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.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner here. The only time I would call it tea is if it's late afternoon and we're having a cold spread, sandwiches and cake etc (and cups of tea!), usually on a Sunday when we've had dinner at lunchtime.

The word 'Supper' - ugh. Dunno why, but it makes me cringe.

Breakfast, lunch, tea, supper.
No puddings.

Breakfast/lunch/supper here - another Scotland person (noticing a very very small trend with the supper-ers). Tea is hot liquid in a cup, although it could refer to an early evening meal (5pm-ish) for young children or like Dawn it could be more of a high tea with sandwiches and cake.

Dinner is...used in expressions like 'school dinners', 'going out to dinner', maybe 'Christmas dinner' - but I've no idea what time of meal it would refer to!

I think calling it tea really relates to the late afternoon time of the meal, regardless whether it's sandwiches and cake or a full plate of hot food. So little children who go to bed at 7 get fed their main meal at 5-6 and it's tea but the same food eaten at 7-8-9 by people who can stay awake so long is dinner.

My mil says "dinner" for lunch. Makes me want to scream.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner or supper.

If someone corrected me, like you op, and told me it was "tea" for "dinner" I would be having choice words with them.

(yes I know how ridiculous that sounds)

On a weekday it's breakfast, lunch and dinner. At the weekend we might have a meal I'd call tea which is basically a high tea (cheese on toast, scones/teacakes, fruit, cake). Supper in our house is a snack before bed, not that we have it very often.

Breakfast lunch dinner (N.Ireland born and bred) DH says supper.

However the dc eat at 5pm which I can't help but think should be called tea! DH hates it though

North of Scotland. Breakfast, dinner, tea.
Supper was only ever something we had at grannies, a cuppa and a scone or pancake before bedtime.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner & pudding here except on Sundays when it's breakfast, dinner & tea because we have a Sunday roast in the middle of the day and crumpets/something light later on. Tea also means the beverage and I irrationally hate the term supper! If I did use it though it would mean a little snack before bed not an evening meal! Midlands/North.

No fixed origin, though from South Wales if anywhere, if you dig back for enough generations:

Breakfast, lunch, supper.

Elevenses and tea are snacks of drink + something small, possibly biscuit or cake, but could be a savoury snack instead. Tea is mid-afternoon, certainly not later than 4.30.

bibbity they say dinner for lunch round here (Midlands) also makes me want to scream!

Pudding, btw, not dessert. Though tbh we usually just call it 'fruit', as 90% of the time that is exactly what it is.

I associate it with class like this:

Breakfast, dinner, tea - working/lower middle class/northern. (This is what I was brought up to say).

Breakfast, lunch, dinner - middle class. (My old boss used to tell me off for saying 'dinner' on the grounds that I was making an embarrassing class gaffe. I did it all the more to wind her up!)

Breakfast, lunch, supper - upper middle class, really posh!

I don't use it and it irritates the life out of me. My dad says it. His mum's from Somerset though dunno if that's why? Dinner is dinner and tea is a hot drink. I'm Scottish, never said brew in my life.

We don't have either pudding or dessert. We have 'afters'.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner or tea depending on the type of meal. If it's just sandwiches or a chips type effort it's tea, if it's a proper cooked meal it's dinner. Yes, I know if know it makes no sense :o No supper as there aren't enough hours in the day to make that necessary :o

Living in Yorkshire.

I am up north - growing up it was breakfast, dinner, tea (and sometimes pudding) followed by supper before bed. Now I am really inconsistent and sometimes I say lunch and dinner sometimes lunch and tea. It is still always pudding though! I do say brew.

Breakfast

Dinner

Tea

Supper which is usually cereal

Tea is a cuppa or a brew.

West Yorks lass

Once I discussed 'going out for tea' with a fellow northerner. We arranged to meet up at a hotel.

We sat down in the restaurant is booked and she looked bemused. She's already eaten, on the basis that she thought I meant similar to afternoon tea involving a brew and some small cakes.

I was horrified - a fellow northerner thinking tea meant 'come for a brew'. Honestly, I was flabbergasted.

You're all wrong.

Breakfast
Cold lunch or a hot dinner
Tea (tea is not a full dinner) or a hot dinner

Dinner is just the word for your main hot meal of the day, isn't it? So can be lunch or supper? And supper refers to the time you eat it rather than being some piece of wankery (DH and I eat at 8, if it was 5 with the kids it would be tea)? It's probably all become rather muddled over time and what does it matter anyway.

I think I'll just use repast for all meals now and confuse the hell out of everyone I know.

I moved to Essex from Midlands in 2009 I've now got all my friends saying tea now :-)

Breakfast
Lunch
Tea/dinner used randomly and interchangeably.

ds asked why at school it was a packed lunch but school dinners