Talk:Dinner

Lead question
For the following sentence: "The average dinner time in the U.K. for those who call their evening meal dinner has been found to be at 7.47pm."

Do we use 7.47 or 7:47 in the lead? Cheers! -Brandon (MrWooHoo) • Talk to Brandon!  01:47, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Per MOS:TIME which states that colons are the separator for times, I have changed it to a colon. Esquivalience t 02:14, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

What a trivial article!
Lightweight, superficial, subjective. Why bother? Go read the McMillan web page cited here, bring in some of that. Go read the background notes to Pride and Prejudice, find out how dinner was.

PS Spanish eat their main meal about 2:30pm, followed by a siesta. They may eat a light supper about 10pm, maybe not.

-- Unbuttered parsnip  (talk) mytime= Mon 07:00, wikitime=  23:00, 22 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Do it yourself, bud! WP:SOFIXIT. Just make sure you replace information with BETTER information, but don't delete "lightweight" stuff you don't like, and not put anything in its place. Lightweight superficial stuff is better than no stuff. So feel free to improve along the lines you suggest. Yes, it will be hard work. We're all volunteers, here, you know? S  B Harris 01:19, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * You made all that effort in moaning about the article but you've made very little effort in improving it....., The whole point of this place is to constantly improve articles .... Not go to every talkpage and moan about how shit they are!. WP:SOFIXIT applies. – Davey 2010 Talk 01:55, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * You said it – shit. Information! What information? It contains nothing informative, nothing that a five-year-old couldn't tell you. It's entirely subjective and personal - "I call my evening meal dinner, so that must be a world-wide trend." Unbuttered parsnip  (talk) mytime= Mon 11:36, wikitime=  03:36, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * PS I made several corrections to the text.

Suggestions for additions
Some random fields to explore I will try to think of more if found useful. SovalValtos (talk) 22:02, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Dinner Parties - no need for repetition here of what is in the linked article
 * Annual dinner for alumni, City dinner or other formal dinner
 * Dogs dinner
 * Phrases such as 'fatty 2 dinners xxxxx'
 * Is 'the most significant and important meal of the day' repetition, or does 'significant' signify something different to important?
 * BIG dinner, charity
 * Dinner dance
 * Last supper/Last dinner??
 * Dinner jacket
 * School dinners
 * Dinners in art

Non trivial
This is by no means a trivial subject - like Nancy Mitford's 'U' and 'Non-U', 'dinner' is a great shiboleth of class in Britain at least. My family are from the Midlands; Solihull - which is quite an up market suburb of Birmingham. We had dinner at noon. At school we had 'School dinners' served by 'dinner ladies'. My older brother, on a school trip involving other schools - maybe a debating competition or a cadet field day, got talking to another boy from a 'posher' school, and the talk turned (goodness knows why) to the subject of school meals, and how much they cost. My brother explained that every Monday we handed over our 2/6d 'dinner money' for the week. The other boy was very puzzled, and a long and involved discussion at complete cross purposes ensued (neither knew of the other's usage). 'So you have a meal AFTER school do you, how extraordinary?' 'No, we have dinner at dinner time' and so on. It gradually dawned on my brother that the other called his evening meal 'dinner', and this is what posh people did, and he was showing himself up as a lower class than his companion. 'Oh - but *we* call that 'LUNCH'!' was the final repost. My brother learnt a life lesson in that moment.109.144.215.33 (talk) 22:42, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

dinner
what's on dinner 118.103.138.98 (talk) 12:54, 17 December 2022 (UTC)