Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is how it was in all agricultural societies--the main meal at mid-day. Among my father's elderly friends in Copenhagen, mostly Jews from Poland or Russia, the habit persists, as it does in many hospitals and nursing homes. When my children were hospitalised with pneumonia in Belgium, they got a nice hot lunch but the evening meal at 5 p.m. consisted of small sandwiches. I had to go to a nearby burger trough to get something more substantial. On the other hand, meals in Spain are eaten later than anywhere else I have ever been. People in Seville seem to stagger out of their beds around 8 a.m., take a shower and sleepwalk to their work or school. Breakfast is usually around 10 a.m., in one of the many little cafes found every 100 metres. The official lunch break at most places is something like 2-4 p.m., and dinner/supper is usually around 10 p.m.--my favourite restaurant does not even open until 8.30! Nathan Tina Manley wrote: > > At 09:44 AM 4/12/2004 -0400, you wrote: > >>We, on the farm, used to have breakfast, lunch (called dinner!) and high > >>tea about 6.00 pm. We did not have dinner. It was, apparently, much more > >>healthy but most people eat their main meal in the evening nowadays. > > It used to be the same in the rural South. The biggest meal of the day was > dinner - at noon. Then everybody went back out and worked on the farm all > day. Supper was either leftovers (that had been sitting on the table > covered with cloth to keep off the flies) or, if there were no leftovers, a > glass of buttermilk with cornbread crumbled in it. Now people are not at > home in the middle of the day so the big meal has migrated to supper - not > nearly as healthy to eat and go to bed. I've always heard you should eat > breakfast like a king (or queen), lunch like a prince, and supper like a > pauper. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 http://www.nathanfoto.com/index.html