Hi All..

Lets consider the following statements:
1. Will you have lunch with me?
2. Will you lunch with me?

In my opinion, version 2 is incorrect/slang. What are your views?

Thanks in advance.

Of course i understand that the subject may be misleading since in version 1, "lunch" is not a verb i guess.

What are your views?

They both seem fine to me. The first usage case is not a verb. Lunch has been a verb at least since at least 1913 and possibly earlier.

I'm with Zm: they both seem fine to me.
WELCOME TUHIN

I guess since you registered on the site in '05
I should say welcome back

Today, several co-workers and I lunched in the conference room, ate chili dogs and watched the original Star Wars "A New Hope".

I love Fridays. Have a great weekend everyone!

Must be nice to work where you work, "work" being the
imperative word.

I used to work for the Postal Service. I watched Star Wars on my lunch break practically every day!

Peter

When I worked at Sun Microsystems, we watched Office Space one elongated lunchtime, but it was okay because our manager showed it to use. (One of the PMs also brought a bottle of 12-year-old single malt Scotch to enliven the activity.) Alas, the next day it was back to work as usual.

As a teacher could never watch Star Wars at any time.
However the eighth graders frequently resembled the
bar scene on Tatooine.

Okay, I wish I could have watched Star Wars on my lunch break.

So have we concluded the
"lunch" question????

Well, let see: I can breakfast (or break my fast), I can lunch, dine, sup, or snack; but can I tea?

You can breakfast, you can lunch, you can snack, but you can't dinner and you can't supper. Dine and sup don't quite hack it.

Aw, have a heart. I know that those verbs are not identical to the nouns. My point is that there is a verb at least closely related to the noun for each of these meals; is there such a thing for tea, or any other meals that should be added to the list?

you might tee off, but thats a different word

Something in the forenoon?

1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows xxxvi, I breakfast, tea, and sup my lodgers.

1892 F. J. Furnivall Hoccleve's Minor Poems Introd. 47 We dined on the bank opposite Hampton Court and teaed on Tatham's island.

good find goofy.

I'm hungry after reading all this: must go brunch or snack.

Thanks a lot everyone!

Thanks, goofy; both transitive and intransitive. I have to say that teaed is an odd-looking word.

I am reminded by all this that I can water my horse. Can I sandwich my children? Meat my guests, and dessert my wife? It's been a long afternoon.

I've heard "sandwiched between two really big people"
or something of the sort, when sitting in the middle
seat on an airline. So I think it can be used.

Not quite the same thing. And if you dessert your wife you might be accused of misspelling along with a few other things.

And as Trom said "teaed" does look funny, a misspelling
accusation would probably result.

'Teaed' looks nice almost perfect. 'deaed' would have been perfect-pattern-wise.

Actually, I like that,
sort of like Brunch/Lunch.

I think thats called a squash, Luke

I think if you've even been in that position you feel
like lunch meat.

Yes, indeaedni!

what are we talking about...I've lost track!

Lunch meat?
You are telling me that you have a type of meat only used for lunch? I feel the England/American divide here

It's not only eaten at lunch but it's made to be put in a sandwich, which is more commonly eaten at lunch than at any other meal. If lunch meat bothers you you can call it sandwich meat if you'd like and you'll be understood. Of course then you risk the wrath of someone who just wants to cut it into slices and put it in an omelet.

deaedmeaet.

In the grocery where I shop, there is in the meat section,
a sign saying "lunchmeats" and "sandwich meats".

Well now, not only are there lunch meats but sandwich meats as well...odd! we just have sandwiches over here...they contain ham or chicken or bacon or cheese, all individually spoken, not grouped into "lunch/sandwich meats"...to me that sound like a type of processed filler of "meat" that comes in squares the same size as bagged bread! (no offense intended!)

Pressed meats, bolognas, etc.

hmmm what's wrong with sliced/ing ham or chicken breasts?! I think I know what you mean - kind of like corned beef slices yes?

