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#1: lunch Author: Tiffany, Location: Is this a duck I see behind me?

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:37 pm
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A random thought: EBD, and other writers of the period, use "lunch" to mean "a light snack", something like elevenses. Why? When did lunch start meaning the proper meal in the middle of the day?

#2: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:15 pm
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I usually call the midday meal "dinner" rather than "lunch", but I think that's a Northern thing or a Lancashire thing or something!

Not quite sure when the midday meal started becoming "lunch". Meals seem to've changed after around the 1950s - no-one now ever talks about "high tea" and not a lot of people talk about "supper". Maybe it's to do with work patterns?

Sorry, that doesn't help at all Embarassed

#3: Author: Rosie, Location: Land of Three-Quarters Sky

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:06 pm
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I think it is one of those horriby complicated class (and region, though I think they're sort of connected) things... If 'luncheon' was used as the mid-day meal, is 'lunch' a snack-type meal?

#4: Author: Karry, Location: Stoke on Trent

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:21 pm
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One of the dialectic things i came across when I moved to Staffordshire was the use of children taking lunch to school - to have at morning break, fruit, crisps etc.

#5: Author: JayB, Location: SE England

Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:37 pm
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When I was a child, the midday meal was lunch if it was a light meal - sandwiches, maybe - and dinner if it was a cooked meal, usually two courses. We took 'lunch' to eat at morning break, then had school dinner, and tea when we got home. Sunday was midday dinner then tea. However, in the holidays we'd probably have lunch midday and dinner in the evening.

#6: Author: Caroline, Location: Manchester

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:27 pm
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Lunch is just an abbreviation of Luncheon.

I've read about this before. IIRC, basically, dinner is the hot / main meal of the day and lunch is a cold / snack meal.

For working class people dinner always came in the middle of the day. For the upper classes, who didn't work as such, dinner started off in the middle of the day but then got later and later, and eventually it became fashionable to eat dinner in the evening. Luncheon was a snack meal to fill in the gap between breakfast and dinner.

According to Wikipedia:

Quote:

During the eighteenth century what was originally called "dinner" was moved by stages later in the day and came in the course of the nineteenth century to be eaten at night, replacing the light meal called supper, which was delayed by the upper class to midnight.

Lunch moved into working class usage also when people began to work too far from home to go home for a hot meal at noon and had to take something portal to eat with them... So, lunch is a relatively recent creation, and an even more recent addition to usage amongst the general populace.

More than you ever wanted to know Wink

#7: Author: Kate, Location: Ireland

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:34 pm
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To our family, lunch was a light meal and dinner the main meal, no matter when we had them. If we ever went out for a meal, my dad would always say "let this be the dinner now!" - meaning that we should make it our main meal so we wouldn't have to cook again. It's now a standing joke that someone has to say that whenever we eat out. Smile

#8: Author: Róisín, Location: Gaillimh

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:21 pm
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Caroline wrote:

replacing the light meal called supper, which was delayed by the upper class to midnight.

They stayed up til midnight to have a supper?! Shocked

#9: Author: Fatima, Location: Sunny Qatar

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:22 pm
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The Egyptians are like that! They'll start getting supper at around that time.

#10: Author: white_hart, Location: Oxford

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:26 pm
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Róisín wrote:

They stayed up til midnight to have a supper?! Shocked

I've noticed in 19th-century novels that supper is often served at the end of balls/parties - there's one in Barchester Towers where the guests arrive at ten and supper is served from midnight until one, and then the party is finished by half-past one. Which seems quite mad by modern standards!

#11: Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:37 pm
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We often don't have our main meal till 9.30/10 Embarassed

(Andy isn't in from work till around 7 most nights and he does the cooking as I can't usually manage it). And the kids are often out at things by the time he gets back and then they don't get back till after 9.

If we all get our own meals it can easily be midnight before I eat Embarassed

#12: Author: Mel, Location: UP NORTH

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:39 pm
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Dinner is definitely a moveable feast. In Jane Austen's day dinner, the main meal and social event of the day, was at about five - that is in the country. In decadent London it was later.

