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

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BlondieLoxie · 28/07/2016 09:19

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.

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Chopstick17 · 28/07/2016 16:44

I just found it odd that some pp who say 'tea' at home then go out for dinner (in evening) but they don't stay in for 'dinner' it then becomes 'tea' Confused ! The only real confusion is when you try to arrange something with someone who uses the opposite to you. My DD had a friend over for a sleepover and the mum said she'd pick her dd up at dinner time. We were out as we thought that meant around 6pm but she was at the door at 12!! Blush since then I always double check(I live further north than where I was born!)

Daisygarden · 28/07/2016 17:23

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Although I use the word Tea when referring to what the children are eating?!

ie "It's nearly teatime!" or "The children are having X for their tea".

But I would otherwise use Dinner for the late afternoon/evening meal.

buffalogrumble · 28/07/2016 17:25

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PaintedDrivesAndPolishedGrass · 28/07/2016 17:30

Breakfast
2nd breakfast
Elevenses
Dinner ( you have dinner ladies not lunch ladies)
Afternoon tea
Tea
Supper
Elevenses

PinkBuffalo · 28/07/2016 17:32

Breakfast, dinner, tea
Although at work dinner sometimes becomes lunch to fit in with everyone else. growing up everyone called it the same, but much more of a mix locally now. We are South East.
Like another poster, dinner is the midday meal, even if it's sandwiches. Just the way we were brought up. All grandparents called it the same.

LBOCS2 · 28/07/2016 17:36

Breakfast, lunch, supper here. Dinner is more formal, friends would come for dinner or we would go out for dinner.

Tea is a drink. Afternoon tea is yummy with little sandwiches, cake and scones.

This. With pudding afterwards if so required.

Also, if you think that kitchen supper is wanky then you've obviously (obvs) never heard it referred to as kitchen sups. Which is the wankiest of them all (and I only use to deliberately wind up working class DH who gets a bee in his bonnet about how much of a wanker I am).

MerchantofVenice · 28/07/2016 18:12

DailyMail No, you're right - serviette and dessert are definitely NOT posh! That was sort of my point...

And whilst I'm being the weird unreasonable one who dislikes loads of words (which is perfectly normal on lots ofthreads bbut apparently not this one! ), I can't stand 'brew' for cup of tea either.

So there you go -I'm definitely being unreasonable.

teafortoads · 28/07/2016 19:02

Breakfast lunch dinner pudding supper.

Swifey · 28/07/2016 19:07

I think StayAtHomeNotMum our mothers may have been separated at birth!! Wink I am the same though, it makes me feel all 'itchy' when people say toilet!! Grin

ScrambledSmegs · 28/07/2016 19:13
Am I the only one that doesn't use the word 'tea'?!
WaitrosePigeon · 28/07/2016 19:14

Breakfast lunch dinner pudding supper

YY!

Flisspaps · 28/07/2016 19:18

That ^^

Imaginosity · 28/07/2016 19:24

I find the word pudding very strange - I'm in Ireland, everyone says dessert. Pudding is just used here to describe Christmas pudding.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner for me. Tea is what you drink

squoosh · 28/07/2016 19:27

My family says pudding Imaginosity!

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 28/07/2016 19:36

Everyone I know says pudding and I have friends from all over the place. I'm not sure I've ever heard any of my friends call it dessert.

TroysMammy · 28/07/2016 19:48

Breakfast, dinner, tea, South Wales. WTF is supper, is it something you have by candlelight?

Acornantics · 28/07/2016 19:55

Breakfast; Lunch; Tea; Supper. Easy. (Northerner) Tea is also hot and in a cup, it can work both ways y'know Wink

Topseyt · 28/07/2016 19:56

I grew in the Midlands and we had breakfast, dinner and tea, as my parents still do. Dinner was a midday meal. Tea was sandwiches, cake and fruit with a drink, which may well have been tea.

I live in Essex now and in our house we have breakfast, lunch (a light sandwich) and dinner (main meal of the day, eaten in evening).

stripeyfish · 28/07/2016 19:57

Breakfast, dinner, tea and afters here.

Slummamumma · 28/07/2016 20:11

blimey! I'm going to the outside lav for me tea....

Slummamumma · 28/07/2016 20:13

ie. consider it bloody harsh for someone to say what we call our evening meal "wanky" ...

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BlondieLoxie · 28/07/2016 20:16

Amazing how many variants there are!

Pudding to me would imply an actual pudding. So if someone offered me a yogurt forfor pudding..I'd be pretty pissed off 😁

Growing up, I genuinely can't remember my parents ever saying pudding or dessert. We just assumed after dinner, we may or may not get something delicious to munch on after. Which clearly has rubbed off on my parenting.

As for supper, it just sounds super posh to me. Kids would just ask me for a snack in the evening. Again, dont think i'd label it as anything.

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hotdiggedy · 28/07/2016 20:20

Breakfast, elevenses, luncheon, high tea and a light supper is what I tend to have most days. Sometimes I skip the elevenses and luncheon and have an afternoon tea instead and then dinner instead of a light supper but it all depends on the weather really.

Peniston · 28/07/2016 20:59

Breakfast
Lunch
Supper (or out to dinner / dinner party)
Tea is the children's early evening meal c. 5.30pm
Simples.

Peniston · 28/07/2016 21:00

And always pudding to describe the sweet course.