To wonder what those who call lunch ‘dinner’

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Call brunch?

Do you still call it brunch?

it's still brunch.

I swap between the 2, at work it's always dinner, at home it's lunch. The evening meal is always tea.

Yes brunch is still brunch - we still know what 'lunch' is just because we choose to call it dinner.
It's also still 'lunchtime' even though we eat our dinner at that time

Yes, because lunch and dinner are interchangeable. Dinner ladies, lunch box. Sunday dinner, lunch break. Dinner time, lunch meeting.

Tea is the evening meal.

Ha ha ha - I like your thinking. Obviously it has to be 'brinner'. Or quite possibly 'dinfast'. Or 'deckfast'?

Yes I still call it brunch but just to get extra confusing if I'm eating at home I have dinner and tea but if I'm going out I go out for lunch and dinner

My mind was absolutely blown when I first moved to the UK and heard lunch called 'dinner'.

Still seems bonkers to me.

I was thinking brinner

And yes I’m bored. My 4 month old is cluster feeding for some reason and I’m stuck!

And hungry

Brinner was breakfast for dinner (tea) in Scrubs.

Cheese and apple o'clock

I knew I'd heard Brinner somewhere. Ahh Scrubs.

What about coffee and tea together? Is it toffee? Or cea? Off to watch Gavin and Stacey followed by Scrubs.

I don't use the word 'brunch' at all if I can help it :p Can't staaand it! I just call my first meal of the day breakfast no matter what time it was, and move on from there.

Tea is a drink

I'm an awkward sod, I say "I'm going out for lunch" but if someone ever interrupted me at work while eating it I tend to say "I'm eating my dinner, can I get back to you in a bit" 😂

Tea is also a meal.

Some words have two meanings

what? since when??! lunch is surely lunch/brunch (if a later afternoon one with champagne!) and dinner is supper/dinner? im so confused.

I thought brunch was when you'd missed breakfast and wanted lunch early...hence 'br'eakfast l'unch'
Have I been wrong all these years?
So lunch is afternoon time and dinner is evening meal.
Tea is a light snack what you used to have in between lunch and dinner when dinner was a 9pm late affair...

Never knew calling lunch "dinner" was a thing (am not in the UK).

However my Dad often calls his dinner (as in meat & veg) lunch because he has eaten it at lunchtime (as in 1pm-ish).

We have no meal called "tea" in our house. Its either lunch or dinner.

Maybe I’m generalising but I’d assume that people who call their midday meal their dinner are possibly more traditional in how they view meals and mealtimes and brunch might not often feature? I could also absolutely be making that up because my parents call theirs their dinner and are very traditional 😁

Brunch for me is the first meal I have after waking up if it’s objectively too late to call it breakfast but too early to be the evening meal - so anything between 11am - 5pm.

It's all regional. These threads always end up the same way - some people are shocked that in some families, people dare to have dinner as their midday meal and some are offended that tea is anything other than a drink.

Some people have tea as their evening meal.
Some people have dinner at midday.
Some people have supper. Some don't.

It's all fine. Get over it

@NCforthis2019 what?! Brunch is like elevensies!
Late afternoon is afternoon tea!

I Call it breakfast no matter what time we eat it. Lunch then tea. My 11 year calls the cooked meal tea even if we eat it at midday 😕not sure why.

@newmomof1 For me, brunch is around 12.30-2.30 pm when you've skipped breakfast/slept late and combine it with lunch.

I'll say what I always say on these threads: there is no right time of day for "dinner". If you look in an English dictionary, the word means the main meal of the day.

When I was growing up, "dinner" at home was in the evening Monday through Saturday, but Sunday roast at lunch-time was also dinner.

At boarding school "Dinner" was always at lunch-time. This wasn't because boarding school thought the word meant something different, we had cooked meals at lunch-time and in the evening, but because we also had dessert for lunch, that elevated that meal above the evening one in the pecking order, causing lunch to be correctly described as "dinner".

look.

dinner is the midday meal. They used to be school dinners.
tea is at tea time. "what's for tea, mum?"

anything else is perverse social climbing.