#13: Author: Caroline, Location: Manchester

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:50 pm
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Róisín wrote:

Caroline wrote:

replacing the light meal called supper, which was delayed by the upper class to midnight.

They stayed up til midnight to have a supper?! Shocked

Yep - after a ball or the theatre.

And then they didn't get up till 10am, when they breakfasted on cold steak and ale (or chocolate and pastries for the ladies), had a cold collation for lunch at 2pm, paid visits or when driving / riding in the afternoon, and had a huge multi-course dinner at 8pm, followed by a ball, the theatre or a card party...

Or at least, that's what they do in the world of Georgette Heyer Wink

#14: Author: Róisín, Location: Gaillimh

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:09 pm
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Sounds like a lifestyle I could get used to Cool

#15: Author: Kate, Location: Ireland

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:08 pm
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Me too... I am assuming the average weight/size was higher then?

#16: Author: Dreaming Marianne, Location: Second star to the right

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:11 pm
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Oh don't...this is such a generator of confusion in my house!.

Dinner means lunh to my husband. Tea means supper. When I talk about dinner I mean what you eat in the evening, tea is a snacky meal at four pm. Thoroughly confusing..

#17: Author: Mrs Redboots, Location: London, UK

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:06 pm
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We have that confusion, compounded by the fact that my father-in-law would come in during the day (he was a farmer) for "Eleven-o'clock tea" and "Three-o'clock tea" as well as his "Evening tea". "Supper", for him, was a hot drink and a biscuit before you went to bed. Being from Northern Ireland, his family were - and still are - incapable of having something to eat without also having something to drink, and vice versa!

My parents' old daily help, who came from Rutland (the only person I've ever met, so far, from that county), always referred to her elevenses as "Lunch". She would then go home for dinner and tea, I suspect.

I grew up with breakfast, lunch and supper - "dinner" was always slightly grander, and we tended to have our main meal at lunch as my father (also a farmer) could be in for it and then my mother didn't have to cook in the evening.

I still tend to call it supper, even though it's our main meal of the day! All very confusing....

#18: Author: Rosie, Location: Land of Three-Quarters Sky

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:30 pm
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We were having this discussion, in French, in Breton class this afternoon. Well, I was doodling and hoping he wouldn't ask me, as the only English person in the class, to give my opinion, but the topic definitely came up!

#19: Author: JustJen, Location: at a baseball game

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:59 pm
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heheh let's stir the pot a bit

Snack time: often eaten ten minutes after breakfast Smile

lunch or dinner depending where you were raised. Hot or cold meal depending on the time of the year.

tea time: right after school when the kiddes serach through the fridge and declare there's nothing to eat! My kids do not drink tea.

Dinner or Supper depending where you were raised.

Of course there's also La pause cafe (coffee break) and several other french terms as well.

#20: Author: Róisín, Location: Gaillimh

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:20 pm
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OK here's one more opinion to the pot:

I have breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea then dinner. Sometimes tea again before bed. And by tea I mean bread and butter and *things*.

Supper to me is if you have had your dinner at lunch (ie eaten a big hot meal) and you can't really manage much in the evening, so you have soup or something.

Lunch is only ever midday. Supper is only ever evening. Tea is only ever four o'clock. Dinner however, is a bit more magical.

#21: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:35 pm
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I have:

Breakfast

A mug of tea at eleven o'clock

Lunch: always a sandwich or a bowl of oatmeal

Mug of tea at about 4:30

Then comes the problem.

If it's a salad meal with cold meat, served with a slice of bread and butter, followed by a biscuit or perhaps a small piece of cake, it's what I've always known as high tea.

If it's a cooked meal, say cooked meat and vegetables, then it's dinner.

Supper doesn't exist, unless I'm having a fit of the shakes, then it's a small carton of fruit juice to bring up my BS.

Clearly, we now eat too much and don't do enough hard labour round the house, because when we read about suppers/lunches in early 20th C literature, they are enormous. In 'the Song of The Lark', Thea Kronborg's father has a supper (known as a lunch) of half a fruit pie and a large glass of milk. And I suppose we don't automatically walk everywhere as they had to do.

