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?

@AutumnalLeaves38 it was obvious you were joking, rather than being ‘dickish’

And in the same vein, The Tiger Who Came To Dinner doesn’t have quite the same ring.

I can’t stand the term ‘dinner’ for an evening meal. I think it sounds pretentious and wanky. I go out for tea in the evening with my friends, I have tea at home in the evening. I have dinner during the day. And that’s it.

Yes, YABU!

Sometimes I say dinner time and sometimes I say tea time. It's really no big deal!

@RhiannonOHara, yes. High tea and afternoon tea are very different. Afternoon tea (3-5) is tiny sandwiches, scones and cake. High tea (5 oclock ish) has ham, tongue, lashings of ginger beer, cold pie, scotch eggs, salads and then cake. Famous Five had high tea but actually they were compulsive eaters due to severe parental dysfunction as even between high tea and midnight feasts they'd hare off to the village to bully some common woman into handing out slices of cherry pie and ice cream.

Yessssss! I'm assuming this was inspired by a post yesterday. I automatically got pissed off when I saw the word tea and ignored the post. I know I shouldn't have but it bugs me

milli, I'm pleased we're on the same page.

You're not wrong about the Famous Five. They must have been fat as fuck.

I can’t stand the term ‘dinner’ for an evening meal. I think it sounds pretentious and wanky. I go out for tea in the evening with my friends

Whereas I think that saying you go out for tea in a restaurant in the evening is just ridiculous, and not even what most people who use the term tea would say.

Also northern and we have dinner at lunch and tea at .... tea time.

If dinner isnt at 12pm, why do they call dinner ladies dinner ladies?

Evening meal in my area is "going out for food". Now and again, if you're posh, you might say you're "going out for a meal".

It's regional. Up here in the North it's always tea. Dinner is what southerers call lunch.

And in the same vein, The Tiger Who Came To Dinner doesn’t have quite the same ring

Well no, because he didn't come to dinner, he came to tea. They had sandwiches and buns and tea. It wasn't dinner at all!

Another “supper” hater here. It sounds pervy.

Whereas I think that saying you go out for tea in a restaurant in the evening is just ridiculous, and not even what most people who use the term tea would say.

Yes, this times 1,000,000 with bells on.

I've never heard of anyone going out to eat tea in a restaurant

@xqw this is the best supper shut down ever 😂- i will know tell people to shut up and stop being pervy 👌

Dinner is what southerers call lunch

I've already said this, but I grew up working-class in the south of England and we had dinner and tea. It's class-based as well, not just regional.

This is how I eat tea

And look, my tea taste flowery too!

@Userlavender theres something just not right about the word! It makes me uneasy

Whereas I think that saying you go out for tea in a restaurant in the evening is just ridiculous

I wouldn’t say I’m going out for dinner either. I’d probably say I was going out for a meal (even though meal is a terrible word ).

Dinner to me (rightly or wrongly) has connotations of school dinners, so puts me in mind of spaghetti hoops and steamed pudding. I’d be wanting something a little more sophisticated, dontcha know

As far as I know, people learning English as a foreign language are taught supper as light evening meal eaten early evening.
Dinner is at a later time. It can be formal or might not be.
Kids coming home from school have supper. Its informal and homely and not too late in the evening.
When families go to restaurant in the evening together for instance, or go to someone's house for meal, it's dinner, not supper. It is less informal.
Tea is associated with cake, filo pastry, biscuits etc eaten with actual tea ( or coffee ietc) n the afternoon but still well before supper time.
That's how I know.

And the meal eaten at lunchtime (midday) is lunch, not dinner or anything else.

Coming in lat

One more try. Haven't rarft but I remember..

Breakfast
Elevenses
Lunch
Tea
Dinner
Supper

Also.
Pre breakfast
Early morning tea