What's for lunch?

Yesterday, for example, we were at my son Holden's baseball game when his brother, Chandler, a four-year-old going on 18, struck up a little conversation with my husband and I while sitting on the bleachers.

"Do you have to work tomorrow," he asked, while biting off a piece of taffy.

"Yes, sir," I replied.

"Is my dad going to be busy ALL DAY too," he groaned.

I jokingly questioned him..."Why?" "Do you have something important to do?"

"Well, actually, yes, I have plans," he said matter-of-factly. "I am going to wake up in the morning, after five more minutes of sleep, brush my teeth, eat something and then go swimming."

He continued, "Then I'm going to call up Pops and see what he is doing so I can tell him I am coming over, but I can't stay too long, because I gotta be home when Holden gets off the bus. Oh, and what's for lunch? I'm hungry!"

We laughed...

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Speaking of noon mealtime... Is it 'lunch' or dinner?

My former neighbors Max Ray Moore and Steve Droke could help me out on this one, I know. Many people from a small farming community like Hornersville, and the Bootheel, in general, will tell you that the line-up is definitely Breakfast, Dinner, and then, Supper.

Not the case, according to my grandmother, who instilled in me that lunch, is just that, 'lunch.' And evening meals are perhaps better referred to as dinner.

So which is it? And if it is 'dinner' then what do you call brunch... A brinner?

Since the subject of meals has taken over my blog I wanted to use this space to feature a video sent to me with a neat cooking tip on how to peel an Idaho potato without a peeler. It seems super easy and is endorsed by Dawn Wells, aka Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island who demonstrates the unique technique... Check it out!