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?

@quaquact what exactly do you mean by that comment?

Some might colloquially refer to the midday meal as dinner, but it's much more standard at a national level to call it lunch

Well it seems nationally that scotland, Wales, NI, Devon and Cornwall, Midlands, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northumberland, Populations call the evening meal Tea.

Just because we are governed by what happens in the South East of England, who seem to lay the Lore for whats correct, doesn't make it right or actually correct for the rest of the UK.

The whole 'I can't get my head around dinner meaning lunch stuff or confusing the meaning of tea', is a bit like how most of the UK understand American names for things but Americans struggle to understand British meaning of words.

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

Nope. Dinner in Ireland.

and we have classes in Ireland as well

Born in London, brought up in the suburbs. Working class parents made good, owned their own home and ran their own business so middle classed (maybe lower middle!) Both sides of the family tree go back a long way in west London suburbs.

Breakfast, lunch and tea.

Sunday dinner.
Christmas dinner.

I thought that the Irish weren't as obsessed with class as the English?

That should say

Sunday dinner. At lunch time.
Christmas dinner. At lunch time!

Breakfast, dinner and tea here. East midlands.

When I was a kid if you called it "lunch" then everyone thought you were posh

I say lunch and dinner, and I am E. Mids as well!

Xmas Lunch
Sunday Lunch

Im in the north, we say dinner and tea. Supper is a little snack before you go to bed, toast or something.

I've had my tea, drank a cup of tea (brew) and tomorrow I'll be going out for my tea after work.

When my sister moved down to Sarf England from our home town of Glasgow she was astounded to be asked round to folk’s houses for supper “why on earth would I go to somebody’s house in my jammies and dressing gown at half nine at night for toasted cheese or digestives and cheese?”

Christmas Lunch?!?!

Ah well, we call our work Christmas meal a Christmas Lunch (because we go at lunchtime and then go to the pub). The main meal on Christmas Day in our house is always called Christmas Dinner (and can be served and eaten anytime between 2-5pm depending on what we're doing).

All of my neighbours are the least flowery and the most grounded people around and they have tea.
Stop being ridiculous and only see things which you consider normal as the right ones. Some people have dinner, some have tea. Nothing pretentious about it.

Christmas Lunch?!?!

Yes, if it is a lunch time. Christmas dinner if it is at dinner time.

PLEASE as per my request about 927 comments back, what is cringy, pretentious or twee about ' supper' for the meal you eat in the early-ish evening when you've come home from work?

Christmas lunch does remind me that my family call our Christmas feast as Christmas dinner no matter how early it is. Same with a Thanksgiving dinner (which is always early for dinner)

I only have one very posh friend and he calls the evening meal supper. I dont know why but it realy does make me cringe!

@demented i think it's the way they say it, the tone, it's so 'luvvie'. I had a job as a receptionist in a restaurant when i was at uni and people who called asking for a table for 'supper' made me ☠️☠️☠️

SUnday lunch and pudding are equally bad

SUnday lunch and pudding are equally bad

What is wrong with either of those?

All those who call lunch 'dinner', does that apply to a sandwich?

All those who call lunch 'dinner', does that apply to a sandwich?

Yes. It applies to anything eaten at dinner time.

Exactly CharlieSierra. That's why the word tea should be confined to the drink. And that's why I won't can't call lunch dinner. It's just weird.

At least with the word lunch everyone knows that's a middle of the day meal.

I say 'tea' when the dc's are having sandwiches and bits.

My Polish neighbour thinks it's hilarious when I call them in from playing for "TEA!" because we're not actually having a cup of tea. It did make me think how odd it is.