Time of day for eating dinner/lunch

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Nothing here either. We have more than enough food. However our daughter is doing it this year so anything can happen. We have eaten xmas day at 2pm for 35 plus years
Daughter is talking more like 5pm.
I knew I shouldn't have let her do it
Nuts

Russ
 
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rascal said:
Nothing here either. We have more than enough food. However our daughter is doing it this year so anything can happen. We have eaten xmas day at 2pm for 35 plus years
Daughter is talking more like 5pm.
I knew I shouldn't have let her do it
Nuts

Russ
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My mum couldn’t ever get Christmas dinner on the table for her planned 2pm and it was frequently after 5pm sometimes 6pm before any food appeared. We were unbelievably hungry by then because we weren't allowed breakfast due to this large ‘lunch’ that was coming.

Consequently we’d eat all of the chocolate we’d been given and spend most of Christmas Day feeling sick! 😂
 
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
My mum couldn’t ever get Christmas dinner on the table for her planned 2pm and it was frequently after 5pm sometimes 6pm before any food appeared. We were unbelievably hungry by then because we weren't allowed breakfast due to this large ‘lunch’ that was coming.

Consequently we’d eat all of the chocolate we’d been given and spend most of Christmas Day feeling sick! 😂
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I know what you mean. Mum always served up at midday. Religiously. My youngest brother made a derogatory comment about lunch and mum threw a wobbly and said I'm not doing it again. That's when I took over. I too stuck to midday until our d.i.l family started xmas breakfast. So i moved it to 2pm to give then time to get here.
I'm NOT sitting down for lunch at 5 pm

Russ
 
rascal said:
I know what you mean. Mum always served up at midday. Religiously. My youngest brother made a derogatory comment about lunch and mum threw a wobbly and said I'm not doing it again. That's when I took over. I too stuck to midday until our d.i.l family started xmas breakfast. So i moved it to 2pm to give then time to get here.
I'm NOT sitting down for lunch at 5 pm

Russ
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Good luck getting her to change her mind, it’s obviously something she fancies doing 😬
 
rascal said:
They definitely do in France


Russ
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I’ve been to France A LOT and lunch might start late and perhaps if you’re not working go on til 5pm and dinner (ie evening meal) in France 8 or 9pm then yes but no meal starts at 5pm

Edit - not entirely true, children’s ‘tea’ is often at 5pm in the uk.
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
I’ve been to France A LOT and lunch might start late and perhaps if you’re not working go on til 5pm and dinner (ie evening meal) in France 8 or 9pm then yes but no meal starts at 5pm

Edit - not entirely true, children’s ‘tea’ is often at 5pm in the uk.
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And kids in france were until recently allowed wine every day. I think 500mls???
Crazy.

Russ
 
We used to have Xmas lunch in my house about 1.30-2pm.
Everyone went to Sunday Eucharist at 10am, and it was always packed, so it never finished until after 11am. Then (since we were all in the choir) we had to do Matins as well, at 11.30. By the time we got home it was well after 12.30.
Over here in Caracas, I used to do Christmas Lunch for the entire family/close friends. Sometimes, 30 would turn up but...
Christmas is celebrated on the 24th over here, and it starts around 8pm. We usually eat around 11.30pm.
No-one ever came to my Christmas lunch until about 4pm, and generally, hungover. We usually ate around 7.30-8pm. No problem.
Eating meals at fixed times is just not done over here - nor in France, Spain or Italy, and certainly not in South America. You eat when the food is ready, or when you're hungry and there's no big deal.
 
rascal said:
Shes spent time in the uk and France where they were eating at 8pm.or 9pm.
So shes a Europe snob now
.they eat at that time here now.
Nuts

Russ
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Never been to Europe but after the kids moved out (we used to eat at 5-6 pm) we started eating later and later. Now we eat dinners 9 or later. Our nephew and his wife host holiday dinners and we eat at 7. Fine by us!
 
rascal said:
And kids in france were until recently allowed wine every day. I think 500mls???
Crazy.

Russ
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Kids are sometimes allowed wine with dinner, but it generally is diluted with water and only in a home setting. They can't just go out and order wine
Then besides just saying: Crazy.....
What's the last time you heard about binge drinking in France?
Kids learn to deal with alcohol, like they learn to deal with money.
 
karadekoolaid said:
Eating meals at fixed times is just not done over here - nor in France, Spain or Italy, and certainly not in South America. You eat when the food is ready, or when you're hungry and there's no big deal.
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They do have fixed times. Not rigidly fixed but I can assure you if you turn up at a restaurant in Spain at the usual Brit time of 1pm for lunch the restaurant will be barely open, the staff will be slightly irritable that you’re there so early and you’ll likely have the place entirely to yourself because they don’t start lunch til 2 or 3pm.

Before 1pm you’re even likely to get turned away.
The evening rush doesn’t start until late with most places not filling up completely until 9pm.

In the morning because they’ve eaten so late they generally don’t have breakfast as we know it and will just have coffee and maybe a pastry around 11am.
So yer they do stick to fixed times and have strong habits.
Strong enough that even McDonald’s and Burger King bend their usually expansive opening hours and don’t bother getting started till 11.30am at the earliest.
It’s not until you’re living in it that you can properly see it.

Although of course in cities it’s slightly different.
 
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