It literally says “break” and “fast”. I don’t know what else to do but not eat. ;_;
In all seriousness though, skipped brekkie today and I felt fine after eating lunch. Was even a bit peckish halfway to lunch but it passed by the time it was time to actually eat. Now it’s dinner time and I’m not even hungry.
(This sadly doesn’t work in other languages that call it weird shit like “early (time) bite/piece (of food)”)
One of the fun instances of this I’ve heard of is how meals are named in Quebec vs. France.
In Quebec your morning meal is Déjeuner, mid-day is Diner, and evening is Souper.
In France your morning meal is Petit-Déjeuner, mid-day is Déjeuner and evening is Diner.
What’s fun about that is that Quebec is about 6 hours west of France. That means that in both Quebec and France people might have Déjeuner at the same time. But, for one it’s the morning meal and the other it’s the mid day meal. And then later on they might both have Diner at the same time but for France they’re eating the evening “diner” but in Quebec it’s the mid-day “diner”.
But even in English there are no fixed names for meals. Dinner can be the mid-day meal in some places but the evening meal in others. The evening meal can be Supper, it can be Dinner, it can even be Tea.
“Breakfast” is literally just the first thing you eat in a day. If that is after noon, that’s still my breakfast.
(This sadly doesn’t work in other languages that call it weird shit like “early (time) bite/piece (of food)”)
It literally says “break” and “fast”. I don’t know what else to do but not eat. ;_;
In all seriousness though, skipped brekkie today and I felt fine after eating lunch. Was even a bit peckish halfway to lunch but it passed by the time it was time to actually eat. Now it’s dinner time and I’m not even hungry.
Night shift workers who eat their third meal of their time spent awake still call it breakfast because the term just means early morning meal now.
Their day hasn’t ended yet, spiritually.
One of the fun instances of this I’ve heard of is how meals are named in Quebec vs. France.
In Quebec your morning meal is Déjeuner, mid-day is Diner, and evening is Souper.
In France your morning meal is Petit-Déjeuner, mid-day is Déjeuner and evening is Diner.
What’s fun about that is that Quebec is about 6 hours west of France. That means that in both Quebec and France people might have Déjeuner at the same time. But, for one it’s the morning meal and the other it’s the mid day meal. And then later on they might both have Diner at the same time but for France they’re eating the evening “diner” but in Quebec it’s the mid-day “diner”.
But even in English there are no fixed names for meals. Dinner can be the mid-day meal in some places but the evening meal in others. The evening meal can be Supper, it can be Dinner, it can even be Tea.
Nobody would call it breakfast even if it fits the “um ackshully technically correct” definition of the word.