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Pukka mealtimes
When is the pukka time to eat? My understanding is as follows, but I will welcome any corrections or suggestions particularly those with references.
Chota Hazri - Five Thirty (05h30)
Breakfast - Seven (07h00)
Elevenses - Eleven (11h00)
Lunch - Lunchtime (12h30)
Afternoon Tea - Teatime (15h30)
Dinner - Seven (19h00)
Supper - Ten Thirty (22h30)
Midnight Snack - Midnight (24h00)
Midnight Feast - To Midnight (23h30 - 00h30)
There are other snack times possible, but they don't have proper names.
Other important meals are:
Picnics - Afternoon (11h30 - 19h00)
Barbeque Lunch - Afternoon (12h30 - 18h00)
Barbeque Supper - Evening (16h00 - 20h00)
It is also important to remember that luncheon can be taken at any time of the day though it is most commonly had at lunchtime. I understand that Police usage referrs to Lunch as the 'Midday Meal' - this is, I suppose, to avoid problems arising from difficulties pinning people down when presented with statements such as 'It happened shortly before lunch'.
I have tried various authorities to get this information - the OED is vague regarding most terms, 'dinner' is 'now usually in the evening', for example, which covers a multitude of sins. It is a little more helpful in indicating that dinner is normally the main meal of the day, whilst supper is the last meal of the day. The OED does, sadly, contradict itself on the subject of breakfast, claiming it to be the first meal of the day, when, as ani fule kno, it can be preceeded by both a midnight snack or a chota hazri. A snack is properly described as an incidental repast -
The usually helpful 'Enquire Within Upon Everything' only provides a vague suggestion that people invited for dinner should have the time specified as 7:30 for 8:00 which suggests that, after sherry, those invited may only actually go through to dine at half past eight, or even nine.
She is now old enough, she said, to have lived to hear the vulgarisms of her youth adopted in drawing-room circles. To lunch, now so familiar from the fairest lips, in her youth was only known in the servants hall. - D'Israeli 1823
Chota Hazri - Five Thirty (05h30)
Breakfast - Seven (07h00)
Elevenses - Eleven (11h00)
Lunch - Lunchtime (12h30)
Afternoon Tea - Teatime (15h30)
Dinner - Seven (19h00)
Supper - Ten Thirty (22h30)
Midnight Snack - Midnight (24h00)
Midnight Feast - To Midnight (23h30 - 00h30)
There are other snack times possible, but they don't have proper names.
Other important meals are:
Picnics - Afternoon (11h30 - 19h00)
Barbeque Lunch - Afternoon (12h30 - 18h00)
Barbeque Supper - Evening (16h00 - 20h00)
It is also important to remember that luncheon can be taken at any time of the day though it is most commonly had at lunchtime. I understand that Police usage referrs to Lunch as the 'Midday Meal' - this is, I suppose, to avoid problems arising from difficulties pinning people down when presented with statements such as 'It happened shortly before lunch'.
I have tried various authorities to get this information - the OED is vague regarding most terms, 'dinner' is 'now usually in the evening', for example, which covers a multitude of sins. It is a little more helpful in indicating that dinner is normally the main meal of the day, whilst supper is the last meal of the day. The OED does, sadly, contradict itself on the subject of breakfast, claiming it to be the first meal of the day, when, as ani fule kno, it can be preceeded by both a midnight snack or a chota hazri. A snack is properly described as an incidental repast -
The usually helpful 'Enquire Within Upon Everything' only provides a vague suggestion that people invited for dinner should have the time specified as 7:30 for 8:00 which suggests that, after sherry, those invited may only actually go through to dine at half past eight, or even nine.
She is now old enough, she said, to have lived to hear the vulgarisms of her youth adopted in drawing-room circles. To lunch, now so familiar from the fairest lips, in her youth was only known in the servants hall. - D'Israeli 1823
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Well, according to this, I'm all over the place!! 30 with any amount of snacks in between. Of course, things also vary according to season.
- Well, according to this, I'm all over the place!!
- 30 with any amount of snacks in between.
- Of course, things also vary according to season.
- 30.
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Well, according to this, I'm all over the place!! I usually have
Breakfast at 10.30
Dinner at 13.30
Tea at 20.30
with any amount of snacks in between. Of course, things also vary according to season. In the summer when I'm still outside at 22.00 I might not have tea until 22.30. You must also allow for the differences between regions (or is it social classes?). I'm from the No
Breakfast at 10.30
Dinner at 13.30
Tea at 20.30
with any amount of snacks in between. Of course, things also vary according to season. In the summer when I'm still outside at 22.00 I might not have tea until 22.30. You must also allow for the differences between regions (or is it social classes?). I'm from the No
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[nq:1]Lunch - Lunchtime (12h30)[/nq]
12 noon in France 1pm in the UK and 2pm in Spain.
12 noon in France 1pm in the UK and 2pm in Spain.
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[nq:2]Lunch - Lunchtime (12h30)[/nq]
[nq:1]12 noon in France 1pm in the UK and 2pm in Spain.[/nq]
Depending on the time of year that's true - it is also about midnight in New Zealand.
I suppose that the moral of the story is not to eat a Franch or Spanish lunch in England. Contrariwise don't insist on lunchtime being 12h00 GMT when you are visiting Auckland.
Mind you, I didn't spec
[nq:1]12 noon in France 1pm in the UK and 2pm in Spain.[/nq]
Depending on the time of year that's true - it is also about midnight in New Zealand.
I suppose that the moral of the story is not to eat a Franch or Spanish lunch in England. Contrariwise don't insist on lunchtime being 12h00 GMT when you are visiting Auckland.
