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?

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Londoner here

I enjoy having afternoon tea with cakes, scones if that helps. Dinner is main meal.

For me it depends if the meal is hot or cold. Hot meal in the middle of the say is dinner, cold and it's lunch.
In the evening, if it's hot it's dinner and if it's cold it's tea. So technically possible to have 2 dinners in a day.
That's how it works for me anyway. I was born in the South to Northerners, and grew up in the Midlands...

Lunch is at lunch time
Dinner is the evening meal
Supper is a late evening meal
Tea is a drink

And I'm Northern. But when else would lunch be if not lunch time?

Hi I'm northern - when I was at school we had "dinner ladies" who gave us our school dinner!!!! We went home at tea time and had our tea. It's not left me now I'm in the south. Tea time from 4pm - dinner time is lunch time here.

Reminds me of The Royle Family. 'Ave you had yer tea?' as Barbara always used to ask.

Of course, really posh people like me say 'supper'!

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea here
Supper might be cheese and crackers late on

School dinners, dinner ladies, served at dinner time at school, I do also call it lunch and the dinner ladies are now called lunch time supervisors! Still, tea time served about 6pm has never changed.

I started my life in the Midlands but with posh southern relatives eating breakfast, lunch, cup of tea maybe, and dinner at 6 or 7.
Then I moved to Scotland and got very confused when asked round for my tea, with a cooked meal at 5 or 6.
Now I'm in the North of England and although DH and the DCs seem to have dinner I still have lunch, then we have tea together.
We do occasionally book to go out to dinner without the DCs at about 8.

It's regional.

If your local schools have dinnerladies, then dinner is the midday meal and the evening meal is tea.

If your local schools have lunch ladies, then lunch is the midday meal and the evening meal is dinner.

Simples xx

There's no right and wrong. It's regional and class based.

I'm north eastern middle class. To me it's Lunch or Dinner at dinner time (midday), Tea is evening meal, Supper is a snack before bed. I'd heard of people calling the evening meal Dinner as a child but never ever heard it being called Supper until I met some very posh people at Uni; I wondered why they were inviting me to their house for a bedtime snack.

In the South Tea is only used by working class people for evening meal, and even that seems to be dying out in favour of Dinner. In the North (at least the North East where I'm from) it's used by everyone, although some people might use dinner if they're trying to sound grand.

Dinner isn’t at lunchtime, it’s at dinner time. I’m with you OP, I wouldn’t call it anything else.

Midlands girl here - dinner is the main meal of the day to me, whether I have it at lunchtime (usually only Sundays) or teatime. If it was a sandwich or say beans on toast then that would be lunch or tea. Only my cat gets supper!

When I moved here I found it bloody odd that people called lunch dinner so I had to google why as no one could give me a decent explanation. Apparently it’s stems from the depression era and the lower class that couldn’t afford a full sized meal at dinner time. So they would have their bigger meal at lunchtime and something small in the evening (supper or tea). But these days it’s pretty simple if you ask me - breakfast, lunch, dinner. And I suppose tea in the late afternoon if you’re not having a dinner.... but they should bloody stop calling them school dinners as I’m sick of hearing my DS say but Mum I’ve already had dinner, it’s time for lunch!
Don’t get me started on pudding.... it’s dessert. Pudding is a type of dessert FFS!

parents are welsh, I grew up in Thames valley, now live in Scotland, evening meal has always been tea

I'll have pudding after my dinner Maggie ! Dessert is a bit posh for me!😀

they'd hare off to the village to bully some common woman into handing out slices of cherry pie and ice cream.

I can live with 'dessert', but prefer saying 'afters'
Like a PP says, I consider a pudding to be a type of dessert.

Dessert is considered to be far more non-U than pudding.

It depends when you eat your main meal; dinner is the main meal so it's:
Brekky Lunch Dinner or
Brekky Dinner Tea

Dinner/lunch for afternoon and tea is evening meal for us. Been down south and up north and yes there is a mix but really it’s food so I am happy whatever you want to call it

I hate 'dessert', 'afters' and 'sweet.'

Dessert is fruit and nuts between cheese and pudding. And that's how you finish supper, if you're eating at home, or dinner, if you're having guests.

Supper
Supper
Supper

I love eating supper. I've just had a delicious supper: grilled halloumi salad, with banana Greek yoghurt and heather honey for pudding.

interesting how in this thread it's okay to slag off us upper middle types

Ssyong "dessert" when you mean "pudding" is bad enough, but "afters" or sweet" makes me shudder.

I think it's weird to have a snack after your evening meal. so we would have supper (awfly posh doncha know) maybe followed by pudding but not very often. to eat again before bed is just weird in our house - and hot chocolate before bed would not be 'supper' but would just be hot chocolate. I still really dont understand why supper is pervy, cringy or posh and no one seems able to explain why?