When is Dinner?

G_R

I'm currently having an argument with my idiot little brother. He says dinner is at 1PM and that tea is at 5 or 6 PM.

However I would call that meal at 1PM lunch, and dinner is at 5 or 6PM.

So AH, your opinions please, when is dinner.

stovelid

Depends on if you're a culchie or not.

Chris P. Bacon

Im still deciding what to have for dinner

kfallon

It depends when you make it obviously :rolleyes:

Different people, different times.....next thread please!

SteoL

Whenever you're hungry :rolleyes:

Dravokivich

I usually have breakfast at 3pm so...

chin_grin

Lunch midday, dinner evening.

ball

Tea is a drink

KeithM89_old

Breakfast 8am
Brunch 11am
Lunch 1pm
Afternoon Tea 3pm
Dinner 6pm
Supper 9pm
Midnight snack - eh 12am...

And the occasional snack in-between...

ejmaztec

Dinnertime, when else?

Korvanica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC6kcDYOPls

Skip to 3:05 or just click here....

mstan

stovelid wrote: »

Depends on if you're a culchie or not.

Yes, because no matter what time of day it is the West Brits live off a diet which usually consists of cheap cider, heroin and frozen food from Lidl

S.R.F.C.

mstan wrote: »

Yes, because no matter what time of day it is the West Brits live off a diet which usually consists of cheap cider, heorin and frozen food from Lidl

Do you culchies not have Lidl yet? Lidl do lovely fresh food too, never heard of heorin?! Must be a culchie thing.

FTGFOP

KeithM89 wrote: »

Breakfast 8am
Brunch 11am
Lunch 1pm
Afternoon Tea 3pm
Dinner 6pm
Supper 9pm
Midnight snack - eh 12am...

And the occasional snack in-between...

What about Elevenses and Second Breakfast?

KeithM89_old

FTGFOP wrote: »

What about Elevenses and Second Breakfast?

Ah im on a diet...

Dravokivich

FTGFOP wrote: »

What about Elevenses and Second Breakfast?

Elevenses being at 11 right?

mikemac

Dinner midday, supper evening

To be honest OP, a lot of this depends if you grew up on a farm or not.

ejmaztec

KeithM89 wrote: »

Breakfast 8am
Brunch 11am
Lunch 1pm
Afternoon Tea 3pm
Dinner 6pm
Supper 9pm
Midnight snack - eh 12am...

And the occasional snack in-between...

I think that you might be solely responsible for global warming.:P

hondasam

when ever you are hungry. dinner is 6pm at my house this evening.

No1J

FTGFOP wrote: »

What about Elevenses and Second Breakfast?

Don't forget High Tea.

hardCopy

Grand_Rajnah wrote: »

I'm currently having an argument with my idiot little brother. He says dinner is at 1PM and that tea is at 5 or 6 PM.

However I would call that meal at 1PM lunch, and dinner is at 5 or 6PM.

So AH, your opinions please, when is dinner.

You're right, send your brother off to live with the country relatives.

Osgoodisgood

Grand_Rajnah wrote: »

I'm currently having an argument with my idiot little brother. He says dinner is at 1PM and that tea is at 5 or 6 PM.

However I would call that meal at 1PM lunch, and dinner is at 5 or 6PM.

So AH, your opinions please, when is dinner.

I'm with you. to a point. Anything around 12-1 pm is lunch.
But 5pm? Are you maybe 6 years old with some well developed communication skills?

bambera

If you have your largest meal at 1ish then it's dinner (and you have your smaller meal for tea time)

If you have your largest meal at 6ish then that's dinner (and you have your smaller meal for lunch time)

If you have two large meals during the day then I consider it two dinners (or Christmas)

Chris P. Bacon

bambera wrote: »

If you have two large meals during the day then I consider it two dinners (or Christmas)

I'll be having two dinners everyday this week,ill have my first around 6,and the second at 1am tonight,im working nights this week that's the reason why,i don't get up in the middle of the night to have a dinner

jd007

Dinner is whenever I decide to make it

Lady Chatterton

Traditionally, farmers and labourers would have had their dinner in the middle of the day but now most people are employed in less active types of work so dinner IMO is usually in the evening these days.

Dinner in my house is normally served between 6:30 and 8:30pm and whoever is home from work first cooks it.

bambera

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

I'll be having two dinners everyday this week,ill have my first around 6,and the second at 1am tonight,im working nights this week that's the reason why,i don't get up in the middle of the night to have a dinner

For a second there, I just figured you had that sleepwalker disorder where a person raids the fridge in their sleep.

sollar

Well most people get their lunch break around 1. So i'd call that lunchtime. Dinnertime is 5 or 6. People who eat dinner at 7 or after i'd call that a late dinner.