Yes, that's one.

sandwiches over here...they contain ham or chicken or bacon or cheese And chip butties ; about as appetizing (and healthful) as our processed and pressed lunch meats.

chip butties???? Sounds really good !

yeah but they're not SUPPOSED to be healthy! It's what you do with left over chips from fish/pie and chip friday evenings - chips butter (ketchup of your choice) and bread YUM

That's about it. It's just a name for a class of food-like substances. You can certainly make sandwiches without "sandwich meat". You can take a turkey carcase, slice off some breast meat, and put it between a couple of slices of bread along with whatever else you want in there. You can do a lot of things.

I could murder one right now

OK, I'll bite, what is it???

You can't be that hungry!

re: chip butties

Jo, one of our early Members, writes to me today:

A word in daily use!

The clue is in the diminutive, it's a pared down sandwich with just the essentials. It especially applies to a bacon butty or buttie. In Manchester the chip butty (fries not what we call crisps) rules supreme.

A butty is a thin sandwich with/without butter and tomato ketchup. It's a breakfast or a snack at lunchtime or later, say after the pub.

A clever American-style sandwich, like a BLT with layers and posh ingredients like mayonnaise is definitely not a butty!

Jo

Chip butty? Bread with French fries? nohhhh!

they are definately NOT fries...no siree, no mini skinny 'chips' for us! we have proper chips over here!
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and they are YUMMY!!!

In Québec, prior to the 1960s and the revolution against the church, people used to eat a thing called a guedille on Fridays. It was a hotdog bun without the sausage, stuffed with french-fries and all the trimming usually eaten with a hotdog. That was because the Catholic church did not allow them to eat meat on Fridays.

Yes Bex, I'd like to order the upper meal, just fish and chips. Wonderful.
But suffocating good chips between two layers of dry bread? Criminal.

Yup. You need to smother them in mayonaise.

Or if they are of the soft greasy variety, then a ton of salt and vinegar. Mmmmmmmmm.

So which is the chip butty???

Ah, but if you use posh ingredients like mayo it's not a butty.

Bex you ought to be shot for putting those pictures up. It's got me thinking - get yourself some fish n chips [then a butty] today. I think a butty should come before the fish n chips. That way the chips don't get stale. Jackie, food thread alert!!! I didn't start it. Bex did!
Eta: okay no mayo.

Mayo is posh? Not if it drips onto your shirt.

Butty meaning bread with or without butter, choose the obvious best: a single fish and chips today, just like me and Avy. No mayo.

OK, I'll bite, what is it???
chips butter (ketchup of your choice) and bread

The one I saw consisted of thick fries (what we'd call steak fries) on a bun.

Yeah, Avy, I know. But right now I'll glom onto saying we're trying to define butty...

A chip or bacon butty (butte)tastes so much better with real butter oozing out. And I have tomato sauce in mine. I've stopped adding salt to the chips....at least that way I think its a bit healthier

Have you tried one yet Luke?

you might as well call a chip butty a carb butty - 'twould blow anyone's diet to smithereens.

I only indulge once in a while

Thanks to you and Jackie (above one post) for defining
the thing. I can't even imagine one, much less find a place
where they are served. But from the discussion here it
looks like a relatively common thing. I know they don't
exist on any menu hereabouts. And no I don't really think
I'd try one. Fries (potatoes) and catchup are good enough
without making a sandwich out of them. Very curious
combination.

reported

To stay on the foodline, Yeh!! I got the little pretty cake. Thanks Jackie, I know how long it takes to bake it.

Looks very much like a Birthday Cake to me, Bran

Hope you had a good one

Happy Birthday, Branny!

Thank you. Which provider still sets his employees on sending birthday cards to its clients ? (no advertising meant)
( Luke, here's your sheep )
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And a right fine looking fellow he is too.
Thanks for sharing it with me. The Little Prince
enjoyed it as well.

one of my readers sent this:


There is a good chance that if you are having a butty it will be on a bap.

I have never found a reasonable explanation where the word 'bap' came from but it is defined as a soft roll and the word has been in use since the 16th century from what little I can find about its origins.

BY THE WAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRAN