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“Luncheon as a regular daily meal only developed in the US in the 1900s. In her first edition of Etiquette, in 1922, Emily Post had seen no need to explain that only hash or cold meat were to be served at supper; anything hot or complicated was served at dinner. But by the 1945 edition, she had to explain that luncheon was an informal midday meal and supper an informal evening meal, while dinner was always formal, but could occur at midday or evening. Later editions, such as the 1960 edition edited by Elizabeth Post, standardized the times and dropped all the old traditions of formality.. Timing had become more important than ritual; ritual became an optional and personal choice.

“Tea with biscuits and pastries had been popular since the 1700s as a refreshment to serve visitors. Now ladies began taking tea and snacks of light sandwiches and cakes around four or five in the afternoon, regardless of whether or not they had visitors. At first they had this snack in relative privacy, in their boudoir or private sitting room. But by the 1840s they had established afternoon tea as a regular meal in drawing rooms and parlors all over Britain.

“By the start of the victorian era, the main dinner meal could be eaten anywhere from five to eight hours later in the city than the country.