If you’re from up north meals are known as breakfast, dinner, tea and a late night snack is supper.
Although, we are also known to say shall we go out for lunch or afternoon tea. There’s even brunch if you go mid morning.
If we have fish & chips that’s known as a chippy tea or chippy dinner.
Then what about when you go to the pub with friends, we say “we are going to the pub for tea.
If it’s a posh affair and we get dressed up, we’d say “going out to dinner”.
Don’t forget about elevenses, time for a biscuit and a cuppa.
I have a friend who has her evening meal at 6pm and calls that supper !!! No, that’s all wrong, supper is what you have just before bed.
No wonder the weights creeping up, I don’t know what I’m eating when, looking at this lot haha.
What do you call your meal times ?
I’m sure I didn’t start this blog post to talk about meal times. I’ll have to report back once I remember what it was I was going to tell you about.
Stay safe and enjoy your day
Lynn
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Although I'm northern (Liverpool) I do talk about breakfast, lunch, dinner and "a smackerel" (from Winnie the Pooh) I think it's because I teach English, so the accepted words are as I use them. Also my husband is a pesky Southerner!
ReplyDeleteI remember the pleasure of a glass of milk and a piece of hot buttered toast (or a couple of digestive biscuits) taken just before News at Ten and bedtime, when I was the last of the children still at home. It was a cosy timewith my parents.
Hot buttered toast, I could eat that right now. Doesn’t it always sound delicious.
DeleteAs a Lancashire lass I heartily agree with you! Have you ever heard or been invited to my pet hate 'kitchen supper'? Reeks to me of "we don't think you are important enough for us to make a bit of effort and invite you to dinner"...
ReplyDeleteI’ve never heard of that ‘kitchen supper’ no.
DeleteMind you’ve I’ve never got my head around ‘Wedding Breakfast’
We eat breakfast, lunch and tea.
ReplyDeleteLike you, we call our evening meal "dinner" when we dress up and eat in a restaurant.
I always think a heavy meal in the middle of the day is also "dinner" - Xmas dinner or a Sunday roast (not that I'd touch either with a barge pole!) but something light like soup or a sandwich is lunch.
Supper's definitely a before bed snack unless you're really posh and speak a different language to us commoners!
This made me giggle! Hope you had a fab day. xxx
I’m chuckling at all the comments on here and Instagram. I’ll be starting a revolution at this rate.
Delete‘Wedding Breakfast’ is the one I can’t get my head around xxx
That was a lovely - and funny - read, Lynn. I'd tell you what we call our meals, but apart from the one we have at midday, for which we borrowed the word lunch from you guys, you would be none the wiser. Breakfast is "ontbijt" in Flemish and we just call what you call tea "avondeten" which literally means evening meal. I'd definitely be calling it tea if I lived in the UK. I've always had a soft spot for the North! xxx
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are in my camp Ann.
DeleteYou’ll have to come and visit us sometime xx
even though we live in the Far East now, we still stick to our proud northern routes, I cannot leave the house on the morning without breakfast, mid morning, lunch, tea, supper. The Japanese are quite silmiar in their ways. I love a good tea ceremony even though I hate tea , I suck it up for Paul . We have fish and chips in an awful British themed pub called the hub, they are all over. They are terrible and tacky. The food is ok. But not like home.
ReplyDeleteWe can get some English food but boy you pay for it. I miss HP sauce so I have to decide when I really want it. English breakfast is ok but their sausages are bloody hot dogs!!!! They do make a mean fried egg on toast or eggy bread though. Take care and keep safe
A chippy tea is a wonderful treat, followed by a good mug of tea. A mug of tea anytime is fine by me.
DeleteHope you’re doing ok x
Hi Lynn, I'm with you on the meal times but because school meals changed towards the end of our time teaching, we started having dinner in the evening so the names had to change slightly so now we have Breakfast, lunch (which is more like tea time), dinner about 6.00 pm and then maybe supper. I must say though I would sooner have dinner at dinner time (there you go nothing really changes) When we first started teaching it was quite civilised and we had time for a proper meal at dinner time but then they shortened the time and it became a matter of grab it quick and then get ready for the afternoon lessons. That cake you're holding looks scrummy! Have a lovely weekend, Angela xXx
ReplyDeleteSat here eating a big fat piece of cake now Angela. After that I’ll be moaning about my fat stomach haha.
DeleteIsn’t it funny how we all interprete meal times differently
Enjoy your weekend too xx
Your post was sweet and made me smile ~ I like to eat my leftover dinner for breakfast because it keeps me full all day ~ so I pretty much eat two suppers a day and a snack in between and tea all day long :) I am not the norm
ReplyDeleteMy sister used to eat mum’s potato ash cold for breakfast. The kettle is on a lot in our house but the first one and the last of the day are the best x
DeleteI am with you on the meal names Lynn. Because I am diabetic and it suits my digestion to do so, we have dinner at middday, and then a light tea in the evening. We rarely have supper but a nightcap goes down well!
ReplyDeleteI will never be able to embrace the Spanish custom of having a big meal around 10.00pm. I'd never sleep after that. Kate x
I couldn’t eat a meal that late either Kate. I don’t even have a cuppa after 8pm or I’d been running to the loo all night haha x
DeleteIt's usually breakfast, lunch and tea here unless that is we have a cooked meal in the middle of the day and that's dinner. We're a funny old lot arent we? Thanks for making me smile.
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Annie x
It’s amazing Annie how many variations to meal times there are. I got proper confused the first time I saw a menu for a wedding breakfast xx
DeleteI eat one meal a day, Lynn. But many people in the states have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Supper seemed so low class that most people seldom use it, even if they actually call it supper in their own homes.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother (grandparents raised me from birth) was British and stopped around 4 pm for a cup of tea or coffee. It was a good time for a break indeed. Most of us don't have an afternoon tea time, though.
I eat when I'm hungry and that's it for the day. I try to make it last as long as possible, because I eat so slowly. Right now, that cake looks delicious. It would take me an hour to devour that, though. Have a fun weekend, Lynn and figure out what you were going to tell us that didn't involve food (grin).
I knew a lovely couple who stopped at 4pm for a sherry.
ReplyDeleteIf I ate when I was hungry I’d be at it all day haha
Take care xx
Haha, you've got a thing going now Lynn! Let me give you our routine, for what it's worth.
ReplyDeleteI am Dutch and hubby was born in Guernsey but did spend some formative yours in Whitley Bay. And as you know, we live in Spain. So our meal times are Spanish and because we are retired, we get up late, so breakfast at 9. Then dinner, our main cooked meal, at 3 pm and we then eat a light meal at 9 pm which we call supper. As we don't go to bed until after midnight, that is not too late to eat. So we don't have tea.
When we go out to a restaurant, we go out for dinner, and in Spain that is at 2 pm. If we go out in the evening, we also call it dinner actually.
We do have a savoury snack at 12 midday with a cup of coffee (or a slab of cake) and we just call that coffee.
I am with you on that 'wedding breakfast', but then, I am foreign, so I wouldn't understand.
Have a great weekend,
What are you having for Sunday lunch? Or should I say dinner?
Lisca