Lunch ... or dinner? : Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:38 pm  

When I was a little lad, dinner was what we ate around midday and lunch was something that was packed and carried, what we might call a packed lunch nowadays. I can remember my mother saying, when I was going out for the day with the Cubs, that she would pack me a lunch for my dinner. The evening meal was always called teatime in our house. Quoting my mother again, I remember her describing our (Christmas-only) habit of delaying the main meal as "We're having our dinner at teatime". For working men, that packed meal could also be "snap" (often in a "snap tin") or "bait" (often in a "bait box"). This item from the BBC seems to back up the (generally) Northern habit of terming the midday meal as "dinner". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20243692 What do you call it?

When I was a little lad, dinner was what we ate around midday and lunch was something that was packed and carried, what we might call a packed lunch nowadays. I can remember my mother saying, when I was going out for the day with the Cubs, that she would pack me a lunch for my dinner. The evening meal was always called teatime in our house. Quoting my mother again, I remember her describing our (Christmas-only) habit of delaying the main meal as "We're having our dinner at teatime". For working men, that packed meal could also be "snap" (often in a "snap tin") or "bait" (often in a "bait box"). This item from the BBC seems to back up the (generally) Northern habit of terming the midday meal as "dinner". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20243692 What do you call it?

[John_D]

Re: Lunch ... or dinner? : Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:40 pm  

Dinner at dinnertime. Tea at teatime.

Re: Lunch ... or dinner? : Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:52 pm  

Its not "dinner", its "me dinner", likewise its "me tea".

Although when I was at Junior School we had a lad who's dad was from East Yorkshire, the bit that comes just after the A1 but not quite as far as Hull, and he called it "us tea".

Re: Lunch ... or dinner? : Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:55 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

Its not "dinner", its "me dinner", likewise its "me tea".

Although when I was at Junior School we had a lad who's dad was from East Yorkshire, the bit that comes just after the A1 but not quite as far as Hull, and he called it "us tea".

All very correct too.
Nowt wrong wi' any of that.

[Durham Giant]

Re: Lunch ... or dinner? : Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:58 pm  

John_D wrote:

Dinner at dinnertime. Tea at teatime.

what he said, plus supper at supper time. Usually a cup of tea and some choccy biscuits when i was a kid, then it became a donner kebab and now is some warm milk.

Re: Lunch ... or dinner? : Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:04 pm  

always been dinner time for me

but lunch seems to be taking over!

[Kosh]

Re: Lunch ... or dinner? : Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:13 pm  

It's lunch and dinner pretty much everywhere in the world apart from the M62 corridor.

Re: Lunch ... or dinner? : Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:18 pm  

El Barbudo wrote: When I was a little lad, dinner was what we ate around midday and lunch was something that was packed and carried, what we might call a packed lunch nowadays. I can remember my mother saying, when I was going out for the day with the Cubs, that she would pack me a lunch for my dinner. The evening meal was always called teatime in our house. Quoting my mother again, I remember her describing our (Christmas-only) habit of delaying the main meal as "We're having our dinner at teatime". For working men, that packed meal could also be "snap" (often in a "snap tin") or "bait" (often in a "bait box"). This item from the BBC seems to back up the (generally) Northern habit of terming the midday meal as "dinner". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20243692 What do you call it? Same as but my dad's work dinner was called jackbit.

El Barbudo wrote: When I was a little lad, dinner was what we ate around midday and lunch was something that was packed and carried, what we might call a packed lunch nowadays. I can remember my mother saying, when I was going out for the day with the Cubs, that she would pack me a lunch for my dinner. The evening meal was always called teatime in our house. Quoting my mother again, I remember her describing our (Christmas-only) habit of delaying the main meal as "We're having our dinner at teatime". For working men, that packed meal could also be "snap" (often in a "snap tin") or "bait" (often in a "bait box"). This item from the BBC seems to back up the (generally) Northern habit of terming the midday meal as "dinner". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20243692 What do you call it? Same as but my dad's work dinner was called jackbit.

Re: Lunch ... or dinner? : Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:30 pm  

Ovavoo wrote:

Same as but my dad's work dinner was called jackbit.

I've heard that word.
Where was this ?

Re: Lunch ... or dinner? : Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:45 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

I've heard that word.
Where was this ?

Wigan. Don't know were the term originated and I've never heard it used anywhere else but Wigan.