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.

I say breakfast, lunch, dinner. My partner says tea. Supper is for posh people.

Crystal. Im a Londoner too and growing up i never heard anyone use the word tea for food. But now I notice its used mainly by the middle class parents at school.

Breakfast dinner tea here. Supper is called bedtime breakfast which is what dd called it when she was little and it stuck

Dinner. East Midlands.

Breakfast, lunch, supper. Tea is a light meal around 4 or 5 with tea and cakes, and possibly something like scones or sandwiches - but we don't usually have that unless we're on holiday when we might have something like a cream tea.

When you invite children round, it's always for tea. You'd never day "Would Joan like to come for dinner on Friday?" It's always tea.

Shatners. Had no idea it depends on what time you eat. To me, tea, supper and pudding just seem super posh!! We just wing it with times. Its dinner whether we eat at 5 or 9!!!

Whoever 'corrected' you is very unaware that life exists in different places, in different ways.

I use dinner, tea, lunch, supper interchangeably depending on the type of food. Others use different nouns depending on the time of day. Neither way is wrong.

Regional variations are not wrong, people are just heedless and conceited and obdurate.

Breakfast lunch dinner here - but dc has 'tea' at nursery at 4pm.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Or on a Sunday:

Breakfast, dinner (proper meal), tea (bread, cheese, salad, pickles etc.)

After dinner comes pudding. After tea comes supper if you're staying up late.

Breakfast lunch and dinner.
Which is weird really as school midday supervisors are often referred to as dinner lady's. I've never heard the term lunch ladies!
But to me, tea is something horrible that people drink, it's not a mealtime.

Breakfast dinner tea.

It doesn't matter on the content or which is the main meal either. Midday dinner is dinner whether it is sandwiches or hot food and tea is tea, whether it is a full meal, or something lighter because you had a big meal at midday (which is my preference).

Shatners. I always invite my kids friends for dinner. Tea just doesn't roll off the tongue 😁

Breakfast, lunch, supper. If it's after half 8ish its dinner.

My great auntie calls lunch tiffin!

Tea is tea. If it's a high tea it's scones and whatnot

Northerner living in the south, I adapt depending on who I am speaking to. Prefer breakfast lunch and tea though

What? Tea is the drink. And also short for afternoon tea which is sandwiches and cake at between 3 and 4 pm.

It's breakfast, lunch, (optional tea), dinner.

I'm north Scots.

As a kid it was breakfast, dinner, tea.

Now it's breakfast, lunch, tea.
Dinner is when you go out somewhere and don't have to think/shop/cook for it

I only drink coffee, never tea so don't have that meaning

And scones and whatnot isn't high tea. It's low tea.

Breakfast, lunch and tea here.

Although I do ask people "round for dinner" if im inviting "guests" - weird!

I used to work for properly posh folk and they never said dessert - always pudding.

Likewise it was lavatory and never toilet.

In Australia it's generally breakfast, lunch and dinner. Only heard "tea" for dinner from bogans. To me, tea is a drink and nothing more.

Breakfast Lunch Dinner for anyone eating their main meal after 6pm.

Breakfast Lunch Tea for young children eating before 6pm.

Grown-ups eating a slice of toast with the littlies at their teatime is also eating tea.

Littlies only have Dinner if it's a big family affair with guests.

breakfast, lunch, dinner (possibly with pudding) for adults & older children - small children (under 8 or 9) have tea a couple of hours before dinner then a snack before bed if necessary.

If I was inviting children around after school it would be to play & have tea ... they'd eat at about 5ish which is way too early for dinner.

(the world according to me )

That's not high tea Lost. Scones and whatnot is afternoon tea. High tea is fairly simple hot savoury food, with bread and tea too - maybe something like macaroni cheese, or cheese on toast.

Breakfast,lunch/dinner according to mood - but if I say "dinner" the offspring correct me to "lunch" - and dinner in the evening ( occasionally supper.. ).

Tea is a drink,or a specific meal eaten in the afternoon,involving bread,jam,cake,possibly a bit of salad,tinned fish,ham,etc ( even jelly/ trifle if you're lucky) and happening a bit later in which case it becomes high tea .

We don't do tea as a meal now but did growing up! ( Southerner here,parents from London,but maternal grandparents northern...)