Having ‘a cuppa’

I can't bear the expression 'a brew' for a cup of tea or coffee, but it's usually tea. I don't know why, but I absolutely detest it. If anyone else feels like this and they can explain why, I'd really appreciate a bit of analysis!

I also flinch at 'let's have a coffee' . No! Just 'coffee' is fine, or 'a cup of coffee'. Again, can't explain it.

And when you read a menu and they put the indefinite article in front of sauces - that's so pretentious. 'Chicken in a tarragon sauce', or 'salmon in a wine sauce'. Aaarrrggghhh....what's wrong with just 'chicken in tarragon sauce'? I think what bugs me is the implication that the chef is such a maestro that he/she has a repertoire of wine sauces at their fingertips....which I very much doubt, especially if it's just come out of a packet or jar, You'd have to pay a lot of money these days for a chef to be creating wonderful, individual sauces for meals...but every damn gastro pub seems to use this phraseology.

Tea for evening meal is a regional thing. It's a working class term used in Scotland, possibly less so now.
Everyone one if my friends and colleagues use 'tee' to describe a late afternoon/ early evening meal.
For us, it's Breakfast,lunch and tea unless we are talking about school meals and lunch turns into ' dinner time'
We could have a conversation at work about meeting a young person for their session with us and we would say something along g the lines of ' what time is Dinner at at ' St whatever high school'? Oh 12.15, I'll go and meet ( young person ) after my lunch then!

No she’s saying she would go to the fish and chip shops for a Chinese. Chinese immigrants bought loads of failing chip shops in the 60s and turned them into both Chinese and chippy. Very normal.

Nah! ‘Dinner Ladies’ work in the schools around me, because the kids eat their food at dinner time! Then they go home and have their tea! If they have anything before they go to bed then that’s their supper! It’s not us Northerners that cause the confusion!

Ok none of that makes sense tbh. The common denominator of the orders from the chippy is the chips not the fish. And you’re saying the abbreviation for Chinese is “chippy”?!

I always look forward to my first "cuppa" of the day every morning. I don't care if that annoys people.

I've never, to my knowledge, used the words hubby or holibobs.

Are you making memories Hun ?

It's called a 'fish shop' in the city where I live. Gets on my nerves. Having said that, in the city I come from, we would usually go to the chippy for a Chinese.

When I watched this on a insta thread it was so bad it made me cackle

I like 'Marks and Sparks' and think that's in common usage all around the UK
My late husband was a Scouser and would shorten loads of words which I found endearing such as 'ozzie' (sp) for hospital and 'offie' (off licence). He once said there were a couple of 'allies' in the park and upon further questioning, I found out he was referring to 'alsatians'

oh i hate the supermarket ones so much! genuinely rage inducing to me 😂

i use nuggs/nuggies and yorkies(pudding only) though.

who calls trainers 'runners'?

"Brew?" is a full sentance in our house 😅

I sometimes say Northern Britain because, technically it is and, it annoys the hell out of my husband's Nat fanatical family.

Cuppa and nibbles 😷

No because the establishment is the chippy?

Hard agree. It’s ’a cup of tea’.

I'm Scottish so.... We don't really use those terms within Scotland or about Scotland

Oh my god I hate that

No, because a chippy is a chip shop. And chip shops sell a whole range of things.

Aren't you worried they will think they can only have chips?

THANK YOU. I’m from up north originally and I hate that word with a passion.

Absolutely not my dallyn. Maybe you need a cheeky vino and some snacky snacks.

Separated at birth! 🤣 👶👶

You wouldn't invite someone round for an evening meal and then give them sandwiches, would you? Dinner is a full hot meal. Tea is a cold lighter meal consisting of sandwiches, cake, and a pot of tea. Why northerners insist on totally confusing the two is beyond me. (I can say that bc I'm half-Geordie!)