Spain being awfully late as always. Their daily schedule is basically adapted to the schedule the sun (GMT or even GMT -1 timezone) while wrongly being in the CET timezone. Also siesta with a lot of shops closing from 2 till 5.
Supper at 18:30 is spot on for me.
Supper at 17.00 is the shit imo
I still stick to dinner at 13 because secondary school, supper hangs around 17:30-18:00.
I try to have it ready around 17.15, my wife gets home from work and picking up the tiniest one at the daycare around that time. So she can come in and immediately sit down and eat because she tends to be really hungry when coming home and being hungry makes her (and everyone else in the household) cranky
I usually eat breakfast around that time, not dinner
These look like breakfast times to me. At least write it down in 24 hour notation.
While I have a certain level of admiration for people who eat at set times, I can’t imagine that happening in my life – because every day is totally different.
Breakfast is anywhere between 05h00 and 11h00
Lunch is anywhere between 13h00 and 15h00
Dinner anywhere between 19h30-23h00
I remember when I was a kid, 6 pm sharp: “Kooomen eten!!!” Every mom throughout the whole street
It’s whenever my wife comes home from work not because she has to cook (that’s already done by me) but because I want to eat together with her. It’s rarely before 20:30. Latest ever so far was 1:30 am.
its 17uur30 to 19heures30. If you know, you know.
Went to Italy in september and my Belgian stomach had to make quite an adjustment because restaurants literally did not open untill 20:00 (19:30 if you’re lucky to be in a tourist hotspot)
You’re options before that are a light snack in a cafe or takeaway.
it used always be 20h for me, untill i got a kid, then it became 18h. they get so hangry if they don’t eat.
I really don’t understand early eaters, what’s worse then going to bed hungry? 7 at the earliest for me
Expected news after I show him this picture: My grandfather just left to Scandinavia
more like 5:30-8:30
I wonder what the differnce is between Flanders and Wallonia tho
It has always been 8pm for my family 🤔
We’ll always start eating around 6u30 and me and my dad watch blokken everytime, now that kabel tv is gone we have no tv at te kitchen anymore and it feels weird, we eat in de living now.
I don’t know any Belgians that eat past 1800.
Use 24 hour clock, dammit. Also, dinner in Poland is at noon.
oh god it’s very annoying when spanish students come here and only start eating at 10 and then continue sitting in the kitchen untill very late making a shitton of noise and you have class at 8 in the morning..
5 years studying, 5 years of different students, same problem persisted
and yes we did ask them to calm the fuck down it didn’t work.
Nope, all wrong, that’s breakfast.
I am genuinely starving by 5:30, so idk how you fellow Belgians do it but if I don’t eat by 6, I am in the worst mood ever.
6:30-7:30? I eat breakfast later than that.
I cannot imagine getting off of work that early to have dinner that early, tho it does work better with circadian rhythms. Spanish dinner timing works better practically.
Guess I’m Italian
I remember some kind of health recommendation in Sweden saying something like that it is not healthy to eat after 18. Now as a parent in Belgium it is impossible to eat earlier than approximately 19 since if I pick up the kids in after-school-care at 18, we won’t be able to eat until just before 19 anyway even if it is just sandwiches. (My mom worked full-time back when I was a kid too so that is not the difference, but she did start much earlier so she would have been home much earlier than I am. Also the work-life balance in Sweden was/is much easier since stores are open earlier (usually 7) and later (usually 22 or 23) and on Sundays).
Also a huge cultural difference. In Sweden we always had 2 hot meals, which is not normal here (and I have sort of adapted to sandwiches because if I would prepare a hot meal when we come home we would not eat before 20)
Portugal range here.
The balance between France (me, for real) and Spain (my wife, for the lifestyle and her professional history). We have kids but we eat when they are asleep.
I remember a story my dad told me. He was on a business trip to Spain, with a Swedish colleague of his. The colleague was notoriously anal – everything had to be at specific times. Come dinnertime on their first day there, my dad saw it coming. The guy didn’t. They went to a restaurant at 5PM, and surprise – nothing was open.
According to my dad, the dude just did not eat dinner during the entire trip. Every day at 5, he’d go looking for a restaurant, and would find nothing. He’d then just buy a sandwich, eat it in his hotelroom, and went to bed early.
20.30 when I was growing up, and regularly around 21.00. When friends came over they would always be shocked. Feels completely normal to me
I remember having a heated argument about this during my high school days. Some of my friends couldn’t believe that my family always ate our evening meal at 17:30 or 17:45. The difference was that their parents had 9 to 17 jobs while mine worked the early nightshift or de ‘vroege’.
For those who are wondering how we didn’t get hungry again before bed, we ate a piece of fruit around 20u. It also helped that we were generally early birds so we went to bed around 21u or so.
Me: 17u-00u
At 5 ain’t nobody got time for 6:30-7:30 unless it’s friday
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Dinner at 12.00 and supper at 18.45
Dinner at 4 or 5? Norway what the fuck?
