Eating schedules and habits

[Caballero]

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But well I believe also in your country musts exist other form to say breakfast in English and I would like to know what they are.

En inglés hay solamente la palabra "breakfast". Algunas personas usa "dinner" por "lunch" y "supper" por "dinner", pero, nadie usa una otra palabra por "breakfast". Si hay una otra palabra, es muy arcaica, obsoleto, y probablamente ningun puede comprender esta palabra.

[Elaina]

Well, there is the word "brunch" which is a combination of breakfast and lunch and eaten around 11 or 12. I think that's the only other variation of breakfast.

[Caballero]

Yes that's true. Although "brunch" for me means more like 10-11, and only if I haven't had breakfast. 12 is firmly in lunch territory for me.

[CrOtALiTo]

Then I haven't very clear this thread, because I'm not very sure if brunch is like to eat a breakfast or not.

What is the different between them.

Sincerely yours.

[Caballero]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Then I haven't very clear this thread, because I'm not very sure if brunch is like to eat a breakfast or not.

What is the different between them.

Sincerely yours.

Well, I eat breakfast at 6:30a, lunch at 12:00, and Dinner at 5:30p. Or I could skip breakfast, eat a late "brunch", skip lunch, but eat dinner. So I would have "brunch" rather than breakfast or lunch. Sometimes one is invited to have Brunch, which is earlier than when one would normally have Lunch, but would be a very late breakfast.

So:
Breakfast (6:30)
Lunch (12:00)
Dinner (5:30)

which is the same as:
Breakfast (6:30)
Dinner (12:00)
Supper (5:30)
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However, instead I could eat:
Brunch (11:00)
Dinner (5:30)

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"Dunch" would be simply eating dinner, at around 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon, but I think my mom may have invented that.

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by Caballero

Well, I eat breakfast at 6:30a, lunch at 12:00, and Dinner at 5:30p. Or I could skip breakfast, eat a late "brunch", skip lunch, but eat dinner. So I would have "brunch" rather than breakfast or lunch. Sometimes one is invited to have Brunch, which is earlier than when one would normally have Lunch, but would be a very late breakfast.

So:
Breakfast (6:30)
Lunch (12:00)
Dinner (5:30)

which is the same as:
Breakfast (6:30)
Dinner (12:00)
Supper (5:30)
----
However, instead I could eat:
Brunch (11:00)
Dinner (5:30)

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"Dunch" would be simply eating dinner, at around 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon, but I think my mom may have invented that.

That is a habited between your people in your country.
Because at least the people don't use those hours to dinner and take a lunch or brunch

[Caballero]

It varies widely by each person. That's just when I tend to eat. For instance, my friend usually waits until 6 or 7 to eat dinner.

[irmamar]

How on the earth can somebody live without eating anything in 13 hours? Or what is worse in 17:30 hours?

[Caballero]

Nu? Not eating for 13 hours? I was using standard time, not 24 hour time... And what's wrong with eating at 5:30 in the afternoon? For the record, my grandparents eat dinner at 4:30 (16:30 in 24 hr time I think).

[poli]

Originally Posted by irmamar

How on the earth can somebody live without eating anything in 13 hours? Or what is worse in 17:30 hours?

Supongo que podemos contestar con el mismo cuando oimos que en España se come a las tres de la tarde y al las 10 de la noche.
De verdad la hora de cena en EEUU cambia depende en la parte del pais, y donde vivo yo se come más tarde pero no mucho más tarde (seis y media hasta las nueve.) En muchas ciudades americanas (Nueva York no está incluida entre esas ciudades) es díficil encontrar un restaurante abierto después de las diez. Entonces si tiene boletos (billetes) para teatro o cine es una buena idea comer antes. Es igual en inglaterra donde la ley dice que todos los bares se cierren a la 11 de la noche y muchos sitios cierran más temprano.

[Caballero]

¡Ay! Manyar a las 10 de la noche no es una buena idea. Es imposible a dormir with a full stomach. En facto, duermo a las 10 de la noche. No me gusta manyar a las 7 o 8 de las noches. Sí lo hacería, no puedo dormir bien.

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by poli

Es ingual en inglaterra donde la ley dice que todos los bares se cierren a la 11 de la noche y muchos sitios cierran más temprano.

Ya no, cambiaron la ley hace algunos años (quizás tres o cinco, no me acuerdo) para permitir que los ayuntamientos den licencias para horas distintas. La idea era que en vez de salir todos de los bares a la vez a las once, saldrían algunos a las once, otros a las doce, y habría menos peleas. Dudo que haya funcionado, pero no tengo estadísticas con respecto al asunto.

