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What is the meal called that you eat at 12pm?

A troll just got her thread deleted where she called us vipers, and now you're calling us vipers. Is that you?????

For the one in Brisbane it's a barbie whatever time of day it is! Been there, done that. Wanna go and do it again...

here - hot main meal of the day=dinner, other =lunch or tea.

During the week we have dinner in the evening, on Sunday we have dinner around 2pm.

Lunch (whether a sandwich or a hot meal). At my son's school (south east) what used to be called "school dinners" ate now "hot lunches".
Hot meal in the evening = dinner.
Cold meal early evening (usually eaten by children) = tea (also referred to as the hot drink consumed mid afternoon with a snack such as cake/biscuits or sometimes sandwiches too if "afternoon tea").
Cold meal consumed later in evening = supper. (Some would argue that this can also be a hot meal but simpler than a "dinner".)

Lunch

I'm from the NE. I was brought up to say: breakfast; lunch; supper.

ChrisYoung am I forever going to be known as the lunch troll? Nooooooooo

who eats at 12 on a Sunday (only an hour or 2 since breakfast )

School has both...

school dinners
packed lunch

We have dinnerladies at school but lunchtime supervisors!!

fwiw, I never say dinner. It's breakfast, lunch and tea. Tea is about 5 pm.

Supper is for posh people at, like, 8pm. I know because my DSM is posh and they eat at posh times like 8 or 9 pm.

Lunch if it's a sandwich or similar, dinner if it's a full, hot meal.

When I was a child I called it DInner

Then I moved down south and I call it lunch.

There isn't a right or wrong answer.!

It's regional and part if the rich tapestry of the U.K. however long that lasts

IT REALLY DOESNT MATTER

Midnight munchies

BakeOff

Of course it blooming well matters. I have to be RIGHT.

It adds a whole new layer of complexity to 'What's the Time Mr Wolf?'.

Kids probably don't play that though any more . Sad face.

I call it lunch. When I was a child ( southeast) it was called dinner

Beyond was just remembering asking parents at an induction evening whether their child would have 'packed lunch' or ' school dinner' !

How DO foreigners even begin to learn our language??

Lunch

Lunch but if I eat a hot meal I will say I got my dinner at lunch time and have tea in the evening that day confused ?

As an addendum to my own post supper is not posh when it's a fish supper. But I haven't said that since leaving Scotland over 20 years ago.

who eats at 12 on a Sunday (only an hour or 2 since breakfast blush)

Ah, this might be an example of how my kids have recalibrated my normal, we've been up since 5am and breakfast at 6am.

Until then, Sunday dinner was at 2 or 3pm and it was still,er, dinner.

Breakfast, dinner and tea here

We could start a new thread on who on earth says '12pm'.

It is noon . Or midday...

Oh no!

Another northern lass dinner here - 5pm is tea - another one whose DH says lunch and dinner but he is wrong, wrong I say

Ah, this might be an example of how my kids have recalibrated my normal, we've been up since 5am and breakfast at 6am

haha - mine are now teenagers... bliss... (mainly)

Lunch.
Even if it's a full on roast, it's still Sunday lunch.
Dinner is an evening meal.