To hate the term 'Tea'

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I guess I know I am as it seems the majority use it. But to me, its dinner and growing up I can never recall hearing anyone refer to it as 'Tea'.

I just find it so flowery and annoying.

Got that off my chest now 😃.

Anyone else?

Nope. It depends on the time. DD and I have tea at 4.30 and DH has dinner when he come home from work after 7.

Nope I'm northern and we have tea. Dinner is something you eat around noon.

Surely it’s regional rather than flowery?

Dinner is a bigger meal than tea, yabvu to think of it as flowery

I'm with you op I hate it, it's dinner here I can't even bring myself to call it tea it sounds silly.

I'm with you. Dad and in laws call it tea and I call it dinner, confuses the heck out of DD (5). It doesn't matter to me when you have it, if it's your main meal in the evening, it's dinner!

You have dinner at lunchtime, tea is the evening meal, it happens at dinner time. Hope that helps

It's tea time to me , brekkie , lunch , tea , on Sunday we have a Sunday dinner x

How is it flowery? It's just tea. Weird.

Dinner is lunchtime
Tea is evening meal

Done and dusted

I'm in NI too, we say tay in this part of the world. Not me of course cos I had elocution lessons. But tea doesn't bother me.

Tea is a hot drink brewed in a pot: a pot that has a cosy embracing it.

Completely depends on where you live. Where I am, it's 'dinner time' at 12 in school, for example, and tea in the evening. Only 'posh' people call it dinner at tea time!

T'int flowery, duck. It's regional.

It's a Scottish thing ("you'll have had your tea") but since moving to SE England I've realised it's definitely a Northern thing too.

My DD now says "tea" when it's 5pm and she's hungry. It makes me very happy indeed

It's regional not flowery

But if we're going to play this game I hate the word supper when it's used to refer to anything except a slice of toast (or similar little tidbit) before bed.

Breakfast lunch and dinner here

Tea is different to dinner...

The cooked meal at around 4/5pm hasn’t really got a name.

Lunch is around midday, tea is sandwiches and twee cakes around 4pm then dinner is a cooked meal served around 8pm from what I understand.

It's weird how you say it's flowery when to me its as Northern and unflowery as you can get having grown up hearing Mam's shouting 'Ger in our John your tea's on table'

I find it less grating than 'supper'. It makes me cringe to say it.

I’ve researched, and apparently a light cooked meal eaten late afternoon/early evening is called high tea.

We say tea in the Midlands. I hate "supper", posh bollocks!

Where I grew up (South Wales) you have breakfast, dinner and tea.

Hence the term dinner ladies. As far as I’m aware they don’t go round to people’s houses and supervise the evening meal