POLL - mealtime

always had school dinners, not school lunches. Also I have a mate (andy) who goes ape-**** if you mention lunch.

 

First thing - Breakfsat

Midday - Lunch

4ish - Tea

7/8 - Dinner

I think the use of the word "dinner" for lunch came about because schools, in an attempt to get at least one square meal into kids, started serving dinners at lunch time.

 

Utter tosh

din·ner (dnr)
n.
1.
a. The chief meal of the day, eaten in the evening or at midday.
b. A banquet or formal meal in honor of a person or event.
c. The food prepared for either of these meals.
2. A full-course meal served at a fixed price; table d'hôte.

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[Middle English diner, morning meal, from Old French disner, diner, to dine, morning meal; see dine.]
Word History: Eating foods such as pizza and ice cream for breakfast may be justified etymologically. In Middle English dinner meant "breakfast," as did the Old French word disner, or diner, which was the source of our word. The Old French word came from the Vulgar Latin word *disinre, meaning "to break one's fast; that is, to eat one's first meal," a notion also contained in our word breakfast. The Vulgar Latin word was derived from an earlier word, *disiinre, the Latin elements of which are dis-, denoting reversal, and iinium, "fast." Middle English diner not only meant "breakfast" but, echoing usage of the Old French word diner, more commonly meant "the first big meal of the day, usually eaten between 9 a.m. and noon." Customs change, however, and over the years we have let the chief meal become the last

 

yer posh bugger, been reading 'passage to India' , let's have some tiffin.

 

Did you read any of that before you C&Pd it?

Particularly the last sentence?

 

RE: Thou should not take the lords name in vain

or any other for that matter. Please think next time!

 

Yes...nah then did thar?

People have started calling dinner lunch (after calling dinner breakfast!)...not the other way round as you guessed?

Stick that in thi pipe & smoke it chava!

 

Dinner

 

Who calls it lunch?? at work its snaptime and when you get home you have dinner

 

Damned interesting

its the closest run poll we seen in a while!! clearly we are divided on this issue

 

No.

The main meal, now normally the evening one, is generally accepted as being dinner.

The confusion came about in the last few decades with "school dinners."

It's a common mistake given the insular thinking of Barnsley folk.