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Jacket potatoes and omelettes are not a dinner. Discuss.

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TwigTheWonderKid · 09/03/2021 12:05

According to my usually fairly normal and reasonable DH, jackets potatoes and omelettes are not " a dinner". He is unable to expand upon this statement and when questioned, just keeps repeating "not a dinner".

Does anyone else have an opinion on this, and if you agree with him, do you have any evidence to back up this assertion?

OP posts:
Cam2020 · 09/03/2021 12:21

Sounds fine for dinner to me. In fact I had jacket potato for dinner last night. I suppose it depends how hungry you are on any given day whether that's substantial enough. Sometimes it would be, sometimes not.

BoogieFeet · 09/03/2021 12:22

They are a large lunch or a small dinner. Except DH’s omelettes which are big enough to feed a whole street.
We have jacket potatoes for dinner about once a week and no one suggests they haven’t been fed?

BigSandyBalls2015 · 09/03/2021 12:22

I love a jacket potato for dinner, cheap and easy. I lay it all out with salad/fillings and everyone helps themselves to what they fancy.

isseys4xmastinselcats · 09/03/2021 12:23

an omelette chips and either beans or salad a dinner, an omelette on its own light lunch, a jacket potato with plain butter as a side with other dinner type food yes, on its own with cheese or beans a light lunch

Atalune · 09/03/2021 12:24

He’s right. It’s 2 dinners.

Jacket with filing- dinner
Omelette with filling- also a dinner

2 dinners. Lucky guy!

idontlikealdi · 09/03/2021 12:25

Lunch.

ChameleonClara · 09/03/2021 12:27

Oh this is nonsense.

Dinner is defined as 'the chief meal in the day, eaten in the evening or at lunchtime'. A meal is defined as 'the food served and eaten in one sitting'.

It is dinner, anything one chooses to eat as the main meal is dinner.

Presumably what he means but daren't say is 'I don't think it is a high-enough standard of cooking' to which the only answer is 'fuck off'.

IHaveBrilloHair · 09/03/2021 12:30

Both are definitely dinner here.
When Dd lived here and moaned I'd tell her to fuck off make her own then.

Fifthtimelucky · 09/03/2021 12:32

I agree with a previous poster. Nothing wrong with it but I'd call it supper rather than dinner. Mind you I call everything I cook at home in the evening supper.

Unlike many people, I reserve the term 'dinner' for food that is a bit more fancy than the sort of stuff I normally cook at home.

Love51 · 09/03/2021 12:33

I wouldn't put them together, but I'd eat a fritatta! Odd mix, but still a dinner.

willibald · 09/03/2021 12:35

Dinner is whatever you make it. If he wants some nasty ol' meat and 2 veg, he can cook it himself and clean up after himself. Anyone in this house still stuck in that past can fuck off and make their own meals and clean up after themselves.

PolarnOPirate · 09/03/2021 12:36

Both can be VERY filling so i don’t see how they could be a snack. They’re definitely a meal. So therefore they can be eaten in the evening - dinner.

IHaveBrilloHair · 09/03/2021 12:37

What is the difference between supper and dinner then?
To me supper is a v small snack later in the evening, like a couple of biscuits or a yoghurt or maybe cheese and crackers, definitely not anything cooked.

Silurian · 09/03/2021 12:37

@ChameleonClara

Oh this is nonsense.

Dinner is defined as 'the chief meal in the day, eaten in the evening or at lunchtime'. A meal is defined as 'the food served and eaten in one sitting'.

It is dinner, anything one chooses to eat as the main meal is dinner.

Presumably what he means but daren't say is 'I don't think it is a high-enough standard of cooking' to which the only answer is 'fuck off'.

Exactly. I ate half a ball of mozzarella and a bunch of fried courgettes for dinner last night. The OP's husband would presumably have a fit, but that was definitely my dinner. The night before I had a bowl of bran flakes and about three blood oranges. Tonight I'm falafel, baba ghanoush, flatbreads and salad. Still dinner.
BetaSasquatch · 09/03/2021 12:39

A large, well done jacket potato - with crispy, seasoned skin and fluffy, buttery inards - is the King of Dinners!

Seeline · 09/03/2021 12:39

I love an omelet with jacket potato and peas - one of my favorites, but DH definitely wouldn't think that was dinner. Neither would DS. Neither would they think soup suitable for an evening meal, which is another suggestion I often see on MN.

BarbaraofSeville · 09/03/2021 12:40

Dinner is just a word for a meal and is used differently by different people. Some go by time of day, some go by content of meal, so he really needs to give more context to back up his 'not a dinner' assertion, or else he just makes himself look like an idiot.

But if this is due to him not being happy with the content of the jacket potato and/or omelette dinner that has magically appeared in front of him, the solution to this is for him to make his own dinner to his own specifications.

If you cook, you get to choose what to make (accounting for the needs of young children and anyone else genuinely unable to cater for themselves obviously), especially if he's one of those tedious 'it is only a dinner if it has meat and lots of it' types.

CarnationCat · 09/03/2021 12:41

I wouldn't want an omelette for dinner and would class it as a lunch. Soup is also a lunch food.

A jacket potato on the other hand is definitely a dinner food. I usually have one with beans and cheese and maybe some sausages on the side. Maybe your DH has seen the potato vans at lunchtimes and has now ruled out jackets as dinner food.

frogswimming · 09/03/2021 12:43

Definitely a dinner. People eat too much.

DuchessSilver · 09/03/2021 12:44

I'm with your DH on this. Either could be a lunch, followed by a more substantial dinner in the evening, or they could be a tea following a more substantial dinner in the middle of the day. But they're not substantial enough to be the main hot meal of the day, whatever time they're served

HeronLanyon · 09/03/2021 12:45

Dinner can be anything so long as it fulfills whatever hunger you have.
I sometimes just have cheese and crackers and a bit of fruit or sliced tomatoes with olive oil with nothing else at all right up to full on blow out mega meal.
I’d consider both of those average ‘easy/straightforward’ meal for any time of day.
I think your dh sounds like ‘not a reasonable dh’ on this. If he is saying it to you and you are cooking that night leave him to do whatever else it is he wants.

Bagelsandbrie · 09/03/2021 12:46

Absolutely fine for dinner. I had a cheese omelette and chips with peas for dinner last night.

However, for me soup is not a dinner. But then I don’t really like soup anyway.

LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow · 09/03/2021 12:46

dh would not baulk at an omelette with chips/veg/salad but a jacket potato is not his idea of a meal unless it's smothered in chilli and then he'd rather have rice or nachos

they're both a bit lunchy/nursery tea I think

Having said that, if you don't cook, you don't comment except for thanks and appreciative noises

Okbussitout · 09/03/2021 12:47

I don't eat eggs on their own so can't comment on omelets. But I love a jacket potato for dinner! Either with veggie chilli and cheese or beans and cheese normally with a side salad. Basic but really filling.

MorePotatoSalad · 09/03/2021 12:47

Even if traditionally they are more of a lunch they are quick easy and nutritious- perfect for a mid week dinner on a busy week or when the fridge is running low. You can add all sorts into an omelette.

I have jacket and chilli for dinner or a jacket with a piece of fish and brocolli often.

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