Are Britain (and Ireland) like, totally turning into America?

lex-man wrote:
1cmanny1 wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Hime wrote:
Moggy wrote:...they seem to say “banana split” a lot more

Nice that we've had an equal contribution to each others cultures

I don’t feel much national pride these days, but I feel my heart swell whenever I hear a yank say “banana split”.

Sorry to tell you this. But "banana split", is Australian.

It comes from cunte which is middle English. The word is older than the European discovery of Australia.

Suzy Dent has a 5 minute show on all4 that gives the origins of lots of swear words if you want to know more.

Before tea started coming into Britain people used to drink wine at what we now call afternoon tea

I think we can all agree things have been going downhill for a long time

NickSCFC

OrangeRakoon wrote:Before tea started coming into Britain people used to drink wine at what we now call afternoon tea

I think we can all agree things have been going downhill for a long time

Don't think if it's just a north/south thing or a generation thing, but I'm hearing more and more people using Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner instead of Breakfast/Dinner/Tea, something I only ever saw on American TV.

I've always known it as breakfast/lunch/tea

Always been referred to as lunch/dinner in my lifetime (London).

I refer to the eating sequence as breakfast / lunch / tea. I tend to think of "dinner" as "a big lunch"... but if I am going out for tea then I call it "dinner".

I was talking to someone yesterday who referred to "supper"; this seems to be an additional part of the sequence that takes place after tea - or, if you've missed tea, as a means of having something to make up for that.

KK wrote:Always been referred to as lunch/dinner in my lifetime (London).

+1

Why else were they called Luncheon Vouchers if not for Lunch?

All my adult life it's been breakfast/lunch/dinner. I believe I used to say tea when I was much younger though. "tea time". I've never referred to lunch as dinner though.

Why are people having dinner at night? Dinnertime is the middle of the day.

Lagamorph wrote:Why are people having dinner at night? Dinnertime is the middle of the day.

Then when is lunch?

Rax wrote:
Lagamorph wrote:Why are people having dinner at night? Dinnertime is the middle of the day.

Then when is lunch?

Between breakfast, brunch and dinner. :shifty:

Is "dinner" at teatime another southerner thing?

Clearly a southern thing then calling it dinner. I just had a little quick peak at it's origins and it looks like your usual British class split. In south of England the majority say dinner no matter the class, where as in the north it seems to suggest tea is a working class term, whilst upper class is dinner.

Doesn't appear to be because of an invasion of Americanisms.

It's always been breakfast lunch and dinner for me.

Tea is something you have in the afternoon at say 3 ish and you have cake and a cup of tea or whatever. But if isn't you dinner.

Yeah it's not an Americanisation thing, weird northerners have been getting this wrong all by themselves for centuries.

Corazon de Leon

Mafro wrote:Is "dinner" at teatime another southerner thing?

No, it's rightly in widespread use here too. Tea is a drink, not a meal.

SandyCoin wrote:Clearly a southern thing then calling it dinner. I just had a little quick peak at it's origins and it looks like your usual British class split. In south of England the majority say dinner no matter the class, where as in the north it seems to suggest tea is a working class term, whilst upper class is dinner.

Doesn't appear to be because of an invasion of Americanisms.

Sounds about right.

Corazon de Leon

Again, definitely not a north/south thing - it was dinner when I lived in Blackburn and it's dinner since I've been living in Glasgow. I've never heard anyone refer to tea as a meal up here. Must be those odd fellows on the east coast. :dread:

Corazon de Leon wrote:
Mafro wrote:Is "dinner" at teatime another southerner thing?

No, it's rightly in widespread use here too. Tea is a drink, not a meal.

It has long since become the name of a meal. Deal with it.

When I was at school (not *that* long ago!) we had "dinner ladies" to supervise the midday eating ritual. Some kids had "dinner" whilst other kids bought in their own "packed lunch".

Are Britain (and Ireland) like, totally turning into America?

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