#22: Author: Ruth B, Location: Oxford, UK

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:48 pm
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When I was growing up, Dinner was whichever was the hot meal. If we had a cold meal in the evening it was Tea but a hot meal was dinner. If we had a hot meal in the middle of the day, that was also known as dinner. My mother always used to come out with strange phrases such as "we'll have tea at teatime", which sounds tautologous, but we knew meant sandwiches, cake etc.

#23: Author: Cath V-P, Location: Newcastle NSW

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:23 am
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When James started school in Queensland, morning tea was referred to as 'little lunch'. Ten years later and in NSW, it was always simply 'morning tea'.

I'm from Liverpool. When I was growing up, we had dinner and tea, regardless of what was eaten, and lunch referred only to the sandwiches etc taken to school or work. By the time I'd finished my first year at university, I was eating lunch and dinner - as my mother pointed out to me. I hadn't realised that I had made this change.

#24: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:33 am
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We were a breakfast, lunch and supper family, though in later years the word "dinner" instead of "supper" crept into normal vocabulary.

I had the idea that lunch came from luncheon, which came from nuncheon, where the nun was related to noon. However, lunch in the sense of not-a-cooked-meal is used in the Betsy-Tacy books, set pre WWI. Betsy's father was famous for the sandwiches he prepared for 'Sunday night lunches."

#25: Author: jennifer, Location: Taiwan

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:00 am
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What I grew up with was breakfast was the first meal of the day, eaten in the morning. Typical items included cold cereal, toast with jam or peanut butter, fruit, muffins, pastries juice, milk and coffee. A hot breakfast (eggs, sausages, bacon, waffles, pancakes etc) was typically for special occasions or eating out.

Lunch was the midday meal, usually eaten between noon and one. It was the smaller of the two main meals, and typically included things like sandwiches, soup, salad, cheese, or leftovers from the previous evening.

The main meal was called supper, but dinner could be used as well. This was the main meal and was almost always cooked and hot.

Brunch could be held any time from mid morning to early afternoon, and included items from both breakfast and lunch.

In our family it was coffee with breakfast, tea at lunch, and coffee in the evening after dinner.

Between meals or late in the evening it was a snack at most - cookies, fruit, a handful of sliced vegetables, or dessert in the evening.

Now I usually eat out at lunch, which can be a lunch box (rice, steamed veggies and some sort of meat dish - the Taiwanese equivalent of a bento box), or sushi, or rice or noodles with toppings, or noodle soup, or one of the buffet places.

#26: Author: Lexi, Location: Liverpool

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:46 am
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In my house it's breakfast, lunch and tea. Although confusingly if you're shouting other people to come and eat in the evening, it's always "Your dinner's going cold!"

I've never called the midday meal dinner even when it's the biggest meal of the day.

#27: Author: arky72, Location: Cheshire

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:20 am
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We always had breakfast, dinner and tea at home, but when I went to uni loads of people called their midday meal lunch and their evening meal dinner.

So now I don't have any set name for either the midday meal or the evening meal.

We all take a packed lunch to work / school, and have our hot meal in the evening. Except on a Sunday when we often have the hot meal in the middle of the day and it is usually called a Sunday Dinner.

Hmmm! I suppose I do usually call a hot meal in the evening dinner, but tea if it is a sandwiches and cake sort of meal.

How complicated!

#28: Author: Maeve, Location: Romania

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:40 am
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At least there seems to be some kind of general agreement about breakfast. Laughing

#29: Author: Simone, Location: Newton le Willows

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:44 am
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It certainly seems to be a regional thing. Coming from the North West I had breakfast, dinner and tea regardless of what was eaten.

Again it was only when I left home that lunch was what was eaten mid-day

#30: Author: little_sarah, Location: Liverpool this term, London next academic year, Manchester when I want some home comforts!

