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

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as 'Dinner' and not 'Tea'.

Was going to join in but I couldn't do better than the poster who said "I call my evening meal Susan" :o

Themumsnot

Lighten up my dear. Do you take everything in life so seriously?

Everyone

Tea = Northern working class

Dinner = softy Southerner middle class.

Patronise much OP? I was just interested in the reasoning behind the aggressive thread title - thought maybe you had ishoos I could help you with .

Ah, just seen your other post. Just the boring old classist chip on the shoulder then.

Themumsnot

Yes. Ishoos made clear in innitial thread.

Ah I am in Scotland so it is
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Tea is a drink
I do not mind what anyone else calls their dinner except when people ask for a fish tea at chippy instead of fish supper. Happens very rarely up here and I don't have a clue why it annoys me? Everyone has their irrational annoyances. I would never say anything and would forget the minute I started eating.

Also in Scotland.

"Supper" round here means the same as "and chips" in a chip shop down south. Fish and chips for tea dinner is a "fish supper". Fish and chips for lunch is also a "fish supper". A "pizza supper" is a (deep fried) pizza, often with batter, and chips. And so on. If you don't want chips, you ask for a "single" whatever it is. A "single fish" is usually two (!) slices of fried battered fish without chips. It's also Glaswegian rhyming slang for the use of a urinal.

Working class Southener = Dinner.

Tea is more of a snack innit.

LQ, not far from you and I call it a fish supper which is fine. DH calls it a "Chippy tea" which drives me absolutely batty!

Fuddle is new to me, it sounds like it should be on the friday night bum sex thread :o

Lequeen... We had that tonight! ours involved cupcakes, but never called if a fuddle... Just called it a slob out Although the boxset goes on later... we've been watching disney princess films instead

It depends whether you are having a main meal in the middle of the day eg school dinner. In that case a lighter meal later on would be tea imo. Otherwise it's lunch and dinner.

dinner if I've spent some time on it

supper if I've thrown something together

tea is definitely what the kids have (or used to) around 5pm.

Supper here.
Tea is earlier but sometimes i call it this at supper time if not late.

but from now on it will be Susan

Breakfast - any meal taken before 12.00am

Lunch - any meal taken from 12pm - 2.30pm

Dinner - any meal taken from 4pm till when ever you eat

Supper - small snack before bed (after dinner)

Snacks - small food items eaten between other meal times

well thats how it is in my house and when i grew up .

Tea is afternoon sandwiches...
My mother would consider it ultra naff or even worse working class to call an evening meal "tea". She was working class "made good" herself but vv aspirational...

I think it should not really matter one jot what you call it but my mother's influence pervades and I call an evening meal dinner, or supper if a lighter meal eaten just before bedtime

We have tea. I'm in south of England. My friend in the Cotswolds has supper.

Children have tea between 4 and 6 (though some families eat at that time too) Adults have dinner between 7 and 9. If you have tea as an adult the usually supper between 9 and 10 is allowed :)

In London here BTW but with New Zealand influence.

When I was growing up in the 1960s most fathers worked locally in factories minuets from home. Dinner was a cooked meal eaten at mid-day. Anyone who could walk home in 5/10 minuets would eat their main meal of the day then. They would then have tea at 5 or 6 pm and adults would eat supper when the DC were in bed.
Anyone who worked in a nearby town in a shop/office/bank would take a packed lunch to work and eat dinner as an evening meal.

We now have breakfast, lunch, dinner. We still sometimes have a meal which we call tea if family visit on a Sunday. We also have a tea on Boxing Day. If you're going to call it 'tea' it must include cake.