Non muslim related thread (slightly random)

I'll let you know tomorrow if it lives up to expectation heehee

 

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner/Tea (interchangeable)

So that makes me a proper nob end in many people's eyes.

Sunday Dinner - don't really have one as such. I don't cook a joint as there's only two of us and my wife's a vegetarian. And I can't be arsed with Yorkshires just for two of us. But I have a piece of meat, veges, roast potatoes and gravy on Sundays at about 7:30 (my wife has vege sausages or summat). And again on Mondays at the same time but with mashed instead of roast.

If we have family round for Sunday dinner I make it for about 3:00 and do the job lot.

 

Breakfast (or brunch if I'm running late)

Lunch

Dinner

Anyone who calls me a big gay jessie is a Mail reading racist.

 

Which literally translates as little lunch, lunch and dinner. But if you're from Yorkshire where lunch is dinner it translates as little dinner, dinner and (dîner must surely be dinner) dinner.

 

I usually miss breakfast and have brunch around 11am ,followed by afternoon tea about 3pm , evening dinner around 7pm , occasionally I take supper at 9pm if I've missed evening dinner, with a night cap around 11pm before retiring to my bed. Sunday Lunch is usually between 2pm and 4pm

 

I have to be in school around 8am so I skip breakfast in favour of 30 minutes extra in bed.

I have lunch at 12.50pm and then a snack (usually tomatoes/cheese/both) at 5 when I'm home.

I cook dinner ready for when the missus gets in at 7:30pm.

And for the record, I miss beetroot.

 

What can I say? We like our food.

 

Southern gaylord here ---

It would be breakfast, dinner, tea if I was still at school and having my main meal at 12pm, but I'm not, I have my main meal after work, so my light meal at middday is called lunch --

Breakfast - 7.30am
Brunch - 10am
Elevenses - 11am
Lunch - 1pm
Afternoon Tea - 3.30pm
Tea - 6pm
Supper - 10pm

Plus suitable snacks in between of course, to keep energy levels up, desk work is strenuous on the brain.

 

I love the French language, it's mental. They haven't got enough words, so rather than making up new ones they just string together a load of words they've already got. Ninety-nine is a particular favourite of mine: four-twenty-ten-nine. You've got to be a whizz at mental arithmetic to understand the number system.

"Un briquet s'il vous plaît"
"Certainement monsieur, ce sera quatre vingt dix neuf cents."
"Quatre vingt dix neuf, that's, erm, four twenty ten nine. Er, four twenties are... 20, 40, 60, 80... plus the 10, that's 90 and add the 9, that's 99. 99 cents!"
"Ici vous allez."
"Merci monsieur."

Good luck to anyone buying a house for €99,999.

 

Breakfast when i get up except work days when I don't bother.
Lunch at 12/1ish, sandwich most days.
Tea anytime 5-8 depending on what everyone is doing. I cook a meal most nights.
Supper at 10ish, bowl of muesli.
Anything in between meals is just a snack.

Sunday dinner I cook most weeks, anytime between 4 and 7 depending on what everyone is doing.

 

I know of a couple of guys who are most definitely "Out to lunch"

 

Gary Neville for me

Dinner at 12, tea at 5.

 

Breakfast.

Lunch if it's cold. Dinner if it's a hot.

Tea.

But Sunday Dinner for Tea.

 

Reyt then.

My first meal of the day is called breakfast, so long as it is either before 11:30 or within an hour of me getting up.

If I have my first meal after 11:30 and not within an hour of getting up, then it is brunch if it is a breakfast type meal or dinner if it is a dinner type meal.

My second meal of the day is called dinner, provided that I eat it between 11:30 and 16:00.

My third proper meal is tea, regardless of the time it is eaten.

Supper is only used in the case of a fourth meal eaten after tea. If it is my third meal that I eat later than usual then it is a late tea.

Sunday dinner is eaten at half 5 on a Sunday, and consists of a plateful of yorkshires and onion gravy followed by the roast (with even more yorkshires).

 

The Belgiums

have it right with 'nonante'. Although to the French this is probably like saying the Americans have it right with 'winningest'.

Edit: That should have been Belgians, obviously. Not sure how many Belgiums there are.

 

I once shared a flat with an upper-middle class lady from Pinner who always used the words 'breakfast', 'lunch' and 'supper'.

Dinner was reserved for 'going out for dinner' and not used in any other sense.

I think she thought of me as a rather quaint northern gimp. When she talked to me a little smile crossed her face like when Ricky Gervais talks to Karl Pilkington.

 

Did she lure you in to her room for a bit of rough?

 

I think Swiss French uses proper numbers for 70/80/90 ...... septant, huitant and nonant or something like that.