All things English/American

Originally Posted by Merlin

Yuck to marmite*speets*

Ya poof! Marmite puts 'airs on yer chest man!

[Merlin]

Originally Posted by Incubus

Ya poof! Marmite puts 'airs on yer chest man!

Ha .. Don't need em .. Butch enough =p

[Merlin]

Have any of you americans had a fry up or a Sunday dinner ??

[Sparkle]

Originally Posted by Merlin

Have any of you americans had a fry up or a Sunday dinner ??

I make a goooood sunday roast, my former mother-in-law taught me how to disguise the parsnips as roast potatoes too.

I'm not fan of milky tea, and I detest instant coffee...but I managed just fine in blighty.

Originally Posted by Sparkle

I make a goooood sunday roast, my former mother-in-law taught me how to disguise the parsnips as roast potatoes too.

I'm not fan of milky tea, and I detest instant coffee...but I managed just fine in blighty.

Roast parsnips are yum and a must with Sunday lunch.


Now here we get what I think is a funny usage of UK English...

Do you 'mericans (to include all the races and nationalities who inhabit North America where this website is based) have dinner at lunch-time and tea at dinner time? Or is it always lunch in the middle of the day and dinner or supper at the end of the day?

Merlin I bet you have dinner and tea don't ya? I do at home but with Un-Mrs.I we have lunch and dinner.

How about you other Brits here too?

[Bit]

Originally Posted by Incubus

Do you 'mericans (to include all the races and nationalities who inhabit North America where this website is based) have dinner at lunch-time and tea at dinner time? Or is it always lunch in the middle of the day and dinner or supper at the end of the day?

I grew up always having lunch in the middle of the day, supper as the evening meal, and "dinner" only when it was formal--like the lunchtime "Sunday dinner." Tea time, as I understand it, is earlier than supper time; supper was always after work, so anywhere between 5:30 and 7 p.m.

[Gayla]

I don't know what a fry up is either.

Growing up, in a rural/farming community in Texas, the midday meal was called dinner and the evening meal was called supper. Dinner was usually a larger meal and, during certain times of the year was packed up and taken to the field so that everyone could eat together. Supper was usually smaller but was still usually something fried.

Originally Posted by Bit

I grew up always having lunch in the middle of the day, supper as the evening meal, and "dinner" only when it was formal--like the lunchtime "Sunday dinner." Tea time, as I understand it, is earlier than supper time; supper was always after work, so anywhere between 5:30 and 7 p.m.

Yes and that's how it traditionally is here but also traditionally because it's been that way for generations, working class northerners have had dinner in the middle of the day and tea (meaning dinner) later in the day after work. Must just be a Brit thing huh?

translation...Fry up (UK English: verb, adverb) a selection of fried food such as; bacon, sausage, eggs, mushrooms, black pudding et al...often accompanied with *shudders* Heinz baked beans and tinned plum or fried tomato (I'll pass on the tomato-y stuff ta ever so ) ......usually served with toast and lashings of tea.

[Sparkle]

Originally Posted by Incubus

Roast parsnips are yum and a must with Sunday lunch.


Now here we get what I think is a funny usage of UK English...

Do you 'mericans (to include all the races and nationalities who inhabit North America where this website is based) have dinner at lunch-time and tea at dinner time? Or is it always lunch in the middle of the day and dinner or supper at the end of the day?

Merlin I bet you have dinner and tea don't ya? I do at home but with Un-Mrs.I we have lunch and dinner.

How about you other Brits here too?

I love parsnips too. But my former partner and her sisters did not, hence the incognito.

On holidays and Sundays I have dinner late-midday and occasionally tea (tea the meal, not the drink in the evening. Otherwise it is breakfast/lunch & dinner. Or brunch & supper on the weekends when time and schedules are more fluid.

Originally Posted by Sparkle

I love parsnips too. But my former partner and her sisters did not, hence the incognito.

On holidays and Sundays I have dinner late-midday and occasionally tea (tea the meal, not the drink in the evening. Otherwise it is breakfast/lunch & dinner. Or brunch & supper on the weekends when time and schedules are more fluid.

Did they eat the roasted parsnips with no mention of the different taste? To be honest Un-Mrs.I has a time of it disguising all the veggies she has me eat.

So, we have brunch, lunch, dinner ...and... tea, dinner, supper

Here's another one to add to the mix. My Pops, a solid working class bloke who has dinner and tea, also has 'afters' instead of pudding or dessert. No accounting for some folks!

All the fry ups, English, Scottish, Welsh, Ulster fry are basically the same with variations according to region/country and personal taste. I love toasted Irish soda bread toasted with my Full English.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast


The wiki page shows a Full English with bubble and squeak, I have never seen a fry up with bubble and squeak......maybe they do that in 'posh' establishments!

I love the Somerset Maugham quote on the Wiki page

"To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day."

[Starbuck]

Originally Posted by Incubus

Roast parsnips are yum and a must with Sunday lunch.


Now here we get what I think is a funny usage of UK English...

Do you 'mericans (to include all the races and nationalities who inhabit North America where this website is based) have dinner at lunch-time and tea at dinner time? Or is it always lunch in the middle of the day and dinner or supper at the end of the day?

Merlin I bet you have dinner and tea don't ya? I do at home but with Un-Mrs.I we have lunch and dinner.

How about you other Brits here too?

This one is a funny disagreement between my dad and myself. He calls the three meals breakfast-dinner-supper.
I USED to call it that until I went into the Army and was "retrained" to call it breakfast-lunch-dinner...and you can have tea with any meal you want. I usually drink iced tea (no sweetner) unless I'm sick then it's hot tea with honey.

[Starbuck]

I love the Dr Who series, with the exception of The Doctor changing ever so often. I got so used to the last doctor I didn't want him to change! I thought he was actually kind of good looking and that he and Martha Jones would have made a brilliant couple because she was soooo in love with him! I don't know if he just didn't see it or if he chose not to see it because he was a Time Lord.

[StillettoDoll]

Originally Posted by Merlin

Have any of you americans had a fry up or a Sunday dinner ??

Not anymore! frying is bad for you .
But Sunday fried chicken yum. Use to too make that alot, with mashed potatoes.

[Bit]

What's a "fry up"?

Formal Sunday dinner here used to be almost a cultural icon, but I think most people today probably are more casual.

Marmite sounds rather... um... powerful.

I've been enjoying the thread; thank you for starting it, Merlin.

[Venus007]

I grew up eating an Ulster fry on weekends and holidays but my family is Irish (Antrim). We also added fried potatoes with onion because it wasn't heart attackie enough, lol.

Originally Posted by Merlin

Have any of you Americans had a fry up or a Sunday dinner ??