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

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Midrats is fine if it's just a cobbled-together snack. Come down here some time and we'll go to the Night Kitchen. Far, far too good a fare to be called "midrats", open from 1800-0900. I don't know what to call that, "midrats" or "fourthmeal" just doesn't get it. All I know is it's four-star *good*. Comfort food kicked up notches (heretofore) unknown to mankind. Fishy here can vouch for it too.