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Im sure I’ve asked before, but what time is dinner time in your region/country? What do you call it— dinner, supper, or?
Here in the souf of Ingerland, it depends on the generation you ask. I think most younger people will say the three main meals are breakfast, lunch and dinner (dinner being late afternoon/early evening).
My grandparents (born in the south and have always lived here) say breakfast, dinner and tea (dinner being early afternoon), which is how most people oop norf still say it. So it seems that the widespread adoption of B-L-D is a fairly recent thing in the South, I guess due to the influence of London and the growth of the middle class.
Dinner time is the mid day meal - hence, dinner ladies at school.
In German this is called "evening-meal"=" Abendessen" and traditionally takes place at around 18:30 o'clock. In the Netherlands this is called "dinner" too like in English, in the French speaking parts of Belgium it is "Le dîner" like in French.
growing up, dinner was always an 7-8 PM thing EXCEPT on the weekend after church, in which case 'dinner' was more like 2-3 PM ...I never heard the word supper until I was older and had dinner with a girlfiend's midwestern family - they used supper for the evening meal during the week and dinner for Sunday afternoon meals
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