When do you eat? Lunch or Dinner?
 

For the holidays, i.e Thanksgiving, x-mas, and Easter, when you eat your turkey or ham when do you eat? I got in an arguement today at work. I said Yankee's eat at dinner, and that southerners eat for lunch. What about you guys?

Today, our family thing almost split the difference between the two, eating from about 2PM to 3:30PM. Eat enough, you can do with only breakfast, then the one huge holiday meal.

Growing up on the farm in the midwest lunch was at 10 and 3. Dinner was at 12. Supper was at 6.
There was no appreciable difference between dinner and supper.
I was so spoiled on meat and potatoes & gravy.
My wife is a wonderful cook but cooking for three is different than cooking for seven.
Jim

What about those families that have the special meal "in-between"? (i.e. 3:00 or 4:00)

Now there's a word not often heard anymore - Supper.
As a kid also from the Midwest, it was breakfast, dinner, 'n supper.
Lunch, if there was field work.
Sit in the shade of the machinery...have sandwiches, ice cold kool-aid, and mom's cookies. :)

I'm supposed to eat today?

I'm from Michigan - not sure if that makes me a midwesterner or a Yankee. My family is pretty much city/suburban for the last 4 generations. We eat holiday meals at night. When I was a kid, we did Christmas eve dinner with the family (~15 people). Cocktails at 6, horsdevours at 8, presents at 9, dinner at 1030, after dinner drinks at 1200, home by 230am. This was as a 6 yo.

My wife's family is suburban Colorado but her grandparent's generation were/are farmers. Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas et al are capitol D Dinner. 2-3 pm. Pie served and dishes done by 6 pm. The first few years freaked me out! What do you do at night? There we were done with everything before my old family figured out the night's menu?

It turns out that I like their way better. They talk and play games into the night. My family just used their alcohol-fuled simmering repressed hatred for entertainment.

I think it is a city - rural thing rather than a Yankee - Southern thing.

mike
'78SC

How about both! Lunch with parents/siblings, Dinner with in-Laws !!!

4 pm. i don't know how that fits into your definitions so I didn't vote, but we call it thanksgiving dinner.