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

Supper (a round of toast and a cup of tea)

“Tea” is Tetley

which is why you have school dinners and dinner ladies

You have midday supervisors?

Aren't all Northerners working class?

but also, if your child doesnt have school meals, then it is a packed lunch. so really its all a bit irrelevant!!
'Kitchen supper' is, I agree, a bit wanky. We have that, but only because we don't have a dining room.

I'm obviously done for.

Woman of the house, where's me tae?

Aren't all Northerners working class?

Apparently. And according to the poster whose in laws have a tea consisting of fried spam and white bread doorsteps, we all live in the 1940’s too.

Ursula

We have flat caps, cobbles and have just got electric too you know.

I notice the OP hasn’t stuck around either.

Aw. Dd's first job was in the local bakers and the first day she came home and asked 'What's Spam?"

I've clearly failed my northern credentials..

Seriously I used to work for a national organisation and my southern colleagues admitted that they thought northerners were all a bit common.

Sugar butties and bread and drip for supper here....

Gillybeanz do you have an indoor toilet?

My school cafeteria did have lunch ladies

How can tea be flowery? It is literally one syllable. It couldn't be less flowery if it tried. Short, blunt and to the point, yes. Flowery, no.

Yes indoor toilet, but surely it's the lav
My dsis still has her outside privvy, as well as 2 indoors though.
She can't bring herself to lose the "original feature"

I always get really confused. I think that people mean actual tea as opposed to an evening meal. Really annoying.

2 indoor toilets? That's well posh.

Welsh valleys here and when I was growing up it was dinner and tea rather than lunch and dinner.

Nah ex council, bloody big garden though, it's really nice.
The estate is nice, lots of lovely little streets. Cheshire, but not the rich, posh grammar school areas.

We are large Edwardian semi in East Lancs.
We don't have an outside toilet, but 2 indoor.
Can't stand bloody en suites, who needs all those bathrooms.

I live in the NW and meals go:

Breakfast
Lunch
Tea
Snacks are thrown in liberally throughout the day

Generally we use lunch and tea but dinner can also be used interchangeably for either the midday meal or the evening meal. It is usually very clear which is being referred to depending on the context of the conversation and nobody bats an eyelid what you call it ... unless you refer to tea/dinner as supper and then you'll be seen as a weirdo

We have tea after school - around 4-30 to 5 ish. Followed by evening meal - usually around 7pm when DH gets home from work. Dinner is something the kids have at school ie school dinners.

High Tea (light cooked meal, pies etc)

There was nothing 'light' about any high tea I ever had.

yolofish I love the fact that you are embracing being a wanker.

I am a northern tea saying wanker, and sometimes a reverse snob.

I really do wonder why these things get people's backs up so much. I never even looked at the 'scone/schon' thread such a waste of time trying to convince people that they're wrong about something that they've said their whole lives.

I was brought up in the north and always always said lunch for the midday meal, and dinner for the evening meal. Tea was a snack when I got in from school to tide me over until we sat down to eat dinner together. The only time tea was my evening meal was when I was very young and ate earlier than my parents, who had dinner after I was in bed.


Common parlance tends to revert to breakfast / lunch / dinner regardless of the region in many scenarios however (although before anyone leaps down my throat these are generalisations!)


In a work environment, a contract will usually refer the midday time off to eat as a 'lunch break'. A 'tea break' is a short break mid morning or afternoon.


If you bring sandwiches in to eat at lunchtime, it's a packed lunch. Not a packed dinner. (Although a hot lunch at school might be 'school dinners' served by dinner ladies)


It can be simultaneously 'Sunday lunch' or a 'roast dinner' (or get round this altogether by just calling it a 'Sunday roast)


A restaurant menu is for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Northern restaurants don't have separate menus where you get a dinner menu at lunch time, or a tea menu in the evening.


A dinner party is an evening gathering, a tea party is held in the afternoon with dainty sandwiches. (Although if it's in Boston that's a whole other ball game!)


A black tie dinner is an evening event. You don't get special northern black tie tea events.


(The only time I ever say 'tea' for the evening meal now is if we're having fish and chips, then it's a chippy tea. Although it could also be a fish supper )

Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner.

My fiance says things like "We can do it at lunch time or tea time...

What times they consist of, i have no idea

It reminds me of my mum and childhood. The only people I'd say tea too, is my children, because it says "mum" to me.