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Re: What do you call it - meal names?
« Reply #45 on: August 23, 2010, 04:48:45 PM »
Growing up it was breakfast, lunch & supper.  My parents were from MN & NB, is "supper" a midwest term?

Pre-UK it was breakfast, lunch & dinner for me.

For my Yorkshireman husband it's breakfast, dinner & tea.  And supper for him is a late-evening snack of sarnie, cheese&crackers, bowl of cereal, or something like that.


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Re: What do you call it - meal names?
« Reply #46 on: August 23, 2010, 07:13:21 PM »
  My parents were from MN & NB, is "supper" a midwest term?


I'm from Philadelphia and we called it supper when I was growing up.
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Re: What do you call it - meal names?
« Reply #47 on: August 23, 2010, 07:32:16 PM »
I forgot, and kept on forgetting.....

Here at home: Dessert is called "seconds" or "afters"

At the nursery: Dessert is called "pudding".

When I worked at my first nursery, I was always confused, because the "pudding" came after the children's "dinner". It's the same at the nursery I'm at now. I was even more confused, because when the "pudding" would come out, it was like, cakes or yogurt or something like that.

Which, by the way-does anyone else have yogurt for their dessert? I always thought yogurt was a breakfast/snack thing, myself, but, DH's family have it for their dessert when we have a "lighter" meal, and the kids also have it, usually covering some fruit or something.
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Re: What do you call it - meal names?
« Reply #48 on: August 23, 2010, 07:49:09 PM »

Which, by the way-does anyone else have yogurt for their dessert? I always thought yogurt was a breakfast/snack thing, myself, but, DH's family have it for their dessert when we have a "lighter" meal, and the kids also have it, usually covering some fruit or something.
I never had yogurt as a dessert in the US, but I can totally see why someone would have it as a healthy option dessert since it is sweet and creamy.

MIL always offers us fruit with yogurt or cream for dessert, but I prefer my fruit without stuff on it, and I prefer it as a snack or breakfast, not for dessert.  Usually too stuffed for dessert anyway....
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Re: What do you call it - meal names?
« Reply #49 on: August 23, 2010, 07:58:12 PM »
I never had yogurt as a dessert in the US, but I can totally see why someone would have it as a healthy option dessert since it is sweet and creamy.

MIL always offers us fruit with yogurt or cream for dessert, but I prefer my fruit without stuff on it, and I prefer it as a snack or breakfast, not for dessert.  Usually too stuffed for dessert anyway....

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's why we have it for seconds. It is good, though. They always get me some soya yogurt, which is lovely! I didn't need any seconds tonight. Had lunch at a pub and was well full after tea! :D
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Re: What do you call it - meal names?
« Reply #50 on: August 23, 2010, 11:14:27 PM »


Which, by the way-does anyone else have yogurt for their dessert? I always thought yogurt was a breakfast/snack thing, myself, but, DH's family have it for their dessert when we have a "lighter" meal, and the kids also have it, usually covering some fruit or something.

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Re: What do you call it - meal names?
« Reply #51 on: August 24, 2010, 01:06:53 PM »
My mother was invited to a meal with some visiting English ladies and they offered tinned grapefruit with ice cream on top for dessert!  :-\\\\
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Re: What do you call it - meal names?
« Reply #52 on: August 24, 2010, 01:24:06 PM »
My mother was invited to a meal with some visiting English ladies and they offered tinned grapefruit with ice cream on top for dessert!  :-\\\\

Thats extravagant! Either fruit OR ice cream, can't have both!  ;D
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