Supper?

Hugo Rune · Jul 22, 2017

Thunder Bolt said:
Breakfast 6-8
Lunch 12-2
Afternoon tea 3.30-4.30
Dinner after 6pm
Supper after 9pm

I run a very similar schedule but have added the trendy 'Brunch' and 'Midnight Feast'. Essentially, whenever I need to eat, I can give the meal a title.

Breakfast 6-10
Brunch 10-12
Lunch 12-3
Afternoon tea 3-5
Dinner 5-7
Supper 7-11
Midnight Feast/Munchies 12 - 3

Boys 9d · Jul 22, 2017

In my childhood in the late 40s and early 50s the sequence was as follows:
Breakfast (cereal) soon after getting out of bed.
Lunch mid morning (tea and a biscuit) with milk substituted for tea on school days.
Dinner about 1pm (meat and veg)
Tea when my father returned from work (tea, bread and butter, cake)
Supper just before bed time (cocoa and a biscuit).

After I went to work it gradually became Breakfast, Elevensies, Lunch, Dinner (occasionally Supper).

whitelion · Jul 22, 2017

It's the last meal before bed.

Usually a bowl of cereal, cheese or Jam on toast, bowl of chips, couple of pieces of fruit, depending on how hungry I am or what I ate for the evening meal between 6-7pm.

Harry Wilson's tackle · Jul 22, 2017

When growing up:

Breakfast, dinner, tea, bedtime. We didn't have the money for snacks.

As an adult:

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, wine, bed.

Supper was dinner for posh people, and still is as far as I'm aware.

Nobody should eat more that 3 meals a day, especially if two are cooked, unless you are either a fat *******, or Lord Snooty, or both.

If someone invites me round for supper I expect proper cooked food at eight, and not slivers of smoked salmon on fougasse, let down by an under-chilled prosecco. FFS.

:lolol:

Coalburner · Jul 22, 2017

Breakfast, dinner, tea, supper, the last one being (usually) bread and cheese at about 9 p.m. Mind you, this was working class rural Wiltshire in the 40s &50s

Norman Potting · Jul 22, 2017

Goodness, you lot will be telling me use knives and forks next!

cloud · Jul 22, 2017

If you're upper class, the evening meal is called supper, unless it's a formal meal, in which case it is dinner. Hence having dinner parties.

Icy Gull · Jul 22, 2017

Anyone on here been to a dinner party at lunchtime?

KZNSeagull · Jul 22, 2017

What time is tiffin?

Tricky Dicky · Jul 22, 2017

Dinner is the main evening meal, supper is anything taken later in the evening. Tea is a drink.

Bodian · Jul 22, 2017

Tricky Dicky said:
Dinner is the main evening meal, supper is anything taken later in the evening. Tea is a drink.

Tea up here is the main evening meal. Tea, the drink, is 'a brew'. So, breakfast, brew, lunch, brew, tea, beer.

But the lads who do our estate work have a much more complicated and flexible system, involving 'bait' - which is basically a large packed lunch, but eaten during the working day.

Breakfast, morning bait (around 10am - generally one of their sandwiches), bait (lunch), any bait left over (at about 3pm), then home for tea. Plus beer.

Guinness Boy · Jul 22, 2017

dazzer6666 said:
'Supper' is whatever is in the fridge when I get home very late and a bit drunk.

Yes, this!

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Norman Potting · Jul 22, 2017

Bodian said:
Tea up here is the main evening meal. Tea, the drink, is 'a brew'. So, breakfast, brew, lunch, brew, tea, beer.

".................But the lads who do our estate work ...............

Should I be tugging my forelock whilst typing this

pearl · Jul 22, 2017

this thread is so confusing. A male friend has said it's whatever's in the oven unless it's been given to the dog .... hope that helps?

Brok · Jul 22, 2017

Breakfast.
Work.
Dinner.
Beer.

dazzer6666 · Jul 22, 2017

Brok said:
Breakfast.
Work.
Dinner.
Beer.

Postman ?

GreersElbow · Jul 22, 2017

UTT said:
Lunch does'nt exist up here.

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Pudding
Afters

You must also be a barbarian.

Coalburner · Jul 22, 2017

School dinners, dinner ladies - what you ate at midday, and paid for with dinner money.

Jack Straw · Jul 22, 2017

Chicken Run said:
Can anyone explain what time one might have this, I ask as I'm hearing it more and more, "Kier and Cressida are popping round this evening for supper". Is it a posh word for dinner, a hipster name for an evening meal or and extra meal taken after dinner at say 10pm?

Do Fire Extinguishers ring a bell by any chance?

Ludensian Gull · Jul 22, 2017

Breakfast , dinner , tea , supper

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