Is it lunch or dinner?

Growing up it was usually 2pm Christmas dinner there was a lot of us so it was a rigid time. If we have family around it’s usually about 2pm to account for travelling etc. If we are on our own we have our starter at about 4pm then our roast and dessert when we feel like.

Dinner, I think.
I eat mine whenever I fancy it.

Dinner. If I’m hosting I aim for 2pm.

Grandma you’re right I’d forgotten about School dinners or a packed lunch!

Dinner is in the evening, as it was for my Grandparents and Great Grandparents.

We have Christmas Linch at 3.30pm, this year there will be 20 of us, no doubt the adults will still be round the table gone 6 o’clock with the children off to the playroom with new toys and games.

Lunch is at midday or thereabouts, dinner is in the evenings for us.

Same at Christmas.

Dinner but then we eat it at 6pm.

At school the midday meal was called dinner, and lunch was a snack at mid-morning break - but if you brought a packed midday meal it was called cold lunch. Confusing.

We just refer to it as the Christmas meal. Sort of starts somewhere between 2 & 3 and just seems to continue indefinitely. People eventually drift off back around the tree and continue to graze at will. Lovely.

Dinner ….when I grew up posh people had lunch, school kids, manual workers etc had dinner middle of the day Still stays in my mind dinner is midday /1 o clock Lunch is what you do if you go out with friends for a light bite
And Christmas Dinner 1 o’clock washed up and sat down by 2 in the old days when we all went to Nans for Christmas dinner we d be cleared up and all put away well before the Queens speech (which I avoided by grabbing a book or game😂)

Lunch - at 1.00pm

Dinner. To me, dinner has always been the main meal of the day, no matter when you have it. And if a trad Christmas roast isn’t a main meal, I don’t know what is.

Having said that, for many years now we’ve had it at 5 or 6 - a much more relaxed day for the cook - and even when we had it at ‘lunchtime’ it’d be more like 3 o’clock.

Dinner.

It was at lunch time but called Christmas dinner when I was a child. I think I call it lunch now. We have it about one pm. It has to be finished in time for the Queen at 3pm. Oh……

We have ours about 2pm but it lasts aged finishing about 5pm with the pudding as we stretch it out grazing and chatting. I think I say Christmas dinner.