SC - Lunches in general
Laura C. Minnick
lcm at efn.org
Mon Mar 20 15:29:28 PST 2000
Christi Rigby wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Ok, I have to ask. Are lunches period? I mean lunches as we do them now a
> days. Or were they more like Supper/Dinner in the southern states. I can't
> see someone working all day in the fields and coming in for a small
> sandwich, then back out all day. Even in the pioneer period of the states
> usually what you served at lunch (supper I think) was a huge meal to keep
> your energy up and dinner (?) was often a smaller meal with leftovers from
> the earlier meal.
As I understand it, the Main Meal was in the middle of the day, with a
brief bite in the morning and a light supper in the evening (if at all-
there are plenty of clerical admonitions against eating in the evening-
it leads to lechery and other forms of dissolute living). In the US
pioneer days, the main meal at midday was called Dinner, the lighter
meal in the evening was Supper. I remember being mighty confused at the
Little House books until my mother explained this to me.
'Lainie
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