Dinner or Tea? [poll]

[GotOneBrewin]

Did those who eat lunch at midday have school lunch or school dinners?

If you go out for the day and take sandwiches with the intention to eat them for your mid-day meal...Is this a packed lunch or a packed dinner?

 

[marshbrewer]

First meal of the day - breakfast
Meal around midday - lunch
Light snack / informal meal late afternoon / very early evening - tea
Large / formal meal 6pm onwards - Dinner
Late night light meal - Supper

Glad to have sorted that out for you all.

 

[GotOneBrewin]

I forgot there's different rules on Sundays, whereby Sunday dinner is a massive meal taken at any time between lunch-time and tea-time.

 

[Slid]

For me, lunch is around 11:30 to 12:00 noon and tea is around 18:00 to 19:00. A "dinner" is multiple courses in the late evening, or on Christmas day around 2pm. Don't do many "dinners".

 

[Clint]

I'm sorry but "lunch" is for posh people and usually the wives of rich men who don't have anything better to do and it is in very expensive places and you only get a fiddling amount. I seen it on the telly you know.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

.If you go out for the day and take sandwiches with the intention to eat them for your mid-day meal...Is this a packed lunch or a packed dinner?

Devils advocate -

If you took sandwiches on a day out and intended to eat them at 5 p.m would you call them a "Packed Dinner"

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I'm sorry but "lunch" is for posh people

Nailed it Clint. :thumba:

 

[Gerryjo]

Take sandwiches in a packed lunch to work,tea break first and you'll eat a sandwich then lunch and guess what you'll eat another sandwich and you've already had your breakfast and if you work shifts like me you'll have and evening tea break where you might scoff a bun or a bar of chocolate then go him for tea where you will sit down and eat a dinner and if you're on nights it's all reversed and you may end up having a Chinese,pizza or anything from a takeaway depending what the general consensus is.
So.......

 

[marshbrewer]

Nailed it Clint. :thumba:

That's quite enough from you two, any more and I'll have you horse whipped. Bloody lower orders. Know your place! Now, I'm off for a spot of tea.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Now, I'm off for a spot of tea.

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[Clint]

Like that catsh2t coffee...no thanks. I'll stick to me tea breaks...numerous:before and after dinner.

 

[GotOneBrewin]

Devils advocate -

If you took sandwiches on a day out and intended to eat them at 5 p.m would you call them a "Packed Dinner"

Everybody knows that it is illegal to eat a sandwich after 2.30pm so your argument is invalid.

 

[Hoppyland]

Devils advocate -

If you took sandwiches on a day out and intended to eat them at 5 p.m would you call them a "Packed Dinner"

Of course not - that would obviously be your tea!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Of course not - that would obviously be your tea!

That question was aimed at the posh people.

 

[marshbrewer]

That question was aimed at the posh people.

They would become afternoon tea.

 

[GhostShip]

I was listening to BBC 6 Music yesterday afternoon and they played a song called 'Chippy Tea' by the Lancashire Hotpots. @Chippy_Tea - have you ever heard it? If not, you need to track it down!

 

[DavieC]

Here it is!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I was listening to BBC 6 Music yesterday afternoon and they played a song called 'Chippy Tea' by the Lancashire Hotpots. @Chippy_Tea - have you ever heard it? If not, you need to track it down!

Yes but it was after I chose the username.
We used to be in Lancashire before thatchers lot moved the boundary.

 

[Dexter101]

Breakfast, Lunch and Tea here.

 

[northof49]

It would make sense to have the largest meal early on to work off that energy. Then a light meal in the evening since it's just sleeping that will be happening. A high percentage of Americans eat too much food too often and too late in the day. Maybe switching up would be beneficial.
I did get to experience eating the big meal in the afternoon because my grandparents were originally from Europe and moved to Canada so we'd celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving at 1pm in Windsor.

Hi davidfromUS,

Being from BC I can say that Windsor, Ontario, is just barely Canadian. This is easily seen by dropping by any bar and surveying the taps -- you'll find more American beers than Canadian beers. If you need further proof, driving from Detroit to Windsor you head south across the bridge.

To bring this back on topic, my late father always used dinner for the big meal of the day, regardless of when it was served (he grew up on the prairies). This became an issue when my brothers and I showed up to Christmas dinner only to find that the meal had ended two hours earlier.