Is "having my tea" a northern thing?

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I'm a working class southerner. The only tea I have is in a cup with milk and sugar.
On mn a lot of posts talk about their evening meal as"tea", "what shall i make for tea" etc.
Do any southeners call it tea?

It’s a northern English thing, yes. Dinner and tea rather than the southern lunch and dinner.

I call the meal tea as well. I'm Welsh.

We say lunch and tea; Shropshire; in the middle really.

I'm from the south east and don't know anyone who calls a meal tea. It's very northern.

Of course it is. How can you not know that?

Oh, and 'dinner' is what we have at lunchtime. HTH

Yes. To me tea is a cup of tea or sandwiches and a piece of cake mid afternoon. It’s most definitely not an evening meal and I’ve never heard anyone round here call it Tea

Welsh parents, I say lunch and tea, but as a child it was dinner and tea. It's never dinner in the evening.

I'm a southerner, I say lunch and supper. Tea would mean a cup of tea or a cream tea with scones!

Dinner and tea here in Birmingham.

Breakfast, dinner, tea. (Lancashire)

Yep. Dinner and tea in Yorkshire too!

Hate seeing it called tea. Lunch is lunch and dinner is dinner. Born & bred Londoner here.

I’m working class southern. It was dinner growing up. Now its tea.

Don’t ask me why. I’ve never been further north than Birmingham.

Dinner and tea here and I'm in Norfolk!

Supper is well posh.

Dinner and tea here and I've only ever lived in the southwest of England (devon and somerset).

I want to know when dinner ladies at school became lunchtime supervisors.

Oh hang on - I have lunch and tea.

I’m clearly just weird.

I thought it was an English thing. I only hear white English people I know calling a meal 'their tea'

Breakfast, dinner, tea- Welsh

Yeah it's tea where I am in Scotland too.
Breakfast, lunch, tea, supper.

Hereford and Worcester - dinner and tea.

Dinner and tea here in Suffolk too

Supper brings to mind jam sandwiches before bed. Makes me think of people eating tea at 10pm.