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General Category => Food and Drink => Topic started by: redlandslide on December 02, 2010, 11:21:29 AM
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That's dinner time for me but I'm back shortly after 8pm so if it's still down, I'll get right on it.
I had dinner around midday. I'll be having my tea around seven. :)
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"Dinner" is what I call the largest meal that I have in a day, and I don't eat lunch. Sunday dinner can be in the early afternoon for me but during the week it is the meal that we all share in the evening.
I always used to wonder what size "tea" should be?
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My impression of "tea" has always been a light snack to get you through till dinner. But, Im from Indiana so.......
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I believe it is more in Northern England and the other U.K countries where "Tea" denotes dinner:
Other uses
In many parts of England, particularly the North-West and North East, and in many parts of Scotland, Wales and Ireland, tea is used to mean the main evening meal, replacive of Dinner.
Personally, I can't get away from thinking that a "dinner" is the largest of all meals.
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My impression of "tea" has always been a light snack to get you through till dinner. But, Im from Indiana so.......
It's the same thing here. You don't even have to drink tea when you're having tea.
Personally, I can't get away from thinking that a "dinner" is the largest of all meals.
In Argentina it used be lunch when I was little. But now parents work different hours and kids have activities and dinner is also the moment people share with all family members. It's rarely before 8:30 PM and in summer weekends it could be as late as 10 PM.
Did we thrash the thread? :D
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It's rarely before 8:30 PM and in summer weekends it could be as late as 10 PM.
My French friends also do not eat their evening meal until around 9pm; my kids have been in bed an hour by then.
Did we thrash the thread? :D
A little but the off topic stuff can always be cut out and moved to a more general discussion board, I'm just too knackered to do it at present as I have just come in from the school's Christmas fair (too many Irish coffees and Mulled wines..).
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My French friends also do not eat their evening meal until around 9pm; my kids have been in bed an hour by then.
Next year my daughter will be at school at 7:40 AM so we'll forcibly do changes in our schedules. At what time do children go to school in other countries?
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My daughter starts school at 8.45am, but she studies both the English and French curriculums. My son goes to the English stream only section of the school, and starts at 8.55am. My daughter then finishes at 3.15pm and my son at 3.20pm.
We usually sit down to eat at around 6.45pm on a school night and 7.30pm on a weekend/holidays etc.
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I find that's a more logical schedule, specially in winter.
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In the state where Im located there are two main school schedules but each school system chooses independently which they want to do. One is called "Year round school" and the other "traditional school"
Year round has longer breaks during holidays and 3 weeks in the summer, where traditional has much shorter breaks but does the 9 weeks in the summer. If I were in school again I would prefer year round. Retention has to be far superior.
My daughter has to be at school at 7:20am and gets out at 2:45 but shes in high school. Ive blocked out all the previous years times. ;D
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The primary school (3-11 year olds) that my younger children attend commences at 8.55am and lets out at 3.00pm. The secondary school (11-16 year olds, [16-18 optional]) that my teenage kids attend commences at 8.30am and also finishes at 3.00pm. The summer holidays for both schools are 6 weeks (basically the last 2 weeks of July and the whole of August).
The meal terms up here are breakfast (morning meal), dinner (midday meal) and tea (evening meal) - with supper (very late evening snack) very much optional. Also note the word "tea" when pertaining to meal names has absolutely nothing to do with the drink. In fact I'd rather drink my own urine than drink tea.
Speaking of urine, in the corner of the globe I live in, the receptacle one dispenses bodily waste into is the toilet (now and again you'll hear it referred to as the lav).
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The primary school (3-11 year olds) that my younger children attend commences at 8.55am and lets out at 3.00pm. The secondary school (11-16 year olds, [16-18 optional]) that my teenage kids attend commences at 8.30am and also finishes at 3.00pm. The summer holidays for both schools are 6 weeks (basically the last 2 weeks of July and the whole of August).
The meal terms up here are breakfast (morning meal), dinner (midday meal) and tea (evening meal) - with supper (very late evening snack) very much optional. Also note the word "tea" when pertaining to meal names has absolutely nothing to do with the drink. In fact I'd rather drink my own urine than drink tea.
Speaking of urine, in the corner of the globe I live in, the receptacle one dispenses bodily waste into is the toilet (now and again you'll hear it referred to as the lav).
I believe the term "tea" when referring to a meal does stem from "high tea" when tea was actually drank along with the food. The only meal now that I would possibly drink tea with is breakfast, but only if it were an English type one and not a bowl of cereal.
I still call it a lavatory (pron: lavatree (the "a" sounds being that of the "a" in pappy)) or bog or the khazi.
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how weird the subject turned to toilet humour quickly :D
i call the toilet , a toilet , loo.
dinner is a largish meal , T would be a snack / sandwiches .
