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?

We have our main meal in the middle of the day, so what we have at 6/7 in the evening can´t be called dinner imo.

So we usually have breakfast, lunch, tea.

Hmm, not sure! Normally:

Breakfast at between 7 and 9
Lunch at between 12 and 2
Supper at between 6 and 8

Not sure what tea is,sometimes if dh is home we'll have a cup of tea and cake/doughnuts at 330 ish...any excuse for cake!

But oddly if we go out in the eve we go out for dinner, not supper.

Breakfast - no

Lunch - no (nowhere decent to eat at work, refuse to eat at my desk, would rather just not eat)

Tea - about 6.30pm, DH finishes work a good 3 hours before I do so he gets it ready for me getting home

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner...usually but sometimes referred to as tea too. If DS eats by himself, I'm more likely to refer to it as "tea". If DP and I eat later, then it's always "dinner"

I use supper sometimes to refer to a late evening snack.

breakfast 7.30am

lunch 11.30-1.30

dinner 5/6pm

we dont have supper but on the odd occasion its a very small meal, even cheese and bicuits and its at at about 8pm as more of a snack.

we dont have tea, thats a drink in a cup.

I am also scottish and have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Supper is something you have just before bed. Tea is what I drink!

Breakfast (morning sometime)

Lunch (between 12-2)

Tea (between 5-7)

Only have dinner in a hotel restaurant

But when I live in Scotland (am Scottish but live in England) I would have had:-

Breakfast (morning sometime)
Dinner (12-2)
Tea (5-7)

Breakfast is before 9am
Lunch is 12 - 2pm
Tea is a cup of with cake at 5pm
Supper is main with fruit at around 7pm family only
Dinner is a 3 course affair with linen and crystal with guests or out.
I'm probably considered POSH, but there we go.

I'm from 'oop north' and I say breakfast, lunch and dinner. If we were to have something like toast before bed, then I would call that supper and tea is definitely a drink!

DH on the other hand says breakfast, dinner and tea - he is, of course, wrong

I find the term supper a bit pretentious. Nigel Slater's Simple Suppers is annoying too.

Breakfast

Lunch, (unless it's a big blow out like Sunday dinner, or xmas, then it's dinner.

And it's dinner for ds at nursery.)

Tea (5-6 pm)

Supper (cornflakes)

It's a North/South thing I think. Most people where I am don't ever have lunch. Just breakfast, dinner, tea.

My DD was banned from particpating in a discussion on this subject among her student friends.
Northerners were saying breakfast, dinner, tea.
Southerners were saying breakfast, lunch, dinner.

DD, product of northern parents and southern upbringing has breakfast, lunch, tea...

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Is 'supper' really necessary?

If you have your main cooked meal at midday, what do you call your evening meal?

Breakfast, lunch and dinner. When the children were small they had tea after school as dinner was too late for them.

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea

But if going out to restauarnt in eveing = dinner.

Supper is a bit of toast before bed now and again

Breakfast at 7.30
Lunch - hot or cold but lighter than evening meal, at 1 ish
Tea: DCs only at 5 ish
Dinner: DH and I at 8ish

My mum says Supper for dinner.

breakfast, lunch, dinner (though might occasionally call it supper)
My son has tea when his nanny is there but dinner with us.
He also has a hot drink with me sometimes that we call tea.

Breakfast
Lunch
DC have tea at 5ish
Dinner (for DH & I about 8ish)

Breakfast Lunch and Tea from me from very solid south west stock. So whatdoiknowanyway you can send DD to Devon and she'll be understood...

Supper only used as a pre-bed snack.

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper (we rarely eat this tbh, but a meal/snack after tea would be supper)

Breakfast (6.30-7.30 zone)
Lunch 12/12.30 ish - earlier than I deem appropriate but necessary due to whinging dcs.
Dinner - 5.30ish for the dcs, 8ish for me and dh.

never have supper because I never stay up late

Breakfast- 7.30ish
Lunch-1-1,30ish
Supper 8-9ish, unless out or with guests and involving something more elaborate than one course and fruit/cheese, when it is dinner.

Tea (once in a blue moon)is4-5pm, cup of earl grey and cake/little sandwiches.

More critical question is what one calls pudding. Pudding is pudding and never "dessert" or "sweet" or "afters".

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DH is from the Midlands so he's Breakfast, Dinner, Tea.

It used to get a bit confusing with MIL eg. when we were due to visit
MIL "will you be here for dinner?"
Me "your dinner time or our dinner time?"
They eat at 5pm, we eat at 8pm, so "come for tea, but not when we have tea, when you have dinner." Now we just name a time to eat!

I suppose we have supper too, occasionally. But we tend to call that snackipoos.

And pudding is always pudding!!

Breakfast - vaguely morning timeish, but has been legitimately eaten at 2pm (let's just go with "first meal after waking up")
Lunch - second meal after waking up. Can be eaten any time up until 5, maybe 6pm. Name doesn't change at all, even if it's a huge meal, or the main meal
Diner - eaten in the evening.

I have no idea where to put supper; I don't think I've ever knowingly eaten supper.

Tea is either a hot drink, or is a hot drink + cake/scones/treats either/and had in the morning between breakfast and lunch, and afternoon between lunch and dinner. So a day could look like this:
Breakfast
Morning tea
Lunch
Afternoon Tea
Dinner

Pudding is rubbish heavy desert type stuff. Apart from bread and butter pudding - tis lush.