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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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Cleanermaidcook · 29/07/2016 21:09

Northern working class here.

Breakfast - first meal of the day
Lunch - snack I have around mid day
Dinner - cooked meal the the have around mid day at school, school dinner served by dinner ladies not lunch ladies.
Tea - The meal we eat in the evening
(The warm beverage slightly inferior to coffee is a brew)
(I am northern and common and working class 😂😂)

LippyLiz · 29/07/2016 21:23

Breakfast, lunch, tea if at home or if going out for a meal early.

Dinner if I'm going out for a meal late, supper if its a snack at nearly bedtime Wink

I hadn't realised my own explanation was so convoluted ...

belgina · 29/07/2016 23:00

It's not just regional, IMO. Our old neighbours said breakfast, dinner, tea. Something we discovered the hard way when we moved across the country & they said they would pop in on their way to France & that they would be there are dinner time. So when they arrived at 1pm it was a bit of a shock! DH and the old neighbours came from the exact same are too.

HungryHorace · 29/07/2016 23:25

Those of you who say that 'dinner is the main meal' and the cold lighter meal is lunch or tea, where are you from?

I say this and I'm from the East Midlands. I live in the NW now where tea is used for dinner. It feels very wrong, even after 8 years of being up here!

HungryHorace · 29/07/2016 23:27

And I seem to have developed a hatred of the word 'supper'. It's a bit too Nigel Slater for me, I think!

pleasethankyouthankyouplease · 29/07/2016 23:38

I loathe the word supper too!

Daffyduck2016 · 29/07/2016 23:41

breakfast dinner dinner in our house Grin

acdcfan · 29/07/2016 23:45

I'm up in Carlisle... Breakfast, dinner, tea! Cup of tea is a brew Grin

HungryHorace · 29/07/2016 23:48

That's not confusing at all, Daffy!

Purple52 · 30/07/2016 00:29

Breakfast dinner and tea if your midday meal is a proper cooked meal - usually a roast. & tea is something on toast &/or cake.

Breakfast lunch and dinner if you are having a salad/sandwich/soup (light meal) at midday & a main meal in the evening.

Deserts are eaten in restaurants. Pudding is eaten at home.

When I say midday I mean middle of the day - lunch/dinner is at 1pm.

Madinche1sea · 30/07/2016 09:17

I've never understood this "tea" thing (but then we are in London) Grin Tea is surely either a cup of tea or otherwise "afternoon tea" with sandwiches and scones?

We would have breakfast, lunch, dinner. Supper would be if you wanted to have toast or something later on the evening.

Pudding to me would mean something like sticky toffee pudding or other stodgy thing.

InfiniteCurve · 30/07/2016 12:46

What I hate,HungryHorace,is the phrase "kitchen supper" as featured in various food magazines! It's the way it effortlessly suggests that normally we eat formally in the dining room,but sometimes abandon the silver etc to have an oh so casual supper in the kitchen . Often " with friends' . So the kitchen is big enough to contain seated friends,and food...
Overthinking,overthinking!

ginorwine · 30/07/2016 13:38

In my pit village as child it was
Breakfast dinner tea then supper at bedtime
It now for me - breakfast lunch tea
But dc day breakfast lunch dinner - so how has that happened
They also say show instead of TV programme
What I don't get is when people serve you and say no worries - I'm not in the least worried😜

ginorwine · 30/07/2016 13:43

When at uni I went to see a weathy pal
On the train on the way there I had my tea at 5pm
When I arrived at about 7 they said dinner ( which at that point in my life was eaten mid day )will be served at 8 pm
I said but I've already had it and me tea !
I'd never heard of people eating at 8 never mind their dinner !
😜
I had a steep learning curve that weekend .

HungryHorace · 30/07/2016 16:25

Infinite, my friends would be rather Confused if I tried to feed them in the kitchen! I wouldn't really want to banish myself there either! Grin

InfiniteCurve · 30/07/2016 19:33

GrinHorace!

Dawndonnaagain · 30/07/2016 21:05

Deserts are eaten in restaurants. Pudding is eaten at home.
Dessert is the fruit course, Pudding is the pudding.

RoboticSealpup · 30/07/2016 21:09

Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Tea is a bloody drink, not something you "eat". It sounds ridiculous to me. (But I'm European.)

Feefeefs · 30/07/2016 21:13

Breakfast lunch and dinner! dessert not pudding. I'm Irish people don't say pudding in Ireland. It's also what my brother calls farts! Puddings ...

squoosh · 30/07/2016 21:17

My Irish family says pudding!

squoosh · 30/07/2016 21:19

I'd ask my parents what they called it when they were kids but I'd just get a 'if were lucky we'd have an old stick dipped in jam passed around between 12 of us. But that was only for special occasions'.

gooddays · 31/07/2016 11:42

"Supper is the main evening meal or can be used to describe a light snack later in the evening, predominantly"....
It's dinner to me (main meal in evening) my sis calls it tea which annoys me Angry

hoopyloop2016 · 31/07/2016 12:09

Breakfast lunch dinner and supper. supper is if we eat anything after dinner. aprt from desert. supper is normaly crackers and cheese or toast.

littleprincesssara · 31/07/2016 12:39

Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Tea is the drink or a light mid-afternoon snack.

Always pudding, never dessert.

hoopyloop2016 · 31/07/2016 13:30

I was born in Norfolk i now live in the midlands if its sunday we have a roast about 3pm then at 5 we have afternoon tea small cakes macroons and sandwiches and mini deserts