[AT] Tractor Weight (now Ramble - LONG)

[Larry D. Goss]

I don't mean to muddy the waters on this thread, but the English had
another name for the meal that gets served between noon and after
sundown.  It's called High Tea.  I will always remember and reminisce
over the experience of High Tea on the veranda of the Victoria Falls
Hotel in Zimbabwe.  Tea (Earl Grey, of course) is served starting at
3:00 in the afternoon in cups that are never allowed to be empty.  It's
accompanied by crumpets (various finger foods) served on three-tiered
silver platters that are never allowed to be empty, either.  A group of
us sat there gorging ourselves for nearly two hours enjoying the view of
the International bridge over the falls and listening to the
blood-curdling screams of the yahoo's that were bungee-jumping off of it
into the gorge.

Dinner (a boma) wasn't served until nearly 9:00 at night.  The closest
thing I can think of to describe that experience would be if you went to
a church social in this country and just grazed from dish to dish for an
hour or so.

Larry

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Lunch is two roast beef sandwiches, potato chips, a piece of cake, and 
about a quart of Kool Aid along about 3:30 PM.  Just a little something 
to help make it between dinner and supper.  Those city characters are 
just sissys.<g>

Cecil E Monson wrote:

>>  Cecil
>> is 100% right about those dinners (lunch). I ate till I thought I
would
>> bust, then came dessert. Got my first taste of rhubarb pie, MMMMM. 
> 
> 
> 
>     Out there in Minnesota when I was a kid, dinner was the noon
> meal, Phil. Only city folks used the term "lunch" at that time. grins
> "Lunch" to us was what you ate between meals. Supper was the evening
> meal. I have often wondered why there is such an effort to get us to
> say dinner for the evening meal and lunch for the noon meal. I have an
> idea that city people think it sounds more refined but have never been
> able to prove it.
> 
> Cecil
> 


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