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?

It's not flowery it's mainly regional.

We say tea here. Lunch is dinner.

Its some combination of region and class, I reckon Hush.

My DF used to say things like 'have us tea' as a sort of self-parody of his roots. I don't suppose he did that in pre-war Oxford though.

Tea is around 5-30 or when yer dad comes home, its working class:)

Tea is at 4/5pm and is a light evening meal, supper is a bit later on in the evening, we usually have supper in our house, dinner you go out for or have guests over for a more formal meal.

At least that's the way it works in my house, my parents house and the in-laws.

I'm deeply middle class but it's still tea. Because I don't live in London or the Home Counties.

Scottish DH doesn’t know what to expect if I offer ‘tea’ at any point after about 4pm. I’m northern and we are in the south.

It’s all very simple:

Pre 10am - breakfast
10 - 12 - brunch
12-3 lunch
3-7 tea
7-9 dinner
9-bed - supper.

Dunno what everyone gets so confused about 😂

I can't help but think this is a north bashing post

It is. Although it is not the northerners who are looking parochial.

I'm a Londoner and never heard of tea for a meal except on Corrie and Mumsnet

Try getting out a bit more?

I can't help but think this is a north bashing post.

Or remarkable ignorance. Do people not travel within their own country? I was raised in Essex but always knew what a ginnel was.

Mary Berry on her recent cooking programme said Kitchen Supper i recoiled how many meals do these posh folk have

I don't like it either OP, I actually cringe when I hear it in real life or see it written down. My mum has all of a sudden started referring to dinner as tea and it's seriously winding me up, she already thinks I'm too easily annoyed and highly strung so I'd like to say I'll grin and bear it but I know I'll end up telling her to speak properly FFS. (Lighthearted btw, she'll roll her eyes at me and say it all the more, that's just how she rolls 🙄)

Grew up in devon its called tea!

It’s all very simple:

HUmm...

Pre 8am - breakfast

12-1 - Dockey

5:30 -6 tea

there:)

MrsJayy is Ms Berry were truly PLU, she'd refer to a 'light kitchen supps'!

Aggressive in what way?!

The use of the term "bonkers".

You should check out Time To Change's Mind Your Language campaign here: www.time-to-change.org.uk/media-centre/responsible-reporting/mind-your-language

Breakfast, lunch and tea.

Supper sounds posh to me. Like 'Do come round for suppahhh dahling'

SinglePringle if you asked my family if we were staying for supper we would be thinking you wanted a sleep over!

No, no, no.
Tea is taken with milk or lemon.
High tea is eaten by children around 4.30pm.
Afternoon tea was invented to breach the gap between lunch and dinner.
Lunch is a midday meal.
Dinner is a formal meal, with two or more courses. Eaten around 8pm.
Supper is a less formal meal where dining room isn't generally laid.

Tea describes a very pleasant drink.

It depends on what class you are/ think you are
It's tea for us, whatever the time.
If we have it early and are hungry later it's a bit of supper before bed.

But it is bonkers to feel nauseous over a mundane word like 'dinner'. Utterly bonkers.

'Supper is a less formal meal where dining room isn't generally laid.'

Cling film curtains fluttering in the breeze...

squoosh You are missing the point entirely, and I suspect deliberately. You can no longer claim ignorance after the use of your language has been pointed out to you.

I've always lived in the south west of england and in ouf house it's
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea

Some people are just so unadaptable.

I'm happy with any combination of breakfast, elevenses, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, high tea, dinner or supper which fits my appetite and day's activity, with regional adjustment as appropriate. Not all on the same day though.

Happy, that is, so long as there is also plenty of tea.

WhatToDoAboutThis2017 are you ever in any mood other than utterly waspish?

Lived in the south for 40 years

Northern parents

Its tea

Dh calls it tea, my children call it tea

Ive ruined them all