To wonder what those who call lunch ‘dinner’

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Call brunch?

Do you still call it brunch?

But breakfast doesn't HAVE a specified period of time outwith which it ceases to be the meal in which you break your fast. Argh! I hate the word 'brunch'! Hate it!

But brunch isn't just a late breakfast. It's a lovely thing all of its own.

Brunch brunch brunch

Rottnest do they have dinner followed by supper?

Nope. They have tea late afternoon and supper is the main meal of the day. Sometimes you have to wait until 9 pm to get it.

I sometimes smuggle in sandwiches to keep me going.

In lreland the only day we would have a tea was on Sunday because we had dinner at lunch time. Every other day it's lunch and dinner. Lunch around 1 and dinner around 6.

I think you are all frightfully non-U for repeatedly abbreviating luncheon on this thread.

Clearly I'm a pleb because it's Breakfast, Dinner and Tea in our house .

I use lunch and dinner interchangeably. Evening meal is always called tea. Supper is a small snack before bedtime. We never ever have anything I would call brunch.

I would say I was going out for dinner but chatting to my partner about eating in the home, I call it tea, partly tongue in cheek and partly because dinner sounds too posh.

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I sometimes call it eleven-zees (not sure on spelling, I've never written it before or used in official context)

Elevenses

It's a proper word. In the dictionary and everything.

Brunch is just a fancy name for a second breakfast.

My children now correct me for calling lunch dinner which is thoroughly depressing, though thankfully they like gravy with their chips which must mean there is a bit of northernness in them!

Does anyone remember when BBC1 started doing daytime tv there was a filler program called five to eleven? I’ve always wondered if this was scheduled to give people time to prepare their elevenses.

Brunch is just a fancy name for a second breakfast.

is that even a thing?!?

I like a nice cup of tea with my dinner
I like a nice cup of tea with my tea
And when it's time for bed
There's a lot to be said
For a nice cup of tea.......

Old music hall song, so it seems that people were OK with asking for tea at any old time really

Brunch isn't a second breakfast at all. It's when you haven't had breakfast, and you've gone past the "usual" breakfast time and into lunch territory. It's a combination of both, eaten roughly between 10:30am and 12pm.

No brunch in our house(South Yorkshire)

Breakfast-1st meal of the day.
Dinner- meal between 12 and 1
Tea-between 5 and 6

Brunch isn't a second breakfast, it's usually eaten early lunch time when no breakfast has been eaten earlier, such as weekends when people don't get up so early. It's a breakfast-combined-lunch. I often have it.

Still call it breakfast whatever time of the day it's eaten as long as it's the first meal of the day. Sometimes say late breakfast.

Then dinner in the middle of the day.

Then tea in the evening.

Yorkshire, as if you couldn't guess!

Not sure about Brunch but we sometimes have Tinner in our house - a meal late in the afternoon when it's too late for dinner but too early for tea 😃

is that even a thing?!? grin

Only for hobbits.

I will not hear anything against brunch, it makes day drinking acceptable earlier.

Anyone who resists brunch is an idiot.

For avoidance of doubt a bread roll is a bread cake

No it really isn't, bread (dough based) has no association with cake whatsoever.

You do not out cooked meats, cheeses and whatever other sandwich fillings on a CAKE!

Causes wars in this house, me from Lancs, OH from Yorks

Think the brunch and supper thing depends on when and where you grew up.
I grew up in London in the 60s/ 70s, so always Breakfast, dinner then tea. Dont think i'd even heard of brunch until maybe 10 years ago, and 'supper' was a posh word, so my family never use either unless they're said with a posh accent as a bit of a piss take, sorry..

Quite easy to distinguish between tea (drink) and tea (meal). It’s “fancy A tea?” (Drink) fancy YOUR tea? Or fancy tea? (Meal) completely straightforward

Breakfast
Elevenses
Lunch
Afternoon tea
Evening meal / dinner
Supper
Midnight snack

And repeat