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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Isn’t dinner just the cooked/largest meal of the day, regardless of when it occurs, and tea comes from afternoon tea and high tea?

And lunch happens in the middle of the day, otherwise we wouldn’t have brunch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Apparently, dinner originally meant breakfast from the Old French "disner", meaning to break the fast, essentially de-fast.

Supper is from the Old French "soper" which just means soup-er

What a world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about the French, and it’s been a long time since my GCSE French lessons but wasn’t petit-déjeuner breakfast? Is that a more modern invention?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep, dinner is the big hot one, lunch/tea is the small (sometimes) cold one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lunch/tea

Tea is something that you drink, not eat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You've clearly never heard of iced tea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Is he related to Mr T?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My mom continues to insist that something called "supper" exists, which replaces dinner.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, supper is a light, late evening meal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It can be either a replacement for dinner, or a later evening snack.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Don’t forget linner and dunch