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:32 pm
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I'm another one from the North West, and another vote for breakfast, dinner and tea. Again, it was only when I moved away from home from university and started living with southerners that I go confused!
Conversations with my London born and bred SLOC can get incredibly confusing when he offers to take me out for a meal-it normally takes me a while to decode what time of day he's referring to Very Happy

#31: Author: Lottie, Location: Humphrey's Corner

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:24 pm
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When I was young we had breakfast (cereal, bacon and fried bread, followed by bread and butter and marmalade), lunch (usually meat, potatoes and vegetable, followed by pudding) and tea (bread and butter and jam, followed by biscuits or, sometimes, cake). When we got older, and were subject to the vagaries of school lunches, we had a cooked meal in the evening on school days, and that was called supper. Since living in Cumbria I have come to refer to the cooked meal in the evening as tea. Here, if you assemble sandwiches, etc. to take out with you and eat when you get your dinner break, it is known as putting your bait up, and you may take it in a bait box. Rolling Eyes

My daughter wasn't very impressed when I offered her bait for a train journey south. Very Happy

I don't think the term is used anywhere other than just around our small town, though.

#32: Author: Squirrel, Location: St-Andrews or Dunfermline

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:53 pm
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Breakfast, lunch, tea, and a light supper just before bed here. Or at least, it was when I was growing up.

At Uni it's the same, but supper seems to have got lost somewhere, and I have numerous snacks at different times of day as well - depending on what I have, when I have classes, and when I remember! Rolling Eyes

#33: Author: Fatima, Location: Sunny Qatar

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:15 pm
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Now I'm from the south west and we always had breakfast, dinner and tea, too, and my parents would have supper on a Saturday night (a proper cooked meal that we always envied them!). Sometimes my mum would say 'Today we'll have dinner at tea time', which meant that we'd have our cooked meal at about five instead of around noon. I'm not sure what she called whatever we ate around noon in place of the dinner, though!

#34: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:07 pm
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Lottie wrote:

Here, if you assemble sandwiches, etc. to take out with you and eat when you get your dinner break, it is known as putting your bait up, and you may take it in a bait box. Rolling Eyes

My daughter wasn't very impressed when I offered her bait for a train journey south. Very Happy

I don't think the term is used anywhere other than just around our small town, though.

I don't use the term "bait" - or "snap" which means the same thing - but I'd know exactly whay you meant if you said it Very Happy

! It's not really used here (North Manchester), but I think it's used a bit further north - round Blackburn/Burnley/Accrington way Very Happy

#35: Author: Mrs Redboots, Location: London, UK

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:59 pm
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And, of course, they are "dinner ladies" not "lunch ladies", so even if you have lunch at school, it's dinner. If you see what I mean....

#36: Author: Xanthe, Location: London

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:18 pm
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Mrs Redboots wrote:

And, of course, they are "dinner ladies" not "lunch ladies", so even if you have lunch at school, it's dinner. If you see what I mean....

But you're meant to call them "lunchtime supervisors" these days...

#37: Author: Aquabird, Location: North Lanarkshire, Scotland

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:13 pm
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At our house it's always been breakfast, lunch and dinner/tea. I don't think I could handle having supper as well, as we usually have dinner/tea around six o'clock.

Random point: The dinner ladies are quite popular at our school. They've had a few mentions in this year's Valentine's book. Wink

And we have always called them dinner ladies.

#38: Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:38 pm
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Here in the North East we have breakfast, dinner and tea. At work we sometimes have lunch, sometimes dinner - it depends on who is speaking!

Yes, at school they were dinner ladies, although at my school they were always called dinner nannies - or just plain nanny. It wasn't a posh school or anything; just your common-or-garden primary school, so why we used nanny, I don't know. Maybe it was an effect of all the chemicals we were breathing in from ICI! I still maintain that's why people on Teesside are all a bit mad Laughing

#39: Author: Squirrel, Location: St-Andrews or Dunfermline

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:59 pm
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When I say 'supper' I mean something like 1 biscuit, or about 5 grapes, nothing too big! I guess it was so we had had something to eat just before bed. If we didn't there was always the complaint "but I didn't have any supper!" if we were requested to go to bed!

