What do you call the meals of the day in your dialect?
Hi,
I'm wondering what you call different meals (e.g. breakfast, lunch, supper, dinner). It's part of my linguistics homework. I need someone who is neither from the Philadelphia region nor the Appalachian region, specifically, and is a native speaker of English.
What do you call:
the first meal of the day (morning)
a midday meal (weekdays)
an evening meal (weekdays)
a large, formal meal (weekend)
a mid-morning or midday first meal (weekends)
a meal midway through an evening work shift
a late afternoon quick meal
Thanks for your help!
In the southwestern U.S.:
the first meal of the day = breakfast
a midday meal (any day) = lunch
an evening meal (any day) = dinner (rarely, supper)
The others don't have specific names. Light meals outside of the usual are often called snacks. Since many Americans eat when hungry instead of at specific times, the naming overall is flexible, but an early meal tends to be breakfast, and a late meal tends to be dinner. A meal that combines breakfast and lunch is still occasionally called brunch, although that term seems to be less popular than it once was.
Breakfast - Brekkies.
Midday meal - Dinner (but midday meals are not commom in England)
4pm or 5 pm meal - Tea.
But when it comes to the meals taken by the particular nationalistic Briton called ‘Adam’, we usually have to call any of them a troll fest, irrespective of the time of the day.
I am from Miami Florida -
the first meal of the day (morning) - breakfast
a midday meal (weekdays) - lunch
an evening meal (weekdays) - dinner
a large, formal meal (weekend) - dinner?
a mid-morning or midday first meal (weekends) - brunch
a meal midway through an evening work shift - a late dinner?
a late afternoon quick meal - a snack?
I concur that a snack is any quick meal outside of breakfast, lunch or dinner. Brunch is often used for me - especially at my New England college.
"Brekkies," eh? I've never heard that one. Interesting.
Hi Andre. I'm from Boston but have lived all over New England and have lived many years in Florida as well.
Here's how it goes in New England:
morning- breakfast
midday- lunch
evening - supper if you have it before 8 p.m. After eight it's called dinner.
Sunday afternoon, if it's a big formal meal - dinner. Thanksgiving and Christmas meals are also called dinners, never suppers. Most people don't do the formal Sunday afternoon meals anymore or if they do, rarely.
If you go out to eat in a restaurant, however, for your evening meal, no matter what the time, it is always called going out to dinner, never out to supper. Supper is a home thing.
Schools and possibly churches (not religous so not sure on that one) always call their potlucks, potluck suppers, not potluck dinners.
I usually call 'em "junk food." Hahaha!
Oh! You're SO funny César! Jajajajajajajajaja
I wonder if there is a name for the meal that combines lunch and dinner? Or you Westerners don't eat between lunch and dinner?
<<Or you Westerners don't eat between lunch and dinner?>>
English is not the language of all Westerners.
Maybe most Americans and Europeans speak English?
All right, I made a mistake. "Or you English speaking folks don't eat between lunch and dinner but only snack?"
I only want to know if there is a name for it, bro.
"I wonder if there is name for the meal that combines lunch and dinner."
Chinese, I don't know of any word for that combination in the US but we do, as you may know, call the meal that combines breakfast and lunch, brunch. It is served on Sundays in the US - all day Sundays in Manhattan - but usally between 11 am. and 2 p.m. elsewhere.