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CharlieP Feb 2018 9:16am, 22 Feb 2018 1,025 posts	Quote 1 pin CharlieP Tea comes between lunch and dinner, and isn't a full meal. We never had tea at home when I was young, but always had it when we visited my grandparents. Basically cakes and sandwiches in the front room with the television on, unlike proper meals which were always taken in the dining room. Order of things: Breakfast Brunch Elevenses Lunch Tea Dinner Supper Midnight feast There is also an unwritten set of rules about which combination can be taken in one day. So I'm unable to write it.
ChrisHB Feb 2018 9:25am, 22 Feb 2018 16,172 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB if you're in Germany, you can add the Second Breakfast.
Wine Legs Feb 2018 9:41am, 22 Feb 2018 4,271 posts	Quote Pin Wine Legs In NZ, we have morning tea and afternoon tea. Morning tea is the equivalent of British elevenses. Afternoon tea is between lunch and dinner, just called 'tea' above. Here, afternoon tea seems to be a posh thing with champagne and tiny cakes and cucumber sandwiches with their crusts cut off and pots of tea. In NZ, it's just a bit of cake (or similar) and a drink (hot or cold, non-alcoholic).
Wobbling Feb 2018 9:56am, 22 Feb 2018 6,212 posts	Quote Pin Wobbling I think brunch comes after elevensies. In Ireland it appears to be iagainst the law to have a hot drink without a chunk of cake the size of your head or a sandwich. With some of my family they rarely let you sit down without shoving some variety of baked-goods at you.
Diogenes Feb 2018 10:01am, 22 Feb 2018 26,612 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes [Brunch is a cooked meal, much like a cooked breakfast, whereas elevenses is something lighter, generally uncooked. (IMHO)]
Diogenes Feb 2018 10:02am, 22 Feb 2018 26,613 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes [Eating you lunch sandwiches early doesn't count as either brunch or elevenses, it's just an early (or first) lunch.
McGoohan Feb 2018 10:04am, 22 Feb 2018 33,204 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan [Blunch: a meal between brunch and lunch]
Nicholls595 Feb 2018 10:07am, 22 Feb 2018 14,995 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595
Velociraptor Feb 2018 10:10am, 22 Feb 2018 37,810 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor [In Scotland, a cup of tea or coffee is not referred to as "a drink" and is always served with cake or biscuits as a minimum, irrespective of when the last meal was eaten or the next meal is expected. Moving to England, being offered "a drink", and just getting a cuppa on its own came as a culture shock to me.]
Diogenes Feb 2018 10:16am, 22 Feb 2018 26,614 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes The difficulty of obtaining plain hot cross buns that don't contain blueberries or apple or salted caramel FFS [Hot Cross bun for morning snack]