To hate the term 'Tea'

[ditzyglamour]

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?

Lunch is dinner to me. I presume that from school days - dinner ladies/dinner time.

Tea is evening meals.

North west

xquerty

Yes, I remember a magic 'e' song when I was a kid....... kit becomes kIte etc

So what does that make “stone”?

Born in London, I have breakfast, lunch and tea. I don't think I have ever used the word "dinner" in relation to any meal I have eaten

N what about Victoria woods sitcom dinnerladies? So many questions to myself right now

@Srush86 thats what i said previously about “phone” but think my point was ‘missed’

Just had shepherd's pie for me tea.

I just had my Sunday Dinner for my tea...(I had a migraine earlier so have just eaten it) !!

To the people saying it's a northern thing - I'm as far south as you can go before you hit France (Channel Islands) and its breakfast, dinner and tea.
So there

Although I also say "lunch" moreoften than not now that I'm a little bit older. But tea is and always has been the evening meal

I’m from daaaan saaaaf. When I was little I used to invite friends round for tea after school, i suppose now I call it dinner more often than tea though it means the same thing in my head but I’ve never had supper, I’m too common for that!

I still really dont understand why supper is pervy, cringy or posh and no one seems able to explain why?

I think it's from when servants would serve dinner to the high and mighty and then have 'supper' in the kitchen.

Having people round for 'supper' is basically slumming it in the kitchen.

I also think it is seen as 'pervy' has it's the sort of line a dodgy character in a 1950s film would use to get a women alone in his house, "fancy come back for a bit of supper?", "Would you like to see my etchings?"

Goodness. I grew up in the US and have used 'supper' and 'dinner' interchangeably my entire life, including the UK chapter (!) (it might be regional there, but my parents used both). I had no idea I wasn't to use supper.

Supper isn't posh at all. It's a snack before bed.

Breakfast
lunch
tea
supper

You go out to dinner

I'm Northumbrian and middle class if that makes a difference.

That's a different (correct!) use of supper.

Some people use it for their evening meal (instead of dinner or tea).

Our main evening meal is supper.

Dinner is when we have guests /something special.

and I've just had my tea - a mug or earl grey and a biscuit or three

Lunch at lunch time (12 - 2pm) and dinner at dinner time (6 - 8pm). DS has lunch (normally cooked meal and the tea at about 5pm which is normally scrambled egg and toast . Tea is a lighter meal than dinner.

Not normally scrambled egg and toast!! That's just an example!

Nope. It’s Tea here. Dinner when it’s out or later.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea is a delicious drink, you don't bloody eat it!

Tea all the way I'm from South Yorkshire dinner is more a southern thing i think

I'm southern and in my family, it's always been tea. Dinner is for lunchtime..after all, you have dinner ladies in schools, don't you?

Nah, a lunchtime supervisor is that lady in a big coat that stands in the playground fending off questions about where babies come from. Dinner lady - serves dinner at dinnertime.

Breakfast, dinner, tea. [Yorkshire]

Supper #1 - what the Queen eats with her crown on.
Supper #2 - slice of parkin/lump of coal and a cup of tea before bed

And if 'tea' is only to refer to the beverage, what the hell are Claridge's and the Ritz [other establishments are available] doing charging £50 a go?