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Titanic Dining Differences: Classes Ate at Different Times

8/13/2026

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In Norway, Sweden and Denmark, breakfast is frokost/frukost or morgenmad and lunch is lunsj/lunch or frokost.
All three refer to main midday meal as middag and serve it in early evening.
Danish wedding parties serve natmad around midnight as a sign that the event has ended, called skrub af mad.
On the Titanic, first- and second-class passengers dined in the evening while third-class passengers dined at midday.
Iceberg lettuce was absent from Titanic menus.

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Story summary

In Norway, Sweden and Denmark, breakfast is frokost/frukost or morgenmad and lunch is lunsj/lunch or frokost.
All three refer to main midday meal as middag and serve it in early evening.
Danish wedding parties serve natmad around midnight as a sign that the event has ended, called skrub af mad.
On the Titanic, first- and second-class passengers dined in the evening while third-class passengers dined at midday.
Iceberg lettuce was absent from Titanic menus.