When is is dinnertime?
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"Dinner" vs "Supper"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/dinner-vs-supper-difference-history-meaning
But the use of dinner to refer to the main meal of the day, eaten as the last meal of the day, is a relatively recent phenomenon. For a long time, that main meal was held during the middle part of the day, around or slightly after the time we would nowadays allot for lunch. What was then called supper was a lighter meal taken toward the end of the day.
If you have read the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, you’ll recall that Max is sent to bed without any supper for misbehaving. If you interpret supper as "dinner," you might be left with the impression that Max has been cruelly left to go hungry, but in all likelihood he had already eaten his day’s main meal. When he returns from his rumpus with the Wild Things, that supper is waiting for him in his room and it is still hot.
Many British writers of the 18th and 19th centuries made distinctions between dinner and supper much the way we might today for lunch and dinner.
When I was growing up, on weekends, we had our main meal of the day in the early afternoon - 2-ish.
@George-K said in When is is dinnertime?:
"Dinner" vs "Supper"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/dinner-vs-supper-difference-history-meaning
But the use of dinner to refer to the main meal of the day, eaten as the last meal of the day, is a relatively recent phenomenon. For a long time, that main meal was held during the middle part of the day, around or slightly after the time we would nowadays allot for lunch. What was then called supper was a lighter meal taken toward the end of the day.
If you have read the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, you’ll recall that Max is sent to bed without any supper for misbehaving. If you interpret supper as "dinner," you might be left with the impression that Max has been cruelly left to go hungry, but in all likelihood he had already eaten his day’s main meal. When he returns from his rumpus with the Wild Things, that supper is waiting for him in his room and it is still hot.
Many British writers of the 18th and 19th centuries made distinctions between dinner and supper much the way we might today for lunch and dinner.
When I was growing up, on weekends, we had our main meal of the day in the early afternoon - 2-ish.
In the north of England we called the three meals of the day breakfast, dinner and tea. Supper would have been a light snack before bed. Dinner was around 1pm, and would have been the main meal at the weekend. In the week, 'tea' was the main meal of the day at around 6pm.
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We have our evening meal at 6. Have for the longest time.
When the kids were younger, it was about 5 PM, iirc.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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We have our evening meal at 6. Have for the longest time.
When the kids were younger, it was about 5 PM, iirc.
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You would have liked last night. My BFF was in from Texas. Grilled sockeye salmon with pineapple mango salsa (I can't get MFR to eat salmon unless it has something sweet on it), grilled zucchini, sweet peppers, onions and jalapeno, local corn on the cob. And the wine flowed freely.
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Fucking hell, Rainman. Easiest dinner ever. Healthiest too. The salsa was store bought, and for the other all you have to do is cut up the veggies, a little olive oil and salt and pepper on them and the salmon and grill 'em up.
Luckily I am no longer in a position to be blamed for Epic shit. But I am working on a large DNA study that's quite interesting.
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Some things are very easy. Blackened fish. Mississippi pot roast. A simple spaghetti sauce. Shrimp stew. Red beans and sausage. A grilled hamburger.
You start out with something simple, learn to cook it and if it's good, file the recipe or technique away. Before you know it, you've got a dozen things you can do pretty well. Next thing you know, you've got two dozen.
