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

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as 'Dinner' and not 'Tea'.

I don't think it matters-I interchange them for the same meal, depending on mood.

Tea is a drink, bit lazy using it for the name of a meal as well!

But if we go out it tends to be dinner...

tea before 6
dinner 6 to 9
supper after that
have any one,two or three of these
tea becomes 'high' with the addition of a hot,cooked element

Boffin do you not mean from doon the mine?

we have afternoon tea - basically tea/cake/biscuit

dinner - main evening meal

supper (cheese and biscuits when dd is in bed)

I'm Scottish so it's not an upper-class bollocks thing which is probably what the anti-'tea' brigade are meaning

DH says tea sometimes (he's from Yorkshire)

breakfast lunch dinner pudding lounge toilet . Tea a drink with jam and bread. Which will bring us back to doh -oh-oh -0h

shinyshoes- you don't have to eat all those meals!

Usual combination would be afternoon tea (light meal) and dinner(heavier meal) or high tea(heavier meal) then supper (very light meal before bed)

The use of the word "tea" for dinner, when accompanied by a dreadful Australian accent..." heres ya tea clarry" is something to be heard I can tell you!
Entree, dinner and pudding.

Or, if you are a hobbit;

Brakfast
Second breakfast
Elevensies
Luch
Afternoon tea

Errrrr dinner?
supper (not sure)

jeez my spelling.!!!

And it's pudding. I've heard it called 'sweet' before.

OMG Im a hobbit!

People use these phrases (and are rude about them) because they intend them to mean 'U' and 'Non-U'.

More reverse snobbery.

Just like the 'toilet' versus 'loo', 'mirror' versus 'glass', etc etc

Afters? Almost as bad as sweet. It's pudding.

And it's dinner unless you keep whippets and/or pigeons.

We have Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

We have Afternoon Tea on a Sunday when we have had a roast lunch and is usually sandwiches and cake with a cup of tea. Supper is what the children have if they are hungry before bed.

Have never used the word supper.

For some reason it reminds me of my grandparents slurping tea through their ill-fitting dentures and sucking on bread and butter.

DD has her tea, at tea time, which in our house is about 5pm.
DH and I have dinner at about 7.30, which is dinner time.

YABU, it is dinner and not tea, and should be so whichever end of the country you are from, because I said so. Ahem.

Yes, LeQ, I heard that too. When corsets became popular ladies needed to get slimmer, so big luxurious meals were out. To be replaced by cake, obviously.

I am with TheSmallClanger here. I was brought up calling it tea and still do sometimes. But I can easily live with calling it dinner, either one will do. However, I find it really bizarre when people call it supper because when I was a child supper was some very light snack you had with a warm drink before bedtime e.g. a crumpet or a piece of toast or something, and it was usually eaten after you had had a bath and got in to your pyjamas and dressing gown.

We have MaccyD breakfast, KFC dinner and Pizza Hut tea. Vom.

breathing isn't it just!!!!!!

Now I'm just off for some tea and cake .

Will be enjoying a light supper later as we had a late lunch today.

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