lunch and dinner
 

in my background, lunch was between breakfast and dinner or between dinner and supper.

dinner was between breakfast and supper, usually around noon.

i always need a time attached to a meal invitation.

how about you?

it has always been breakfast, dinner and supper for me growing up and also now. lunch between dinner and supper
because of lunch going to the fields.

And then there is "a bite" and "a quick bite"

Hungry, anyone?

We had a very early breakfast , dinner at noon (usually homemade jam sandwich or homemade soup or thick slices of homemade bread with molasses and butter or sometimes leftovers from previous day's meal) and evening meal called supper at about 6:30. We also had what was called a 'tea' at about 3 p.m. ...usually was a very small sweet (a bar cookie, slice of cake or slice of a shortbread) or more bread with tea or water. During summer and holidays, for us children, the sweet was often eaten on the run. Also a snack about 9 p.m. which was tea or water and a dry biscuit or a couple of crackers.
Breakfast was my favorite meal, as Mom baked bread almost every day. If there was bread being made that morning, Mom would cut pieces of dough and fry them in fat(pork) and we'd eat them with heated molasses. How good that tasted after coming from a cold bedroom!
On Sunday mornings, after church, we had a late breakfast/lunch (brunch) and lots of tea. Dad never attended church with us but he would cook eggs and make thick slices of toast slathered in butter. We always had soft-boiled eggs...not sure why they were never fried. I miss those Sundays.

Our childhood was not an ideal one and we were often spanked and heard plenty of heated 'debates' between my parents but, although the meals may have been monotonous and plain fare, we were never hungry.

Lunch is at noon.
Supper is at six pm.
Dinner is in a restaurant.

Breakfast... lunch... supper, always in that order, and always by that name. :)

dinner at out house is about 6-7 pm.
my cat is trained to know that dinner means food.
I had called her to breakfast for a while, and she never came. now
if I call her to dinner in the morning, she comes running.
one word for one item for her.

Breakfast, lunch & supper for me growing up. For the longest time I didn't know what meal people were talking about when they said "dinner".

this is how it was in my family. But more on Mon-Sat was lunch, Sunday was dinner at lunch time.

That's the way it was in my mom's family. Dinner was a sit down meal. I think lunch was something you packed in a sack or a lunchbox.

Breakfast, lunch, supper (or dinner)
We didn't have large dinners at noon like a lot of people I knew. (after church on Sunday) We got fresh Italian bread after Mass and then had huge sandwiches of fresh ham and cheese, Italian style. We sat in the back seat on the way home and dug at the bread until Mom said to stop- it was still warm and sooooo good!!!

ha, ha. confusing. Lunch is mid-day and supper is the evening meal. unless it is formal and then it's dinner. I always have to ask what time though just to make sure.

Oh Lynnie, that is funny. cats! I call it din-din. Not sure if they notice though. It's my whistle that brings them to eat.

That's what its always been in my world.

Us city "folks" in Minnesota called it- breakfast-lunch and supper. Didn't realize that until I married a country boy! Then it got confusing.

Minnesota city folk here too!! Breakfast, lunch, and supper. Dinner was what we called the Sunday lunch, because that was always a "fancier" meal. Applied also to Easter Dinner, Thanksgiving Dinner, and Christmas Dinner. When I married a "St. Paulite", I "learned" that dinner and supper were supposed to be interchangeable!!

We had "lunch" when we ate at school - whether it was carried in a bag, lunch box, or when our school finally served "hot lunches" - usually the meals were very good - except for the time when they cleaned out the refrigerator and put corn and peas in red jello.

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.

Growing up it was breakfast, lunch, and supper. Dinner was a meal cooked for Sunday after church and for holidays.. Christmas Dinner, Thanksgiving, Easter, New Years, Birthdays.

In Louisiana dinner was at noon and supper was at night. Now I've gotten used to saying lunch and supper.

Always called breakfast, lunch and supper in our steel mill town.

For us, it was breakfast, then lunch.
Dinner and supper (the words) were interchangeable. We just knew that when one or the other was used that it was the evening meal.

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.

Same here, breakfast, dinner and supper, lunch was the mobile meal on the farm

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.

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"....

My father was a mail carrier, so he carried a "dinner pail". He ate his dinner in the car while we at home ate fried potatoes and other leftovers for dinner. We had a big supper of meat, potatoes and gravy with vegetables and most often, apple dessert.

We were invited to my cousin's wedding in St Paul. At 6:00 PM was the "Wedding Supper".

Breakfast, lunch, dinner for me. I thought "supper" was a British thing for a long time. Time varies quite a bit - I am an insomniac and sometimes start my day at 2AM, so I eat at all sorts of odd times.

The animals know "hungry". When it's about food-time for the pets I will ask, "Are you guys hungry?" and chaos erupts as the dogs bark to let me know that yes indeed, they are hungry; and the cat goes racing to his bowl to yowl at me until the bowl is full. :D

Yes, here too. Dinner was big and special like at Christmas.

Growing up Dad always called Lunch dinner and our evening meal was Supper. We ate at 6 pm on the dot every night. Every other Sunday Dad cooked.....started early in the morning and by 2 in the afternoon.....we ate till we popped, dining on Fisherman's stew and crusty french bread. The other Sundays my brother made the best pot roast cooked on the grill for hours. He would double wrap the roast and all the veggies (potatoes, carrots and onions) separately.

On the farm: Breakfast, morning lunch (actually mid morning coffee break), dinner at noon, afternoon lunch (another coffee break) and finally supper.

My DH has started using Lupper to describe an later afternoon lunch that will take the place of lunch and supper now we are both retired. He also says Linner for the same but seems to prefer how Lupper rolls off his tongue. I have to eat more frequently so on those days I have snacks before and later on. I guess I could call them Lacks and Sacks for Lunch Snacks and Supper Snacks but that would just get too confusing.

Here in my neck of the woods it is Breakfast,,Lunch,,Supper

Breakfast, Lunch then Supper/Dinner. Lunch is the only word used to describe a mid-day meal. Supper and Dinner are interchangeable, although dinner may be a more formal or fancy meal. In my family dinner is a more common than supper, ie: "What's for dinner?"

Wedding Breakfast refers to the meal eaten after a wedding ceremony, no matter the time of day.

My step Mum is a Kiwi, Tea can mean a noon or evening meal depending on the location. Pudding refers to all types of dessert including but not limited to actual pudding. Apple Pie could be pudding. A dish you eat dessert from is a pudding dish.