As I plan the day ...

[kinzel]

Tilapia for our afternoon meal, be it lunch, dinner, or supper. What do *you* call the day's biggest meal if it happens in the afternoon?

Meanwhile, on the agenda for RSN, a visit to the local cause célèbre ... a coffee shop you may have seen news about on CNN, Huffington Post, or heard about on your local radio station. Yes, I mean the new topless place a few miles down the street -- the Grand View Cafe ...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/27/topless.coffee.shop/index.html?iref=mpstoryview ...

Understand that this is not the first topless place in Maine -- for awhile there was a topless donut shop in Portland (and it may still be therefor all I know) -- but not only is it relatively close by and on routes that I travel frequently, but it is another challenge to the "you can't do that here" mentality that seems to permeate central Maine. A few years ago there was a place called (IIRC) the Tijuana Beach Club -- a bar featuring bikini-clad dancers -- which was shut down by "community pressure" after only a few months in business. Yep .. people were right, it did bring business in from other towns. It gave people work. It even had decent drinks ... but the locals would prefer no jobs and an empty, under-taxed store front.

Practical Mainers, I note, seem to be taking a "if you don't like it, don't go there approach" to the coffee shop, FWIW.

Now back to today's chapter revision

Comments

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

If a meal that comes between breakfast and lunch is brunch, it should be perfectly all right to call one that comes between lunch and supper "lupper."

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Well, I, personally, don't call anything 'supper' so, mid-day meal is 'lunch'; evening meal is 'dinner'; a mid afternoon meal would be 'nuncheon' around here.

I like your attitude on the new coffee shop. I am not sure I would go there; but I am glad it is available for those who would. I might have gone to the Tijauna, if it had lasted. I am pretty sick of the folks who would make those decision for us, 'Mary and Joe Public'. I hope the shop does well.

Is it distracting to try and work there? LOL

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Sharon wants to know if they have wifi .. .but I'd doubt it, given the number of computers with built in cameras these days.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Let us know if the view is indeed "grand", or rather less. We've been watching the foofraw with some amusement. From afar.

Biggest meal is "dinner", whenever scheduled.

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

That's how we do it here in the Midwest. Biggest meal is dinner (unless it's breakfast)

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Ah, but it must be, for the building the Grand View Cafe is in was once the Grand View Motel, named in part because it overlooks a good view -- even a formerly serene view, I suspect, of a lake and hills and what appears to be wilderness.

[pgranzeau.livejournal.com]

I was raised to call the largest meal of the day "dinner". Usually, I ate it at noon in my small town Wisconsin home. It seldom occurred in the evening, when normally we ate "supper".

Topless government agencies?

[(Anonymous)]

Okay. How about topless employees at the IRS - all those deadbeat tax evaders will be lining up with cash in hand. We'll get back a few billion painlessly! Come on, people, use proven tactics where needed! This will also make those agencies user-friendly.

Re: Topless government agencies?

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Um. I can tell you have never visited the IRS.

[laurajunderwood.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but at the thought of a "topless" coffee shop, I thought "Oh, whole milk on the tap..."

But that was Very Bad of me...

Laura J. Underwood

meals

[(Anonymous)]

Here in the Dakotas it is Breakfast, Brunch, Dinner. Lunch and Supper.

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

English style a substantial afternoon meal is termed High Tea (frequently to be encountered among the laboring classes! - as opposed to the pinkie in the air, tiny sandwich classes)

[sraun]

My meals mostly go Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, or Breakfast, Dinner, Supper - where Dinner is The Big Meal. There is the occasional Brunch, Dinner - then both meals tend to be about the same size.

[fridayflute.livejournal.com]

When it comes to meal names, I'm of the school that says a three-meal day has breakfast, lunch and supper (or occasionally dinner). Two meal days - not counting the ones where life gets in the way of meals - have either brunch or dinner as the large, leisurly, sociable feast de jour. Brunch if it is ostensibly in the morning, when it conflates breakfast and lunch. Dinner in the afternoon, when it pre-empts lunch (cooks are too busy) and makes supper superfluous, other than perhaps a bit of strategic picking at leftovers, and maybe snagging another piece of pie.

Tea and high tea, I leave to my trans-atlantic friends -- especially the variations in the former, which can refer from everything to a little afternoon pick-me-up to the final meal of the day depending on era, region, class and/or the phase of the moon.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I would usually call it Nachmittagsessen (the Germans having a refreshingly literal approach to naming meals). Or 'food', or if it's particularly good or I'm hungry OM NOM NOM NOM.

I was brought up, however, to call the largest meal of the day 'dinner'. We had dinner in the middle of the day and 'tea' around 5pm (occasionally a light 'supper' before going to bed), but many other families I knew had 'lunch' midday and 'dinner' in the evening.

Re: the topless bar -- if the bar has no top, whereon would one place drinks? (Digression (or possibly trigression by now): for a long time I thought that the word used to describe people who disapproved of sex was 'prune' -- old and wrinkled and tasting nasty!).