Lunch,Dinner and Tea.What do you have when?

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Some people are confused as to what time I have my dinner
What do you eat after breakfast and before supper?

If you're comfortable calling your lunch your dinner and your dinner your tea then you know you are scottish

Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Would never call the evening meal supper, to me supper is a bedtime snack. I didn't know dinner had to be 'grand', ours never is!

and supper is a slice of toast before bed!!

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner for the dc 6pm
Dinner for me and dh 8.30 - 9pm

Tea is something you have at about 4pm with small sandwiches and cake.

as weans said tea,meaning dinner.and ye will huve had yer tea was cheeky

We have breakfast whenever we get up
Lunch @12ish
DD has tea at 5pm
DH & I have dinner at 8ish
I don't have supper, but if I did it would be something like cheese & biscuits around 10pm

I'm from a foreign family so we figured the following
Breakfast
Lunch unless at school then it's dinner
Tea was after school, a cuppa with cake and maybe a sandwich or crumpet. If at school friends house it was a big meal! (I thought this very odd)
Dinner around 7.30pm 8pm
Never had supper
Now I've got used to the idea I was born here and my other half comes from native stock we do sound confused
Breakfast easy
Lunch (unless DH is talking then it's dinner)
Tea for Ds is a proper meal with Granny when I'm at work. DH and I have dinner at 8-9pm
When I'm home we have a cuppa and cake around 3.40pm - 4pm
Then dinner at 6pm
DH used to have supper as a kid of milk and a biscuit before bed!
No wonder DS is confused

We have breakfast.

Dinner is at 12, it's always dinner be it hot or cold.

Tea is at 4pm for the kids and around 6 or 7pm for me and DH.

Supper is what the kids have just before bed.

We don't do lunch unless we're trying to be posh with our middle class friends.

Breakfast

(elevenses)

Lunch

(afternoon snack)

Dinner

Supper

Hmmm....no wonder I am big :o

maybe grand is wrong word but dinner definitely formal and ugh, effort, get dressed etc

this is what dinner is isn't it?

Breakfast and lunch definitely.

Evening meal more complicated...usually dinner for the kids. Supper for grown ups later on! Often just 'food' as in 'food's ready! Or even 'food time'. Not sure what class that makes me .

yeah dinner is what you invite others for, set the big table for etc...

Sorry- can't get exercised about who call which meal what... but OP- your name is sheer genius!

Lunch is sometime between 12 and 2
Children have after school snack after school.
Supper is generally between 5 and 10. Depends who is having it ie just children, children and me, all four of us or just DH and me.
Used to have tea when I was little at around 4 (cakes and drink) and then dinner at 6.

Dinner for us is just whatever we eat in the evening, often just a bowl of pasta or some bread and soup or something, eaten either at the little kitchen table or sitting on the sofa watching TV.

At least I thought it was dinner, but maybe we're actually having tea or supper?

For the dog everything is dinner, including his morning feed, so he doesn't get confused by different words. It's the same stuff in the same bowl three times a day, after all, so all the same to him...

Breakfast in the morn, lunch about 12/1 regardless of whether it's hot or cold and dinner/tea in the evening and always hot!

Breakfast is what you eat soon after waking.

Lunch is between 12 and 2pm.

Dinner is the evening meal, usually between 5 and 8 depending on whether we're eating with the kids or not.

A brunch is served around 10 to 11 and replaces breakfast and lunch.

Tea would be a light afternoon meal, probably around 4 pm.

Supper is a snack just before bed. If I've had a supper invitation then its been informal food usually after we've been out somewhere. Cinema or pub, then back for some supper.

Lunch was invented by rich ladies who were fed- up waiting for their husbands to get out of bed to have a meal. Dinner in UK used to be the only meal in the middle of the day while there was still sunlight. As the gas and electric light was invented men stayed out later and later gambling and womanising leaving their wives hungry and bored in the middle of the day...... So if you are nostalgic for the middle ages I would call the mid-day meal Dinner I suppose they also needed tea and cake in vast amounts too like me

Breakfast
Brunch
Elevenses
Lunch
Mid-afternoon Tea
Dinner
Afternoon Tea
Supper
Midnight Snack

Phone NHS direct with symptoms of heart attack, impacted colon and blurred vision.

Sleep

Get up for breakfast!!!

we have breakfast lunch and dinner.

I think of tea as "High tea" as in cucumber sandwiches and Earl Grey tea with lemon.. (I will have that too if I feel like it)

Breakfast - around 6:30 (eggs, toast - something cooked)
Morning tea - midmorning, mostly between 10-11 (fruit, cheese, crackers)
Lunch - midday, any time from 12-2 unless seriously busy in which case any time from 12-6 (sandwiches if work day, cooked if not)
Afternoon tea - midafternoon, around 3ish (more fruit/crackers)
Dinner - at home with family, normally 6-6.30pm (cooked)
Supper - late night snack after dinner and before bedtime, only if boys still hungry and before teeth cleaning (milk/crackers).

Took us a while to get used to how much people ate over here! and more time to get used to the fact that they expected me to take a break for morning / afternoon tea. Contrast from the NHS where you didn't even get a break for a wee!

breakfast
2nd breakfast

lunch at work
dinner at home

supper (evening meal)

Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Supper sounds very Enid Blytonish.

I'm southern, DP's northern. I have dinner, he has tea. We eat them at the same time (after we finish work), and they contain the same foods.

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

The tea thing always confuses me momentarily.When people post saying asking what's for tea,I immediately think of the hot drink,and I am Scottish.

What's so 'posh' about dinner?