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Time to eat!
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:04 am
by Olivier
Southern Europeans are known to eat much later than the northern Europeans... I wonder if it's real or just a legend.
At what time do you eat (for dinner)?
Olivier
Re: Time to eat!
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:06 am
by Olivier
I usually eat from 18h to 19h, which is the common time for dinner in Quebec. In France, I was usually eating from 19h30 to 20h30.
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:14 am
by romppu
I eat my dinner before 18.00 o'clock, but I am a Finn, not Danish (may our almighty God protect me of being Danish...)
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:15 am
by Sneakster
We eat at about 18.00 hrs, just after I get home from work.
My wife finishes at 17.00, so dinner is ( mostly) ready when I arrive..

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:23 am
by romppu
Btw, in Finland we usually eat our dinner latest at about at 18.00. For me it is really difficult to be (for example) in the Southern Europe, where they eat their meal about at 22.00...

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:35 am
by Van Geel
Normally we eat at 17:00h. But I'm Flemish not Danish!
When it's later I ussualy eat chips and chocolat in front of television as well but that is something else.

Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:03 am
by hoppa
I voted 18.00 but it's not as simple as that.
When we eat at home it's usually between around 18.00, depending on the time my wife gets home and if she had to taste some new food products on the job

. When we go out for dinner which happens almost every friday and saturday we eat between 19.00 and 20.00.
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:32 am
by N0W1K
Hi!!
I'm Spanish!!!
so, I eat between 21 to 22,30. I don't arrive home til 20 or 20,30; you can imagine it's quite difficult fo spanish to eat around 18-20....
saludos!!!
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:32 am
by Aaron
Usually I don't eat dinner at all but if I eat it happens at 7 pm.
Yesterday I barbecued with my girlfriend some sausages in our backyard.
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:06 am
by Batavorum
We start diner just before 18:00 (and no, I'm not Danish either).
We just have to start early becouse time scedule is realy tight to get the youngest kids to bed in time.
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:39 am
by BogPoet
I usually eat around the 20h-22h range. When I'm in Lisboa, sometimes even later. Very seldom do I eat before. At 17h-18h, while some of you are dining, I'm having a mid-afternoon snack!
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 11:23 am
by Fjon
I would usually have something at 19:00, but that's just because I get home from work at that time. On the weekend it can range between 17:00 and 23:00....
When I'm in Italy - I go there once a year - we would usually have something at 21:00.
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 1:48 pm
by airis
I am a Finn and usually I eat dinner at 16.00 or 17.00, when I get home. Later in the evening (between 8 pm or 10 pm) I eat something too, like in my childhood home. But in some Finnish homes they eat hardly anything after 18.00. It is a problem for foreing visitors, who are staying as guests in Finnish homes. I have seen newspaper interviews, where those guests are very surprised and complain about this.
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:17 pm
by Ralf
I eat dinner at 18:00.
somethimes 18:30 or 19:00
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:06 pm
by Olivier
airis wrote:I am a Finn and usually I eat dinner at 16.00 or 17.00, when I get home. Later in the evening (between 8 pm or 10 pm) I eat something too, like in my childhood home. But in some Finnish homes they eat hardly anything after 18.00. It is a problem for foreing visitors, who are staying as guests in Finnish homes. I have seen newspaper interviews, where those guests are very surprised and complain about this.
If BogPoet comes to visit you, he'll be persuaded at 17h that you take a big snack very early!
