What's your evening/late afternoon meal called?

[BrianW]

Dinner was traditionally the main meal of the day. In the middle ages, taken as early as 11-00 am. Over time, 'fashionable' people began to 'dine' later and later so that Victorian upper-class types had their Dinner as late as 8-00 or even 9-00 pm. It was always customary for the higher ranks to eat at a later sitting than their servants, who would be fed first.

The traditional time for Dinner is preserved here in the north. Southern softies and pretentious middle-class types have merely followed fashion in their usual slavish manner.

Three hundred years ago or so, no one knew what 'Lunch' was. It is a modern innovation.

'Afternoon tea' and 'high tea' were introduced to bridge the growing gap between the breakfast and dinner hours. Even 18th-century duchesses got a bit peckish by mid-afternoon.

 

[Crooked_rain]

Tea

It goes Breakfast, Dinner, Tea.

Unless I'm with my missus then I say Dinner. English isn't her first language and at first was baffled by the concept of calling it Tea it's nothing to do with a cup of tea. So in the end I just started using Dinner as it saved the confusion.

But I don't want to use the world lunch, so I just avoid saying it.

Brunch is even worse, I'll never utter that word.

 

[NI Blue]

Breakfast, lunch and tea (northern ireland)

 

[kerem gokmen]

Dinner was traditionally the main meal of the day. In the middle ages, taken as early as 11-00 am. Over time, 'fashionable' people began to 'dine' later and later so that Victorian upper-class types had their Dinner as late as 8-00 or even 9-00 pm. It was always customary for the higher ranks to eat at a later sitting than their servants, who would be fed first.

The traditional time for Dinner is preserved here in the north. Southern softies and pretentious middle-class types have merely followed fashion in their usual slavish manner.

Three hundred years ago or so, no one knew what 'Lunch' was. It is a modern innovation.

'Afternoon tea' and 'high tea' were introduced to bridge the growing gap between the breakfast and dinner hours. Even 18th-century duchesses got a bit peckish by mid-afternoon.

thanks for the info...

so what about in prehistoric times lets say, people eating dinner around a fire at night? is it an urban legend? or maybe things have changed after so-called agricultural revolution?
thanks

 

[Blue Mist]

Just so you know. I've just sat down to eat my dinner, it's slightly earlier because later I'm going for my chippy tea before the match.

 

[Bill Walker]

What's your evening/late afternoon meal called?​

Evening meal

 

[Looby_Blue]

What we avin for tea

Whats for tea

Anythin' in for tea

What time shall we put tea on

why dont we have chippy tea tonight

Cant be arsed doing tea tonight, lets order summat

Ave you ad yer tea yet? What did u av?

 

[Mr Fraser]

Dinner was traditionally the main meal of the day. In the middle ages, taken as early as 11-00 am. Over time, 'fashionable' people began to 'dine' later and later so that Victorian upper-class types had their Dinner as late as 8-00 or even 9-00 pm. It was always customary for the higher ranks to eat at a later sitting than their servants, who would be fed first.

The traditional time for Dinner is preserved here in the north. Southern softies and pretentious middle-class types have merely followed fashion in their usual slavish manner.

Three hundred years ago or so, no one knew what 'Lunch' was. It is a modern innovation.

'Afternoon tea' and 'high tea' were introduced to bridge the growing gap between the breakfast and dinner hours. Even 18th-century duchesses got a bit peckish by mid-afternoon.

The Origins of Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner - Portable Press

Or rather the words breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Breakfast That's easy—it's an English word that developed to connote the first bit of food taken after a

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[Mr Fraser]

If go to the chippy in Scotland can you have a fish supper at lunch time, tea time or dinner time?

 

[BrianW]

thanks for the info...

so what about in prehistoric times lets say, people eating dinner around a fire at night? is it an urban legend? or maybe things have changed after so-called agricultural revolution?
thanks

The data does not exist to answer your question. That's why it's called 'prehistoric'.

However, historically people lived by the sun. They got up roughly when it became light and went to bed roughly when it went dark. Most people could only afford rushlights, which stank like fuck, so there was no incentive for ordinary people to sit up late. If you were dead posh you could afford oil lights - the Romans had those - or wax candles.