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Ludwig Whitby wrote:This was actually harder than I though. I always have a problem with defining 'my culture' since the typical Serbian culture is rural and traditional and I'm neither...
Varislintu wrote:What I've always wondered about, it that in cultures where you might eat a proper meal at 9-10 pm, when do people go to bed?
Ludwig Whitby wrote:What Western and Northern Europeans find interesting about our lunch is the dominance of meat and the scarcity of vegetables.
IpseDixit wrote:Lunch - we have two courses: primo, which is either pasta, risotto or a soup (the latter is less common), and secondo which consists of meat or fish or cheese and vegs + bread. And at the end we have a fruit and coffee.
Almuerzo - habemos dos platos: el primo, que es o pasta o risotto o sopa (esta última es menos común), y el secondo que consiste en carne, pescado o queso y verduras y pan. Y al final tomamos una fruta y café.
Dinner - same as lunch except that we don't have the primo.
vijayjohn wrote:One of my cousins got married in Croatia, and tbh, I think most of our relatives who went found this almost disturbing. Of course, my brother and I noticed this, too, but we did not mind one bit.
Youngfun wrote:It reminds me when I went to Romania. Lots of meat every day.
vijayjohn wrote:Youngfun wrote:It reminds me when I went to Romania. Lots of meat every day.
Yeah. I wonder how widespread that is then. Is it some sort of pan-Balkan thing or pan-Eastern European thing or what?
mōdgethanc wrote:I think I remember reading something about Americans eating way more meat than they did decades ago, and this is a country famed for its love of steak, so there ya have it.
mōdgethanc wrote:I think I remember reading something about Americans eating way more meat than they did decades ago, and this is a country famed for its love of steak, so there ya have it.
Ludwig Whitby wrote:Some prefer a heavy breakfast, such as the very cheap combo burek i jogurt .
Lada wrote:And what I've been wondering while reading this thread... is the word "supper" in the meaning of "evening meal" ever used now?
linguoboy wrote:Lada wrote:And what I've been wondering while reading this thread... is the word "supper" in the meaning of "evening meal" ever used now?
I hear it very rarely these days. As a child, I remember saying "supper" and "suppertime" as well as "dinner" and "dinnertime", but no one in my family uses the former any more. Any restaurant menu I've ever looked at which segregates dishes by time of day always labels the last one "Dinner", never "Supper".
vijayjohn wrote:I remember my dad saying that this is because the evening meal is now the main one - in the US, anyway. (I'm not sure how often "supper" is used in Britain, though). IIRC he said that "dinner" always referred to the main meal, but formerly in England, that was the afternoon meal, and "supper" was a lighter meal in the evening.
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