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Post by Beata on Nov 5, 2003 8:03:43 GMT -5
I know four names for meals. These are: breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper. Could you please give me the right time of having each of them? What do you generally eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper?I'm waiting for the reply, Beata, Poland  |
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Post by KenWalsh on Nov 9, 2003 0:48:32 GMT -5
Breakfast is eaten in the morning, generally before 9 AM. Lunch is typically eaten between 11 AM and 1:30 PM, but Americans sometimes substitute Brunch for both meals on weekends. I think of Dinner as a meal served between 5 and 8 PM and Supper if the final meal of the day is served after 8 PM. However, the terms are generally used synonymously to describe the last meal of the day.
American breakfasts often include cereal, eggs, grits, ham, sausage, bacon, pancakes, waffles, omelets, or fruit. I prefer pancakes. Coffee and juice are served with breakfast.
Lunches in America are often sandwiches, soups, or salads. They may also include hamburgers or hot dogs.
Dinner and supper are generally the biggest meals. Many Americans choose to include meat, potato, and vegetables in their dinners/suppers. Since Americans borrow recipes from so many cultures, I would have difficulty describing a typical dinner/supper food.
Please continue and ask some specific questions about meals, and I will try to craft appropriate responses
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Post by Beata on Nov 11, 2003 9:46:52 GMT -5
Thank you Ken for the reply. To tell the truth I didn't know if "supper" was ever eaten by you  . You eat dinner late in the evening ( in Poland we eat just supper then - so different names for the same meal) so I had a problem with placing supper on the average American daily schedule. Bye for now, Beata |
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Post by Andrzej on Nov 11, 2003 23:37:04 GMT -5
I would just like to add a few things. I think it's clear that SUPPER and DINNER can be used interchangeably depending on the region. You might find it interesting that the word BRUNCH comes from the combination of BREAKFAST and LUNCH (I guess it sounded a lot more convincing that LUKFAST  Besides the regular meals, there are also SNACKS, popular with quite a few people here (i.e. SNICKERS bar after lunch, chip and salsa or pop corn after dinner, etc.). Some people, who find it generally difficult to resist food, may opt for so called a "midnight snack", which is often done while sleepwalking and is considered a sign of eating disorder. Well, I guess that's all the info I wanted to add. SMACZNEGO |
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Post by KenWalsh on Nov 16, 2003 23:14:41 GMT -5
I am reading the book Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano. It discusses the lives of people from working-class families who receive college educations. Today I read the following passage:
Did your family of origin have supper or dinner? "Supper" is blue-collar eating, implying big-pot cooking--meats and bones and gobs of carbohydrates--all ladled out in hot, brown heaps on dishwasher-safe plates, accompanied by not more than one fork. "Dinner" can be more refined, a middle-class meal in which prettified food presentation is as important as taste itself.
Most American meals likely fall somewhere between these two distinctions, but I thought I'd share Lubrano's opinion with the forum.
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. You eat dinner late in the evening ( in Poland we eat just supper then - so different names for the same meal) so I had a problem with placing supper on the average American daily schedule.
Besides the regular meals, there are also SNACKS, popular with quite a few people here (i.e. SNICKERS bar after lunch, chip and salsa or pop corn after dinner, etc.). Some people, who find it generally difficult to resist food, may opt for so called a "midnight snack", which is often done while sleepwalking and is considered a sign of eating disorder. Well, I guess that's all the info I wanted to add. SMACZNEGO