I used to live in Ireland and we’d have breakfast, then lunch halfway through school/work, dinner upon getting home from school/work, and tea some time in the evening.
Yeah, in the south (actually mostly in the “Home Counties” kind is south, not really anything to do with the south west or anything, just the posh London chumps and Essex wankers) you have breakfast, lunch, and supper, and up north you have some combination of breakfast, dinner, and tea. They’re both wrong, for reasons I, as a Cornishman, won’t go into
In the southern US, they refer to the midday meal as dinner and the evening meal as supper.
In the rest of the US, the midday meal is lunch and the evening meal is dinner.
OP is saying that, since it’s called Christmas Dinner and not Christmas Lunch, it must follow Southern tradition.
However, as a US Northerner, we’ve always had Christmas Dinner in the evening. So OP is celebrating differently than we do in the north.
But that’s just the US debate. OP included “Tea” as the evening meal, which isn’t something we do here in the US, so I suspect they’re talking about a UK debate.
Can someone explain the debate to a continental?
I used to live in Ireland and we’d have breakfast, then lunch halfway through school/work, dinner upon getting home from school/work, and tea some time in the evening.
Yeah, in the south (actually mostly in the “Home Counties” kind is south, not really anything to do with the south west or anything, just the posh London chumps and Essex wankers) you have breakfast, lunch, and supper, and up north you have some combination of breakfast, dinner, and tea. They’re both wrong, for reasons I, as a Cornishman, won’t go into
In the southern US, they refer to the midday meal as dinner and the evening meal as supper.
In the rest of the US, the midday meal is lunch and the evening meal is dinner.
OP is saying that, since it’s called Christmas Dinner and not Christmas Lunch, it must follow Southern tradition.
However, as a US Northerner, we’ve always had Christmas Dinner in the evening. So OP is celebrating differently than we do in the north.
But that’s just the US debate. OP included “Tea” as the evening meal, which isn’t something we do here in the US, so I suspect they’re talking about a UK debate.