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?

You think my language is unacceptable. I don't.

Yes, I'm quite aware of that. There are always people displaying ignorance around the powerful use of language; several movements spring to mind. Over time, they were successful in changing the words people use.

This one will be too, despite the stumbling blocks of coming across the ignorance you have so merrily shown here.

So holier than thou for such an unpleasant person. Funny that.

Those saying "dinner is lunchtime", if you're using the term 'lunchtime' why don't you say 'lunch'? Surely lunch is at lunchtime makes sense.

Proud posh wanker here!
Breakfast - obvious
Lunch - at home or if out or Sunday Lunch
Dinner - at school or if out in the evening
Tea - hot drink or what little kids eat at around 5pmish
Supper - what we eat at home

so there! (but seriously, who cares? I'm just happy to be invited to most of those meals with the possible exception of breakfast, because that's just too early)

For my family it is:

Breakfast 6am
Snack 10am
Lunch 12pm
After school snack 3pm or 4pm(older kids)
Dinner or supper 6pm-7pm

Ahhhh institutionalised snobbery. Mumsnet never fails to deliver!

So holier than thou for such an unpleasant person. Funny that.

Attempting to deflect the issue by using personal attacks against me doesn't make your use of language any more acceptable.

Breakfast, dinner and tea.

My husband calls dinner lunch and I can't stand that word.

MIL now calls tea 'supper' and that I really can't stand.

Deflecting is what you're doing. Why exactly are you so consistently unpleasant?

"Kitchen supper" sounds very David Cameron, HemanOrSheRa (so you were right to put a stop to it).

The cooked meal at around 4/5pm hasn’t really got a name

It's called high tea.

We have breakfast then lunch then dinner. Tea is a beverage that could be served with any of these meals.

Had to look back through the rest of the thread as id missed the bickering bit

Interesting post re the class

Northern working class background apparently...thats what's fascinating about this class business, the way it changes

Serialweightwatcher "I'm a Northerner too but hate it also - I say breakfast, lunch and dinner - don't even get me started on supper, it makes me cringe - no clue why though"

I'm a Southerner, but all the rest of your post applies to me too.

Tea is a drink.

It is breakfast, lunch or dinner.

I haven't RTHT either bit wanted to chip in with hope it is in my household. DH and I are both born and raised SE England, middle income.

We have breakfast, lunch and dinner - mostly because main meal is in the evening.

But breakfast, lunch and tea if main meal is at lunch time (I realise now I write it down that is a bit odd not to call lunch, dinner in that case)

To add in further complication, and we only do this in jest rather than it being a formal thing - there's brunch (a big breakfast mid-morning to cover lunch too), or maybe elevenses for a morning-morning snack. I've never really ever had supper but in our family that would referred to a late evening/nighttime snack.

Night all x

Flowery? Piss off! It's just a northern thing, and nothing to do with class or spam like pp have said. Breakfast, dinner and tea are your 3 main meals and then, like other pp have said, supper is a slice of toast or a piece of malt loaf in your PJs. Flowery my arse!

Tea, supper and dinner are not the same things.

Breakfast
Lunch
Afternoon tea (sandwiches, scones, cakes etc)
High Tea (light cooked meal, pies etc)
Dinner (full cooked meal)
Supper (light cooked meal)

It's tea and yes, I am Northern.

Yy yolo fish. I really struggle with tea meaning evening meal. For me come for tea means 3:30-5pm tea (obvs) with scones,cakes and at a stretch sandwiches. Birthday tea- yes, nursery tea totally. But tea to mean a cooked meal for adults eaten after 6pm- just no, it's supper !

Dinner is at midday which is why you have school dinners and dinner ladies (Not PC anymore?).

Tea is your evening meal. Supper is toast or a handful of biscuits before bed!

I assume you have no understanding, to paraphrase Iain Banks, of the weapons grade level of stupidity you have just displayed



Loving your work on this thread @LassWiTheDelicateAir

I think the South West accent has more similarities with northern regions.

I grew up in mid, rural Devon and we breakfast, dinner and tea. And say grass to rhyme with ass rather than arse. Bath and laugh don't rhyme with scarf

which is why you have school dinners and dinner ladies

Exactly- no one ever talked about "lunch ladies".

I'm from Cornwall and it tends to be Tea down there as well, although within my own family we always called it Dinner.

I can't stand the term "Tea", it sets my teeth on edge for some reason.