llunch!

[zanzjan]

So, you got yer breakfast in the morning, you got yer lunch around midday, and you got yer dinner in the evening. But what if you lived on a world with more hours in the day? Enough that mid-afternoon you're gonna want to take a nap, and after that you're going to want to have another lunch.

What would you *call* it? Does aftlunch work or just sound stupid?

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[topayz4.livejournal.com]

A friend and I call it "Lunner" Or, you could call it "Second Lunch" or "Twosies."

[prusik.livejournal.com]

My first thought was to adapt the hobbit meal schedule. i.e., breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, afternoon tea, dinner and supper. Honestly though, what it's called probably arises out of the culture somehow.

My second thought was to make sure to call the main meal of the day "dinner" whenever it happens to be. I believe there are still areas where dinner is around noon then they have a supper in the evening.

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

When I wrote a story set on Ganymede, I cheated slightly and positioned my characters in the middle of Jupiter's shadow so that the super-long Ganymede day was broken in half by an eclipse, which I called 'respite'.

Of course then there was the problem of what people do during an absurdly long night, but again I was helped by Jupiter, since it's about 1/3rd as bright as the sun, so Ganymede night is bright enough to do some stuff by.

I solved the problem of meal names by never writing about my characters eating.

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

Ha, I am loaded down with all sorts of food scenes. I wonder if that's because I tend to write while eating dinner...

I could actually use a solution very similar to yours, as my planet in question is part of a tide-locked pair of planets. But I never managed to quite figure out the exact science to calculate when they'd eclipse each other so I'm sort of dodging specifics there. (If you've got good pointers sufficient for someone who isn't dumb but not a professional mathematician or astronomoer, I'm all ears...)

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

Again, I kinda cheated.

I asked mrissa.

I also used Celestia so I could look at Ganymede and see where and when Jupiter's shadow fell.

No math or orbital dynamics involved at all. At least not on my end!

My suggestion: do halvsies on the eclipse and have it break the day into more Earth-like days. It'd be a tick-box on the real estate listing!

"Earth-like day-night cycle, with full planetary view! 0.95 solar mass! SUPER LOW PRICE! No HOA fees!"

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

If they have Taco Bell there, it would be Fourthmeal.

Since the British have the meal/snack they call Tea, maybe these people call this meal by the name of something characteristically eaten at that meal. Hmm, that also reminds me of how we have foods that one usually doesn't eat at certain meals. Is this meal an exact copy of lunch, or are there differences in what one does and doesn't eat at this meal, in contrast with the other meals around it? Maybe they usually eat soup, so this meal is called Soup.

Food for thought.

[dendrophilous.livejournal.com]

Are these people who evolved on that planet? Then I'd expect them to have four entirely different names.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper. Or tea, I like that suggestion above.

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

They're humans, so tea is definitely a good option here.

[varianor.livejournal.com]

snack

(That's what they would call it in school. Though tea works well. Could always name it after one of the planets: Aldebaran Tea. Well, nah.)

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Breakfast. Elevenses. Lunch. [High] Tea. Dinner. Supper.

Most people skip elevenses and limit themselves to three full meals in a day, but you can tweak as needed. They're nicely spread out around the day, tea being the meal kids get when they come home from school (around 4 or 5 pm). Supper is mostly fallen out of use, but it's sometimes used for a small meal/snack nearer bedtime - when you come out of the theatre, for instance.

[zanzjan.livejournal.com]

Supper's still very much in use as a term here in New England, used interchangeably with dinner to mean the evening meal, which is also usually the largest of the day.

I want to try to avoid sounding hobbity, but I'm definitely fixating on Tea.

[rolandgsl.livejournal.com]

My Dad would use "lunch" to refer to a light midday meal, like a sandwich, but a heavier midday meal like a roast would be "dinner". It was usually one irvthe other, but both sometimes happenned. "Supper" was always the evening meal. The rest of us would use dinner and supper interchangably fir the last meal of the day. Other meals not in the regular "3 squares" pantheon include brunch and "first and second breakfast" (especially when one has to get up before daylight, take the edge off your hunger with maybe a bowl of oatmeal or gruel, milk the herd by hand, feed and clean the pens/coops of the rest, then come back in and "fuel up" for the real day's work of haying or logging or whatever). Depending on how technologically advanced your society (or subset of same) is and how much effort it takes to perform their daily lives might cause you to adjust mealtimes and amounts as well.

[stale-hermit.livejournal.com]

"tea"; or dinner for the earlier meal and supper for the later one. (although this assumes most of your characters and culture are Western...)

What about naming it after what they typically consume?

[jostajam.livejournal.com]

In my German family there was breakfast (Frühstück), involving coffee, crusty rolls, black bread, jam cheese and boiled eggs (and depending on which household I was visiting, schnapps). Then the midday meal (Mittagessen) involving coffee, cabbage, potatoes, bacon, and some kind of meat. Then came coffee (Kaffe) which included coffee and a variety of cakes. Last came the evening meal (Abendessen) which included coffee, black bread, cold cuts, cheese, sliced tomato, radish, and cucumber for the tops of the bread.

So basically Earlymeal, Middaymeal, Coffee, and Eveningmeal, all liberally washed down with coffee.