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

Oh, and I say pudding, which confuses the hell out of my half-German kids, as in German 'Pudding' is a vanilla-type thing (generally mixed from a packet) somewhere between custard and blancmange in consistency.

My bilingual 11yo asked me the other day how come, if 'pudding' is the posh word for 'dessert', 'Dessert' [in German] can be the posh word for 'Nachtisch'

'Kitchen supper' reminds me of David Cameron. And it does sound a bit wanky.

'Jeeves, you can take your half day's leave this evening as Cressida and I will be preparing some pheasant for a jolly kitchen supper. Eating in the kitchen, what a lark!'.

I grew up in Yorkshire and my grandparents were from Northumbria. We all said breakfast, dinner, tea and (sometimes) supper (such as cheese and crackers at about 8pm). I now live in the South and say breakfast, lunch, tea. I still say tea for the evening meal, though I'd say dinner if we were going out to eat in the evening. DH (posh background and Yorkshire born) says supper.

Since when was pudding posh? My grandma used to say sweet and I thought that was lovely. Probably marks us as pretentious commoners though.

Breakfast, lunch/dinner and tea.

You called the ladies at school dinner-ladies, didn't you?

No Op I am with YOU

Always dinner, we have always eaten dinner with the children they have never had this so called early tea.

'Kitchen supper' reminds me of David Cameron. And it does sound a bit wanky.

^ YY

Breakfast, lunch, tea a drink with jam and bread...high tea, ham sandwiches, pie, fruit cake, tea and lashings if ginger beer or lemonade. supper. Dinner if going the whole hog in the dining room with several courses and tablecloth etc. but even then might call it supper.

I'll give them something substantial for tea, or high tea, with children. Or early supper.

Terms driven by locality and social class.

Ditto timing of eating.

Well, I'm not sure I care. Why would anyone want to get judgemental about what you call your meals? It's normally obvious what you mean from the context. However, I tend to say breakfast, lunch and supper, purely because dinner is the word quite often used for lunch around here, so it avoids confusion over whether I'm referring to a middle or end of day meal, and I think of tea as either a late afternoon snack, or just a cup of tea, or a full but early evening meal (so, again, a word that could be misinterpreted), whereas we tend to eat a bit later than that. Technically, they are all different meals in timing, size and content - breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea, dinner, then supper. Then, of course, there's the more modern brunch for a late breakfast/early lunch combination. It's just that most people don't eat all of them, so pick and choose their names!

When the kids have friends over to stay, though, we tend to call it staying for tea, because we do tend to eat early, then....

I suspect that it is the geography / class connotations that make people judgemental - all very British!

You called the ladies at school dinner-ladies, didn't you?

Nope. We had to bring our own lunch to school!

Breakfast, dinner, tea.

Tea is a cuppa.

Never say supper.

Shropshire lass.

I have breakfast dinner and tea. My husband has breakfast lunch and dinner.

I'm up in t' north, and dinner is the meal in the middle of the day, with tea being the evening meal. Tea is also tea, obviously (as in "a nice cuppa tea anna sit down"). Supper is something you buy from the chip shop. ("Gannan gerra fish supper f' w' tea"). Breakfast, you'll be pleased to learn, has not been interfered with.

breakfast, dinner, supper (but I'm polish)

but for my English partner is breakfast, lunch and tea.

Its also a batch not a cob or a roll.

Breakfast, lunch then dinner. Central Scotland

(Hampshire)

Breakfast, lunch, supper (pudding once in a blue moon).

Dinner is for dining out or a dinner party. Tea can be a drink, a cream tea, afternoon tea or high tea (for children). But it inevitably does involve actual tea (in a tea pot).

Breakfast, lunch, supper
Dinner in a restaurant
Tea in a mug

'School dinners' puts my teeth on edge, I hate it!

(Hampshire)

Breakfast, lunch, supper (pudding once in a blue moon).

Dinner is for dining out or a dinner party. Tea can be a drink, a cream tea, afternoon tea or high tea (for children). But it inevitably does involve actual tea (in a tea pot ).

Northerner that moved about a bit in my youf!
Breakfast.
dinner/lunch interchangeable
Tea/dinner also interchangeable. Tea tends to be an early one with the kids. Dinner is used more for and evening meal especially if going out.
I use both dessert and pudding too depending on my mood. I know dessert is essentially a naff lower middle class eighties word. But pudding feels wrong if you are just having a yoghurt.

West of Scotland here, when I was in school it was breakfast, dinner and tea but now I say breakfast lunch and tea.

Have always used pudding, never dessert and tea with cakes and sandwiches would be afternoon tea, although much too posh for me!

Oh and supper is a little snack while watching tv before bed.