[AT] Tractor Weight (now Ramble - LONG)

[Ralph Goff]

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From: Gene Dotson <gdotsly at loganrec.com>
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Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor Weight (now Ramble - LONG)


>     Cecil;
>     I have always heard that dinner referred to the big meal of
> the day. For famers the big meal of the day was at mid day so
> that was dinner,  For us growing up,
> lunch was what we carried to school to eat.

Gene, Cecil, etc.
I wonder if its more a rural / urban difference, the terminology for our 3
squares a day. Here in rural Sask. I have always known the noon meal to be
dinner. The evening meal was supper. Although I have gotten away from the
practice now, when I was a kid we often had "lunch" around 4 in the aft.
Just coffee and bread and butter . Even when Dad was working out in the
field, one of us kids would pedal our bikes out there with a Rogers Syrup
pail on the handle bars with his afternoon lunch in it. We'd listen for the
familiar droning sound of the Cockshutt 50 and find him that way.
One thing that I'm a bit surprised at is how with my British ancestry, the
term "tea" never found its way into the meal schedule here. As I understand
it, tea in Britain referred to dinner or supper.

Ralph in Sask.
http://lgoff.sasktelwebsite.net/