Am I the only one that doesn't use the word 'tea'?!

[BlondieLoxie]

Yesterday I was corrected for using the word dinner instead of tea!

Tea to me is the hot stuff in a cup which I love 😁 Dinner is dinner. Supper..what is that? Am I in the minority here that I simply say breakfast, lunch, dinner and possibly dessert.

Breakfast lunch dinner supper Birmingham here

I certainly don't worry about what class vibes I'm giving off! I'm proud to pronounce a whole host of things 'wrong' too... and to admit to all my Waitrose friends that I shop in Tesco. But, I suppose, being used (due to my choice of uni and career) to being around a certain type of middle class folk, I do have a giggle at the serviette/lavatory type!

Northerner here:

breakfast
lunch
tea
supper (but that is a bowl or cereal or a cracker before bed when we were kids)
pudding

DB emigrated 220 miles down south and is now an adopted southerner. He says:

breakfast
lunch
supper (his tea!)
dessert

I eat mostly cooked food and I'm not a farmer . I just like hot food better.

Not sure what being a farming family has to do with it. It's not even a 'calories' thing.

Afternoon tea of sandwiches and cakes will have loads more carbs and calories than something hot like a stew or roast dinner that is mostly lean meat and vegetables.

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea

I think its a regional thing :/

Dinner.

Meals are Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Tea is either a hot drink, or afternoon tea is tea with cakes and scones.

However, since moving to the north I'm in a minority and it does cause some confusion!

Some of you are really odd, especially with the 'wanky' thing. It's just the way people refer to their meals, not a personal judgement on the way you speak. I love regional variations and find them fascinating, but these days language evolves very fast and has international influences from social media etc so whether you say lunch or dinner or something else, it probably doesn't mean as much as it used to.
Regional variations are fascinating and long may they continue though.

And 'sweet' was something that many people of my grandmother's generation said. Like many other words from the pre-WW2 generation, it has practically died out now.

Bleh, sorry about the repetition in that post, I'm shit at posing on my phone.

*posting.

Ffs. I'm going to hide in a hole and eat worms.

Actually, thinking about it, after dinner we don't even label it as pudding/dessert/afters... just "mum can I have an icecream/yogurt etc. " think we are just useless 😋

I lived up north until I was nine and I had breakfast, dinner, tea and supper (fruit or small snack before bedtime).

I've lived down south since I was nine and it's breakfast, lunch and dinner for me now. Tea is a cup of tea / afternoon tea and I never use the word supper.

B,L,D

Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Tea is in a mug and I'm not posh enough for supper

Yes ScrambledSmegs - celebrate the differences! Why judge?

When I was a kid down south it was breakfast, lunch, supper (dinner if a posh do) and pudding.

Now I live in Yorkshire with a Yorkshireman I've shifted to dinner and tea, but slip back when visiting family!

Not sure what being a farming family has to do with it. It's not even a 'calories' thing. My mother had to cook giant cooked meals for the family and farm workers who ate midday. The midday meal was usually soup, meat and potatoes and a pudding.

Blondie so glad you started this thread! I use dinner as do all the other people I've met, work colleagues, friends, family, when I hear the word tea being used to discribe dinner I cringe. I can never imagine saying to my 6ft 3" 16st hulk of a husband "what would you like for tea dear" I think tea is more of a mumsnet thing, as well as a hot beverage

I hate the word tea in the context of the evening meal.
Tea = a cup of
or
Drink + snack in the afternoon

Particularly dislike the children being fed tea and adults dinner. Children don't need to eat separately at 5pm, they can survive until later and avoid cooking twice/ problems around childrens food etc

Evening meal is a separate event - we call it dinner but i recognise others may use supper or whatever.

I watched Thirteen, the BBC3 drama, recently. During a family meal the mum said, "we've got crumble for afters". I found it really jarring as it was a very middle class family.

I grew up saying afters (grandparents said sweet) and am very working class.

Breakfast, lunch, tea and supper.

Breakfast, Lunch, Supper.

Tea = cup of, or short for Morning/Afternoon Tea = small snack.

Breakfast,dinner and tea. Derbyshire

Breakfast & lunch are always breakfast & lunch. No matter what is eaten for lunch.

For the evening meal, I sometimes say tea and sometimes say dinner. There are no rules to it, it's just whatever comes out of my mouth at the time!

I had one northern parent and one southern parent, if that's relevant at all .

I can't remember the comedian who moved from north to south and was invited to supper and thought "why would I want to come to your house at 9.30pm for a bowl of Frosties?"
Breakfast dinner and tea in my welsh house and supper just before bed if you must.

And pudding is pudding. I cringe when I hear anyone say dessert (it's just a word I don't like - like gusset and portion).

My mum & aunt used to say "sweet" if we went somewhere nice for a meal. At home it was pudding .