Ask Me Anything - being a Northerner

[buryboy]

Originally Posted by EssexSue

You have confused me now.

Sunday is the only exception you can have Sunday lunch or Sunday dinner.

You could also technically have Sunday dinner any day (aka a midweek roast).

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Brilliant 😀😀😀

So are you now saying that your post number 154 only referred to Sundays ? ( because in that you says you could have dinner at lunchtime ).

I thought you were just talking generally !

So during the week - assuming you don’t have a roast - what do you call the meal you have around 1pm and what do you call the meal you have around 6pm ?

( and does its name change depending on what it consists of - assuming it’s not a roast )

My post at 158 was meant to be ‘ funny ‘ but it was actually what I thought you meant by post 154 )

[EssexSue]

Originally Posted by buryboy

Brilliant 😀😀😀

So are you now saying that your post number 154 only referred to Sundays ? ( because in that you says you could have dinner at lunchtime ).

I thought you were just talking generally !

So during the week - assuming you don’t have a roast - what do you call the meal you have around 1pm and what do you call the meal you have around 6pm ?

( and does its name change depending on what it consists of - assuming it’s not a roast )

My post at 158 was meant to be ‘ funny ‘ but it was actually what I thought you meant by post 154 )

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No not just Sunday but generally that's the only day the main meal is eaten at midday.

[buryboy]

Originally Posted by EssexSue

No not just Sunday but generally that's the only day the main meal is eaten at midday.

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So on any other day is it just
Breakfast
Lunch
Tea

Unless it’s a roast ?

[Vinniecat]

Originally Posted by EssexSue

Tea cakes are sweet and have currants in them. They are usually toasted and served warm with thick butter.

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No that’s a fruit tea cake. A tea cake isn’t sweet. Well it int round these parts anyway.

[EssexSue]

Originally Posted by buryboy

So on any other day is it just
Breakfast
Lunch
Tea

Unless it’s a roast ?

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No a normal day is breakfast lunch dinner, well actually in my case it's generally only brunch and dinner because I 16/8. But I don't think brunch is especially southern.

[Nimbus]

Originally Posted by EssexSue

No a normal day is breakfast lunch dinner, well actually in my case it's generally only brunch and dinner because I 16/8. But I don't think brunch is especially southern.

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Considering northerners usually call the meal in the middle of the day "dinner" (see the earlier mention of "dinner ladies" as evidence, m'lud), whilst southerners call that meal "lunch", then the word "brunch" is very much a southern thing. In the north it would be "brinner".

Plus it sounds pretentious.

[Guest]

I'm originally from the Isles of Scilly, born there, and lived there until I was 5. So literally everyone is Northern to me, including those who live in Cornwall.

My question - Do you people genuinely not feel the cold, or are you just taught that to shiver and/or turn blue is a sign of weakness? :P

[PABBY]

Originally Posted by iLaura

My question - Do you people genuinely not feel the cold, or are you just taught that to shiver and/or turn blue is a sign of weakness? :P

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I wear shorts virtually all year round up here in the Pennine uplands of the NW, but my DW feels the cold just by looking at the fridge! We've got a half'n'half electric blanket - my side has never been plugged in in nearly 30 years of marriage, whereas hers gets used probably 350 days a year!

[Colette-S]

Originally Posted by iLaura

I'm originally from the Isles of Scilly, born there, and lived there until I was 5. So literally everyone is Northern to me, including those who live in Cornwall.

My question - Do you people genuinely not feel the cold, or are you just taught that to shiver and/or turn blue is a sign of weakness? :P

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We do sometimes feel the cold. Always put a cardigan on when it’s snowing

[megaflyer]

Breakfast, Brunch or lunch depending on time and supper if after 7pm (else its dinner)

Christmas lunch is around 3pm - thats the exception (but I would still rather eat it as supper as I feel sleepy eating too much during the day)

Plus my Family are in Yorkshire which I think is in the North (although I am a traitor and moved South)