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Post by patty on Dec 12, 2020 7:09:57 GMT
Grandson arrived and has eaten x 2 tins pasta shapes(good lad), x 2 fishfingers, potato waffles and 7 jaffa cakes...... all i need now is for him to crash ..... I think tomorrow you should force feed him some thrice boiled cabbage and sprouts, it is xmas after all. Follow it up with semolina pudding...
Didn't do me too much harm... Ah no he's here Sat night..goes back to mum Sunday afternoon/evening so thats Sundays diet sorted..
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 12, 2020 8:54:08 GMT
Anyway, can I just point out that "dinner" is what you have at dinner time, which is typically around mid-day. It comes from the same root as the French "déjeuner". A meal eaten in the evening is called an "evening meal", or if you have social pretensions "supper". We had lunch around mid day and dinner around 6 - 7pm ... dinner being the main meal of the day. There's a reason why school dinner ladies are at home by 6pm.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2020 9:32:03 GMT
The main meal of the day is dinner ... the time is irrelevant in my view ... if I eat my main meal at noon or 6pm, or midnight, it's still my dinner. Jane describes her meals by their timing ... if it's afternoon she calls it tea ... if it's evening she calls it her supper. We tend to have the same meals at the same time, but call it different names Rog
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2020 9:39:43 GMT
Same here but it is breakfast.
I can eat a proper breakfast at say 10am then have nothing else all day sometimes.
Bowls of oats are always useful as am emergency if a bit hungry in the evening after 12 hours.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2020 9:42:13 GMT
We had lunch around mid day and dinner around 6 - 7pm ... dinner being the main meal of the day. There's a reason why school dinner ladies are at home by 6pm. Is it because the school shuts down at 3.30pm ? Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 12, 2020 9:44:47 GMT
There's a reason why school dinner ladies are at home by 6pm. Is it because the school shuts down at 3.30pm ? Rog Exactly. So they have finished serving dinner.
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Post by Telemachus on Dec 12, 2020 9:46:51 GMT
Anyway, can I just point out that "dinner" is what you have at dinner time, which is typically around mid-day. It comes from the same root as the French "déjeuner". A meal eaten in the evening is called an "evening meal", or if you have social pretensions "supper". Only if you are common as muck. When did you ever hear the butler sounding the “dinner gong” and announcing “dinner is served” in the middle of the day? Everyone who went to a proper school knows that dinner is served around 8pm and the daytime meal is “luncheon”. Supper is a Scottish thing for the working classes who have their “dinner” at some ridiculous time like 5pm when they stagger back from the factory/coal mines and then, unsurprisingly, get peckish before retiring to cuddle up to their teddies. People with any breeding have afternoon tea (tea with cake and or sandwiches) at around 4 to 5pm. In our house we are risqué and have our afternoon tea at 5:15pm to coincide with Pointless.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2020 9:51:12 GMT
There's something almost poetic about your love of 'Pointless' Telemachus Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 12, 2020 9:53:59 GMT
Anyway, can I just point out that "dinner" is what you have at dinner time, which is typically around mid-day. It comes from the same root as the French "déjeuner". A meal eaten in the evening is called an "evening meal", or if you have social pretensions "supper". Everyone who went to a proper school knows that dinner is served around 8pm and the daytime meal is “luncheon”. Not so. People who went to a proper school understand that "dinner" is derived from the French "déjeuner" meaning a meal eaten at mid-day.
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Post by naughtyfox on Dec 12, 2020 10:19:50 GMT
And petit déjeuner is 'breakfast' - ie. 'little dinner' before dinner.
Say what you will, School DINNERS make you ill, Davy Crockett died of Shepherd's pie, And school din dins, Come from pig bins, Out of town...
Which reminds me of this:
yellow belly custard, green snot pie, all mixed up with a dead dog's eye, slap it on a butty, nice and thick, and drink it all down with a cold cup of sick.
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Post by Jim on Dec 12, 2020 10:30:42 GMT
Anyway, can I just point out that "dinner" is what you have at dinner time, which is typically around mid-day. It comes from the same root as the French "déjeuner". A meal eaten in the evening is called an "evening meal", or if you have social pretensions "supper". Posh git, we have tea at teatime. I may then have a snack for supper some time later.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 12, 2020 10:35:27 GMT
Anyway, can I just point out that "dinner" is what you have at dinner time, which is typically around mid-day. It comes from the same root as the French "déjeuner". A meal eaten in the evening is called an "evening meal", or if you have social pretensions "supper". Posh git, we have tea at teatime. I may then have a snack for supper some time later. Evening meal or tea, yes, and the use of "supper" is correct here too, it is derived from "souper" and does refer to a bowl of soup or some other very light snack eaten shortly before bedtime, not a full-blown meal.
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Post by Jim on Dec 12, 2020 10:36:18 GMT
And petit déjeuner is 'breakfast' - ie. 'little dinner' before dinner. Say what you will, School DINNERS make you ill, Davy Crockett died of Shepherd's pie, And school din dins, Come from pig bins, Out of town...
Which reminds me of this:
yellow belly custard, green snot pie, all mixed up with a dead dog's eye, slap it on a butty, nice and thick, and drink it all down with a cold cup of sick.
Have you ever had your balls in a mangle When some silly bugger turned the Handle? Your balls go crack and your dick shoots back, Have you ever had your balls in a mangle? So who had a washing machine with a mangle on top, a bit posher than a tub, posser and washboard with a separate mangle.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2020 10:39:20 GMT
Posh git, we have tea at teatime. I may then have a snack for supper some time later. Evening meal or tea, yes, and the use of "supper" is correct here too, it is derived from "souper" and does refer to a bowl of soup or some other very light snack eaten shortly before bedtime, not a full-blown meal. Fish supper in Glasgow means fish and chips - not soup - and is normally eaten before starting on the Tennants!
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 12, 2020 10:40:12 GMT
Evening meal or tea, yes, and the use of "supper" is correct here too, it is derived from "souper" and does refer to a bowl of soup or some other very light snack eaten shortly before bedtime, not a full-blown meal. Fish supper in Glasgow means fish and chips - not soup - and is normally eaten before starting on the Tennants! A "fish supper" in the Midlands refers to something else entirely.
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