Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Mrs Srchar is a Londoner, so we have "breakfast", "lunch" and "tea" to avoid any dinner-related confusion.
— Laura Trott shows Chris Boardman "What's for tea"
I must admit I thought that was a euphemism, so I was slightly disappointed reading the article.
Not sure what's for tea but do know that he is wearing a Meccanica Clothing cycle polo!
Ok, so it really should be:
Breakfast
Second breakfast
Elevenses / Brunch
Brunch / Elevenses (order depending on time)
Lunch
Afternoon Tea
Tea
Dinner
Supper
Midnight snack
Anything less is just being half-arsed
So do you often dine in Hobbiton?
For me dinner has always been the main meal of the day, and depending on when you have it it alters what you call the other meals.
Therefore either I have
1. breakfast, lunch, dinner
or
2. breakfast, dinner, tea
According to Kate Fox in her book "Watching the English" -
What do you call the evening meal?
And what time do you eat it?
If you call it "tea", and eat it at around half past six, you are almost certainly working class or of working class origin. (If you have a tendency to personalize the meal, calling it "my tea", "our/us tea" and "your tea" - as in "I must be going home for my tea", "what's for us tea, love?" or "Come back to mine for your tea" - you are probably northern working class.)
If you call the evening meal "dinner", and eat it at around seven o'clock, you are probably lower-middle or middle-middle class.
If you normally only use the term "dinner" for rather more formal evening meals, and call your informal, family evening meal "supper" (pronounced "suppah"), you are probably upper-middle or upper class. The timing of these meals tends to be more flexible, but a family "supper" is generally eaten at around half past seven, while a "dinner" would usually be later, from half past eight onwards.
Now, was cycling originally a form of transport for the working classes or a plaything for the upper classes; things were so much simpler before Wiggins and cycling for the masses....
Well, cycling was originally the plaything of the upper classes until cheaper bikes (mass produced) made it a viable means of transport for the working classes whilst the better off were shifting to the new motor cars.
Plus ca change!
Breakfast, dinner, tea and supper. With reference to taking afternoon tea i.e. a bite to eat between dinner and supper , usually after school.
I think we're totally messed up.
We have breakfast, lunch and dinner, although during the week 'supper' is the same thing as 'dinner', and they tend to be used interchangeably. We will go out to dinner, but may have friends round for dinner or supper.
On Sundays, lunch is deferred until the evening and takes dinner's place to avoid spending the whole day on family stuff. Lunch on Sundays therefore involves raiding the fridge until lunch is served in the evening.
Now, as for the rules of cricket.......
I was invited to 'supper' one evening by a posh friend.
I turned up expecting crackers, cheese and a cup of Horlicks and was surprised to find a 3 course meal, especially as I'd had my tea.
Posh people have dinner. Northerners, Scots and other non-Tory voters have tea.
At our place it's either "brunch" or "lupper".
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper, at parent's.
My gran would say tea instead of dinner, though don't remember her using dinner for lunch, which is odd now that I've moved around a bit more and seen the usage.
Now we use breakfast, brunch (said ironically), lunch and dinner at my place. So guess our kids will drop the supper too when we have them and just raid the kitchen when they feel like it.
Chris is right it's definitely Breakfast, Dinner, Tea up here in Bolton!
Tea is a drink.
We have breakfast, luch and dinner.
Harrumph!
"Luch"?
Anyway, in my house it's breakfast, morning coffee, lunch, afternoon cake, tea, cereal.
"Cereal" is a bowl of cereal or something the kids argue is roughly equivalent, and which is eaten at a quarter past six, plus or minus about ten minutes and in no case ever later than six thirty. It is due at that time even at the weekend when the kids only finished eating their pudding ten minutes earlier.
always known it as breakfast, dinner, tea and finally supper. This thread could become interesting with the various regional viewpoints.