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?

NHS official guidance calls them packed lunches and lunch boxes www.nhs.uk/Livewell/childhealth6-15/Pages/Lighterlunchboxes.aspx

NHS official guidance says breakfast, lunch, dinner

www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/Healthyfoodswaps.aspx

But what do the NHS know, lunch is just SO pretentious

At lunchtime you have lunch. At dinner time (evening) you have dinner, or some people call it supper. To me, tea, is something you have at three or four o clock, and consists of a cup of tea, and cakes. Some people have late supper, which might be about seven or eight o clock at night.

I'm with you. DH calls it tea and I find it infuriating for no good reason it's dinner!!!

Nothing is worse than 'dessert'.

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner (maybe tea if light and early)

I'm not judging and don't mind if you use different terms, but don't try to tell me I'm wrong/pretentious etc. for using the correct terms.

Some of you lot would be utterly bemused by me! I am a Northerner and say tea for my evening meal, just as my equally Northern parents did, except that my natural accent is pretty close to RP! DH is from Oxford, also speaks near as dammit RP and now automatically says tea.

After tea comes pudding, never dessert!

I really hate "cooking tea" NO!!!!!!!!! You cook dinner or lunch, never tea!

It depends where you live - in some places I don't mind this but when I hear people in London trying to be posh / cute spouting on about their 'tea' or 'supper' I cringe inside. It's so twee and try hard. Also anyone who says brekkie JUST NO.

I really hate "cooking tea" NO!!!!!!!!! You cook dinner or lunch, never tea!

I just cooked my tea. It was lasagne and was delicious. We love a nice home made lasagne for tea.

Sounds lovely, Professor. What's for pudding?

Also, what can my kids call Friday Treat Tea if they have to say dinner?

user

So if i move to london i need to change my accent and the way i speak?

dr

Yep, puddin' here as well

I've just realised what it makes me think of. The Royle Family!

"Have yer had yer tea?"
"yeah"
"What yer have?"
"Spaghetti"
"Bolognese?"
"nah hoops".

I’m in the south so -
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

Tea is a drink.

I was thinking of the Royle family too!
Dairylea on toast.

@existentialmoment “Dairylea on toast” “Bloody hell! Bet you were looking forward to that all day ey Dave”

I hope someone produces a graph.

East Midlander here. Breakfast, dinner and tea. We have pudding after tea. Supper is a weekend late night bacon slanger, toast or soup, for example. Lunch is the snap you take in a pack up.

Dinner vs High Tea or tea is class based. Calling the evening meal tea is working class northern thing whereas dinner is the opposite.

'Tea' really irritates me when used as a meal word.
It's DINNER fgs

Tea is a drink. End. Of.

Barbara: Have you had your teas?
Denise/Dave: Yeah
Barbara: What did you have?
Denise: Roast Chicken....
Barbara: (Looks at Jim) ooh Roast Chicken
Denise: ...Crisps.

mummymuppet thats just your opinion so its not end of. High tea/tea is a perfectly acceptable word for the evening meal.

"What's for pudding?"

Lemon curd sponge pudding with cream. Bloody lovely and a very nice way to round off a lasagne tea.

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

Tea is either a drink or ‘afternoon tea’.
I’m a southerner living in the north and my northern hubby and I argue about this all the time!

I love that Denise's defence of Dairylea on toast was that she had made it herself, because you know that if you could buy a ready made version then she would get it!

I thought the Irish said tea (like John Wayne did in the Quiet Man) so how can it be class based?