When would you have 'Dinner'

Puzzled · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:28

Surprised how early some of you have dinner, don't usually have mine till 8. Most people I know aren't back from work till 6 / 6.30.

Btw breakfast, lunch, dinner. The end

Glaucus · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:29

This thread again.

Main meal of the day, so no set time.

Raymond Lin · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:31

Glaucus said:
This thread again.

Main meal of the day, so no set time.

What if you have your main meal first thing in the morning?

m4rk84 · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:32

Raymond Lin said:
What if you have your main meal first thing in the morning?

Well then its just dinner, lunch, then supper. Simples!

PermaBanned · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:35

billysielu said:
Lunch = 12-1pm
Dinner/Tea = 5-7pm

Yup. Dinner and Tea are interchangeable.

Ahleckz · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:37

Raymond Lin said:
If I ask you out to dinner, i am expecting waiter service, sit down, evening meal.

Not appropriate.

Raymond Lin · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:38

I don't put out on the first date.

Sorry

smr · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:38

Breakfast - 7-8am

Lunch 1-2pm

Dinner 6-7pm

There.

Narj · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:45

Lunch 12-1pm
Dinner 5-8pm

Dinner can be around 3-4pm on a Sunday though.

Glaucus · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:50

Raymond Lin said:
What if you have your main meal first thing in the morning?

Well not dinner.

However it used to be used for the first meal of the day, but more lunchtime rather than morning.

Originally, dinner referred to the first meal of a two-meal day, a heavy meal occurring about noon, which broke the night's fast in the new day. The word is from the Old French (ca 1300) disner, meaning "breakfast", from the stem of Gallo-Romance desjunare ("to break one's fast"), from Latin dis- ("undo") + Late Latin ieiunare ("to fast"), from Latin ieiunus ("fasting, hungry").[3][4] The Spanish word "desayuno", the Romanian "dejun", and the French "déjeuner" retain this etymology (such as Portuguese "desjejum", while referring to breakfast). Eventually, the term shifted to referring to the heavy main meal of the day, even if it had been preceded by a breakfast meal.
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Theophany · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:52

[FnG]magnolia;23043727 said:
Hey, if I had a sandwich and cut it in two would I have two sandwiches?

Depends on what kind of sandwich. General rule of thumb that for ham sandwiches the answer is 'yes', for chicken the answer is 'no' and if it has no meat content then the answer is 'sack up, noncebucket.'

MisChief · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:54

The terms "breakfast", "lunch" and "dinner" are more commonly used worldwide though... I mean, even when booking reservations at restaurants they call it breakfast/lunch/dinner - e.g:

People who call lunch = dinner and dinner = tea are just..... strange!

Kosmiche · 27 Oct 2012 at 15:56

Raymond Lin said:
No no no no!

When someone wine and dine someone, dine is a sit down, take your time, evening type meal.

Dine just means eating a meal, you can dine at breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea etc

Dine doesn't mean "to eat dinner".

The__Malteser · 27 Oct 2012 at 16:17

- Breakfast
- Lunch (12-2)
- Tea (3-5)
- Dinner (7-9)

Richdog · 27 Oct 2012 at 16:20

.Sean said:
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It's as simple as that, I can't believe people even argue over this stuff.

From Wiki...

Originally, dinner referred to the first meal of a two-meal day, a heavy meal occurring about noon, which broke the night's fast in the new day. The word is from the Old French (ca 1300) disner, meaning "breakfast", from the stem of Gallo-Romance desjunare ("to break one's fast"), from Latin dis- ("undo") + Late Latin ieiunare ("to fast"), from Latin ieiunus ("fasting, hungry").[3][4] The Spanish word "desayuno", the Romanian "dejun", and the French "déjeuner" retain this etymology (such as Portuguese "desjejum", while referring to breakfast). Eventually, the term shifted to referring to the heavy main meal of the day, even if it had been preceded by a breakfast meal.

I use it for the evening meal too though!

D.P. · 27 Oct 2012 at 16:25

panyan said:
Dinner is ~7pm

Kosmiche · 27 Oct 2012 at 16:45

Is tea 3-5pm just a snack? Or is that a meal.

Castiel · 27 Oct 2012 at 17:01

Dinner is whenever the wife can be bothered or persuaded to decide it is......

sniffy · 27 Oct 2012 at 17:24

Guest2 said:
If someone said to you 'Are you coming for Dinner' Would you assume this is at ~1pm or ~7pm?

I wouldn't assume anything because the time at which dinner happens varies from household to household so I'd ask "what time is Dinner?".

Judgeneo · 27 Oct 2012 at 17:26

reilly said:
'tea' is a hot beverage and it should be

Lunch = 12-1pm
Dinner = 5-7pm

Thats right