Rant!

ScarlettUK

zepsgal wrote: »

:rotfl:

Well I do live in Spam Valley, so called cos we all had bought houses, we could only afford to eat spam cos our mortgage was so high :rotfl: So yeah, you could say I'm posh :rotfl:

They used to call the place where I grew up the "jam butty estate" for the same reason

barbiedoll

Breakfast is at 7am and again (at work) at 9am.

Elevenses is at around 10.30am.

Lunch is eaten at dinner time. Dinner is what we eat at teatime (between 5-7pm).............unless it has chips in it, in which case, we call it tea. As in "Do you want chips for tea?"

Supper is cheese on toast (with tea, the beverage) at approx 10pm.

Glad to have cleared that up!

(And buy your salad at a market or ethnic shop....way cheaper!)

pulliptears

ScarlettUK wrote: »

They used to call the place where I grew up the "jam butty estate" for the same reason

Potteries dialect dictates that you don't have butties, or even sandwiches. Those things you take to work for 'dinner' are your 'pieces'.

Azari

Junk food is cheaper than fresh for a few very simple reasons:

The basic ingredients are cheap and it generally has a much longer shelf life.

A lot of the items on your list would have been imported and most of them will have a shelf life of a few days. They are bulky, and they also need to be transported and stored carefully and treated with some delicacy (at least compared to most junk food).

Compare an contrast with high carb/high sugar junk food that uses cheap ingredients which, even if they have to be imported, have a much greater energy density and longer storage life.

vyle

I've always had breakfast, then if my midday meal is hot, it's dinner, because then i'd have a cold evening meal as "tea."

If the midday meal is cold, I call it lunch, and the hot evening meal would be dinner.

Own_My_Own

Just so I know for future reference.
Is this yoghurt I am eating my afters or dessert ?

pulliptears

Own_My_Own wrote: »

Just so I know for future reference.
Is this yoghurt I am eating my afters or dessert ?

Neither. Its your pudding!

dibuzz

Afters of course

Own_My_Own

pulliptears wrote: »

Neither. Its your pudding!

Never thought of that one.

dibuzz wrote: »

Afters of course

Yes of course it is, I am at home.

We only have dessert when we are out.

(We're not secret snobs really) :rotfl:

Azari

I was born in London and have lived there or in the SE for most of my life.

And yet I always have and always will call my main evening meal tea. (I've no idea why I seem to be at odds with other southerners.)

But it doesn't 'alf annoy SE locals.