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.

They must be trying to humour you squish or maybe from Northern Ireland?

Breakfast, dinner, tea, pudding. Maybe a snack before bed if tea was early.
Hot drinks are brews.

North west, not posh.

For me it's breakfast, lunch, dinner and always dessert.

Tea is beverage.

I am in the south east if that makes any diffrence

Breakfast, lunch, supper, (supper being what most call dinner) then to bed here.

I think it's understandable that people have changed/substituted various terms around because, basically, there is not enough room in the day to eat all the meals in their original sense! If you're eating lunch and a traditional evening dinner, there's no sense in which afternoon tea can also be accommodated! And I must query the poster who said they have a roast at 3 but then little sandwiches and cakes at 5? Really? Who has room for that? ?

Room in the day or room in the tummy?

Breakfast, dinner, tea in my house....
A cuppa is a cuppa

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert for me. Tea is a drink either hot or cold, with or without milk or sugar. I live in the southeast but grew up in the southeast US.

Snobbery about use of the word 'tea' pisses me off. I eat tea. Other people eat dinner or supper or whatever. Who cares...? Let's revel in the glory of non-homogeny!

Breakfast, lunch, supper...grew up in eastern Scotland and most definitely not posh, just what we called it.
My DC's and DH use supper now, DH used to call it tea when he met me.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, pudding.

Tea is a drink although I do occasionally say tea because dh gets confused.

I'm from the Midlands.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner Monday to Saturday and breakfast, dinner, tea on a Sunday! Dinner is always the biggest meal of the day while tea is the same as lunch (like sandwiches or something) but in the evening! Ex-Londoner...

Breakfast dinner tea (and if anyone says pud instead of pudding I seriously cannot be held responsible for my actions)

scrambled that's an interesting question actually. I would consider myself working class....I do not personally know anyone in my circle that used the words 'tea' 'supper' 'pudding'. It's always 'dinner' and 'dessert/afters'

To me
Dinner if your evening meal
Tea is a sort of snacky thing your mum gives you when you get in from school to keep you going until dinner
Supper is another sort of snacky thing if you miss your dinner, or perhaps if you have an early dinner (or tea!) and then get hungry again around 9 pm.

Both supper and tea should involve minimal cooking, think sandwiches, pasty, etc.

I know my London based in laws use supper to mean dinner though.

Tea is what you drink (no milk one sugar tyvm). Dinner is what you eat in an evening.

I love owls, I'd hate to think what you'd do to me then as in our house we call it pud-pud (I do have two under 5s)

I say pud, also sups on occasion...

I say tea (common/northern), my dp says supper (posh). But we both use dinner for a fancier occasion (even northerners who have tea at home go out to dinner in a restaurant).