to be pissed off with people who refer to their evening meal...

[Einsteinnolonger]

as 'Dinner' and not 'Tea'.

YANBU. It's tea. Everytime. Yes I am northern.

'At least he's got it right '

'Pudding' that is and not 'afters'

He'll get on in the world then..

Thank goodness

OK reeling. If it makes you happy

You seem to care a great deal more about it than I do.

The OP was the one who got 'pissed off' about terminology - perhaps you could take issue with her instead?

And thank god it's not 'dessert'.

How awful would that be?

Everyone,

Look, this thread is SOoooo this afternoon.

reelingintheyears Sun 17-Apr-11 22:05:33
It DOESN'T MATTER ......

Why let it piss you off?

Hey Ho..

Oh good. As long as you don't care

Yup

It's not my Dc who are 'currently inheriting snobbery'.

What LeQueen said.

Hopwever,I had never heard of 'children's tea' until someone from London invited my dds around for it.

Sorry,my mistake...

'Subconsciously inheriting snobbery'

Whoops.

my tea (taken at 5pm) was fit! I am such a commoner! A working class scrubber...if I believed you idiots on here!

Supper does not even exist ..

Haven't read whole thread (too long and too late)
I'm Scottish and working class it's breakfast lunch then dinner

Re courses it's starter main/dinner and dessert.

If supper doesn't exist, what am I eating now?

mm, a lovely cup of tea. You'd better have some dinner with it if you dont want to wake up hungry!

EdwardorEric......... WHAT!!!!!!! it's breakfast dinner and tea

PS it's starter main course and pudding

Yabu

Breakfast (a fry-up/cereal/toast/fruit etc) First meal of the day eaten in the morning

Lunch (sandwitch/salad/casual small meal etc) A light meal eaten in the early afternoon

Dinner A cooked hot meal eaten with a knife and fork from a plate either in the afternoon or evening

Tea (sandwitch/salad/casual small meal etc) A light meal eaten in the late afternoon/early evening OR a cup of tea

Supper is a snack sized meal eaten shortly before bedtime and is not your tea/dinner that you eat in the late afternoon or early evening

Dessert is the sweet (as opposed to savoury) course you eat after your dinner. It is NOT 'pudding' -pudding is a round curranty thing you eat at Xmas or solidified pigs blood that you eat in the morning.

Sweets come in a bag that you buy in a shop

Afters is the evening part of a wedding

Get your shit correct! I have spoken!

/thread

We have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea is a pot/cup of tea, with maybe a cookie/biscuit or something.
"Down home" (Nova Scotia- my mom's side) it was breakfast, dinner, supper.

I do love reading about tea though, sounds much cosier than dinner.

Geistesabwesenheit, make sure you eat to the beat

I grew up calling it supper. I usually call it dinner now...tea is what you drink in American, and pudding just means custard.

What a fascinating job Willa. I enjoyed your posts, thanks.

So why in restaurants do you get a dessert menu rather than a pudding menu?