lunch and dinner
#21
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At our house, it was breakfast, dinner, and supper. Reminds me of the time we were invited to a friend of my dad's house, to come to dinner on a Sunday. We hurried home from church after Sunday School, changed clothes, then drove 50 miles to the friend's home. We were very hungary, but we had to wait until 6:00 p.m. to eat because the friend was English and his wife was Irish....Dinner was in the evening, and they entertained us until then. Their kids were brats, and all 4 of us kids were expected to be angels. And for the most part, we were. I don't remember any of us getting in trouble that day.
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Breakfast (before school started or in the summer, whenever we got up )- -Lunch(12:00 noon)- - Supper (ALWAYS at 5:15P...Never at 5:14 or 5:16...ALWAYS at 5:15P)...my father was a Time Study Engineer.
For special occasions, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas it was called dinner.
For special occasions, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas it was called dinner.
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#29
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Same at my house growing up in a small Arizona town. This is an interesting chat. It seems like the terms would be more regional than it appears here. DH grew up calling them breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Now that we are retired we eat breakfast soon after getting up in the morning, then we eat dinner sometime between noon and three, and maybe a little snack around five.
#30
Same in my old neighborhood in W.Va.'s northern panhandle. What about "school lunch" and "lunch bucket" and "lunch counter" and "dinner bell" or "dinner pail"? Perhaps it's a country folks/working class thing vs everyone else?
The Bible translates a lot of times as "meal" but the Lord and the disciples shared a last "Supper."
Go back to the nineteenth century and be asked to "sup", "dine", "repast", "bait", "luncheon"....
The Bible translates a lot of times as "meal" but the Lord and the disciples shared a last "Supper."
Go back to the nineteenth century and be asked to "sup", "dine", "repast", "bait", "luncheon"....
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