Blumin ek, there are some heathens on here, breakfast, dinner and tea time, supper comes later if you're a bit peckish.
Bread and t drippin then walk t whippet then go t pub and drink some t ale then go back to house and beat mrs.
breakfast lunch tea... dont know what this dinner thing is all about.. and supper is like a cup of tea and a cookie before bed and normally had by old people...
Little poem I stumbled across recently, and in my mind highlights the real struggle of domestic abuse, currently dividing our country. ‘I go out on a Friday night and i get fucking plastered, When I get home I beat the wife, Coz I’m a dirty southern bastard’ Anonymous.
You lack ambition - and appetite! The English language offers far more opportunities to describe the act of eating! Breakfast = First food you eat after getting up. Doesn’t matter what time it is. However for the purposes of this example let’s say breakfast is taken between 6am and 9am. After that we have the 9am till 11.30am period during this time you have the following options: • Mid morning snack - this can involve eating pretty much anything but generally not a formal affair. • Elevenses - a short break for light refreshments, usually with tea or coffee, taken at about eleven o'clock in the morning. I have never met anyone that has used this word. I think they might all be dead. • Brunch - so you have missed breakfast - you can’t wait for lunch - the solution - Brunch. May include alcohol, definitely includes a large portion of pretentiousness. Lunch - Can occur any time from 11.30am onwards - possibly extending until 4pm if enough wine is involved. It’s what you eat at lunchtime, during your lunch break, possibly from your lunchbox, you can have a liquid lunch, you can ‘do’ lunch. But you cannot under any circumstance begin eating after around 3.30pm and get away with calling it ‘Lunch’ - not even a ‘late lunch’. (nb if you are a child you may have a ‘dinner time’ or dinner break - grown ups don’t have these) If you are still hungry after Lunch and you are lucky enough to not have to actually work then you can have- • Afternoon Tea! This is not what it sounds like. This is not simply drinking tea in the afternoon. This is even more pretentious than Brunch! In more genteel places this might actually involve drinking Tea, eating a nice selection of cakes and chatting with friends. In other places, let’s call them ‘Dubai’ It it involves drinking copious amounts of Champagne/Prosecco, eating the most decadent display of posh snacks known to man and then being arrested for having sex on the beach while shit faced. Or you could have an Afternoon snack - AKA - a coffee and a Mars bar - it’s entirely up to you. From 4.30 until 6.30 Teatime! If you are eating at this time - you are probably a child - enjoy it - it won’t last. 7pm till 10.30 pm Dinner (if you are grown up - for a child eating during this time is called Supper) If you ask someone out for an Evening Meal, You ask them out to Dinner, they are your Dinner date, you dine with them. Unless they are an old lady then you aren’t having them over for Tea! If however you are a Cat or a Dog owned by an old lady then you will be eating Din-Dins! Still reading? 5 stars for commitment! A grown up? Eating late not long before bedtime? Then you are eating Supper. I suggest some digestive biscuits, hot milk or Cocoa. Are you old? Horlicks. Are you Irish? Guinness. Midnight Feast anyone?
If you get totally wrecked, the remains of your "Doner" might also be you petit dejeuner, washed down with a rather warm beer - both of which should be on your bedside table when you awake.
Supper for working people is a late evening snack, often before bed (al Arb described). For the posh lot, it’s a mid evening meal, normally after 8, and not formal. Dinner is formal for the JRM brigade. Cravats and smoking jackets at the ready
