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Ticktockk · 2024-12-23T21:36:35+00:00

Staying with family for Christmas and oh my, am I hungry?! I tend to eat with the kids at home and this is now my bedtime 😅 What madness are you currently experiencing over Christmas?

GettingStuffed · 25/12/2024 15:12

We normally eat at 8, 9 at the weekend. I often have a snack about 5

asrl78 · 25/12/2024 15:18

HermoinePotter · 24/12/2024 07:46

You asked are you a tween? What adult goes to bed at 8pm ffs and I answered you. How short sighted not to realise that a lot of adults for many reasons go to bed early, my situation isn't unusual at all. I think it’s a bit of a reach to assume what time 99% of people on MN go to bed at or eat at, how very odd.

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If we are talking about the adult population distribution in the UK, I would strongly suspect that regularly going to bed at 8 pm would be at the extreme end of the distribution, that would basically make any evening social events impossible. I would expect people on shift work who have to get up super-early go the bed that early. The fact that my home town is rammed at 8 pm is consistent with my theory. It is not short sighted to point out something that is very likely to be true.

HermoinePotter · 25/12/2024 15:49

asrl78 · 25/12/2024 15:18

If we are talking about the adult population distribution in the UK, I would strongly suspect that regularly going to bed at 8 pm would be at the extreme end of the distribution, that would basically make any evening social events impossible. I would expect people on shift work who have to get up super-early go the bed that early. The fact that my home town is rammed at 8 pm is consistent with my theory. It is not short sighted to point out something that is very likely to be true.

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Merry Christmas 😂

minipie · 25/12/2024 15:49

Laurmolonlabe · 25/12/2024 07:24

At 6.30 I would ask when dinner is- they would probably say something like 8.00, I would then say I experience serious indigestion if I eat after 7.00 and ask for a bacon sandwich or cheese on toast because I won't be able to join you.
Either A/ they will speed things up or B/ you will get your snack or C/ they admit their oven is malfunctioning and is far too cool (this happened to me one year) and make snacks (on the cooker top) for everyone.

And D) you won’t get invited again.
8pm is a perfectly normal time for dinner.
10pm on the other hand…

TooManyChristmasCards · 25/12/2024 16:19

SabreIsMyFave · 24/12/2024 15:22

This. ^

This 'what are you, a tween, going to bed that early?' sort of pathetic, sarcy comment is just one of many on this thread that is littered with shitty jibes. Like 'I am laughing at you right now saying you have dinner at 6.30pm, whilst eating my dinner at nearly midnight.' And 'who the fuck eats dinner at 6pm, I don't even get home til 7.30pm.'

Well MANY fucking people have dinner at 6pm to 6.30pm, (some even earlier.) Clearly the people who eat dinner at 6-6.30pm don't have big important jobs with big commutes, like all you special and clever 'I eat dinner at 10pm to midnight' type people. 🙄

Seriously you're not some kind of superior being because you don't dine til 8-9pm! (Or 10pm!) And I still maintain 6-6.30pm is a normal time to have dinner, because me and DH and many people I know have it at that time. My adult DC have theirs around 7.30pm, so yeah a bit later, but not fucking 10pm! Basically, there is no such thing as a normal time, but 6pm to 7pm is a fairly typical time for many to have dinner.

Fine, claim you have dinner at 9 or 10pm if you want to, and that everyone you know does, but the sneering and snide comments, and superior attitude from some of the supposed 'late dinner' eaters is rather ugly. The earlier dinner eaters aren't looking down their nose at you and laughing and mocking, so get off your high horse!!!

It's also a load of bollocks that 'Europeans all have dinner at 8pm (or later.') Know every single person who lives in Europe do you?! No, I thought not!

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why do you have a chip on your shoulder like that?

You are the only one making it about "big important jobs", most people stuck with big commutes only have .. jobs and can't afford to live closer to their work place! They don't feel important, they feel poor 😂

I still maintain 6-6.30pm is a normal time to have dinner, because me and DH and many people I know have it at that time.
you maybe, I don't know anyone who does. Shops are still open or are just closing, the school car park is still full of cars, most teachers are still there, the GP surgery is still open. The most common work pattern is 9 to 6.

Of course people work shifts and do various things, but it's ridiculous to make it that it's normal to be home and have diner so early. Even my kids are not home from clubs!

It's also a load of bollocks that 'Europeans all have dinner at 8pm (or later.') Know every single person who lives in Europe do you?!
no... but France for example tend to have early diners or kids diner at 7pm and adult diners more at 8 or 9. Don't even get started on Spain.

Why do you feel so insulted to realise you have an unusually early diner? Practically most people couldn't have a 6 pm diner even if they wanted to.

VanillaVein · 25/12/2024 17:24

Some of these comments are giving competitive late dining 🙃

TooManyChristmasCards · 25/12/2024 17:26

VanillaVein · 25/12/2024 17:24

Some of these comments are giving competitive late dining 🙃

I never understand why people are so smug about having diner middle of the afternoon. Is it because they don't work, so have all the freedom in the world?
Is it some kind of achievement to have diner 3 or 4 hours after lunch? What is that about?

mrpinkwhistlescat · 25/12/2024 18:47

I think that some people are just not all that interested in food.
( I’m always thinking about the next meal).

CharismaticMegafauna · 25/12/2024 20:16

9:45 is so late! I like to go to bed about 10pm and I would be too full to sleep if I ate that late.

I grew up with eating quite early. I often used to put things in the oven so that we could have dinner at 6pm despite my mum not getting back until 5:45 - she wasn’t a fan of eating late (late being about 7:30 or so!)

NewName24 · 25/12/2024 23:04

TooManyChristmasCards · 25/12/2024 17:26

I never understand why people are so smug about having diner middle of the afternoon. Is it because they don't work, so have all the freedom in the world?
Is it some kind of achievement to have diner 3 or 4 hours after lunch? What is that about?

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You are making yourself look a bit daft now.

You eat your meals when you like, and let everyone else eat when they are hungry.

Laurmolonlabe · 25/12/2024 23:47

10pm may be normal in Spain, but we are not in Spain- also normal is going home for lunch and having a 2-3 hour siesta- eating late is obviously less of an issue then. It's not relevant to being served Christmas dinner after 9.30pm in England.

Laurmolonlabe · 26/12/2024 08:16

Not being invited again would be fine by me, everyone's normal is different- there are no hard and fast rules.
You have to decide what is acceptable to you, and stick with it. 8pm is fine for you- great, that doesn't mean it's fine for everyone.

TooManyChristmasCards · 26/12/2024 09:00

NewName24 · 25/12/2024 23:04

You are making yourself look a bit daft now.

You eat your meals when you like, and let everyone else eat when they are hungry.

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you are missing the point

Most people don't even have meals when they want, it's more of when they CAN. And they are not that bothered about it, because it's only food.

The sense of superiority about people having their diner at 5pm is still very strange. Is it something they royals do, so these people think it makes them superior too? Again, what is it all about?

And yes, it's weird to be hungry for diner 3 or 4 hours after lunch!

Laurmolonlabe · 26/12/2024 12:13

A sense of superiority about anything is strange- I always wonder why people who get up really early feel superior- it isn't when you get up it's how many hours you that are productive that is important.
People are strange, leave it at that- wanting to eat early isn't particularly strange.
Many, many people are bothered about food, otherwise there wouldn't be so many cookery/food programmes on the TV, or so many cookery books published.

Makingchocolatecake · 26/12/2024 23:07

No cranberry sauce because I opened the jar and it was mouldy! Out of date 2026, never used but can't remember if the seal was popped.