Why else would a Dinner Lady be called a Dinner Lady who served dinner at around noon?
 
Lunch is lunch. How can a meal in the middle of the day not be lunch? And it's supper in the evening, dinner doesn't exist.
 
dmpoole said:
Because all around the country they are called Dinner Ladies and this name goes all the way back (at least) 70 years when my Dad started school.
There is no need for justification because this is a FACT.
Why else would a Dinner Lady be called a Dinner Lady who served dinner at around noon?
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As it relates to the hot main meal of the day. Or at least in my book it does.
 
w3bbo said:
Dinner ladies were at school at dinner time. They were not called lunch ladies.

Mom called me home for tea at tea time with a wailing 'tea's ready!!!'. This signalled my evening meal was ready, not that she had just brewed up.

Yes I'm a Northerner and proud.
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100% concur/relate with/to this. :p
 
Breakfast - snack - Lunch - Dinner - Supper ??


Why would you call lunch dinner or dinner tea ?


Breakfast - first morning food, a couple of sarny's...
snack - later in the morning, cookies or so
Lunch - sandwich or soup in midday
Dinner - warm food in the evening
supper - late night snack or sandwich.
 
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I'm from South Yorkshire, Everyone here says Breakfast, Dinner and Tea. But they're all inbred, I'm with the rest of the world. Its Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
 
Does no one use "Supper" anymore?

I usually say breakfast, lunch/dinner, tea/supper

99% of the time its breakfast, lunch, tea. But I do also use supper sometimes.
 
Tea? OMG. It's a drink. :p

It's clearly Breakfast, Lunch then Dinner.

Supper you have late at night if Dinner didn't fill you up and I have tea during the day .... in a cup.
 
Eames said:
Does no one use "Supper" anymore?

I usually say breakfast, lunch/dinner, tea/supper

99% of the time its breakfast, lunch, tea. But I do also use supper sometimes.
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I've always thought of supper as a late evening snack.

In some areas of the United Kingdom, "supper" is used to describe an evening meal when dinner has been eaten around noon. In some northern British and Australian homes, as in New Zealand and Ireland, "tea" is used for the evening meal. In parts of the United Kingdom, supper is a term for a snack eaten after the evening meal and before bed, usually consisting of a warm, milky drink and British biscuits or cereal, but can include sandwiches.
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This pretty much sums it up.
 
For pitys sake why does this always come round when any reasonably educated person knows that the largest meal of the day you eat is Dinner.

If you have Dinner in the evening you have lunch in the middle of the day. If you have Dinner in the middle of the day then you have tea later.

I mean come on folks this is basic Englishness 101. ;p
 
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