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I believe the term "tea" when referring to a meal does stem from "high tea" when tea was actually drank along with the food.
What I meant was when folk from "up here" use the term "tea" meaning their evening meal, it is the same type of meal people who use the term "dinner" would be eating just under a different name. People may drink tea when eating their evening meal - I don't know any who do - personally if I drink whilst eating my tea it'll be wine, but usually I won't drink anything. The kids would drink either juice or water with theirs.
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What I meant was when folk from "up here" use the term "tea" meaning their evening meal, it is the same type of meal people who use the term "dinner" would be eating just under a different name. People may drink tea when eating their evening meal - I don't know any who do - personally if I drink whilst eating my tea it'll be wine, but usually I won't drink anything. The kids would drink either juice or water with theirs.
I usually have wine for my dinner and, wash it down with a glass of chips,
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I drink whilst eating my tea it'll be wine, but usually I won't drink anything.
What do you mean anything? Nothing at all?
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Breakfast - Morning meal
Lunch - midday meal
Dinner - Evening meal. This is usually at 6:30pm. Weekends, variable.
Most Filipinos also snack mid-morning and mid-afternoon. Guests are commonly greeted with "Have you eaten yet?" since no matter what time the said guest shows up, it's always close to a meal time.
The CP starts class at 7:30am; the U at 8:00. Both get out at 11:30 for lunch and back at 1:00pm. They are then dismissed at 4:00pm and 3:30pm respectively.
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i do miss authentic French baguette's from France.
supermarkets in the uk cannot make them .
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well on my holidays i ate at
CI CI's pizza house http://www.cicispizza.com/_template.php (http://www.cicispizza.com/_template.php)very nice and cheap.
Cracker barrel http://www.crackerbarrel.com/ (http://www.crackerbarrel.com/) very nice indeed. had to ask about some of the food though , have never had corn bread not grits ;D
Buffalo wild wings http://www.buffalowildwings.com/ (http://www.buffalowildwings.com/) wow very nice and cheap , a pitcher of bud for $6.
and the usual nice burger and my favourite Onion rings ;D
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....a pitcher of bud for $6
A pitcher of beer for $6! What crazy mixed up universe were you in?
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We have one place here that has $4 pitchers of PBR during happy hour. Great price but...it's PBR.
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http://www.buffalowildwings.com/ (http://www.buffalowildwings.com/)
all bud varieties.
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in 15 days i will be in north germany again and Berlin for 3 days (staying near check point charlie).
cannnot wait for the food they serve. :D
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in 15 days i will be in north germany again and Berlin for 3 days (staying near check point charlie).
cannnot wait for the food they serve. :D
I expect a briefing when you come back. :D
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ja
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A post by 8ullfrog in another thread made me think about something: it seems like a good part of the world have onions for breakfast. That'd be UNTHINKABLE in my country. Any comments on your breakfast habits?
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Mine are pretty boring. It's cereal or a sandwich. A while ago I was reading someone's blog who made a dish with purple sprouting broccoli and sprouts for breakfast. I don't think I could stomach that so early in the morning.
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The only time I eat onions for breakfast is, coincidentally, when I use them in scrambled eggs. You have to be careful with them though as they can flatten the crap out of the dish so I usually fry them off and remove them from the pan, and then turn them back in when the eggs are cooked.
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Yeah, I can only think of onions for breakfast used sparingly in an omelet or hashbrowns.
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after 15 days of German food, I cannot wait for my first British meal
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after 15 days of German food, I cannot wait for my first British meal
Some of it must have been good.
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scones and jam usually with tea.
once in a while I'll have an omelette for lunch occasionally with sauteed onions, but otherwise, onions are too savory for breakfast.
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once in a while I'll have an omelette for lunch occasionally with sauteed onions, but otherwise, onions are too savory for breakfast.
That's exactly how I see it.
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A couple of other dishes (both egg based) that I have eaten for breakfast that contain onions, albeit a later breakfast and when I am on holiday which tend to go hand in hand, are Spanish Tortilla (tortilla de patatas) and Huevos Rancheros. I realise onions are not absolutely necessary ingredients in both those dishes, but I have never had them without.
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Whilst in Germany, I ate a lot of
Bratwursts , Bockwurst , Nürnberger Rostbratwurst .
I wont say they are better than Britsh sausages ( as i have a fantastic butcher near me) but they are nice.
Also when i ordered a pizza, no matter what sort, they always put rocket lettuce on.
for a lighter meal i noticed germans used a wrap (tortilla wrap) as a pizza base. never seen this before and I thought how original
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Whilst in Germany, I ate a lot of
Bratwursts , Bockwurst , Nürnberger Rostbratwurst .
Which was the worst?
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for you the last one