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AIBU?

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

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Einsteinnolonger · 17/04/2011 17:04

as 'Dinner' and not 'Tea'.

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jeckadeck · 17/04/2011 17:20

who gives a monkeys?

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MarianneM · 17/04/2011 17:21

YABU

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

(Supper)

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Einsteinnolonger · 17/04/2011 17:21

Geistesabwesenheit Sun 17-Apr-11 17:19:56
We have MaccyD breakfast, KFC dinner and Pizza Hut tea. Vom.


Haha. like it.

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LeQueen · 17/04/2011 17:21

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FlamingJamie · 17/04/2011 17:22

I went for lunch at the Ritz once (10th Wedding Anniversary - nice food. quite good value-for-money set menu). It was hilaaarious. One waiter for every diner. They had a cloche (?) over each plate and then they all lifted the cloche off at the same time with a flourish. I really would have liked them to say "Ta Daaa!" as well.

Anyway. I got all in a pickle because I needed to ask where the Ladies was and didn't know what word to use. Chose lavatory in the end. Wrong choice. Waiter did not understand, coming from Poland ....

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hocuspontas · 17/04/2011 17:22

Pudding implies something heavy e.g. syrup pudding, chocolate pudding. Afters is more accurate - anything in the fridge that's suitable to eat after the savoury bit.

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VajazzHands · 17/04/2011 17:23

you are mental to be worried about what people call their dinner

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Watertight · 17/04/2011 17:23

In this house:

Tea is either sandwiches and cake and a cup of tea around 4.00 to 5.00 OR it is "Children's Tea" if you are giving the kids fish fingers and beans early because you've got friends coming round for dinner and want them fed and out of the way.

Supper is what we eat every day as a family or with just very close old friends at the kitchen table - lasagne and salad or whatever - around 6.00 to 7.00

Dinner is an occasional, posh and more formal affair - table laid more elaborately - starter, main course, pudding - with wine, often to celebrate something or mark an occasion

But live and let live, eh... You say "tomato", I say "tom-AY-to"...

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suzikettles · 17/04/2011 17:24

Supper is a snack like toast which you have before you go to bed in this house.

Or in the chippy, prefixed with the indefinite article, fish/sausage/pie/haggis/black pudding/white pudding with chips.

Tea/Dinner are pretty much interchangeable with later or more formal meals being more likely to get the D word.

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FollowMe · 17/04/2011 17:24

Tea is an early dinner about 5pm ish
Dinner is at dinner time 7/8pm

In my house the kids have tea as they eat early and we have dinner when they are in bed!

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LeQueen · 17/04/2011 17:25

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dontcallmepeanut · 17/04/2011 17:26

Breakfast - Anytime between 6am (uni days) and 10am

Lunch (between 11 and 2)

Dinner (between 4 and 7)

Tea (as for dinner if lunch was a hot meal)

Supper (8 pm onwards) Grin

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bintofbohemia · 17/04/2011 17:27

I'm northern but lived down south for quite a long time and have come up with the following compromise:

breakfast
lunch
tea (if eaten by the kids or at around 5pm)
dinner (if mainly adults or after 7pm)

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2and1ontheway · 17/04/2011 17:27

hocuspontas and bemybebe are right, they are slightly different evening meals. Tea is informal and earlier, dinner is more substantial and later.

A tea party is a very different thing to a dinner party isn't it? Grin

Mind you I don't hold dinner parties but I say dinner usually - breakfast, lunch and dinner... I don't say pudding either as where we live (overseas) the word pudding is used but means a very specific desert, something between blamonge and angel delight... Confused - we tend not to have a set desert anyway, so the kids mostly just say "can I have a yoghurt?" Grin

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bintofbohemia · 17/04/2011 17:28

(supper definitely hot chocolate and biscuits/toast before bed)

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FlamingJamie · 17/04/2011 17:28

If you say dinner the way I say dinner then it's not posh

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dontcallmepeanut · 17/04/2011 17:29

My mum says afters... Dad says dessert... DS just says ice cream Grin His mother's child, alright...

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SauvignonBlanche · 17/04/2011 17:29

YABVU

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dontcallmepeanut · 17/04/2011 17:30

Ohhh, brunch is a fry up served after 10 am Grin and elevenses is a cake between breakfast and lunch

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FlamingJamie · 17/04/2011 17:30

I love brunch. Best meal of the day.

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Bogeyface · 17/04/2011 17:30

Breakfast
Lunch (whether a sandwich meal or a cooked hot meal)
then either Dinner or Tea depending on what lunch was.

I absolutely CANNOT STAND people saying they "cook tea"

NO YOU DONT!!! You prepare tea, such as sandwiches etc and you cook dinner!
AARRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!










sorry Blush

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WinterOfOurDiscountTents · 17/04/2011 17:32

brunch...not quite breakfast, not quite lunch...but you get a slice of cantaloupe on the side...Wink

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hocuspontas · 17/04/2011 17:32

But...but...but... starter is ok.

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