#40: Author: alicat, Location: Wiltshire

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:43 pm
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when I was little not having supper was a measure of being grown-up, because it meant we had stayed up to eat grown-up dinner with the adults rather than having children's tea at about 5. if you ate your tea at 5 you were judged to need a snack like a bit of toast or fruit and a milky drink before bed at about 7/7.30, whereas if you'd eaten adult dinner then you went without...actually I am now feeling hard-done-by.....
and I think snap or bait in a north west thing, I too know exactly what it means.....
and has anyone else been confused by moving round the country and not knowing what to ask for in sandwich shops? if you say buttie in wiltshire they think you're bonkers. and a roll is something quite different to what I always thought it was, and so is a muffin (those with rude minds (like mine) stop giggling please)
as for eating later in earlier times, wasn't it that the evening meal got later first in posher houses cos they could afford more candles etc and then oil/gas/electric light to eat it by? before indoor lighting didn't they eat breakfast, the mid-day meal and the main meal much earlier than we would think of doing because otherwise there was no light to cook or eat it by? so the supper after dances was always cold stuff

#41: Author: Hannah-Lou, Location: Glasgow

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:02 pm
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I agree with Squirrel - breakfast, lunch and tea, and anything in the late evening is supper. We didn't usually have supper, except when there were friends staying. I always thought it was because the friends had supper as a general thing at home, and we gave them it because they would expect it, but it turns out that my friend thought the same thing about my family, and none of us were regular supper eaters Laughing

! I use 'dinner' now sometimes, but only for the evening meal and only since I stayed in halls when I went to uni. (I never used the word 'duvet' until I stayed in halls either!)

#42: Author: Squirrel, Location: St-Andrews or Dunfermline

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:50 pm
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I was thinking earlier - though I talk of tea, I have friends who talk of dinner. This isn't helped by the dinner hall, nor the fact that if I want a packed tea, I normally ask for a packed dinner (I think) as opposed to a packed lunch!

#43: Author: dorian, Location: Dublin

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:25 pm
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When I was growing up (in Dublin, in the 1970s and 1980s), we had breakfast in the morning. Lunch in the middle of the day - a light meal of bread-and-butter with cheese or preserves or some kind or pate, or maybe something like scrambled eggs on toast. Dinner in the evening - main meal, cooked. And supper just before bed - a snack of cream crackers and cheese, accompanied by a mug of cocoa.

The only exception was on special occasions like Christmas or (sometimes) visitors, when we'd have "dinner at lunchtime", followed by tea (a lunch-like meal) in the evening.

I still follow this pattern, as do my parents, though "dinner at lunchtime" is now rarer; even at Christmas dinner is now usually in the evening.

#44: Author: skye,

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:50 pm
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Kate wrote:

Me too... I am assuming the average weight/size was higher then?

Quite the opposite!

Apparently even though most of us eat fewer calories than they did in those days we are bigger and fatter than them. Probably because of the exercise they got dancing and walking rather than sitting in front of the tv or in a car.

#45: Author: Kate, Location: Ireland

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:05 pm
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Or in front of the computer in my case. Smile

#46: Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:52 am
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Also they didn't have central heating as standard like we do, so the rooms would probably have been much colder and you tend to eat more when it's cold

#47: Author: Sarah_L, Location: Leeds

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:36 pm
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I'm from the north east, and we have breakfast, lunch and tea/dinner. I probably use tea and dinner interchangeably. I remember once at school I mentioned going home for 'lunch' and got laughed at for being posh. Apparently I should have said dinner. We have supper too, which is something like toast/cereal/cheese and biscuits an hour or so before bed.

What do people call pudding? I generally say 'afters', or else dessert.

#48: Author: dorian, Location: Dublin

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:55 pm
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Sarah_L wrote:

What do people call pudding? I generally say 'afters', or else dessert.

It was "pudding" at home when I was growing up, but "dessert" if we were in a restaurant.

