Lunch
Meal
Meal noun - Food eaten or prepared for eating at one time.
Usage example: all she wants to do is sit quietly after the large Thanksgiving meal
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- Inverted in one commercial for a fast food restaurant chain in which two co-workers are eating lunch during their break, one with, apparently, a more expensive but less appetizing meal.
Source: This Ain't Rocket Surgery -
Finally, in the pilot, Van walked into the church looking for food and found Wendy, who bought him lunch; in the finale, he walks through the door looking for food and finds Wendy again, prepared to cook him a meal the way he likes it.
Source: Anime / GUN×SWORD -
A young boy decides to make his own lunch for school and makes a meal of little purple grapes.
Source: The Un-Reveal
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