A good lunch bag is very important in presenting yourself in the business world.

That is why I have a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Lunch Bag.

My Star Wars Episode I (with Qui Gon on it) wore out.

...or I'll hold you down and make you look at it for a really long time. Ah-rrr! I'll make you check magnetic compass deviation for the area, too! And then there's the mountain climbing thing...

Dinner and supper, used synonymously. But it was always lunch, never "dinner." Early dinners like Thanksgiving Day feasts might closely approach lunchtime, but were never considered lunches, but more as being laid on instead of lunch. These may be New England usages, as my parents hail from Massachusetts.

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. Sometimes I will interchange Dinner and Supper, but the first two meals are always breakfast and lunch.

My mum always used to say breakfast, dinner and tea. I think that was a bit of a carry over from her snobbish strict catholic upbringing. Dinner for us was always a sandwich, usually with some sort of cold meat etc. Tea was always meat and three veges when we were growing up. Then mum started experimenting with all sorts of foods. Pretty soon after that my parents divorced. Not sure if there's a correlation or not, but it's possible.

With my kids and spouse now we just say breakfast, lunch and dinner/tea, depending on what happens to come out of my mouth as I'm yelling down the yard for them to come in.

My lunch is usually something fruity these days, so it just gets dropped into my bag and off I go. b/f usually gets leftovers which he heats up in microwave at work, so that's in a tupperware container or an old take-away container. The kids have those plastic/material insulated lunch boxes in which they usually take fruit, drink, muselie bar and a sandwich or something left over from dinner.

So do you have both a spouse and a boyfriend living with you, or does b/f stand for something else in Australia?

My wife's parents are from Kentuky but raise their family in New York. So, instead of the rural schedule they had a suburban schedule. So, during the work week it was brfst, lunch and dinner. On Sundays, it was brfst, dinner and supper.

I am of Italian descent NY. We used dinner and supper as synonyms.

Take what you want, but eat what you take.

And always remember, gorilla cakes can be used to pound in tentstakes.

But what do you call the red stuff that you put on pasta?

"Red gravy" just doesn't sound right to me. I've never heard it used by the Italians on The Hill here.

Probably because it's just "gravy."

I never heard it referred to as just "gravy"...that would be even worse, though.

Take what you want, but eat what you take.
And always remember, gorilla cakes can be used to pound in tentstakes.

All this in the 10 minets you had from start to finish , from standing in line to gettin food , SCARFING it down as QUICK as POSSIBLE , dumping the rest and RUNNING back to formation !!!


AAAH the good old USMC ,
Where every day was a holliday ,and every meal was a feast !!!
HooRAA and Semper Fi !!!!!

Wolfie is right again. Like "Hey, can you pass me the gravy." We said "sauce" 80% of the time.

do not--do NOT!--tell the hicks that you can say 'gravy' and mean tomato sauce. It will be the end of us. I can only imagine the tears at Bob Evans should this ever catch on.

My husband has some pretty interesting food combos that he loves, and one of them is spaghetti with mashed potatoes & gravy on the side.
The first time we went to New Orleans, we went to a little restaurant that had "spaghetti with gravy" on the menu. I thought he was going to die & go to heaven right there.
Imagine his disappointment......