Quintessentially British.

NickSCFC wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Ad7 wrote:Morning meal = breakfast
Mid day meal = lunch
Evening meal = tea
Sweet after tea = pudding

Cup of tea = cup of tea.

Bloody hell, it has actually happened. Ad7 is correct.

RIP in piece

As if we're going to take lessons in English from strawberry floating America.

Morning - Breakfast
Late Morning - Brunch (if I forget to eat breakfast or wake up late)
Afternoon - Lunch
Evening - Dinner
Late Evening - Supper (if I decide to eat something light late at night)

I didn't think supper was actually a thing outside Victorian period drama.

"I shall take supper in the drawing room tonight Jeeves. See that the servants are disciplined for referring to the main evening meal as dinner when it is quite clearly tea!"

In all honesty I couldn't really give a crap what it's called, it's always easy enough to work out what meal someone is referring to based on context. I doubt a life was ever lost over a dinner/tea misunderstanding!

0700-Breakfast
0800-Coffee
0900-Tea
1000-Tea
1100-Tea
1200- Lunch
1300-Tea
1400-Coffee
1500-Tea
1600-Tea
1700-Dinner
1800-Tea
1900-Tea
2000-Tea
2100-Rooibos Tea
0230-Tea

Supper

bear wrote:0700-Breakfast
0800-Coffee
0900-Tea
1000-Tea
1100-Tea
1200- Lunch
1300-Tea
1400-Coffee
1500-Tea
1600-Tea
1700-Dinner
1800-Tea
1900-Tea
2000-Tea
2100-Rooibos Tea
0230-Tea

Nobody has lunch at 12 unless they're at work and that's where their lunch break falls.

Alvin Flummux wrote:Nobody has lunch at 12 unless they're at work and that's where their lunch break falls.

So everyone working a 9-5, 5 days a week then...

Tomous wrote:

Alvin Flummux wrote:Nobody has lunch at 12 unless they're at work and that's where their lunch break falls.

So everyone working a 9-5, 5 days a week then...

Yeah, not so many people work that exact schedule.

Dinner is your main meal of the day whether it's afternoon or evening. If you have dinner in the afternoon, then you have tea in the evening. If you have dinner in the evening, then you would've had have lunch in the afternoon.

PatSharpsMullet wrote:Dinner is your main meal of the day whether it's afternoon or evening. If you have dinner in the afternoon, then you have tea in the evening. If you have dinner in the evening, then you would've had have lunch in the afternoon.

I agree.

Qikz wrote:

PatSharpsMullet wrote:Dinner is your main meal of the day whether it's afternoon or evening. If you have dinner in the afternoon, then you have tea in the evening. If you have dinner in the evening, then you would've had have lunch in the afternoon.

I agree.

Nah. Lunch doesn't suddenly get rebranded just because it's your bigger meal of the day.

Rightey wrote:I thought of something else that I've only heard of British people doing, using stone as a measure of weight.

As if imperial isn't bad enough you need to complicate it even further

The British combination of metric and imperial is just daft.

We need to pick a side, ie metric, and fully commit. Probably want to be leaving behind anything to do with the imperial empire anyway...

Jenuall wrote:

Qikz wrote:

PatSharpsMullet wrote:Dinner is your main meal of the day whether it's afternoon or evening. If you have dinner in the afternoon, then you have tea in the evening. If you have dinner in the evening, then you would've had have lunch in the afternoon.

I agree.

Nah. Lunch doesn't suddenly get rebranded just because it's your bigger meal of the day.

Yeah, and what do you do if your two meals are of equal size?

Tomous wrote:

Rightey wrote:I thought of something else that I've only heard of British people doing, using stone as a measure of weight.

As if imperial isn't bad enough you need to complicate it even further

The British combination of metric and imperial is just daft.

We need to pick a side, ie metric, and fully commit. Probably want to be leaving behind anything to do with the imperial empire anyway...

Why make things simple when you can make it needlessly complicated and then mock people who struggle to understand it?
Why else did we bother building an empire?

Tomous wrote:

Jenuall wrote:

Qikz wrote:

PatSharpsMullet wrote:Dinner is your main meal of the day whether it's afternoon or evening. If you have dinner in the afternoon, then you have tea in the evening. If you have dinner in the evening, then you would've had have lunch in the afternoon.

I agree.

Nah. Lunch doesn't suddenly get rebranded just because it's your bigger meal of the day.

Yeah, and what do you do if your two meals are of equal size?

You fire the chef.

Tomous wrote:

Jenuall wrote:

Qikz wrote:

PatSharpsMullet wrote:Dinner is your main meal of the day whether it's afternoon or evening. If you have dinner in the afternoon, then you have tea in the evening. If you have dinner in the evening, then you would've had have lunch in the afternoon.

I agree.

Nah. Lunch doesn't suddenly get rebranded just because it's your bigger meal of the day.

Yeah, and what do you do if your two meals are of equal size?

If they're not that big, then it would be lunch and tea. If they are both quite big, then it can be either lunch and dinner, or dinner and tea, depending on what you want to call it.

For a dinner to be called a dinner, it needs to be fairly substantial.

Peter Crisp wrote:

Tomous wrote:

Rightey wrote:I thought of something else that I've only heard of British people doing, using stone as a measure of weight.

As if imperial isn't bad enough you need to complicate it even further

The British combination of metric and imperial is just daft.

We need to pick a side, ie metric, and fully commit. Probably want to be leaving behind anything to do with the imperial empire anyway...

Why make things simple when you can make it needlessly complicated and then mock people who struggle to understand it?
Why else did we bother building an empire?

For looting, pillaging and plundering mostly I think.

Tomous wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:

Tomous wrote:

Rightey wrote:I thought of something else that I've only heard of British people doing, using stone as a measure of weight.

As if imperial isn't bad enough you need to complicate it even further

The British combination of metric and imperial is just daft.

We need to pick a side, ie metric, and fully commit. Probably want to be leaving behind anything to do with the imperial empire anyway...

Why make things simple when you can make it needlessly complicated and then mock people who struggle to understand it?
Why else did we bother building an empire?

For looting, pillaging and plundering mostly I think.

We didn't loot, plunder or pillage anyone.
We just strategically redistributed wealth from other places that obviously didn't need it to people here who did like those downtrodden super rich.