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Originally Posted by alecE
Generally, the received wisdom was that everybody had breakfast, but sophisticated people had lunch and dinner (in that order) whilst the working classes had dinner and supper, except if you were very working class, your 'supper' transformed into an earlier 'tea' because you had to get up early the next day.
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Not sure about "sophisticated", but posh! And for working class families tea had to be on the table when the man came home from work at maybe 5.30 - having done 8 hours physical labour sustained only by cheese sandwiches, (if it was the beginning of the week and there was still money to buy cheese), he needed to eat a big meal as soon as he got home. Then he might go to the pub for a few pints and have some supper when he came back at, perhaps, 10.00.