Time for Tea?

[skyblueheroes]

Tea !

Depends what day it is. Mon to Fri its tea, Sat and Sun its dinner due to lack of lunch.

[dilli-theclaw]

I'm a 'Tea' Man - my dad is a 'Supper' man...

[Gareth]

I said tea too. I always think of dinner as being at midday-ish, kinda like when it was dinner-time when you were a school kid, so to now call the meal in the evening dinner would just confuse me.

Although, we actually eat very late compared to friends & family... eating at anywhere from 8pm onwards. We're very continental in our house

[BootBoy]

Originally Posted by Gareth

We're very continental in our house

You eat horse meat and smell of garlic?

[Dave Stones]

the rules of the universe dictate that meals go in the following order:

breakfast >> brunch >> dinner >> afternoon tea >> tea >> supper >> 3am snack

therefore, it is tea and anyone who says otherwise is just plain posh

and no i don't live in a posh house, afternoon snack is during or just after neighbours

[Salu]

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

the rules of the universe dictate that meals go in the following order:

breakfast >> brunch >> dinner >> afternoon tea >> tea >> supper >> 3am snack

therefore, it is tea and anyone who says otherwise is just plain posh

and no i don't live in a posh house, afternoon snack is during or just after neighbours

Where's lunch in all that then?

Originally Posted by Salu

Where's lunch in all that then?

Lunch is just another name for Dinner.

Originally Posted by Salu

Where's lunch in all that then?

He's a student, what we call lunch is on his list as 'breakfast'.

[Halcyon]

LOL

Students are allowed to get up late. Imagine all that work we have to do. Its very stessful you know.
Especially going in only twice a week.

[Dave Stones]

i have 5 days a week, 730am getting up time. anyone who has otherwise is quite simply a git, or as i happily refer to my sport/exercise sciences housemate, doing a mickey mouse

dinner is usually 12-1 or 1-2, if i am lucky i can get home before neighbours starts...

have to get up early on the weekend too for work, no lie ins for dave at uni, its all work work work

/moan off

[greencreeper]

I've always considered the use of "lunch" and eating a large meal at 6pm as things that the upper classes do. For me, it's:

Breakfast -> Dinner -> Tea -> Supper

Though I nearly always skip breakfast (too early to eat) and I eat tea at around 7pm - I get home around 5:40pm and start cooking at 6:00pm - so tea is effectively supper. At weekends I eat when hungry, and I try and push the boat out for Sunday Dinner.

When I stayed with friends in Scotland, we had "high tea", which was basically a late tea. I love regional variations on things.

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

the rules of the universe dictate that meals go in the following order:

breakfast >> brunch >> dinner >> afternoon tea >> tea >> supper >> 3am snack

therefore, it is tea and anyone who says otherwise is just plain posh

and no i don't live in a posh house, afternoon snack is during or just after neighbours

If you have brunch during the morning your logic is all screwed. Brunch is a meal consisting of a late breakfast combined with an early lunch so you should have lunch following brunch not dinner.

We call the 6:00 pm meal tea except on Sundays when we have the Sunday Roast at that time and call it dinner. The mid-day meal is lunch but that has changed since schooldays when we called it dinner.

[Dave Stones]

Originally Posted by ian@huth

If you have brunch during the morning your logic is all screwed. Brunch is a meal consisting of a late breakfast combined with an early lunch so you should have lunch following brunch not dinner.

ok i will call it brinner then

brunch, in between breakfast and dinner

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

ok i will call it brinner then

brunch, in between breakfast and dinner

Why not just put 24 hour troughing?