Pero en lo de restaurantes, cuando viajaba mucho por el trabajo solía ir al restaurante antes de tener hambre (ya que me he acostumbrado a cenar tarde desde que vivo en España) y aún así muchas veces me quedé sólo en el restaurante antes de que llegara el primer plato.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by pjt33

Ya no, cambiaron la ley hace algunos años (quizás tres o cinco, no me acuerdo) para permitir que los ayuntamientos den licencias para horas distintas. La idea era que en vez de salir todos de los bares a la vez a las once, saldrían algunos a las once, otros a las doce, y habría menos peleas. Dudo que haya funcionado, pero no tengo estadísticas con respecto al asunto.

Pero en lo de restaurantes, cuando viajaba mucho por el trabajo solía ir al restaurante antes de tener hambre (ya que me he acostumbrado a cenar tarde desde que vivo en España) y aún así muchas veces me quedé sólo en el restaurante antes de que llegara el primer plato.

Yo también dudo que haya funcionado, si acaso, hizo que las peleas se producieran a distintas horas, pero la misma cantidad de peleas si no más...

[Caballero]

¿Chileno, a cuál horas vos manyás?

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by Caballero

It varies widely by each person. That's just when I tend to eat. For instance, my friend usually waits until 6 or 7 to eat dinner.

Yes you are right in some cases the people have that habit in some states very close to me usually that is the time for eat or dinner with your family, literally I'm not follow that kind to customs, mostly of the times, I eat later of 10 P.M.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@Caballero: "Manyar" is not Spanish. "Comer" is the verb you're looking for.

[Caballero]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Yes you are right in some cases the people have that habit in some states very close to me usually that is the time for eat or dinner with your family, literally I'm not follow that kind to customs, mostly of the times, I eat later of 10 P.M.

Them what time do you go to sleep at? 3am in the morning? I can't imagine going to bed right after eating. How could one possibly fall asleep with food in ones stomache?

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Caballero

¿Chileno, a cuál horas vos manyás?

At all times. I love to be in shape. Round is a shape, isn't?

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by Caballero

Them what time do you go to sleep at? 3am in the morning? I can't imagine going to bed right after eating. How could one possibly fall asleep with food in ones stomache?

Hello.

I have ate to that hour mean I'm walk up in my house, sometimes I'm not sleep because I let me to watching the TV in my bed.

When I'm in the street casually in that time I have ate around of the 1 A.M.
I'm know that is bad for my body, but really I have costumed to that kind to live, already always I have made the same during my life, only when my wife does to dinner very early, I mean before of the eight of the night, I tend to eat a little earlier, but when it not happens!.

Sincerely yours.

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by Caballero

Nu? Not eating for 13 hours? I was using standard time, not 24 hour time... And what's wrong with eating at 5:30 in the afternoon? For the record, my grandparents eat dinner at 4:30 (16:30 in 24 hr time I think).

Nothing wrong with eating dinner at 16:30, of course. I meant that from16:30 to 6:30 there are 14 hours, and that is not good for your stomach. Stomach needs to be fed often and with a few quantity, otherwise, one can get fat.

Originally Posted by poli

Supongo que podemos contestar con el mismo cuando oimos que en España se come a las tres de la tarde y al las 10 de la noche.
De verdad la hora de cena en EEUU cambia depende en la parte del pais, y donde vivo yo se come más tarde pero no mucho más tarde (seis y media hasta las nueve.) En muchas ciudades americanas (Nueva York no está incluida entre esas ciudades) es díficil encontrar un restaurante abierto después de las diez. Entonces si tiene boletos (billetes) para teatro o cine es una buena idea comer antes. Es igual en inglaterra donde la ley dice que todos los bares se cierren a la 11 de la noche y muchos sitios cierran más temprano.

Entre las 9 y las 10 se suele cenar (de hecho, conozco poca gente que cena a las 10). Los días de fiesta y fines de semana sí es más habitual cenar más tarde, pero no entre semana. Aquí hay muchos horarios de comida (lunch), entre las 13 y las 16 (yo suelo comer entre las 15:30 y 16 y ceno alrededor de las 21). De todos modos, la gente que come más pronto y cena más tarde hace otra comida (la merienda). Todos los niños meriendan. Yo como durante todo el día, pero poca cantidad.

Me interesan mucho los horarios de Nueva York. ¿Me los puedes explicar? ¿A qué hora es habitual levantarse, desayunar, comer, cenar e irse a dormir? Gracias.