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?

Pudding or “Afters” are what we call the sweet thing you might have after a meal.

I feel the same about the word Sweet 🤮

Brought up in South West. Generally say lunch and dinner, unless the evening meal is just sandwiches and salad (like it usually is on a Sunday) - then I call it tea. Do people still call that sort of evening meal dinner/supper?

South East .... lunch and tea. Or teatime.... didn't realise this was odd 😂

If I went on Room101 I would put 'supper' in and then none of you would be able to use it! So put that in your pipe and smoke it!

At ds' primary school, they were called "lunch ladies"

InsomniacAnonymous
But what about my crumpets?? I can't sleep hungry!!!

It's a northern thing. I'm from London so I call it breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea is what I drink in a mug in the morning. Dh is from Liverpool and so he says breakfast, dinner and tea.
We live in Liverpool so ds will probably take after his dad, because that's what he will hear more as he gets older.

ForForksSake the box that a mid day meal is taken in is a buttie box of course

I'm South East. I say lunch and tea.

Breakfast lunch and tea. Mother is from Wales. Grew up in Nottingham.

SleepingStandingUp I'm not a monster! You may still have crumpets, just don't call them the 's' word. You could call them crumpets instead.

I’m from
Bristol. Breakfast, lunch, tea. Tea is interchangeable with dinner.

Dinner is not at lunchtime. Now I live in the North it confuses me every time. “I’ll be there at dinner time”. I always think ‘well thats too bloody late” and I realise they mean lunchtime. And also that they are wrong.

Lunch then dinner (South West). My mother, who could pass as Hyacinth Bucket's try hard elder sister, has recently adopted "supper", which irritates me beyond all reason.
When she invites me round for "a bit of supper" I'm tempted to turn up at 10pm in my dressing gown and slippers, clutching a packet of digestives.
Supper is also what you get the governess to feed your children in the nursery,if you happen to own a stately home!
Low tea is basically afternoon tea - tea with light refreshments mid-afternoon.
High tea is served about 5-6pm and far more substantial. Cold cooked meat, maybe a hot or cold meat pie, bread and butter, salad, big bowl of potatoes, some sort of cutting cake ( rather than the dainty morsels served at low tea), fruit pie, that kind of thing.

FreudianSlurp What? It's the law? Oh bugger and sod it! That is so unfair.

Londoner and say tea for dinner but my mum was welsh

Lunch and tea here - Birmingham.

North East England here . Dinner and tea normally but I’ve always said lunch and dinner interchangeably depending on the time. No idea why I’d be different as we’re generations from the same place .

Breakfast, brunch, lunch, high tea, dinner, supper.

All the meals. Every day.

Surrey here and it’s always been breakfast, lunch and dinner. I refer to tea as in the drink and “afternoon tea” if I’m going somewhere fancy for afternoon tea.

The hideous phrase "kitchen sups" is now rattling around in my brain...

I grew up with (and still use) lunch and supper. Dinner if it is a formal meal in the evening (going out to dinner) and tea is a cup of tea or afternoon tea. If it makes any difference my parents were upper middle class and I went to boarding school. I am probably upper working class now, or lower middle class at a push, my children went to the local state school (both grown up and with children of their own now) , they were brought up in Devon and both now call their evening meal tea. (I think they have lunch though, rather than dinner?) It hurts me inside when they come over in the evening for 'tea', but they have their own lives and it's not up to me to decide what their meals are called. (I still think it is WRONG though!)

Ann you missed second breakfast and elevenses

I'm 'posh' northern, and I call it tea. So do all my 'posh' northern friends. We eat breakfast, dinner and tea, just like all the common northern folk 🙄 🤷‍♀️ (also, in a strange twist, if we are 'going out' for food between the hours of, say, 12 and 2, we 'go out for lunch' - bit mad, us northerners 😂).

Northern where OP? Every country has a North.

In my area in Wales, it's generally the done thing for tea to be the evening meal. Dinner is at midday. That's why they're called dinner ladies.