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?

@CharlieSierra already asked the sandwich question ad nauseam. Apparently it's still a dinner even if you have a sandwich, and a packed lunch isn't a packed lunch. No one has answered what they call a lunch box if they don't believe in lunches....

+1 for bewilderment at horror of Sunday lunch

It's lunch on a Sunday.

Even the Royle family, mentioned as an example of tea as the evening meal, had an episode called 'Sunday lunch'!

m.imdb.com/title/tt0785911/

Black Country here.
Breakfast/Dinner/Tea.

Anyone eating after that was just plain greedy

I've lost one DC to the 'sarf' - their family say Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner - luckily, the other DC's DP is Welsh, so they say Breakfast/Dinner/Tea... Makes for interesting conversations when we're all together

Lunch box alternatives = Sandwich box/bag, Tupperware, food bag

All guidance for UK employment law refers to a rest break during a standard working day being taken as a tea / coffee break or lunch break

But apparently lunch doesn't exist, so employment contracts that specify details about lunch breaks are obviously completely ridiculous. Obviously.

Me (Northern) - Breakfast, dinner, tea
Dh (Southern) - Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Couldn't give a toss, as long as we all get fed!

No one has answered what they call a lunch box if they don't believe in lunches....

But apparently lunch doesn't exist

You are sounding ridiculous, and looking like it's really got up your nose.

What is so hard to understand that for vast swathes of the UK people call what some people call lunch, dinner. They are not denying the existence of the word lunch or even misunderstanding what it means, just that they use the word dinner for the mid day meal.

Unlike you they are capable of knowing the meaning of different words for different things depending on who,what and where they are talking to/about.

I'm northern. 'Tea' is a perfectly acceptable way to refer to the main evening meal. I balk a bit at 'dinner' for a midday meal because I've spent a lot of time living in the South

My sister and I grew up having "tea" and that's what I still call it.

However, my sister always corrects me when I use the word to my niece (her daughter) and insists it's "dinner". I am not sure what's happened in the intervening years.

"Evening repast". Trust me on this.

"Snap tin" is a lunch box 😊 I've always loved that one. Pack up your snap....

so glad I propry uppr classs

so glad I propry uppr classs Go and have a wee lie down.

My dad used to call it snap box for lunch box. He was always running to the school gate for me to give my brother his snap - cos the dozy twonk had forgot it.

It was back in the days when you walked to school on your own aged 6!

Still can't believe we used to do that.

I have heard of people calling lunch boxes snap boxes. People also called food Jackbit, which is a Wigan and surrounding areas word.

Growing up in Kent - we had school dinners and then dinner at home (I guess because mum was doing a dinner for Dad anyway. However on Sunday -it was the only day we had a dinner at lunchtime and then tea later on.

But when going to friend's house after school I would be invited to tea.

Nope. I’m a midlander so it’s breakfast, dinner and tea.

Despite us being firmly lunch/dinner people, YY to kids inviting each other for tea!

I suspect that thats because a 5 year old inviting a friend for dinner sounds vaguely ridiculous and conjures up images of a chi chi dinner party amongst reception kids :o

Love that!

I'd not ever heard it before, so did a quick Google on its origins.
For anyone interested:
www.miningheritage.co.uk/snap-tin/

Jock box is another one I have heard for lunch box.

Lots of lovely reverse snobbery on here about use of the term supper for an evening meal. Really passionate hatred. Always so lovey to see. If I made the same comment about hating “tea” for the evening meal and “dinner” at lunchtime I would be torn to strips and labelled a snob.

Each to their own. Why does it matter so much!!??

West wales here, it's dinner then tea

My dad calls a packed lunch "baggin". "Packed lunch" to me has always sounded really posh. When I say it I feel like I've got ideas above my station.

yes someone I did ask why people hated the word supper so much, think I asked twice in fact, but no one is able to define why they dislike it. Anyway it's supper in our house and if that makes us a bunch of cringey posh wankers that's fine by me!!

Also hate tea used to describe dinner! Tea is something you have at 4pm with scones etc. Breakfast Lunch Dinner. Supper would be a late pre bed time snack.

Breakfast = morning
Brunch = mid to late morning
Lunch = middle of the day
Tea = light meal late afternoon or early evening
Dinner = formal evening meal
Supper = informal evening meal

Obviously you don’t go for the full set , just 2 or 3 options !