meal names

[gfish]

We have a lot of meal names. Breakfast, lunch, tea, supper, dinner, plus combinations like brunch and linner. But those only cover about a 15 hour period of the day. Everything else is just 'late night snack'. As a native speaker of English, and thus as authorized as anyone else to muck with the language, I am officially accepting suggestions on new meal terminology to help fix this.

Requirements:

• A careful distinction between situations like 'a dinner that is unusually late because you were too busy earlier in the evening' and 'a second dinner around 2 or 3 because you've been up that late'


• The ability to tag meals as being relative to your biological clock. This doesn't apply to everyone, but the first meal I eat is always breakfast. No matter how late I get up, it needs to be breakfast food or I find the whole thing slightly nauseating. (Exception: cold pizza.)


• The terms need to be combinable in the fashion of 'brunch' to indicate, for instance, a meal somewhere between 'greasy diner food after the bar closes' and 'too early for normal breakfast but you've decided you'll eat now and just take a second breakfast later since you'll need to recaffinate around 10 anyway'.
  

Future generations will thank us.

Comments

[porysski.livejournal.com]

But the rule to which you said it was an exception was "it needs to be breakfast food or I find the whole thing slightly nauseating." My point is that cold pizza can't be an exception to this, because it is the very essence of breakfast food.

Also, actually on topic, I've traditionally called the meal in the 20-30 hours awake range "sleepfood" (usually shortened to "sleep" as in "time to eat something for sleep"), because it's a deliberate tradeoff of sugar and fat for actual rest.