Dinner is the main meal of the day. The meal normally consists
of a combination of cooked, or sometimes uncooked, proteins
(meat, fish or legumes), with vegetables, and/or starch products
like rice, noodles, or potatoes. School dinners is a British
phrase for school lunches – reflecting the fact that such school
meals were originally provided chiefly for the children of the
working class, who typically had their main meal in the middle
of the day – and women working in school canteens are generally
known in the UK as dinner ladies (however, if a pupil brings his
or her food from home, it is a packed lunch). Ambiguity can be
avoided by using lunch for the midday meal. A more formal
definition of "dinner" is an evening meal consisting of multiple
courses, generally three, but often as many as seven. One set of
silver flatware made by Tiffany & Co. in the 1890s included
thirteen pieces per person, with all the necessary tools for
eating a multi-course meal. Possible courses are: (after this it
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