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?

Yolo must of because I am a common northerner

I was having this conversation with my 4 year old who gets very confused by the various different terms used for our meals to the point some days he's convinced I'm trying to make him go with out meals as we use the terms lunch dinner and tea randomly at different times of day lol. the only set term seems to be breakfast as yes school dinners as served at midday but dinner parties are held later in the evening? I'm in the West Midlands, We call the midday meal lunch or dinner and the evening meal dinner or tea we never have supper! I think it depends what you have when do lunch or tea discribes a lighter meal and dinner is your larger meal rather than a discription of the time of day you have it . Lunch possibly coming from packed lunch and tea would indicate sandwiches or non cooked food where as dinner is always cooked and brunch that's just for posh people in London at weekends lol 😂

Dinner is your evening meal
Tea is a cup of tea or afternoon tea
Supper is a snack you have a few hours after dinner

Supper has always been my main evening meal. Don’t understand why so many people object to it.

Nor do I see the point of terms like ‘kitchen supper’. For me, supper is by its very nature an informal meal, which distinguishes it from ‘dinner’.

I was brought up in the south west (of England). My mother was from the south east, and my father from the north. When we visited my paternal grandparents, ‘supper’ was a late night snack, often parkin, if I remember rightly, and a drink of milk. I don’t think we ever had an equivalent at home, but if we had, we’d have just called it a snack.

Even as young children we understood perfectly well that different people called the same thing by different names and that that was perfectly fine. My best friend called supper ‘tea’. Why would anyone care?

If it's your main meal it's dinner no matter what time of day it is. If you have it mid day then the evening meal is tea.
Of course if you have sandwiches and cake around four thirty that is afternoon tea.
Supper is a light meal served before bedtime and lunch is a lightish meal served in the middle of the day. Add a mid morning tea/coffee break and what do you get? An obesity crisis.

I can see that if you think of supper as a late night snack, then inviting someone round for it sounds a bit odd as it is natural precursor to going to bed.

If it's your main meal it's dinner no matter what time of day it is.

No it isn't. You might think about it like that, but other people don't.

RTFT- there are regional and class differences.

And that's OK - except when pp are rude about others' usages (e.g. Calling supper "pervy" or "pretentious.")

i have lunch at lunchtime

in the evening i have dinner or supper, both interchangeable although most of the time its dinner.

tea is something you drink

i live in london

It's a northern thing !!!!!!

It's a northern thing !!!!!!

Weeeell - up to a point, Lord Copper. I'm northern and (old money) "posh" and we call it lunch and supper (at home) or "dinner" if we're going out. But dinner is never the midday meal (My grandmother's maid used to call it "luncheon " but that's another story).

So I think it's class as well as region.

It's a bit like the argument of sc-on and sc-oh-n

This is just common sense - the 'e' on the end makes the previous vowel take its capital letter sound!

There are two very frustrating parts of this thread.

Firstly is the claim that dinner and tea are a "Northern" thing, when clearly they aren't.

Secondly is the entitlement of people who are English, who believe that they have claim for both the North and the South.

breakfast
dinner
tea
something before bed
supper when at grannys awww

Question yourself here. At school did you say dinner ladies or lunch ladies?

Well some people will have had school dinners and some will have had school lunch. I guess there will have been dinner ladies or lunch supervisors accordingly. At my children's schools lunch was provided and participation was mandatory. Bringing your own wasn't an option.

@lozzylizzy a bit like “phone”?

@MummyMuppet2x2 nope, i definitely think it sounds pervy.

We have, breakfast, dinner, tea & supper. Do also call dinner lunch on occasion, and say lunch time not dinner time. Accept Sunday when it's Sunday dinner 🤔. Confused myself on that one.

I'm in Wales btw professor cat

Srush86, at my school in the U.S. they were called lunch ladies or lunch attendants. But their actual title is food service assistant.

srush

When i was a vhild they were called dinner ladies

Now they are lunchtime supervisors

YABU 😎

I haven't read the whole thread, but just stopping by to say there's nothing wrong with 'Tea'! It's quite 'Yorkshire', widely known to be God's Own County, so if they say 'Tea', it's got to be right!

Na still dinner ladies here

Definitely not a northern thing - I'm northern and it was always breakfast /lunch /dinner when I was growing up

I'm a bit at all the mentions of pre bedtime supper - who needs an extra meal after you've already had an evening meal?!

Is this a very common thing that people regularly have, if it's got an actual name?

(In my mind supper was what we would have on Sunday night when we had a snacky / picky evening meal, because we'd had our main meal at lunchtime (Sunday roast) so didn't need a proper dinner just a few hours later)