"Your dinner is getting cold!"

[AxlsAppetite]

its in africa that they are starving. dont be so anti-sinotic.

there can be starving kids in china too. don't be a smart-ass.

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

Did you ever have a parent call you inside using that ageless phrase? I honestly don't think I ever heard it in my youth.

When I was a kid I used to hear that. But now that I'm adult I never yell it out loud to myself for obvious reasons.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

No just the words dinner is ready. Dinner was never served anyways until we were seated so it was rarely if ever cold.

 

[Manic]

I never heard it. I was born in 1984, and I grew up with a microwave in my house. Also, I've always been fat. My mom knew I was coming to eat, and that I could sense* a cooked meal from several blocks away.



*I have an acute sense of smell.

 

[Logan's Lady]

I don't remember my parents saying that at all........

and with my boys, they're usually in the kitchen asking me what's for dinner before I can even get it on the table.

Then all I have to say (if they happen to be in the other room) is:

"Go wash your hands it's time to eat" and they go running to wash hands and get to table.

 

[Eggyman]

No. That never happened. I would come in and it would be... cold.

 

[04nbod]

I still hear it

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Kids today don't eat dinner with their family. They are all holed up in their miniature apartments with all the conveniences of the world within arms reach. The parental units are merely there to provide sustenance and monetary support when needed, moral guidance is optional. The days of getting called in when the streetlights turned on are gone... these are the days of the young fatties, hot pockets are cuisine.

I weep for the youth.

Holy crap, agreed!

 

[JayCaz]

I used to hear that all the time as a kid, then run in to find no dinner at all.

Oh my Mum was such a joker.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

its in africa that they are starving. dont be so anti-sinotic.

don't be an idiot. the old saying has been used over the years both ways. so, don't you be so anti-sinotic.

 

[SuBe]

I got "Eat, or you won't".

 

[Double Down]

My girlfriend will say it because I will be doing something else, like writing a story for the newspaper, and I won't really listen. When I'm done with what I am doing, I will go over to eat, take a bite and say something like, "Hey. This is cold." She always laughs about it.

 

[JP]

Nah, I sat there and waited for my food to be done. I was hungry.. always hungry.

 

[bullets]

i hear this all the time when my girlfriend makes dinner and i'm on the computer in the middle of typing or reading something .

 

[Halcohol]

Quit complaining about having to eat cold food. When I was your age, I had to walk barefoot in three feet of snow to get my dinner. Uphill.

 

[Manic]

I always get a kick out of those "I used to walk to school in the snow" stories, because you just know they're going to end with "uphill both ways."

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

I always get a kick out of those "I used to walk to school in the snow" stories, because you just know they're going to end with "uphill both ways."

Hey, I did used to walk to school in the snow. One time I even walked to school only to find out they canceled it for the day. Then I had to walk all the way back home.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I'm sure I heard it once or twice. I always wanted to say something witty and snappy back, but alas I failed at life.

 

[Timstuff]

"Your dinner is getting cold" can be easily countered with this phrase:

"Good, I don't want to burn my tongue."

 

[Jennifer Walters]

"Your dinner is getting cold" can be easily countered with this phrase:

"Good, I don't want to burn my tongue."

Too obvious.

 

[JayCaz]

Actually, I'd like to retract my previous statement.

The phrase "Your dinner's getting cold" was only ever heard where I'm from on a Sunday, when you had a Sunday Roast Dinner.

Otherwise, as is with most of England, dinner, is lunch. What you in the US call dinner, we call tea. Breakfast, Dinner & Tea.

So it was always "Your tea's getting cold!!"

 

[JayCaz]

"Your dinner is getting cold" can be easily countered with this phrase:

"Good, I don't want to burn my tongue."

Which my Mother would probably counter with a right hook.

 

[Timstuff]

Which my Mother would probably counter with a right hook.

Oh dear, so you're from one of those families...

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

^...........^
This thread title is the story of my life.

 

[Immortalfire]

"Your dinner is getting cold" can be easily countered with this phrase:

"Good, I don't want to burn my tongue."

With my parents, that would have been a good way to get my ass beat. lol