Country Variations in Dinner Plans | UK, FR, HU, MY
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2023
- Did you think every country has the same timing for dinners? Or perhaps you'd thought surely everyone has similar food during dinner? You'd be surprised not only at when people have dinner, but also what type of food they would serve during dinnertime! Join the Tomatoes as they share their dinner habits! Share yours in the comment section below! :)
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I think Americans eat much earlier than Europeans. And most of our meals are shorter. We are always in a hurry, except maybe less so at night. I was raised in a family that ate dinner regularly about 5-6 P.M. 7 P.M. would be far too late, unless everyone worked late and/or it was a special night out. Dinner is usually the bigger/hot meal of the day. Lunches are usually smaller and are often quicker foods like sandwiches or salads. Breakfast (if we have it) can be either hot or cold and quite variable as to how large or how long it would take. Weekends are definitely more leisurely in general, and brunches (large breakfast-lunch combination meal mid-morning) will sometimes take the place of the first 2 meals, especially on Sundays. It is common for some religious denominations to go to Sunday services early (and fasted before), then have a large brunch afterwards as a family or group of friends.
I grew up having dinner between 5 and 7. It's pretty much the same now, but usually closer to 5. This includes going out to a restaurant. I've never liked going out to a restaurant after 7. A time like 9 or after is too late.
My mother told me a story about when she was around 20 and she and a friend went to a Neil Diamond concert. They were staying with my uncle (my mom's brother), and he picked them up at the concert. She said the concert got out quite late. Instead of going back to my uncle's house to go to bed, he took them out to eat. This restaurant was on the other side of the city he lived in. My mom and her friend were already tired from being at the concert. The last thing they wanted to do was go out to a restaurant. My uncle wasn't any different when I was a kid. We'd go to visit, and he'd decide to have dinner at like 9 or later. Made my mom mad.
It was (and kinda is a bit) confusing for me(hun), as when we speak about the main hot meal of the day I always associate it with the midday meal, and still call it dinner, not lunch as that would mean something lighter and I would call that one tízórai or roughly translated: "10am meal", which is usually some sandwich or snacks between breakfast and midday main meal in hungary; and not the evening one, which I still would call dinner as usual for my partner(aus) too, but as a main hot meal for the day. And considering, my personal habit of daily 2 main meals, usually both hot and one light dish somewhere in the day; not the standard 3 main (or 5 if you have tízórai and uzsonna: 10am meal, and tea-time whatever XD). Its get confusing fast enough XD But as a child we always had a light dinner at 6pm promptly, and the main hot meal was the middle one of the day at 1or 2 pm-ish. Nowadays I make one hot meal for midday as the first meal of the day and ate the leftovers for dinner for the 2nd hot meal of the day, and a light something for the 3rd at night. Breakfast is a big mug of coffee-latte. Yeah, my timetable is a bit offset from the usual. :D
I would say, in Hungary (at least in the past) rather the elderlies would eat before 6:30-7:00 p.m. these days it is all mixed up. Even the type of meal you have… it is not uncommon anymore to have a warm meal even in the household (obviously not a 3-course-meal, though 😅), then we would have nightmares, or would gain some weight.
Myth or not… :)
I’m pretty sure 7ish for Malaysia is quite early. We tend to have dinner quite late. Maybe up to 10pm. That explains why we’re the most obese country in SEA.
Malaysian dinner time is so much wider than that. LOL plenty of people planning to eat outside around midnight or even further. 🤣 well you know Nelvin, our local restaurant don't close too early. especially mamak. there's no time boundary in our food culture. you can eat whatever at any given moment
Oh I'd agree with you that people definitely eat outside of those times, but I'd not really call them dinner :D I went to mamak super often after dinner time, but that's usually my supper.. :P I would surely agree there is no time boundary to eating, but I will also say that with regards to meal time, my experience is that there is generally a more common timeframe. Thank you for watching!
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