Breakfast
Lunch
Supper

>>Hi Jim, even though I replied already, I just noticed the detail in your title of this thread: hot lunch (some call it dinner). This is interesting because growing up in Wisconsin, dinner was the evening meal or referred to as we usually called it: supper. Here in NC, dinner is lunch or supper, you only know by the time of day it is!
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>>Tracy
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>Tracy;
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>How to confuse people. Just ask English speaking people what they call his/her meals during the day. Ask the British what they call each meal and the answer will differ according to the area of the UK they live in, much as it does in the United States.
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>Option 1
>Breakfast
>Lunch (a light meal)
>Dinner (main meal of the day)
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>Option 2
>Breakfast
>Dinner (mid day meal)
>Supper (evening meal)
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>Additonal options?
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>Supper is often a light meal but not always.
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>Some cultures insist that the heaviest meal be eaten at midday. This allows the system to digest food better. Other cultures will eat the evening meal at 11 PM (many members of my wife’s family in Spain are accustomed to this).
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>What is the correct name for each of the meals we eat? It depends where you are.
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>We never use supper at our house as that is how I was raised. So option 1 above is what we use.
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>What other names for meals do we use?
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>Tom