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Original poster

dd whos almost 4, pulled me up yesterday and corrected me, telling me its not called tea its called dinner

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carriedababi · 06/07/2011 11:27

i felt like saying you and your middleclass upbringing!

its always been called tea in our house

i was telling dd, we are having such and such for tea, and she went tea? its not tea, its called dinner

bloody hell

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Original poster
carriedababi · 06/07/2011 11:52

yes they wouldn't be called dinner ladies, if it wasn't dinner.

excellent example!

case closed.

Grin
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olderyetwider · 06/07/2011 11:55

Lunch time supervisors, carrie!

ihatecbeebies · 06/07/2011 11:55

Well they are right it is your dinner!

My 4 yr old DS insists on calling his lunch his dinner, and his dinner his lunch, and gets angry and corrects you if you say otherwise

wolfhound · 06/07/2011 11:55

They were called lunch ladies at my (southern) school...

notso · 06/07/2011 11:56

Yes but they aren't dinner ladies they are midday supervisors,
case reopened!

CurrySpice · 06/07/2011 11:56

The kids have tea (at 5:30ish)

I have dinner (at 8:30ish)

We all have lunch

barbie1 · 06/07/2011 11:57

surely you don't book a table for 'a tea reservation?' It's breakfast, lunch and dinner.

L8rAllig8r · 06/07/2011 11:58

I think it's dinner at midday if it's a hot meal, if it's cold it's lunch. The evening meal is tea at home, but if you go out to eat, it's dinner.

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carriedababi · 06/07/2011 12:01

i book at table for x time

ah-ha

and as for lunch time supervisors, that sounds ridiculous!!

dd does seems to suffer with delusions of grandeur

i'll see if she pulls me up on calling it tea again tonight

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Insomnia11 · 06/07/2011 12:02

The evening meal is tea at home, but if you go out to eat, it's dinner.

Exactly!

surely you don't book a table for 'a tea reservation?' It's breakfast, lunch and dinner.

So...no.

Funtimewincies · 06/07/2011 12:04

It's very simple Grin.

Lunch if cold, dinner if hot at midday.
Tea late afternoon/early evening.
Dinner only if you're going out or having people round and want to sound posh.
Supper is toast or cereal late evening when you get the munchies.

(Southern working class parents, who were upwardly mobile, brought up in Wales)

Insomnia11 · 06/07/2011 12:04

Yes they are called "lunch time supervisors" these days. But in my time at school they were definitely dinner ladies. And lolipop ladies/men, not "crossing patrol officers" or whatever they are called now...that's if you are lucky to have one at all.

barbie1 · 06/07/2011 12:04

So let me get this right, if you cook a meal it is called tea. If someone else cooks it for you it's dinner?

Original poster
carriedababi · 06/07/2011 12:04

oi, notso! you can't reopen a case when it's been closed!GrinWink

no you book at table for 2 at 8pm
Grin

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carriedababi · 06/07/2011 12:05

oh my god!
i just nearly wet myself at
"crossing patrol officers"

that is utterly utterly ridiculous

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golemmings · 06/07/2011 12:08

my world has breakfast, lunch tea and sometimes supper. The whole dinner thing is too confusing when you're a midlander and your world is full of contrary northerners and southerners.

unclefest · 06/07/2011 12:09

breakfast, dinner, tea. Unless dinner is sandwiches in which case it's lunch. Bah. U/nonU nonsense.

barbie1 · 06/07/2011 12:10

din·ner (dnr)
n.
1.
a. The chief meal of the day, eaten in the evening or at midday.

I eat it in the evening, so it's dinner time for me.

I guess we can all be right on this one Grin

notso · 06/07/2011 12:11

Grin sorry carrie but there was a clear lack of evidence!

I think our is more of a 'pelican crossing operative' actually there is certainly no lollypop involved.

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carriedababi · 06/07/2011 12:15

rofl at 'pelican crossing operative'

who comes up with these titles!!
someone having a giraffe!

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Shodan · 06/07/2011 12:16

I notice no-one's mentioned high tea, which, if I recall my Famous Five reading correctly, involves bags of lettuce, heaps of tomatoes and lashings of ginger beer. Also freshly made scones and thick cream from the farmer's own cows, served with strawberry jam made by the long-suffering farmer's wife.

One day I plan to sit down and have the lot.

Breakfast.
Morning coffee.
Elevenses.
Brunch.
Luncheon.
Tea.
High tea.
Dinner.
Supper.

And perhaps a wafer thin mint to top it all off.

Actually I notice a small gap between luncheon and tea. Have I missed something? Surely I couldn't be expected to go a full hour without sustenance?

unclefest · 06/07/2011 12:18

hobbits have second breakfast, I believe - might fill a gap?

VelveteenRabbit · 06/07/2011 12:22

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Funtimewincies · 06/07/2011 12:23

My dad was presecribed 'second breakfast' by his GP when he lost loads of weight after a chest infection. I was very Envy.

We occasionally have what might be described as 'high tea' when there's loads of stuff coming off the allotment and it would be a sin to let it waste Grin!

notso · 06/07/2011 12:23

Shodan you will be needing a midnight feast to round it all off and perhaps you could raid your tuck box between meals!