What's your evening/late afternoon meal called?

Everywhere I go I look at the Lunch menu and dinner menu in eateries.

It never says Dinner menu (at midday) or Tea menu
 
Eat your breakfast, share your lunch with a friend and give your dinner to your enemy
ps:probably written before
 

Attachments

  • enjoy-breakfast-alone.jpg
    enjoy-breakfast-alone.jpg
    141.2 KB · Views: 6
Citizen of Legoland said:
The word “dinner” comes from the latin word “cena” which was originally a meal (the 2nd meal of the day) taken between noon and mid-afternoon. These meals eventually became larger events where guests gathered and the timings changed to accommodate more courses and guests. Eventually the meals were starting so late (2pm onwards) that they needed to introduce a new late morning snack, called “prandium”, and they were ending so late that they abandoned the original 3rd (now 4th) meal called “vesperna”.

Of course the hoi-polloi had work to do so their cena remained a single course around midday.

And there you have it. If you have work to do and call your 5pm meal dinner, you’re incorrect, unless you’re inviting guests to a dinner party which can be any time from 2pm onwards.
Click to expand...
Italians use the word cena for their evening meal and pranzo for their meal during the day.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner is for adults. Breakfast, dinner, tea is for children. Hence adults have lunch breaks/working lunches etc and children have dinner ladies.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top
✖
  AdBlock Detected
Bluemoon relies on advertising to pay our hosting fees. Please support the site by disabling your ad blocking software to help keep the forum sustainable. Thanks.