The "lunch" thread just got me pondering (cos I'm a bit weird like that)
I don't really say lunch, I call it dinner. And what you'd call dinner I'd call tea.
How about other people?
Supper is just confusing!
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper. However, after moving here I learned that in Germany, lunch is the main meal, not dinner. So for lunch you might have meat and vegetables or whatever one enjoys as a hot meal, and for dinner you might have a sandwich. Weird.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper. However, after moving here I learned that in Germany, lunch is the main meal, not dinner. So for lunch you might have meat and vegetables or whatever one enjoys as a hot meal, and for dinner you might have a sandwich. Weird.
That's the better way to be, as it means your metabolism and body is given time to actually process the food, and then you have energy for the rest of the day. Rather than eating a big meal at 6pm and doing little for the rest of the evening.
It depends who i'm talking to. In London I call it lunch, but if I'm talking to family in Manchester I say dinner. I call the evening meal tea unless I'm having it in a restaurant in which case i'd probably say dinner. It can be confusing, when someone invited me to their house for tea, I was really happy because I hadn't eaten all day. After three brews it was clear that no food was being prepared and I had to leave and have my tea at home after all.
Those Germans are weird! :P Although there is some guidance that says meals should be eaten in descending order of heaviness throughout the day so perhaps those Germans are ahead of the curve on this one!
If I was using the English terminology I'd say breakfast, lunch and dinner now but growing up in a Punjabi household I used to get terribly confused about these terms meant as a child! The difference between supper and tea puzzled me greatly :P
The Punjabi terms are a little weird. The round bread chapattis we call rotis but dinner (and also lunch I assume) is called roti too so we would ask "What would you like for roti?" Then to distinguish between lunch and dinner we'd just use the time of day so it would be the Punjabi equivalent of "What would you like to eat this afternoon/evening?" As far as I know breakfast is called breakfast in a nod to you colonialists! :P
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That's the better way to be, as it means your metabolism and body is given time to actually process the food, and then you have energy for the rest of the day. Rather than eating a big meal at 6pm and doing little for the rest of the evening.
Exactly what I meant to say, thanks Claire! :)
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Originally Posted by bigmouth strikes - again
It can be confusing, when someone invited me to their house for tea, I was really happy because I hadn't eaten all day. After three brews it was clear that no food was being prepared and I had to leave and have my tea at home after all.
I would have made exactly the same assumption! That must have been disappointing! The purely liquid tea must be prefixed with "a cup of" to avoid confusion!
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you wish to make.
That's the better way to be, as it means your metabolism and body is given time to actually process the food, and then you have energy for the rest of the day. Rather than eating a big meal at 6pm and doing little for the rest of the evening.
That actually makes a lot of sense. It never occurred to me.
yes liquid tea is either a cupa or a brew, or if speaking to older people a cup of tea. I think super is a snack before bed, the kind you eat with your cocoa.
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