Mind you, I didn't spec
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Following up to Peter H.M. Brooks
[nq:1]Chota Hazri - Five Thirty (05h30) Breakfast - Seven (07h00) Elevenses - Eleven (11h00) Lunch - Lunchtime (12h30) Afternoon Tea - Teatime (15h30) Dinner - Seven (19h00) Supper - Ten Thirty (22h30) Midnight Snack - Midnight (24h00) Midnight Feast - To Midnight (23h30 - 00h30)[/nq]
To complicate things I think you need to acknowledge national difference
[nq:1]Chota Hazri - Five Thirty (05h30) Breakfast - Seven (07h00) Elevenses - Eleven (11h00) Lunch - Lunchtime (12h30) Afternoon Tea - Teatime (15h30) Dinner - Seven (19h00) Supper - Ten Thirty (22h30) Midnight Snack - Midnight (24h00) Midnight Feast - To Midnight (23h30 - 00h30)[/nq]
To complicate things I think you need to acknowledge national difference
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[nq:1]Following up to Peter H.M. Brooks[/nq]
[nq:2]Chota Hazri - Five Thirty (05h30) Breakfast - Seven (07h00) ... Midnight (24h00) Midnight Feast - To Midnight (23h30 - 00h30)[/nq]
[nq:1]To complicate things I think you need to acknowledge national differences, dinner in southern Spain being near midnight on summer weekends.[/nq]
Yes, but those aren't pukka mealtimes - in Spain you ca
[nq:2]Chota Hazri - Five Thirty (05h30) Breakfast - Seven (07h00) ... Midnight (24h00) Midnight Feast - To Midnight (23h30 - 00h30)[/nq]
[nq:1]To complicate things I think you need to acknowledge national differences, dinner in southern Spain being near midnight on summer weekends.[/nq]
Yes, but those aren't pukka mealtimes - in Spain you ca
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Following up to Peter H.M. Brooks
[nq:2]To complicate things I think you need to acknowledge national differences, dinner in southern Spain being near midnight on summer weekends.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes, but those aren't pukka mealtimes - in Spain you can have a pukka bullfight (or Corrida) or a pukka Moorish Castle, but you can't have a pukka meal time.[/nq]
Why not. Could you elucidate a lit
[nq:2]To complicate things I think you need to acknowledge national differences, dinner in southern Spain being near midnight on summer weekends.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes, but those aren't pukka mealtimes - in Spain you can have a pukka bullfight (or Corrida) or a pukka Moorish Castle, but you can't have a pukka meal time.[/nq]
Why not. Could you elucidate a lit
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[nq:1]Following up to Peter H.M. Brooks[/nq]
[nq:2]Yes, but those aren't pukka mealtimes - in Spain you ... pukka Moorish Castle, but you can't have apukka meal time.[/nq]
[nq:1]Why not. Could you elucidate a little?[/nq]
Because for English speaking people, pukka meal times are what you have in pukka circles in Pom.
[nq:2]Synchronisity - if you only have a few peculiar beliefs it
[nq:2]Yes, but those aren't pukka mealtimes - in Spain you ... pukka Moorish Castle, but you can't have apukka meal time.[/nq]
[nq:1]Why not. Could you elucidate a little?[/nq]
Because for English speaking people, pukka meal times are what you have in pukka circles in Pom.
[nq:2]Synchronisity - if you only have a few peculiar beliefs it
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[nq:1]When is the pukka time to eat?[/nq]
What's 'pukka'? And what's 'pukka sahib'? (The latter is a favorite term of Agatha Christie's.(1))
(1) Yes, I wrote 'is', knowing she's dead. I do so. I'll even say "so-and-so writes" or "so-and-so holds". So sue me.
Michael Hamm Since mid-September of 2003, BA scl Math, PBK, NYU I've been erasing too much UBE. (Email Removed) Of a reply,
What's 'pukka'? And what's 'pukka sahib'? (The latter is a favorite term of Agatha Christie's.(1))
(1) Yes, I wrote 'is', knowing she's dead. I do so. I'll even say "so-and-so writes" or "so-and-so holds". So sue me.
Michael Hamm Since mid-September of 2003, BA scl Math, PBK, NYU I've been erasing too much UBE. (Email Removed) Of a reply,
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[nq:1]Peter H.M. Brooks wrote, in part:[/nq]
[nq:2]When is the pukka time to eat?[/nq]
[nq:1]What's 'pukka'? And what's 'pukka sahib'? (The latter is a favorite term of Agatha Christie's.(1))[/nq]
www.m-w.com is your friend.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:2]When is the pukka time to eat?[/nq]
[nq:1]What's 'pukka'? And what's 'pukka sahib'? (The latter is a favorite term of Agatha Christie's.(1))[/nq]
www.m-w.com is your friend.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
www.geocities.com/opus731/
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[nq:2]Peter H.M. Brooks wrote, in part: What's 'pukka'? And what's 'pukka sahib'? (The latter is a favorite term of Agatha Christie's.(1))[/nq]
[nq:1]www.m-w.com is your friend.[/nq]
Now that we've trimmed away the intruders, did anyone notice that fellow Brooks using the spelling "syncronisity" and giving Disraeli an apostrophe: "D'Israeli" (and probably doing a couple of other such thing
[nq:1]www.m-w.com is your friend.[/nq]
Now that we've trimmed away the intruders, did anyone notice that fellow Brooks using the spelling "syncronisity" and giving Disraeli an apostrophe: "D'Israeli" (and probably doing a couple of other such thing
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