What do you call it - meal names?

I call it:
Breakfast (sometimes brekky for a change of pace)
Lunch
Dinner/Supper sometimes (which has caused J. to go   what's supper)

Lupper if it's a big meal meant to be lunch and dinner together
Brunch if it's breakfast/lunch

Snacks if its anything not B/L/D

I almost always call something sweet after a meal "pudding" now, since my friends have gotten me into that habit- or for a giggle "What's for afters?"

Friends sometimes call a packed lunch "piece" - J calls anything that's a packed meal "bait"

My mom got really confused about "Fish Tea"  - she was like "Fish Tea? That sounds revolting!!" and I had to try and explain what that meant.  

For DH and his family and friends and all local people, that I'm aware of, it's

Breakfast

Dinner

Tea

Supper (usually my FIL is the only one I know who officially has supper because he loves food.  For him, its usually a sandwich or a cup of soup, cheese or paté and biscuits, etc.)


I usually refer to "tea" as dinner, and lunch is always lunch to me, unless it's Sunday dinner.  DH and I usually get confused, though, during those "What's for dinner?" conversations. 

My mom got really confused about "Fish Tea"  - she was like "Fish Tea? That sounds revolting!!" and I had to try and explain what that meant.  

Ha! I remember when I first moved here, there was a pub or chippy advertising 'Fish Tea' for £3.95.  I thought to myself "Who would spend 4 bucks on tea that tastes like fish?!'   

There's two different versions in my life. Here at home, the meals are known as:

Breakfast, lunch, tea. We don't snack in between, the parents and DH just have lots of drinks in between, but, I almost never do.

At the nursery, for the kids it's:
Breakfast, snack, dinner, snack, tea. The employees get a 15 min break, and a 45 min "dinner".

My packed lunch is a "sarnie"(which I thought meant sardines, which, of course, it doesn't) with a "piece of" fruit, and sometimes some sort of cake or biscuit, when I can be bothered at 5am to remember to take something like that, and a canned drink.

A slightly related question: do the Brits in your life use napkins/serviettes? My BF (from London) says his family only ever used them when they went out to a restaurant and he ocassionally marvels at the wonder of having napkins at the table for every meal like it's some kind of special treat.  We had dinner with some friends of his from college (Manchester) and they wound up giving me a tea towel 'cause it was that or some kleenex. Have other people encountered this?

Don't use them at home, except if having a party/BBQ.

We just use a sheet of kitchen roll if we need anything.

We use cloth napkins that get washed with all of the other laundry. Then again, DH's parents come from another age, where everything had to be "just so". When I lived in San Diego, my room mate and I just used kitchen towel rolls as napkins, so, go figure!

Yep, packed meals up here are also called bait. And no one I know seems to use napkins or anything either. The first dinner I had at MIL's house, I was desperate for a napkin of some sort since we were having something gravy laden and I'm kind of a messy eater, but they looked at me like I was nuts. They didn't even have any kitchen roll. 

Yep, packed meals up here are also called bait. And no one I know seems to use napkins or anything either. The first dinner I had at MIL's house, I was desperate for a napkin of some sort since we were having something gravy laden and I'm kind of a messy eater, but they looked at me like I was nuts. They didn't even have any kitchen roll. 

I hate the no napkin thing!  We have cloth ones (because it's "greener", but I am often guilty of using tissues as napkins, too.  MIL uses cloth napkins, at least when we come over.

Growing up in MA -
breakfast,
lunch,
dinner/supper used interchangeably
dessert

On the napkins/serviette question, we always used paper napkins growing up except at my grandparents where we used paper towels or "Polish napkins" as Grandma referred to them.

Here at our house we say
breakfast
lunch (unless a Sunday or Holiday then Dinner)
Dinner (unless a Sunday or Holiday then Tea)

We have paper napkins out for parties, cloth napkins for Holiday dinners or our anniversary etc.  Normal meals we just wipe Jean up with a muslin after she eats.

I think I want cloth napkins...I would use them.  Maybe I will ask for them for Christmas and then a table to eat on, oh yeah and a room to fit a table 
I am sure DH will understand lol

My cloth napkins came from Target after Christmas clearance 

My packed lunch is a "sarnie"(which I thought meant sardines, which, of course, it doesn't)

That's always my first thought, too!

Well, in Yorkshire I had to get used to "You can go for your dinner now" at lunchtime and being invited round for "Sunday lunch" which turned out to be dinner. DH is from the Midlands so would come home from work to say someone had invited us for "tea" and I would say "Is that your cuppa tea or is it a meal?" and he would shrug. So I never knew what to expect. Embarrassing.
At home in New England we had Breakfast, "Second Breakfast" (for my mother), Lunch (except on Sunday -- it was Dinner) and Supper when my father got home at 6:00. On Saturdays we almost always had franks and B&M baked beans! My father warmed up the leftover beans for breakfast on Sunday 

As an east coast american married to another of the same stripe, I had no idea what was going on in that "what's for tea today" thread.     Since it's just the two of us, meals are called what they always were:

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

A heavy or formal meal served any time after noon (like Christmas, Thanksgiving, family gatherings of days gone by) would also be dinner. 

At our house, if there is no dinner (because I've been out or sick or lazy), then you get to "scrounge" and cobble together whatever you want.

In our flat:
Breakfast
Lunch
that meal we eat whenever we get home after work

At MIL:
Breakfast
Lunch
Tea

At the stables where I  help out:
Brekkie
a brew
Dinner
a brew
Tea
a brew
Supper
(I believe anything not labeled "a brew" is actually optional )