Dinner

As dinner (also evening meal or supper, Southern Germany and in German-speaking Switzerland: dinner, supper, snack, eastern Austro; supper, snack ) is called a position taken in the late hours of the day meal of any kind at the time and scope of this supper are of cultural practices as individual habits coined.

Germany

The main hot meal of the day is usually taken in Germany at midday, during the early evening bread with cheese or sausage and hot or cold drinks are common as the last meal of the day, the typical dinner. In the Bavarian language area is spoken by a snack.

Since, under present conditions of working life is not always a canteen available, through the supply of a hot main meal is available at lunchtime, it has become customary to take the hot main meal of the day in the evening to himself. Until the 1980s it was still common in the western Germany, that the working man went home for lunch to take you there in a circle around the family 's meal. In the eastern part (GDR) a canteen supply was almost nationwide guaranteed.

Today mostly a correspondingly earlier work end is preferred. The increasing distance between workplace and residence, changing lifestyles and increasingly frequent employment of both partners led to this development.

Other cultures

In other cultures, the main meal of the day is taken in the evening in general.

• This applies for example to the USA and Australia, where only lunch (usually warm and / or a little, eg sandwich) eaten lunch. The main meal is eaten as a dinner in the evening in the family.

• In British parlance a distinction between supper and dinner, the term evening meal before coming. Regional and especially in the working class and tea is used as a term for the main meal in the evening. While supper is the evening meal with the family, understood as a meal with guests in the evening as dinner, to a greater extent than dinner party. In honor of a special guest may also be a banquet ( banquet, feast ) to be aligned.

• In southern countries such as Spain in the evening late, often to 21 clock, eat the hot main meal, as these countries a warm midday meal is especially in summer because of the heat and not common as the main meal was not very digestible.

• In Asian cultures is little or no distinction is usually between meals to the different times of day. So one takes in China the morning rice, the rice lunch or the evening rice to him. All meals are generally hot dishes, but mostly with the first meal of the day is less prepared labor intensive.