Three Square Meals A Day....But WTH Are They Called?

[Simon Darkshade]

What a quaint idea, dining at set times of the day, and then calling them specific names
One calls it breakfast, but never partakes in it as a rule, preferring to fit in a bit of hunting or servant beating after rising.
One has been known to call it lunch, and its successor dinner, and that is all there is to it. Dinner, taken after the setting of the sun, is the one meal that one generally does make a habit of.

 

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Cunobelin Of Hippo
My eating day is simply a continuous 'Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm' Spiced up with the occasional 'oohhhhhhhhhhhhh' and once in a while some 'bllllleeaccchhhhh!' just to keep me on my toes

So Hippo, how exactly does partaking in bleach keep you on your toes? If I drank bleach then I'm sure I'd find myself on my back, in perpetuity.

 

[allan]

Growing up in Minnesota, we called the meals "breakfast, lunch, and dinner (or supper)", except on Sunday, when "dinner" was the meal eaten around noon. It was called "dinner" because it was the biggest meal of the day, right after church.... On other days, "dinner" and "supper" were/are interchangeable names for the evening meal, "dinner" used generally for something big, fancy or elaborate while "supper" is generally used for something whipped up quick, like burgers or leftovers.

While my Dad, a southerner from Virginia, adopted the Midwestern conventions of meal terminology described above, his family down in Virginia all call their meals "breakfast, dinner and supper", and noonday "dinner" tended to ALWAYS be the biggest meal of the day. That seems to be true throughout the South.

I tend to use the Midwestern terms, but when I'm down south visiting (Dad now lives in Mississippi, and my sister and a bunch of relatives live in Virginia) I'll slip into the other usage. Kind of a "when in Rome" thing but pretty much unconscious....

 

[Ohwell]

Originally posted by duke o' york


So Hippo, how exactly does partaking in bleach keep you on your toes? If I drank bleach then I'm sure I'd find myself on my back, in perpetuity.

Methinks he meant BLEACH! in the EWW! sense, not bleach, which would probably be quite poisonous to anybody. On the otherhand, if your Hippo, you might like it.

 

[andycapp]

Originally posted by Ohwell



Methinks he meant BLEACH! in the EWW! sense, not bleach, which would probably be quite poisonous to anybody. On the otherhand, if your Hippo, you might like it.

Methinks he meant BELCH! But then again, maybe he uses bleach as mouth wash.