What's your absolute favorite meal?

[MdR Dave]

At the risk of sounding pedantic, the thread asks for a favourite meal, but the posts are only about food: a meal must have food but must surely also involve people and location.

This will probably sound even worse, but I think "meal" is correct and the event is "dinner".

I know what you're going for, though- my favorite dinner has to be Thanksgiving 1986. It was the last holiday meal I had with my grandfather. Two grandmas and a mother cooking for days, no divorce, both of my brothers at home for dinner, great uncle- all the family I had known my entire life.

It was a grand feast, nourishing to the soul as well as body (though I didn't appreciate it then.)

[CORVETTEDUDE]

Favorite: Chicken & Dumplings / Mashed Potatoes & Gravy / Country Green Beans / hot, out of the oven Dinner Rolls / Fruit Salad & Iced Tea.

[Stavros]

This will probably sound even worse, but I think "meal" is correct and the event is "dinner".

I know what you're going for, though- my favorite dinner has to be Thanksgiving 1986. It was the last holiday meal I had with my grandfather. Two grandmas and a mother cooking for days, no divorce, both of my brothers at home for dinner, great uncle- all the family I had known my entire life.

It was a grand feast, nourishing to the soul as well as body (though I didn't appreciate it then.)

Thanks MdR Dave, I believe your fine tuning is right, even if for some the terms are interchangeable. I was expecting someone from the US to give us a Thanksgiving experience, good one!

Not sure if you know the work of Margaret Visser, I think she is an under-rated talent, and loved this book when I read it many tears ago:

Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal: Margaret Visser: 9780802144935: Amazon.com: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lxrDOyTpL.@@AMEPARAM@@51lxrDOyTpL

[Prospero]

I've not seen that one. I read her "Rituals of Dinner" some years ago too. Very interesting book.

My absolute favourite meal... observing the precision of the question ... is a wonderful breakfast.

[Jericho]

Feck the precision of the question, I'll answer as i please!

A large bowl of Bread & Butter Pudding, or possibly, Pancakes (that's British style pancakes, not those scotch/American monstrosities)!

[robertlouis]

I've not seen that one. I read her "Rituals of Dinner" some years ago too. Very interesting book.

My absolute favourite meal... observing the precision of the question ... is a wonderful breakfast.

I agree, but not the traditional full English/Scottish.

For me it's either kippers, smoked haddock or smoked salmon with scrambled eggs.

The kippers? At the Crinan Hotel, overlooking the Sound of Jura on the west coast of Scotland. Smoked haddock at Simpsons in the Strand, and the smoked salmon on the last glorious days of GNER on the East Coast Main Line when they still did pullman service.

[Dino Velvet]

Think I'm going to McDonald's. Fucking Hell.

[robertlouis]

Think I'm going to McDonald's. Fucking Hell.

Haven't been in a McDonalds this millennium.

[Ben]

Hey guys, ladies,

What's your absolute favorite meal? Chicken parmesan with a side of spaghetti bolognese and Caesar salad is mine.

I'm a big fan of Indian curry -- albeit vegetarian....

[Dino Velvet]

Hey Ben, what's up with the disappointed looking gal holding up three fingers? You allow yourself to get measured?