Dinch. Or Lunner
I have to say I’m a little disappointed in the great minds of our universe. While focussing on frivolous things like climate change, Ebola, how to land a comet on Kim Kardashian’s butt and the like there are some very important issues which have gone unexamined.
Brisbane (in Australia) recently hosted the G20 Leaders’ Summit. Now I’m not too sure what went on there as the whole thing seemed ridiculously anti-climactic: years of preparation, weeks of panic, days of discomfort and… well, an hour or two of meetings between world leaders and that was it. I suspect the koalas featured in the cliched ‘you’re in Australia pics’ got more coverage than the substance of the event itself.
Of course there was a statement or two released after… and I’m pretty sure Australia’s elected officials were ecstatic to have to commit to… well something on climate change; but my point remains… why did they not seek agreement on one of the biggest issues we face today:
I was talking to someone recently and explained I’d left lunch so late it became an early dinner. And then I pondered…. what to call it?
Why is there no word for a combined lunch / dinner? Could it be because it’s rarely done; that eating a main meal before 5-6pm is something only adopted by the very young and very old? Or perhaps it’s just a bit naff?
I’m actually a fan of late dinners but I don’t know, perhaps the lunch dinner combination meal is under-appreciated and under-ultilised because we have no word for it. And… quite frankly, the words just don’t lend themselves to a smooth Brangelina kind of combo.
Dinch
Linner
Lunner
Luncher
Dunch
Or perhaps it’s our choice of words? Some call their evening meal ‘tea’ or ‘supper’, so perhaps they offer more options? Either way, I think the great minds of the world need to get their acts together, form a commission of sorts and give us SOMETHING?!
What would you call a lunch dinner combination meal?
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Jo
December 2, 2014It’s not the lunch or dinner combo I’m concerned about, but why they’ve moved the serrated bit on glad wrap. Without consulting with me.
Debbish
December 2, 2014How do you mean moved it? Gotten rid of it?
Related – I hate glad wrap. It seems to foil me every time. Particularly the plastic wrap around rolled-up newspapers. I can NEVER get those b*stards open!
Jess
December 2, 2014Hilarious! I lovw the intro to this post! So true about International politics and G20 so much planning and very anti climactic. You would think they could tack it on the end or even during morning tea or something. I have always called it linner, but definitely doesnt have the brunch ring to it.
Debbish
December 2, 2014Oh, I’ve never heard it called anything!
Pinky Poinker
December 2, 2014I do like “Dunch” Deb. If we ever visited my grandparents at 4:30pm they would be just starting their ‘tea’ of corned beef, cabbage and mashed potato and onion. We could never quite understand why they ate so early. But yes, they called it tea and we called it dinner when we ate it at 7:30pm 🙂
Debbish
December 2, 2014Yes, growing up we called dinner tea, and lunch dinner, if that makes sense. My dad was an early eater… perhaps that’s why my brother and I rebelled and became late diners. (Having said that I eat my dinners WAY too late! Not good for someone who needs to lose weight. I told myself I’d always eat before 8.30pm but never make it more often than not!)
Annaleis from Teapots and Tractors
December 2, 2014I often have a late lunch and then just have toast for tea. I like Dunch
Debbish
December 3, 2014🙂
Vicki @ Knocked Up and Abroad
December 3, 2014LOL. I like Dunch!
Debbish
December 3, 2014Dunch is proving popular!
Char
December 3, 2014I could never do a late lunch/early dinner combo because of all the hungry little mouths that are relying on me to put a meal on the table at around 6pm every evening.
Debbish
December 3, 2014I only have to cater for myself (fortunately) but dinner is a bit of a thing for me, so I never want it to be an anticlimax or eat too early etc.
Mystery Case
December 3, 2014My inlaws refer to dinner (the evening meal) as tea and lunch as dinner. It’s created a bit of confusion over the years. In their world I suppose it would be called lea?
Debbish
December 3, 2014Yes, my dad (and mum I guess) was the same. It wasn’t until I was older or maybe even at Uni I heard the lunch and dinner name options!
Min (@riteofthemiddle)
December 3, 2014LOL – you know what – I had not realised there was no name for a lunch/dinner combo – but now you mention it – how can that be?!! I think I would go with LINNER because it would be eaten later than lunch time so should lead in with the lunch reference but end with the dinner reference. So glad that G20 nonsense is over!! 😉
Debbish
December 3, 2014Yes, Linner (or Lunner) probably rolls off the tongue nicely!
Kanga Rue
December 3, 2014I’m not the only one who has pondered this then! I’ve never come up with a suitable name, but I do like Dunch as well… Seems the votes are in
Debbish
December 3, 2014Hmmm… Linner is gaining in popularity! 😉
Emily @ Have A Laugh On Me
December 3, 2014I want this to go VIRAL – it has to be Dunch – sounds very trendy – you’re a crack up!
Debbish
December 3, 2014Next thing Dunch will be appearing in the Oxford Dictionary. Perhaps we can make it happen! 😉
muminsearch
December 3, 2014Dunch sounds great to me! I guess it’s a winner.
Debbish
December 3, 2014Dunch seems to be a winner!
Alicia - One Mother Hen
December 4, 2014I like Dunch, It sounds good. I’m hangin’ for some Dunch? But it seems to me that the lunch prefix must come before the dinner bit. So I would be inclined to say Lupper(lunch/supper). Would you join me for Lupper?
Debbish
December 5, 2014Hmmm… Lupper does roll off the tongue easily, but for some reason it sounds… unappealing! 😉
Trish MLDB
December 5, 2014Another dunch here – I think you should start something.
Debbish
December 6, 2014🙂
Bec @ The Plumbette
December 8, 2014Dunch is my pick too!
Debbish
December 8, 2014🙂
Dodo
September 26, 2017I like lunner 🙂
Kay
May 7, 2021Lunner. Chronologically more suitable than dunch. Also has a better ring to it. Plus, I already use it and thus it is a word currently in existence. It is in existence due to in-laws, to whom ‘lunch’ could mean anything between 2pm and 5pm.
Anyone got suggestions for lunner recipes for a 2pm lunner (arranged around guest work hours), with people arriving anytime between 1:30 (grandparents are always early) and in-laws (whenever they feel like it, but usually around 3 hours late), and me who has eaten lunch at around 1 and will not want more food until at least 5:30. I could hold off on lunch myself, but a) why the hell should I, and b) I’m preparing food for other selfish bastards and will be pissed off and emotional-eating while preparing for said selfish bastards. It needs to also be said that abovementioned guests plus others are ‘stayers’. They remain long after acceptable time limits (10:30pm on a work/school night). So lunner segues into dupper (dinner + supper).
What we really need is a word for people who stay long after the alcohol has run out but didn’t contribute any. Perhaps ‘lumpets’. Limpets who lunch and lump.
I was going to do beef machaca but pop doesn’t eat spices. I was thinking of a ragout with peppardelle but in-laws say they are now gluten-free. Not allergic, just a choice.
Should I actually cook for these people or just order pizza and whoever misses out, misses out? The in-laws do eat non-GF pizza plus if it looks really good.