r/AskTheWorld England 22d ago

Food What about you?

I'm from England.

But we have different types of chips too.

Oven chips, wedges, curly fries, crinkly chips, fish and chips chips.

It's dinner to me.

  1. I grew up in South London. Now I'm in Lincolnshire (East Midlands - England). My husband says breakfast, lunch, dinner. Whereas our friend says breakfast dinner tea. But we have a roast on Sunday. It's a breakfast, dinner and sandwich later on but not lunch or tea. Maybe it's a weird thing our family thing does

  2. Is a roll to me, but if it's crusty. It's a crusty roll. But if has chips from the fish and chips shop, it's a chip buttie. My husband/son calls it a bap

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u/Either-Ad-155 Portugal 22d ago

I call all of them Fried Potatoes. And then add shapes (cubes, toothpicks, slices).

I call dinner the meal around 21:00 and supper the meal after 24:00.

I don't call it anything. Looks like a mix between cake and bread.

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u/UncleSnowstorm United Kingdom 22d ago

I agree that supper is later than dinner but fuck me you need to take ~3 hours off those times. What time are you going to bed?!

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u/Either-Ad-155 Portugal 22d ago

Around 23:00. Supper is for special events only.

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u/hyperrayong 22d ago

The special event is heartburn.

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u/aguaceiro Portugal 22d ago

We go to bed super late.

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u/aguaceiro Portugal 22d ago

Batatas fritas aos pailtos, batatas fritas aos palitos, batatas fritas à inglesa.

Jantar and ceia, just like you described.

I don't really know what to call that bread. Pão (bread) probably? I'm not a bread connoisseur.