Christmas Lunch v Christmas Tea

[horseshoes]

What do you have for your Christmas lunch and tea and which do you prefer? I LOVE Christmas tea time.

[ummmm]

I could not physically consume that amount of food in a day.

Evian - I think it's regional. We say breakfast, lunch and dinner. Others say breakfast, dinner and tea...

The latter is completely wrong because tea is a drink!! :-)

[2sp_]

We have steak, chips and onion rings at about 5ish. Normal lunch.

Our Christmas is more about family, decorations, presents, crappy telly, etc than food. Except for selection boxes.

[2sp_]

I have to disagree with you, ummmm!

It's breakfast, lunch and tea!

[ummmm]

Triggs will be well jealous!! :-)

[Barmaid]

Unless you are from my neck of the woods in which case it is breakfast lunch and tea (if cold) but breakfast lunch and dinner or supper (if hot!).

[2sp_]

Triggs, you are welcome at mine for steak and chips! If you're lucky you might even get onion rings too.

[ummmm]

"and tea (if cold)"

That's a snack!!

[2sp_]

Here, supper is a wee snack you have before bed sometimes.

[DTCwordfan]

As to the tea debate, the following summarises the definitions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_(meal)

[EvianBaby]

I'm with Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Anything else is just being a greedy wotsit :)

[Baldric]

I suspect it's regional, but it's always been tea in our family;

http://www.chambers.co.uk/search.php?query=TEA&title=21st

[EcclesCake]

We tend to have fizz and canapes around noon with friends. They then leave and we will have our starter around 2ish, main course and hour later and then later on we'll have our dessert. In the evening we'll have cheese on the sofa watching the DVDs we've bought each other.

I have never cooked a traditional Christmas meal and what we have varies from year to year. It is usually a special meal that has had a lot of time invested in it but ultimately it is about eating what we want and not what 'tradition' dictates.

So Christmas tea has never featured in out house!

This year will be very different though as I will be on my own, my current level of interest suggests that cheese on toast will be the plat du jour!

[mccfluff]

breafast, lunch, dinner

[2sp_]

Oddly, we only use the term dinner when talking about Christmas dinner in this house.

[Barmaid]

Eccles one year when I was on my own due to a back injury I went to M&S and bought lots of lovely nibbles, put Sharpe on the DVD player and ate nibbles and drank Chablis all day. It was GREAT!

[ummmm]

In restaurants you don't get dinner menus during the day and your don't get tea menus for the evening.

[vodkancoke]

It's breakfast, lunch and dinner here. :)

[EcclesCake]

I am really looking forward to pleasing myself Barmaid.

I'm torn between the Worlds biggest canape party, courtesy of the supermarket and drinking bubbles all day.

Or trying to stay relatively sober so that I can cook steak frites with bearnaise sauce.

Whichever I go for I am looking forward to being very, very self indulgent!

[vodkancoke]

Quite right Eccles, enjoy it! :) x

[Ric.ror]

Whilst reading this posting the advert for the cake of cheese at Marks keeps flashing up - looks mighty good for Christmas tea
I am having dinner out
It was lunch but I read somewhere that dinner pre-dates lunch and goes back to Roman times
And its always tea up t'north