To wonder what those who call lunch ‘dinner’

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Call brunch?

Do you still call it brunch?

Brunch is a combination of breakfast/lunch youd have it late morning/early afternoon.

I've never eaten 'brunch' in my life; I've had late breakfasts or early lunches many times though.

My wife's family have breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea then supper. No dinner.

I struggle with eating five meals a day. She doesn't seem to.

ha, this mixes me up all the time and we've lived here for 9 years. Where I'm from we have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Here it is breakfast, dinner and tea. Then the posh MIL comes along and it's neither dinner nor tea, to her it is supper. Frankly, as long as I'm fed they can call it what they want :)

If I'm having a sandwich at midday then I call it lunch.
If it's a hot midday meal I call it dinner.

If the evening meal is sandwiches or salad I call it tea.
If it's a hot meal it's dinner again.

Not sure why I do that! It's just what I've always done from a child.

The Names of meals in my family, growing up and now:
Breakfast - first thing
Brunch - more substantial taking the place of both breakfast and lunch, about 11M
Lunch - usually a sandwich kind of affair, apart from on Sunday
Tea - a young childrens meal after school and before bath time or something to be had in a hotel or similar with scones and finger sandwiches
Dinner - The main evening meal, cooked.
Supper - a light snack nearer bedtime, cheese and biscuits perhaps.

Not all meals are taken, thats just their names and function in our family.

Tea is a drink

It's also an evening meal where i'm from

Breakfast for us is the meal after you wake up. Brunch is if we decide to have a late breakfast, meaning we will skip lunch and is a bigger meal than just cereal or toast.
Lunch is never called dinner in our house. Hot meals or cold meals, still lunch.
If someone said what's for dinner then they would be asking what is for the evening meal. We do also call the evening meal tea though - it's interchangeable!
I have never used the word supper, either growing up or now. But that to me would also be referring to the evening meal.

Lunch as a concept is actually only a couple of centuries old I believe. I think it came to fashion in Georgian times. Prior to that working people would have had a breakfast and then their dinner during the working day. The idle rich would have had a late and hearty breakfast and then not eaten again until their evening meal.

It was always called 'elevenses' when I was growing up in the Yorkshire Dales.

Breakfast
Elevenses
Dinner
Tea
Supper

Dinner is the main meal of the day hence 'school dinners' served at 'lunchtime'. Evening meal is supper (unless you don't have dinner at lunch time in which case it is dinner.) Depends what you have, supper is usually less elaborate than dinner.

I tend to have something small but filling at lunch time and dinner in the evening.

Tea is something you have in the afternoon.

My sister says tea for dinner and it annoys me.

Brunch isn't a word I ever use. I live in Yorkshire and have breakfast, dinner and tea. Anything outside of that is just "something to eat".

No such thing as brunch just breakfast or dinner in this house 🙂

I've always use:-
Breakfast
Lunch (dinner if its a hot meal)
Dinner (tea if it's a cold dish e.g sandwiches)
Supper (small meal before bed)
My grandmother used to be a live in maid in London, this is what she taught us to use.

Never used brunch. That would be a snack.

Dinner= dinner ladies!

You can't have 'lunch ladies' can you...? (lunch monitors...)

people who call their midday meal their dinner are possibly more traditional in how they view meals

I think they're normally just Northern, aren't they?
Yes to elevenses, but they're generally cake, rather than normal brunch-fodder.

Breakfast
Brunch
Lunch
Dinner

Supper sounds to me if it's a meal. Usually means a piece of toast before bed in this house.

Brunch? We northern oiks are far too busy keeping coal in the bath to have time for brunch.

I love brunch. For me it's a very specific kind of meal. Hearty meal consumed at noon-ish and often accompanied by a cocktail.

Supper sounds hmm to me if it's a meal. Usually means a piece of toast before bed in this house.

To my parents-in-law, it's a substantial sit down meal.

I mean when would I ever get to have eggs benedict if it weren't for glorious brunch.

late breakfast then wait til tea time for tea as we don't then need any dinner.

Did you never have dinner ladies OP.

For avoidance of doubt a bread roll is a cob

a pedestrian pathway between rounds is a channel

a passage between houses (esp those with a flying freedhold is called an entry

glad to be of service

Along the same lines (food), my 5 year old calls a dessert an 'ender'.
Have to say it makes sense though, if a starter is called a starter, why isn't a dessert called an ended .
Another one to make you think... when he's getting dressed and his clothes as inside out, he says he needs to turn them outside in.... after going through it all in my head I think it's actually outside out
Gotta love literal thinkers!