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've been brought up calling it breakfast, lunch and dinner, DP & DD say breakfast, dinner and tea.

So when dinner is ready I have to shout 'tea-time', which to my mum would mean the hot beverage.

Before 6 it's tea, after its dinner.

No idea why!

At school though, lunch was 'school dinners.'

Supper was a night time snack before you went to bed, like cheese and crackers or a bowl of cereal.

The tiger who came for tea - that was the evening meal.

I use dinner or tea interchangeably for the 6pm meal, supper is anything consumed after the evening meal.

Me (Northern):-
Tea is earlier, Dinner going out or later main meal, after dinner Pudding
Afternoon Tea - Little sandwiches or cakes
Drink of tea is a 'Brew'
Supper is a late snack.

DP (Southern):-
Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner (dessert)
Drink of tea is a 'kipper tie'

After much piss taking we now both pretentiously say 'Repas'

Breakfast, lunch, dinner here.
I remember as a little girl though going round to friends houses for tea though. No idea if that's still a thing round here (south).

Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

I am from France, this is what we were taught in English classes at school. When I moved to England it took me a while to understand that "tea" is not just the beverage but could also mean dinner.

Also desert, not pudding. Again, before moving here I thought pudding was a kind of desert, thick yellow cream type IYSWIM.

Breakfast lunch dinner.

Tea is a drink (usually Assam here )
High tea is hot food such as gammon followed by cake/scones.
Pudding finishes dinner.
Supper is one course eaten late evening.

Breakfast, lunch, supper.

Sometimes elevenses, and sometimes tea but that's a pot of tea with cakes, biscuits (and maybe scones).

Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
But if inviting a child to play after school I talk about them staying for tea!

I say breakfast & lunch but evening meal is either supper (something quick & easy on lap) or dinner if it's a proper meal cooked from scratch, eaten at the table.

I say tea for 4pm hot drink, biscuits, cakes etc...

Can't bear lunch and dinner being called dinner and tea respectively.

I always say dessert too!

Perhaps I am just a snob lol.

Breakfast, lunch and tea here, tea is also a drink. You go out for dinner and supper is a snack of crackers, crumpets etc. Pudding not dessert. I'm from Yorkshire and others say it a bit differently to me.

Home Counties here...

Breakfast
Lunch

Then...
Dinner = Hot meal
Tea = cold meal or something akin to soup and a half sandwich. Usually a "light" meal I think that's as in afternoon tea.

Supper = late evening "snack" meal.

Oh and
Pudding if its ready made/shop bought
Dessert if it's homemade.

^^i have no idea when all these things on my life started!!!

I'm from Northern Ireland, it's different all over here too, I say breakfast lunch dinner supper. My hubby calls supper 'bed tea' as it was always tea and toast before Bed.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner here. Tea is what I drink.

Oh and pudding.

My parents are Irish and working class so it isn't posh to call the evening meal dinner as some have told me!

West Coast of Scotland - Strathclyde way here.

Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner
Unless we had the main hot meal in the middle of the day and then the order became:

Breakfast - Dinner - Tea
where tea was a lighter lunch-like meal, eg soup, bread and a slice of cake.

Supper to me is only a late-evening snack, eg a hot drink, cheese on a cracker or a biscuit and I find it weird when I visit the ILs and hear them calling dinner "supper" but they are posher than me by a long shot.

It was always Pudding for all dinner sweet courses. I think of Dessert as a cold fancy sweet that you might not get at home so easily but would happy drool over in a restaurant. (Although I would call a warmed slice of cake in a restaurant a dessert too...)

round here it is breakfast, dinner, tea. you have dinner at dinner time, which is lunch time. but you only call it lunch if you are eating out or it is a packed lunch. you have tea at tea time, nobody has supper. if you eat a cooked meal for tea but at a later time it is an evening meal. But nobody round here would ever call tea dinner, even if it is cooked, it is still tea time.

Lizzie if you re-read 'The Tiger who Came to Tea' you'll see it's not the evening meal - it's sandwiches, tea, buns etc. And Mummy actually says that they'll now have nothing for supper (shudder) because the tiger eats all the stuff that's cooking in the saucepans!

I think we can all appreciate that people have different regional trends and also family tendencies. What is weird is when people (people from other countries aside) claim not to know that there are differences!

I think we have learnt on this thread, though, that the word 'supper' is weirdly irritating. A number of people have said this, and I agree.

Those of you explaining about 'high tea' - yes, of course that's true - but it's a bit out of date now. If any of you actually describe any of your meals as 'high tea' these days then you are bigger wankers than the 'supper' lot...

Surely a high tea should consist of hash brownies?

Those that use breakfast, dinner and tea: Why do you call it going out for lunch if at lunch time or out for dinner in the evening? Surely that contradicts you?