Breakfast, dinner and tea

[fisil]

That's what I eat, every day. Someone on another thread was saying you only have dinner in the middle of the day if it's your main meal. I don't, tea's my main meal.

So what do most people have?

[Joolstoo]

let's face it - its a fashion thing - sad tho that is. It's like saying 'drizzle over the olive oil' where you would have said 'pour' before. You could call it a 'snob thing

[nutcracker]

breakfast dinner and tea here

[ernest]

according to dh's book 'The English' breakfast, dinner, tea is posher than breakfast lunch & dinner.

supper is super posh.

Me very smug as he has always scoffed at me for calling it dinner not lunch. Now our poor kids are very confused as to what we eat when.

also pudding is much posher than dessert.

i must be dead posh, me

[Hulababy]

When I was growing up it was always breakfast, dinner, tea and then supper. More often now though I tend to say breakfast, lunch and dinner.

And our evening meal (whether called dinner or tea) is nearly always the main meal of the day.

[moondog]

Potty, I'm actually heaving at your school dinner description...

[Twiglett]

breakfast, lunch and dinner

(I think the word 'supper' is quite posh)

[Grommit]

Breakfast, lunch, tea for the kids (as they eat around 5pm) and dinner for us as we eat later (8pm). Never understood why people call their evening meal supper - as a kid this was always a snack before bed.

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

trough 1, trough 2 and trough 3 in our house.

[Gobbledigook]

Only posh people say 'supper' don't they?!

[lowcalCOD]

lunch
tea for kids supper for us

[oooggs]

Breakfast, lunch & tea. But I ask DH what he wants for dinner at 5pm and he had dinner at lunchtime.

It still confuses me.

[WideWebWitch]

breakfast, lunch, supper although the children might have tea sometimes, dinner.

[Potty1]

I love prunes......

School dinners - cheese pie, chips and beans followed by chocolate crunch and mint custard. Yum, yum.

And it's breakfast dinner and tea here.

[Joolstoo]

Cornflake Tart - you can't beat it - yum!

[Lonelymum]

School puddings were nice though weren't they? (prunes excepted) I loved chocolate crackles and those slices with coconut in. Even jam roly poly..... Custard was yuck though, lumpy and made with water I think.

[moondog]

JT..like the idea of you in your getup. Why didn't we have dinnerladies like that?!

[moondog]

Spam is a crime against humanity.
My sister lives in France. You should see the meals her kids have at school! I slaver at the refctory door reading the menus whenever I am there. Delightful little salads to start with. Perfectly executed cuts of meat with elegant vegetables to follow and exquisite puddings.
They EVEN have foie gras at Christmas time!

[Joolstoo]

I used to HATE liver until I became a dinner lady and had it sliced thinly and braised - delicious!

[Lonelymum]

I remember one DL who would put the fear of God into all of us. At the annual Christmas party she would yell at us that we had to eat the sandwiches befor we had any cake or biscuits. COW!

[Joolstoo]

nah - the kids loved me - always gave em the skin of the custard (bleuurgghhh!) they called me Supergran - picture it - I had a red scooter - wore a green mac and an orange helmet - I used to zoom everywhere (don't know where the gran bit came from tho!)

[Ameriscot2005]

We have dinner at around 6.30pm - supper if it involves guests and is invariably closer to 8pm.

My girls have skool dinners; my boys have school lunches at the normal time, and tea at 4pm. I have lunch (leftovers or something snacky), and DH has lunch at work.

Our evening meal is the main one for us.

[Moomina]

I have just one word to say about school dinners and that word is...liver.

[Gobbledigook]

It was great having Mum at school - great big pieces of chocolate sponge and custard and tiny portions of spam fritters

[lou33]

my mum was a school dinner lady as well at one point.

[moondog]

I think dinnerladies are a mutant subculture. The ones I remember were all thoroughly unpleasant. Bullies actually.
(present company excepted JT)