Who or what was TIFFIN?

Answer 1

It's what Indians call lunch -tea and sandwiches

Answer 2

Tiffin is an Indian and British term for a light meal eaten during the day.

The word became popular in British India, possibly related to tiffing, an English word defined in Francis Grose's 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue as meaning
"Eating or drinking out of meal time, disputing or falling out; also lying with a wench, A tiff of punch, a small bowl of punch".

In India, the word is mostly used for light lunches prepared for working Indian men by their wives after they have left for work, and forwarded to them by Dabbawalas who use a complex system to get thousands of tiffin-boxes to their destinations.
The lunches are packed in steel or tin boxes, also sometimes called tiffins or tiffin-boxes.
A common approach is to put rice in one box, dal in another and yet other items in the third or fourth.
The other items could be breads, such as naan, vegetable curry and finally a sweet.

Answer 3

Tiffin is generally a chocolatey cake/biscuit that can be served with afternoon tea. If you google it, you should find several recipes. Yum

Answer 4

tiffin was afternoon tea back when we ruled most of the world.

Answer 5

tiffin was used as another word for sex in a carry on film great British comedy in its day

Answer 6

It is an Indian and British term for a light meal eaten during the day.

Answer 7

Ghastly word used during the Raj, something like high tea.

Answer 8

Mmmmm, a lovely chocolate biscuit cakey thing from Sainsbury`s!!

Answer 9

I know a girl's school by the name!?!