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

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as 'Dinner' and not 'Tea'.

winter - you don't get exactly what you would at breakfast but you get a good meal....

Pudding is definitely just pudding. Afters is ridiculous. Unless you also have Befores and Middles.

I have dinner because we eat late (8.30-9.00) the children have tea because they eat at 5.00.

We have supper. At 6.30ish. Always has been supper, always will be. Tea is a drink, or is cakes etc at 4ish, and dinner involves changing into a special frock. So supper it is.

pudding is a hot dessert btw

Well, ours WAS Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and maybe later supper....until...the kids started school and then....Mum....why is it 'lunch', when it's called 'school dinner'! Explain that! Oh, and we call it pudding too .

My mum used to serve a fry up at 6 pm and call it "brunch"... cue a from Dad and myself...

Brunches are under-rated, I agree. Plus, even if they're packed full of lard, the fact that it's two meals in one must make it diet-friendly, surely?

Supper is for people who are posher than me. Or its cheese on toast.

i'm all for merging meals if it mean less cooking,washing up and shopping.

Oh no... calling any old eveniing meal is terriblly working class...

Teasing, before I get flamed

I think starter is fine. I hate sweet, not keen on dessert, always say pudding. I say lunch and dinner these days, occasionally supper if it's light and/or simple. But when I was a kid it was dinner and tea (working-class parents). I also have elevenses, tea (4pmish, cake and cup of tea) and brunch. Not always in the one day, though.

*supper.... Calling any old evening meal "supper"...

i thought "dinner"/lunch was what you ate in the afternoon, like "school dinner"
we call our evening meal "supper", we dont do "tea" all, you can tell we're not posh at all, pls do educate.

The children eat supper because that's what my mum always called it. We have dinner later. Tea at 10pm would sound weird to me and that's whe we usually eat. My Yorkshire cousins say tea though. For me tea is a drink or something you have at The Ritz if you're a ripped-off Japanese/American tourist.

Whats 'supper' to people who use that term?
Round here its what kids refer to when they mean a snack before bed like toast/biscuit etc.

Also - it's is weird. At our rural primary school the kids who have school dinner, served by dinner ladies, have to ask for 'hot lunch' instead of packed lunch. No-one has 'packed dinner' or brings their sandwiches in a 'dinner box'. But lunch is otherwise called dinner at school. Maybe it should just be called FOOD. Which is sometimes debatable anyway.

There's a difference between pudding and A pudding. The line is not that well defined, but it IS THERE!.

"I have made pudding" - could be anything form ice cream to cakey thing to chocolate mousse. Anything.

"I have made A pudding". Could be blancmange (not that it would be - ick), crumble, mousse. But it could not be cakey or ice cream.

Just never, ever 'afters', 'dessert' or 'a sweet'.

To me 'supper' is a light evening meal. A late supper would be something people had after the theatre etc - that sort of time. But for us it was always the children's evening meal while the adults had dinner. Tea was what we had as soon as we got in - a jam sandwich or a biscuit and a cup of tea/milk to keep us going until suppertime.

breakfast is in the morning
lunch is around midday and is a light meal
dinner is the evening meal. unless it's sandwiches or other buffet type meal, in which case it is tea, as long as it is before or around 530 ish
supper is a slice of toast before bed or a meal eaten after 8pm with friends
the main meal on a sunday is lunch, even though it should be eaten about 4pm and be a massive, full roast.

It's all rather complicated.

OK, to me dinner = main hot meal of the day.

Lunch is a cold meal around midday. So, then dinner is in the evening. But if a hot meal is had around midday, that becomes dinner, and the evening meal becomes "tea"

Does this really, actually piss you off, or are you exaggerating a little bit, or just trying to start a fight?
Why on earth does it matter?

Supper is tea and toast before bed btw

It's whatever you want it to be, who gives a f**k?! It's food at the end of the day and I like mine with a large glass of wine cheers

(btw I say 'tea')

Hazel - yup. 'pudding' is anything you eat after the meal, from a yoghurt to a slice of cake. A pudding is something altogether nicer