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

Breakfast
Dinner this could also be lunch but not in my world
Tea
Supper

Lunch or Brunch.

Is this one of those 'if you say dinner and tea,' and not 'lunch and dinner,' you're an 'uneducated, underclass, chav' kind of threads? yawn

I suppose these peasants who say 'tea' instead of 'dinner' don't even cook from scratch? How disgraceful.

Definitely lunch

What do i call the meal I have at 12pm?

McDonalds

NoWin

You don't have dinner parties at noon though, do you.

Give yer heads a wobble.

Lunch. I live in the south east, btw. Not sure if it's a regional thing.

also the phrase Ladies that Lunch comes from somewhere...Ladies that Dinner doesn't have the same ring to it :)

Apparently Dinner refers to the most significant meal of the day which could be at noon or in the evening.

Lunch is an abbreviation for luncheon, a light meal usually eaten at Midday

so I am guessing its the size of the meal that makes the difference, eg Baked beans on toast = lunch, Steak and chips = dinner

The biggest meal of the day is dinner.

On weekdays I have lunch.

On weekends we have dinner.

schools call it Dinner too....eg, dinner laddies, dinner money although some people take packed 'lunches'....this is confusing the more I read into it, I guess you are both right

Though like crisp the midday meal at weekends is sometimes breakfast

I'm far too invested in this thread :)

Dinner is considered to be the "main" or largest meal of the day. Whether it takes place at noon or in the evening is mostly a cultural thing. For instance, many people who grew up in the American South and/or on farms traditionally ate larger meals at noontime to give them the strength to keep working through the afternoon.
Supper is more specifically a lighter evening meal. Rooted in the word "to sup", it comes, again, from farming traditions — many farming families would have a pot of soup cooking throughout the day, and would eat it in the evening — specifically, they would "sup" the soup.
Lunch is almost the midday equivalent of supper — it's also a lighter and less formal meal than Dinner, but is used specifically when referring to a midday meal. So whether you use lunch/dinner or dinner/supper is heavily determined by when your culture traditionally has its largest meal.

I also sometimes have breakfast or brunch as my biggest meal of the day (does that mean I am having dinner at 9am?)

I think it is lunch but I always call it dinner. I think because years of school dinners have brainwashed me.

Northeast here. I have breakfast, dinner at 12/1 then tea at around 5pm then supper at 9/10pm because I eat like a horse