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.

or exactly what RatOnna said!

Breakfast, dinner, tea (with afters), supper.
"Afters" is pudding or dessert.
Supper is cereal or toast before going to bed.
And when we make a cup of tea we "mash a cup of tea" , not brew.

Yorkshire born and bred.

To me it's breakfast lunch dinner. To DH it's breakfast dinner tea (both Northern Ireland) but he always has his main meal at lunchtime so maybe that's why his family called it dinner (farming family)? To us both supper is a meal from chippy "a fish supper/sausage supper please" but this has caused much amazement when on holiday in England as the chippys there had never heard tell of this and thought it hilarious

What's the difference between high tea and low tea?

I dislike the use of "tea" for a meal. It's just bearable if describing a light between-meal you have between lunch and dinner, for example if there are guests who aren't staying for a meal as such, possibly involving sandwiches and cake but definitely not a roast. (Roast tea, wtf?!) As I understand it, dinner is the main meal of the day, whenever taken. Lunch is the medium-sized midday meal if you take dinner late, whilst supper is the medium-sized evening meal if you take dinner early. There are regional and class variations though, so (as in so many other aspects of life) there's no right/wrong, just different. The OP's friend WNBU to call it tea, but WBVU to correct the OP for calling it dinner.

I say tea tongue in cheek rather than dinner. Don't want people to think I'm a snob - even though I am.

I use 'lunch' and 'dinner' and criiiinnnnge when my mum calls the evening meal 'supper'. I don't know why, I just...grrrrrrr....

Breakfast dinner and tea in my house (Northern)

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and pudding :)

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.

I'm from the north.

Breakfast, dinner and tea.

Sadly my children say Breakfast, lunch and dinner. They get it from MIL.

MIL now says supper, the children said it once- they won't say it again around me

breakfast lunch dinner/tea

High tea is sandwiches,cakes,ham, boiled eggs etc- very substantial. A light tea would be something like poached egg on toast.

U2. Yes, stamp it out! Grrrr....

No we say the same OP.

Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner.Were in the SE all of my family and friends have always said the same.

The only times I've ever heard anyone say Breakfast,Dinner,Tea was when I was in Wales and when I've spoke to someone from up North.

high tea includes hot food (nursery type food), low/afternoon tea would just be cakes/scones/sandwiches.

breakfast, dinner, tea.

There is a simple question I ask people:

"when you were at school, did you have dinner ladies or lunch ladies?"

no one has ever answered the latter, so the midday meal has to be dinner, schools wouldn't lie to us, would they?

Breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner.
Tea is an afternoon, light meal, consisting of a small sandwich, a small piece (or small pieces) of cake, and a cup of tea. Dinner is the evening meal. Supper, if you must, before bed.

High tea used to be a hot main course with bread and butter followed by a pot of tea with cakes and scones. Just like BarbaraofSeville said.

It used to be quite commonly offered in cafes/hotels etc. But not so much nowadays so I suppose it's quite old-fashioned.

Breakfast, lunch, tea, pudding.

You Englishpeople are weird. I don't use "tea" for anything but the beverage.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner. That's what I gleaned from English lessons at school, and I will stick to it.

I don't like the word Tea for dinner!

Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

You don't go out for tea. You go out for dinner.

I think " dinner" refers to the size of the meal, so "school dinner" means a hot meal, whereas the alternative, "packed lunch" is a sandwich, cold, and not the main meal.
In my house we have breakfast, lunch and supper, or tea, depending on who's speaking. DH is a northerner and has tea, the rest of us have supper or possibly dinner.

Breakfast, lunch, supper.

Or in DD2's case - breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, lunch (with pudding), snack, tea, supper, warm milk and biscuit before bed. I think she's a Hobbit.

Breakfast, lunch, high tea if it's early and for the kids and then supper if you're having it at home, dinner if you're going out.