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?

Flowery?! No, just tea, ate at teatime.

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

Tea is a drink.

It's not flowery at all

Dinner is at lunchtime. Hence school dinners.

Lunch is at lunchtime. Supper is our evening meal at home. Going out to eat at night? Dinner.

When the children were tiny they had tea about 5pm. Sweet.

Final meal of the day by region/class

Tea: Scots, NI, Northerners
Dinner: people who live basically anywhere south of Coventry
Supper: poshos

For me tea is a drink, at a push food related would be that of afternoon tea with naice ham sandwiches and cakes!

I grew up saying ‘tea’ because we ate it about 5.30pm. Now I say ‘dinner’ because I eat it at about 8pm. I think there’s a lot of snobbery about what people call meals and I cba with it.

Posted to soon!

The list may not be exhaustive but it's my rough understanding of the matter....

Breakfast
Dinner ( the meal Dinner ladies serve)
Tea

If you are peckish in the evening you have supper.

No way is it dinner ! I'm a geordie and we always say it's tea time when it's time for evening meal . To me only posh gets say dinner ! I am common as muck tho

Yes 'supper' is so up its own arse.

Properly-upper class people call it "supper". Not dinner.

I persist in calling it "tea" to wind up pretentious arses and MIL.

It's regional. Also pretentiousness. Although from lowly stock, and regional to boot, some of my forebears were domestic servants and I'm quite impressed by how many "upper class" habits (such as saying "supper") are ingrained in our family and just considered normal. I always wondered why until I learned about my Great Aunt and Great-Granny being in service at "the big house".

It's "tea".

I didn't know I was so fancy calling it 'supper'. Nigella calls it supper...

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I mean supper at tea time is wanky. Not a lovely bit of malt loaf before bed

Tea is a light early evening meal.
Lunch is a mid-day meal.
Dinner is a cooked meal that can be served at lunch time e.g. school dinners or in the evening. I quite enjoy two dinners most days

I'm in Scotland, I'm also a school cook, I cook school LUNCH and I make DINNER at night!

Supper if you eat at home, dinner if you are going out. Lunch is lunch. DS has tea as he eats his 3rd meal of the day at 4pm.

YABU
Why is it worth getting worked up about something that is just a regional variation. This just feels really intolerant.

Sorry for accidentally calling you wanky intergalactic

Breakfast
Lunch
Supper or dinner here (interchangeable)

Southern. Probably considered a posh wanker by some.

Ok so as an American I thought "tea time" was some Victorian thing that British people no longer did but Americans thought they did, (kinda like "blimey", figured that was just some stereotype that wasn't actually true)
And I thought it was like an afternoon snack? Late afternoon?
Dinner here is the evening meal, had around six pm.
Do they say supper there? Is that term used?

Tea is a casual early evening meal. Dinner is later or out / formal.

I'm in the NW and have breakfast lunch and dinner, supper for me is a snack in the evening after dinner but my NI mil has tea in the evening after dinner

Whoops, shoulda hit refresh re : supper 🙈 I guess dinner is the word not as commonly used

It's hardly flowery!

Definitely to do with snobbery. Let's face it, it's not considered the posh thing to call one's evening meal 'tea' is it?