Yes, it sure is lol.

It's like dinner or lunch.

At lunchtime I keep saying I'm going for dinner, and the Romanian guy I work with looks at me like I've grown another head The Aussie girl I work with always smiles at me cos she knows what I mean - her Mum is English and says the same thing. I can't help it though, it's what I've always called them!

yep we have breakfast dinner and tea, as well, got frustrating when i lived down south.
my kids just say im having a mid day meal and an evening meal as its less confusing fr the darwin folk lol
Mandy

What do they call 'dinner ladies' in Oz schools? Or for that matter in the south of England?

I don't think they have them in Aus, it's just the teachers that take turns in supervising.

Dinner ladies are not universal? Well I have learned something new today. I would not have my dinner in the middle of the day anymore, in fact that seems quite odd to me now, I have definitely adopted breakfast, lunch and dinner.

My husband tells me not everybody "brews up" or has a brew.

Couldn't think of the word at the time - more like ''ultra crude''

Yeah I know - don't forget I'm from North Yorkshire/Teesside though. In West Yorkshire I would have to say the same at the sandwich shop. The sandwich shop serving my last office in Saltaire did a mega breakfast flatcake, delivered to t'mill

I've spent a fair bit of time with my family in Redcar this year and the "dinner" thing now grates on me.

The further north youre from, the closer you are to being a normal person. Cross that border and now youre talking. Apologies for the lack of apostrophes but ah cant be bothered.

We called them dinner ladies in London and they were like family in a strange way.

Our ones just served boring shit food like semolina leading me to bring my own sarnies filled with potted meat paste & crisps plus a Kit-Kat or Trio.

Trios. I loved them. Used to nibble all the chocolate off first then eat the caramely bit then the biscuit. That takes me back

I loved school dinners. Note how they were called school dinners and not lunch. I love semolina or frog sporn as my brother called it.

We used to get it with a blob of jam in the corner and mix it up till it went pink. Our school also used to make the custard in the morning and keep it in big jugs in the oven to keep warm. Then spoon the skin off the top, it must have been about an inch thick, and put it in a bowl on the counter. We used to scramble to be first in line to get a slice of the skin. Delish

Aah see, my trick was to queue up last and get extras. There was always a few ploughmans lunches leftover.

I never used to eat any of my school dinners, so the girl that sat next to me always got 2! It went very well until she got measles and the dinner ladies noticed I never ate anything