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>>>>I think you will find that in the English world that people tend breakfasts like this.
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>>>>- cold cereal with milk
>>>>- toast or bagels with peanut butter, jam, honey or just plain butter
>>>>- smoothies, a blend of yogurt with fruit
>>>>- warm cereal (oatmeal or other types)
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>>>I never here that referred to, over there, as porridge, as we do.
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>>I grew up calling it porridge, but the product packages, other people and the media kept calling it oatmeal, so I've switched. Just like I no longer call the evening meal 'supper', it is now 'dinner'.
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>To me, oatmeal is a colour scheme :-)
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>Now the meal naming debate:
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>Breakfast - lunch - dinner
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>Some posh people call dinner "supper"
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>Up north it's breakfast - dinner - tea (but you'd never take a "packed dinner" to work :-).
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>But the ladies who serve up (and sometimes cook!) school lunches are universally called "dinner ladies"
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>Up north, supper is a snack you have not long before bed.