Spain being awfully late as always. Their daily schedule is basically adapted to the schedule the sun (GMT or even GMT -1 timezone) while wrongly being in the CET timezone. Also siesta with a lot of shops closing from 2 till 5.
Supper at 18:30 is spot on for me.
Supper at 17.00 is the shit imo
I still stick to dinner at 13 because secondary school, supper hangs around 17:30-18:00.
I try to have it ready around 17.15, my wife gets home from work and picking up the tiniest one at the daycare around that time. So she can come in and immediately sit down and eat because she tends to be really hungry when coming home and being hungry makes her (and everyone else in the household) cranky
I usually eat breakfast around that time, not dinner
These look like breakfast times to me. At least write it down in 24 hour notation.
While I have a certain level of admiration for people who eat at set times, I can’t imagine that happening in my life – because every day is totally different.
Breakfast is anywhere between 05h00 and 11h00
Lunch is anywhere between 13h00 and 15h00
Dinner anywhere between 19h30-23h00
I remember when I was a kid, 6 pm sharp: “Kooomen eten!!!” Every mom throughout the whole street
It’s whenever my wife comes home from work not because she has to cook (that’s already done by me) but because I want to eat together with her. It’s rarely before 20:30. Latest ever so far was 1:30 am.
its 17uur30 to 19heures30. If you know, you know.
Went to Italy in september and my Belgian stomach had to make quite an adjustment because restaurants literally did not open untill 20:00 (19:30 if you’re lucky to be in a tourist hotspot)
You’re options before that are a light snack in a cafe or takeaway.
it used always be 20h for me, untill i got a kid, then it became 18h. they get so hangry if they don’t eat.
I really don’t understand early eaters, what’s worse then going to bed hungry? 7 at the earliest for me
Expected news after I show him this picture: My grandfather just left to Scandinavia
more like 5:30-8:30
I wonder what the differnce is between Flanders and Wallonia tho
It has always been 8pm for my family 🤔
We’ll always start eating around 6u30 and me and my dad watch blokken everytime, now that kabel tv is gone we have no tv at te kitchen anymore and it feels weird, we eat in de living now.
I don’t know any Belgians that eat past 1800.
Use 24 hour clock, dammit. Also, dinner in Poland is at noon.
oh god it’s very annoying when spanish students come here and only start eating at 10 and then continue sitting in the kitchen untill very late making a shitton of noise and you have class at 8 in the morning..
5 years studying, 5 years of different students, same problem persisted
and yes we did ask them to calm the fuck down it didn’t work.
Nope, all wrong, that’s breakfast.
I am genuinely starving by 5:30, so idk how you fellow Belgians do it but if I don’t eat by 6, I am in the worst mood ever.
6:30-7:30? I eat breakfast later than that.
I cannot imagine getting off of work that early to have dinner that early, tho it does work better with circadian rhythms. Spanish dinner timing works better practically.
Guess I’m Italian
I remember some kind of health recommendation in Sweden saying something like that it is not healthy to eat after 18. Now as a parent in Belgium it is impossible to eat earlier than approximately 19 since if I pick up the kids in after-school-care at 18, we won’t be able to eat until just before 19 anyway even if it is just sandwiches. (My mom worked full-time back when I was a kid too so that is not the difference, but she did start much earlier so she would have been home much earlier than I am. Also the work-life balance in Sweden was/is much easier since stores are open earlier (usually 7) and later (usually 22 or 23) and on Sundays).
Also a huge cultural difference. In Sweden we always had 2 hot meals, which is not normal here (and I have sort of adapted to sandwiches because if I would prepare a hot meal when we come home we would not eat before 20)
Portugal range here.
The balance between France (me, for real) and Spain (my wife, for the lifestyle and her professional history). We have kids but we eat when they are asleep.
I remember a story my dad told me. He was on a business trip to Spain, with a Swedish colleague of his. The colleague was notoriously anal – everything had to be at specific times. Come dinnertime on their first day there, my dad saw it coming. The guy didn’t. They went to a restaurant at 5PM, and surprise – nothing was open.
According to my dad, the dude just did not eat dinner during the entire trip. Every day at 5, he’d go looking for a restaurant, and would find nothing. He’d then just buy a sandwich, eat it in his hotelroom, and went to bed early.
20.30 when I was growing up, and regularly around 21.00. When friends came over they would always be shocked. Feels completely normal to me
I remember having a heated argument about this during my high school days. Some of my friends couldn’t believe that my family always ate our evening meal at 17:30 or 17:45. The difference was that their parents had 9 to 17 jobs while mine worked the early nightshift or de ‘vroege’.
For those who are wondering how we didn’t get hungry again before bed, we ate a piece of fruit around 20u. It also helped that we were generally early birds so we went to bed around 21u or so.
Me: 17u-00u
At 5 ain’t nobody got time for 6:30-7:30 unless it’s friday