Tell the little turd he is wrong

ejmaztec

MrsD007 wrote: »

Traditionally, farmers and labourers would have had their dinner in the middle of the day but now most people are employed in less active types of work so dinner IMO is usually in the evening these days.

Dinner in my house is normally served between 6:30 and 8:30pm and whoever is home from work first cooks it.

When I hear the gong, I head orf to the dining room.

FTGFOP

Dravokivich wrote: »

Elevenses being at 11 right?

-ish.

No1J wrote: »

Don't forget High Tea.

Only if you're skipping dinner. Mustn't make a pig of oneself.

greenybaby

depends on what you do, you see workmen having dinner at 1pm but they have a second dinner when they get home from work
business men/women have lunch at 1pm then dinner when they get home and school kids have lunch at 12:30pm and dinner at 3:30pm when they get home

that's the way it is here, culchies FTW

GLaDOS

I'd have dinner between 6-8 but my dad would get his in work around 1 or 2 and not eat much for the rest of the day. Possibly because he's a morning person and I can't stand the thought of food when I wake up

phasers

Tea is a drink, not a meal.

YFlyer

I'm starving.

greenybaby

It's on the table hurry the f**k up cos i am not reheating it for ya!!!!

Oh_Noes

Dinner's in the evening everyday apart from Sunday. Sunday dinner is at about 2pm. And it's Sunday Dinner not "Sunday Lunch". If there's spuds it's dinner! Sunday dinner also comes with dessert, forced into your spud-filled stomach rendering you happily paralysed for an hour or so.

YFlyer

greenybaby wrote: »

It's on the table hurry the f**k up cos i am not reheating it for ya!!!!

Ok ok, I'm just washing my hands.....

Lady Chatterton

ejmaztec wrote: »

When I hear the gong, I head orf to the dining room.

I will instruct Hudson (the butler) to set another place at the dining table so

hondasam

MrsD007 wrote: »

I will instruct Hudson (the butler) to set another place at the dining table so

you should go on come dine with me.

Eramen

Grand_Rajnah wrote: »

So AH, your opinions please, when is dinner.

It's the meal after lunch, and before tea!

Lady Chatterton

hondasam wrote: »

you should go on come dine with me.

I absolutely adore cooking but I wouldn't like to be on the telly box. If you go on the show I will prepare the meal for you

MonkeyGuy

I'd say dinner is a meal rather than a time... Carbohydrates like spuds, rice, pasta, waffles + Hot meat like chicken, bacon, shteak, duck + veg (anything green or that doesn't taste nice)... dinner. Anything else ain't dinner.

It's the main meal of the day like.

irishdub14

8-9pm in my house. I've heard people down the country have theirs at lunch time!! :eek:

Truley

Traditionally in this country dinner was had during what we now call lunch time, between 12pm-2pm. I imagine it stems from a more agrarian time when the average person would have been up since dawn and have nearly a day's work put in by noon. So it would have made sense. When I was a kid dinner was in the afternoon and tea was in the evening.

emeraldstar

sollar wrote: »

Well most people get their lunch break around 1. So i'd call that lunchtime. Dinnertime is 5 or 6. People who eat dinner at 7 or after i'd call that a late dinner.

No way is 7pm a late dinner; I'm barely home by 7. Dinner at 9pm or so is a late dinner.

Larianne

He's watching too much Corrie.

Lunch is Dinner and Dinner is Tea in Northern England.

Dudess

Dinner in the afternoon and tea in the evening is just a trip back to the 80s - dinner in the evening always, except for Sundays (sometimes) and Christmas.

coffeelover

Lunch at 1ish and dinner at 5. Gwaan the culchies

Rubberlegs

You're too late, twas ages ago:(. Seriously, lunch at 1 or 2 ish, dinner 6 or 7 ish. Dunno how you could eat a big dinner midday.

G_R

Osgoodisgood wrote: »

I'm with you. to a point. Anything around 12-1 pm is lunch.
But 5pm? Are you maybe 6 years old with some well developed communication skills?

I'm 19 but don't know about good communication skills.

phasers wrote: »

Tea is a drink, not a meal.

I agree completely

Thanks AH, you have all confirmed that I'm right and that little **** is wrong. I love winning