you're probably right, fwed. i now call my meals b'fast, lunch and dinner.



when i lived in the uk, i was always confused about invitations to "tea" and "supper". i had to ask people exactly what they meant, or i would turn up at the wrong time, expecting a cup of tea, when the main meal was being served.



i also lived in france at one stage. their main meal is lunch - usually a two-hour break beginning at noon.



one learns to adapt.

When I was a kid we had tea in the evening but now.

Dinner is our main meal whether we have it at lunch time

or evening so with us we have breakfast

lunch middle of the day and Dinner in the eve.

but we never have "tea" at lunchtime lol

Sorry yes we do, we always have tea with our lunch and with

breakfast and dinner :lol:

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Well the full moon is almost due isn't it?

Hi ho hi ho it's off to shop we go.

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I am a real ocker and we still have breakfast, dinner and tea ,I have converted my Scottish husband to think my way as well

When I was a child, the evening meal was always "tea-time". These days, I suppose that I have gone with the flow and usually refer to the evening meal as "dinner". There are times however, when I speak without think and ask "Whats for tea?". Like many, I am one who just naturally thinks in those terms...... likewise, I still think in "feet and inches".

Im with you Kfc, I find if on my own think what il have for tea, as thats how we were brought up breakfast dinner and tea but if talking to others will say ,Whats for lunch, or what are you having for dinner meaning the evening meal.I was at Vinnies the other day and said to the lady working alongside me and she is an australian, "im going for smoko" meaning morning tea. She was horrified and said" but you dont smoke do you" she had no idea what i was talking about,sad that so much of our aussie language is dead or being cast off. I love the fact that different parts of aus have diferent sayings, that when pronounced one can tell where they are from the minute they open their mouths, like territorians put aye on the end of everything",like its a nice day aye " Wobbly

Fwed, you beat me to this one, "Americanisms in Australia" Grrrrrrrr, almost as bad as "Political correctness" this is one of my soap box jobs but I promise to keep it low key..........Today Hubby and I were walking through one of our local shopping centers ( note not mall) when there was one of those centre stalls selling jewelry, on the advertising placards it read " Happy MOMS Day, May 8th is MOMS day, do you think I would buy from there?????? not in your nelly would I buy from there. Why can't we keep our own language? it is unique to Aus, are we so embarrassed about it or do we just want to "keep up with the Joneses" or in this case "Americans".........See I promised to keep it low key. :)



I was brought up with Breakfast, (before sunrise) morning lunch, (about 10am) Dinner, (about midday) Afternoon lunch, (about 3pm) and Tea, (after dark), I say "about" as we never had watches back then so we used the sun to tell the time, today it depends, our kids have gone all modern (as kids do) with their breakfast, lunch and Dinner but I usually say Breakfast, lunch and Tea, if the kids ask what's for dinner? I know what they mean, and if I start talking about Tea they know what I mean. When I invite someone around I usually use Dinner for the evening meal. If I'm asked around for Dinner I always ask "what time would you like us there"? The lunch bit is a compromise with my kids.

Thanks for that Deanna,

Sort of reminds me of a time I was in New York many years ago.

I was having breakfast with a group of friends.

Some were from different countries but most were from USA.

I was as usual eating using my knife and fork.

Later one of the group approached me and told me my eating habits reminded him of when he was in New Guinea.



I was the odd one out by eating using a knife and fork.

The American way was to use the knife to cut up the food then put the knife aside and just use the fork.



I hope we do not copy that style.

One of my daughters does that, she was very high up in her chosen sport and spent a lot of time with sponsors and media groups, I never knew that was an American thing, will ask her why she does it now. Come to think of it I have done it for years, started when the kids were little, having them on my lap I only had one hand to eat with so would cut up my food and use the fork to eat it with. ( I guess all Mums probably do that ). Funny isn't it how some things that are said makes you realise habits that we have that we are oblivious to. :)

When I was a kid we had tea in the evening but now.

Dinner is our main meal whether we have it at lunch time

or evening so with us we have breakfast

lunch middle of the day and Dinner in the eve.

but we never have "tea" at lunchtime lol

Sorry yes we do, we always have tea with our lunch and with

breakfast and dinner :lol:

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Well the full moon is almost due isn't it?

Hi ho hi ho it's off to shop we go.

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You like the Moon and Stars as well Phyl, I love sitting outside on a cloudless night just looking skyward. When I was a kid I use to look for the Satellites at night going across the sky.

I nearly got divorced one night, was about 6 years ago, we were camped by a lake up North of WA, it was a bright moonlight night, a little crisp but as still as still, about 2,30am the moon set and the stars shone. I could hear the sound of swans so I got up and went outside to have a look at the lake and what I saw was breathtaking. The lake was so still it was like glass, the stars were so bright they reflected on the lake and all I could see was sky to lake stars and in the middle of it was these two black swans just swimming along, so what did I do???? well I did what every good wife would do.......raced back into the caravan and shook Hubby out of a veeerrrry deeeep sleep and told him to come outside and take a look, he still tells everybody who will listen how I woke him up that night just to look at the stars :-) All jokes aside, he was glad I did as it was a magical moment. Now what was the topic??????? Oh yes, it was too early for brekky.

Thats a beautiful memory Deanna, and a lovely story to start the day with. wobbly

I do very much love the moon and stars Deanna.

Like you blessed with the love of my life and he

will sit with his arm around me like your hubby

any time of the night and look at the sky.

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Peter is VERY interested in the sky and quite knowledegible

about what goes on up there.

I am in awe of looking at the Southern Cross here in Vic.

and family can look at it also at the same time from

so far away.

wonderful hey.

Have a special Tuesday.

[size=3][/size][b] I also miss some of the Australian slang. I used to say "It's smoko time too to my crew at work."



There's one saying that makes me know where someone comes from and that is

Cocky's Joy. It's a very old saying for people from NSW meaning Golden Syrup and you hardly ever hear it these days[/b]

I have always believed tea is tea, coffee is coffee

and Bonox is Bonox so surely

We eat Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner which makes

a bit more sense.

Some change is better and makes more sense as we

are never to old to learn. Then again if it suits anyone's

family to call their evening meal tea nobody

goes to jail for it do they so do whatever rocks your boat.

Seggie. Breakfast, lunch and tea. It was always 'what's for tea'. Many many years ago in Scotland, we were asked if we'd join the owners of the B. and B. for supper. Oh we were green. We said no but thank you. Little did we realise they meant would we have tea with them and we sat in our little room, eating sandwiches we'd made. We could have kicked ourselves when we found out we could have had a nice hot meal. We all laughed over breakfast the next morning.