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.

In london and the south we never (or as far as I know) say tea, it's always dinner.

same VForVienetta - tea is 11am or 4pm!

I am slightly curious though do northerners (think we've gauged its a north/south divide thing) ever get confused re 'tea' as a meal time and 'tea' as a beverage?

It's a regional thing, just like the bread roll debate (fyi it's a cob) or an alleyway (it's a jitty)

I say breakfast, dinner and tea!

No... In the North (and East Midlands) we call the drink 'a brew' so we never get confused!!

It's dinner.
Sounds weird when you keep saying it though.
South East!

Brekky or breakfast, lunch, tea. Pudding. Brew where I live now, cuppa where I come from. Actually, it should all be called scran.

I was raised in Yorkshire and we say Breakfast, dinner, tea. But I live down south with a Londoner husband and he says Breakfast, lunch, dinner. After being down here for a while I switch between the two tbh. Supper is IMO what posh people call tea, but when I was a child it was a light snack before bed time!

I agree with Delphinium Blue and scrambledsmegs.

Lunch - light meal in middle of day
Tea - light meal in evening
Dinner - main, hot meal of the day, middle of the day or evening.
Supper - light meal but late - for grown ups after about 9.30pm.

However it is clear that it varies based on regional and other factors so for someone to correct the you is very rude.

Breakfast lunch/dinner tea here.

I thought it was a class thing. When my friend went up in the world (hospital consultant) she started saying, we're going out for supper meaning going on for a meal whereas supper for me is a bowl of cereal before bed.

I'm southern.

Breakfast lunch dinner

Desert

Tea is in a mug

And massivley outing here but it's not a bread roll or a cob etc it's a breadcake 😂.

A lot of people in the US say breakfast/dinner/supper. Just to mix things up. I'm not sure if this is regional usage.
(And we most definitely had lunch at school, complete with "lunch ladies".)

breakfast, lunch, dinner! I'm not English though so that's just how I've learnt it!

Anyone know what meal of the day nuncheon was? Sounds like lunch but I wonder if it was then how did language change it to an 'l' word?

It's a regional thing, just like the bread roll debate (fyi it's a cob) or an alleyway (it's a jitty)

I'm with Fooshuffle here, it's a breadcake and a ginnel. No need to worry about being outed, there are a few million of us that agree on that one.

I've read a lot of Georgette Heyer, hence 'repast' and 'nuncheon'. And 'hence'

I think for me, when I hear people say 'what shall we have for tea?', it sounds in my head, a bit fuddy duddy and dated.. I'd never be so rude to say that to someone in rl. Just my personal thoughts.

Hhhm, we say breakfast, lunch and the children have tea or tea-sups; the grown ups always have supper. Dinner is evening but either smarty meal out or meal eaten in someone's dining room - as opposed to kitchen supper - more relaxed meal... Think it's a regional thing and there's no dining room at mine so always supper here!

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Of course.

But I sometimes refer to dinner as tea, mainly because I like how quaint it sounds. And when we were growing up we always had a Sunday tea of scones and buns and other baked loveliness. Yum.

I was brought up (Midlands, northern mother) with breakfast, dinner (hot 'proper meal')/lunch (lighter meal), tea (later, as I was older, perhaps dinner? Can't remember) and 'supper' as a pre-bed snack.

I now say breakfast, lunch, and either dinner or supper - the latter comes more frequently into play the later it is and the lighter the meal is. We don't have 'supper' as in pre-bed snack.

Breakfast lunch tea (for the kids) dinner (7pm or later so usually kid free)

Sunday's if it's a traditional huge late lunch then supper for everyone in the evening........adult tea would be the Christmas Day later meal or a special occasion tea scones, sandwiches and cakes posh afternoon thing

That's how I roll in the South East .....works for me.

Breakfast Dinner Tea. I'm northern but lived in the states for a large chunk of my life. I called it the same when I was there, caused confusion but I just couldn't break the habit. Back in the NE now, so I'm amongst my own people, lol

I don't drink tea, so that's not an issue for me.

I said breakfast, dinner, yea growing up.

I then moved to the Cotswolds and hearing the word 'Supper' or most often 'Sapper Dahhhhlinnng' I would cringe as its soooo poncey! Supper to me was cheese and crackers before bed.

Now I say Dinner but only when asking friends 'out for dinner'

Breakfast, second breakfast, brunch, lunch, tea, dinner, dessert, supper ..... Sorry got lost there... Almost 41 weeks pg