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?

Breakfast, lunch, and tea (early evening) with supper (crackers, cheese, toast or cereal) before bed. If you scrap tea & supper then it becomes dinner; a heartier meal around 7pm with bread etc. Easy 🤣

Lunch and tea here (tea being our evening meal). However, if we are going out for our evening meal it's called dinner 🤗. Also on Sunday we don't have three meals as such, just a bigger breakfast like eggs on toast or a breakfast sandwich (sausage and egg) later than normal and a Sunday Dinner about 3/4pm with pudding a bit later.
Supper is only ever cheese and crackers at 8pm on occasion.
The only people I know who call their evening meal Supper are very posh and have Boot Rooms and Nannies.
I'm a southerner.

I am not from here originally and can't get my head around this tea business. It's breakfast, lunch, dinner and then supper. That's what we were taught. With the exception of afternoon tea and high tea, I just can't bring myself to call dinner tea.

If lunch is dinner, when do people have "luncheon"?

Why the hatred for the word supper? Why does it make people cringe?

I dont get it, its just a word, which to me, and presumably a fair amount of other people as it seems to be common parlance, represents the meal you eat in the evening after work. Probably later than 5.30 or 6 though, maybe 7-8. We don't eat after that meal but if we did it would be a snack, or a pudding or a bit of cheese maybe.

Nope. It depends where you live. Up here in Yorkshire tea is the evening meal and dinner is what you have at midday, aka lunch.

Well, back in the day in Edinburgh you couldn't get more posh than the ladies of Morningside. Think Hyacinth Bucket on steroids? There's a bit of urban gossip that if you turned up unannounced for a visit around teatime, the lady of the house would ask you a rhetorical question "You'll have had your tea"? Woe-be-tide you if you said no! The glare would scorch you at 100yds.

Makes me chuckle.☺️

Nope its a northern thing
And us northerners are not bloody flowery I tell thee !!

Supper isn't a meal, it's a biscuit and a cup of tea. Toast, at the most.

Sups is the worst. Own up, does anyone here refer to their sups?

But do you call it dinner only when you go too - /book a restaurant because they actually wouldn't understand you going to restaurant and asking for "tea".....

I'd say: can I book a table for (insert time ) please

Dinnerlady. Say no more.

Breakfast - 7am.
Second breakfast - 9 am.
Elevenses - 11 am.
Lunch - 1 pm.
Afternoon tea - 3pm.
Dinner - 6 pm.
Supper - 9 pm.

I hate it too. My dad calls it his tea.

Tea I drink. Lunch and dinner are meals I eat.

And I haven't rtft so sure it's been said but it originates from when people would have their hot meal at lunchtime and evening meal would be something lighter and a pot of tea .

Iv seen this come up a lot and your not going to change what generations of people in certain regions have always said . So there

It's a northern thing. I've always said it! My mum is from Devon and she occasionally calls it supper....what the heck is that?!
Biscuits and hot milk before bed is supper, not your evening meal!

Lunch/Dinner

Tea/Dinner/Supper

All interchangeable and anyone pretending to be confused by any of the above is guilty of either snobbery or inverted snobbery.

Kitchen/Country supper however is wankery of the highest order a la David Tosspot Robot Made of Ham Cameron.

'Sups' represents the downfall of civilisation.

That is all.

I may be a tad grumpy sorry. Not had me dinner yet.

How can dinner be lunchtime? Surely LUNCH is lunchtime.

I'm northern so it's tea for us unless we go out without the kids then it's dinner. I say lunch but if I said dinner everyone at work would think I meant lunch. A lot of my southern family/ friends say dinner for tea/ evening meal and Sunday dinner is at lunchtime.
I did also say high tea to mean tea and cake recently. Got laughed at by my sister, I think I meant afternoon tea. Don't see the confusion myself!

Oh yes supper is breakfast at bed time.

South Yorkshire and your evening meal is tea - lunch at dinner time really annoys me!

"Oh yes supper is breakfast at bed time."

Oh, so not only are people saying they have dinner at lunchtime, now they have breakfast at bed time!

I haven't read all the thread but a lot of people are saying it's Northern. But I'm originally from the Midlands (though living in the North now) and we always said 'tea' for our evening meal. I still do most of the time, and my Teeside born and bred DH usually says 'dinner'. Maybe it's more of a class thing?