#49: Author: Alison H, Location: Manchester

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:17 pm
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I say "afters" Very Happy

#50: Author: Squirrel, Location: St-Andrews or Dunfermline

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:21 pm
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I'd say pudding generally.

#51: Author: Fatima, Location: Sunny Qatar

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:52 am
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Pudding. I wonder if these names are regional or class based things. I wonder what the Queen calls her meals!

#52: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:27 am
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Something sweet at the end of a meal is dessert.

I'm having a very hard time defining pudding, but puddings are a small subset of potential desserts. Puddings eaten for dessert are sweet, with a smooth, creamy consistency like mousse or boiled custard, though occasionally adulturated with lumpy things such as tapioca or rice or pistachios. I can't say much about their contents because I am the sort of cook who mostly buys them as boxes of powder that you mix with milk, boil for X amount of time, pour into cups and refrigerate. There are also inferior instant varieties, or even less attractive ones that come ready to eat. The only one I've never made from a box is pumpkin pudding, which is basically pumpkin pie with no crust.

#53: Author: JayB, Location: SE England

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 10:29 am
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I rather think of sweet fluffy things as dessert. Puddings to me are much heavier dishes, baked or steamed and served with custard - Christmas pud, bread pudding or bread and butter pudding, jam roly poly, spotted dick, etc.

I think a lot of these terms are generational as well as regional. My Dad would never have used the term 'dessert'. He'd have said 'What's for afters.' And would have expected a proper pudding, not mousse or anything of that kind.

Some (older) people refer to 'the sweet,' meaning the sweet course.

#54: Author: Eilidh, Location: North Lanarkshire

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:42 pm
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Coming late to this - I eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner/tea for the three main meals of the day.

My SLOC always calls it dinner - to him tea is just the stuff that comes in the cup, and when I finish cooking and say "Come and get your tea" he always looks confused until we get on the same wavelength.

I have never used dinne to refer to the meal in the middle of the day - it is lunch, as far as I'm concerned, but that caused much confusion when I was living in Macclesfield and invited people home for dinner, to be served at 7ish. Rolling Eyes

#55: Author: Squirrel, Location: St-Andrews or Dunfermline

Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:08 pm
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Looking a bit more closly at it, I can see I'm beginning to use the term 'dinner' as interchangeably with tea. That possibly is from the possible confusion with the hot drink.

And it is definitely 'what's for pudding?' more than anything else. Though I have heard people using a 'sweet'. Actually, the latter would fit in quite well with our Valentines Day 'pudding' - which was a packet of lovehearts. I'm eating them slowly, because they are nice energy boosters, when I want one!

#56: Author: Rebecca, Location: Oxford

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:03 am
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Pudding for me on the whole, though possibly dessert if it was in a restaurant. As for the others, breakfast, lunch and tea. However, growing up, we had the main meal in the evenings except at the weekend when we'd have it in the middle of the day and although I think I'd still call it lunch, we definitely yelled 'Dinner time!' to get everyone to come to the table. Supper is another thing altogether. At my parents, it's milk/hot chocolate and a biscuit but at my grandparents, it was a bigger thing with a mix of sandwiches, fruit and biscuits or cake.

#57: Author: Woofter, Location: Location? What's a location?

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:53 am
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We have breakfast lunch and tea here. Although I know a lot of people that call tea dinner. We call it dinner if we have people round/go to someone elses house. Otherwise we just have tea! Ah pudding, call it dessert or pudding doesn't make much difference to me although I never use afters. My wee cousins used to eat pudding and dessert when they were little lol (pudding was fruit/yoghurt etc and dessert was something sweet biscuit/cake/ice cream etc)

#58: Author: Mrs Redboots, Location: London, UK

Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:44 pm
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My family always call it "pudding", even if it's fruit salad.

"Dessert" is fruit, nuts and sweets, usually eaten after Christmas dinner. At least, it is in our family, except now that we're all old and can't eat so much, we don't normally have it any more - I miss some of the traditional foods, but my waistline doesn't!

I occasionally use "sweet course", ("sweet" can cause confusion), but never "afters", other than ironically.

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