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[โ€“] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In primary school in the 90s, we'd call lunch dinner (dinner time, dinner money, school dinners) but if you brought your own food it was packed lunch. But at home, we'd say dinner for the evening meal.

[โ€“] yakko@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

They still do that at my kid's school, so he gets two dinners a day. Chaos reigns.