Today I learned...

[doowdniw]

meals were generally smaller and more frequent, with breakfast, elevensies, dinner, four o'clocksies, tea-time, and supper. probably a much healthier way to eat than huge blow-out meals or once-a-day eating.

Elevensies - I was wondering if that was going to mentioned. I have a cousin in Surrey who follows your schedule. Elevensies and four o'clocksies and tea time are almost a religious rite.

 

[dolf]

But do you pronounce it to rhyme with bone or gone?

Gone. Obviously. Because I'm not a pretentious peasant.

 

[jaF0]

*Dinner is lunch, supper is dinner.

Red is grey and yellow white.

But we decide which is right.

And which is an illusion.

 

[Liar]

Elevensies - I was wondering if that was going to mentioned. I have a cousin in Surrey who follows your schedule. Elevensies and four o'clocksies and tea time are almost a religious rite.

Swear to god, I thought Tolkien made those up.

 

[ishtat]

In HK a few years back I took my lady to afternoon tea at the Peninsula Hotel. The colonial effort could not be faulted - except, that instead of properly cubed sugar and silver tongs, it came in little paper sachet's. We were shocked at this barbarity, and the fact that neither of us takes sugar is immaterial.

And why does one "take" sugar?

 

[Liar]

I'm having tea for breakfast right now.

 

[jaF0]

^^ I just had oatmeal.

 

[Liar]

Anyway, it's not like we're any less confusing. The Swedish word for dinner, as in the evening meal, is "middag". Which literally means mid-day.

 

[jaF0]

When is vittles?

 

[dolf]

In HK a few years back I took my lady to afternoon tea at the Peninsula Hotel. The colonial effort could not be faulted - except, that instead of properly cubed sugar and silver tongs, it came in little paper sachet's. We were shocked at this barbarity, and the fact that neither of us takes sugar is immaterial.

And why does one "take" sugar?

 

[jaF0]

And why does one "take" sugar?

You can take your Sugar to Tea:


"Ev'ry sunday afternoon
We forget about our cares
Rubbing elbows at the Ritz
With those millionaires

When I take my sugar to tea
I'm as Ritzy there as can be
'Cause I never take her where the gang goes
When I take my sugar to tea"

 

[Liar]

When is vittles?

In five minutes. Always.

 

[Liar]

And why does one "take" sugar?

Because it would be weird to borrow it.

 

[domroger]

Lunch at noon ,high tea at four ,dinner at eight and supper at midnight .