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?

Also I'm from Northern Ireland lol sorry for drip feeding!

Breakfast, dinner, supper growing up NE Scotland. We would now say breakfast, lunch, supper with an occasional slip back to dinner instead of lunch. Probably because kids go packed lunch, not packed dinner, but if they had school lunches we'd call that school dinners. 80% of my colleagues say tea though, so I'm the minority.

Lunch and tea here - Somerset

Growing up it was always breakfast - lunch - tea.

Now though, although we only live about 45 minutes away, dd always says lunch - dinner. So we have tended to move that way too.

Supper was a late night small meal after tea/dinner, before bedtime.

Breakfast, lunch and tea here - Southerner with working class parents from London.

Supper sounds much too posh and makes me think of David Cameron eating posh food and wine in a massive kitchen for some reason

Breakfast, lunch & dinner. Central Scotland, yes we are still part of the UK, the country doesn’t stop at the North of England!

I'd never call lunch dinner either, but then we never eat our main meal at midday.

School cooked dinners assume no cooked meal in the evening surely? Or do people who use them cook / eat out twice a day?

You hate people who call lunch, dinner and dinner, tea?

I hope for your sake that you're being intentionally hyperbolic

I'm WC northern and use them all interchangeably as do most people ime.

Supper is between tea and bed

Supper caused me all sorts of confusion. That's hot chocolate and a biscuit at bedtime where i'm from so it was very puzzling to be invited to supper when we moved.

The word makes me think of 'Tim nice but dim' or Jacob Rees-Mogg (yuck).

Breakfast, lunch and tea. Never dinner.

SW here.

It's a working class term, supper is the middle class version.

Breakfast, dinner, tea here (Midlands)

Just wondering, the people who call midday meal lunch (I don't mean those sensible folk who can interchange, I mean the ones who are horrified at the use of the word dinner for a midday meal), what happens at school, on the school timetable at dinner time, or what are dinner ladies called ?

Backforgood I'm not in the UK anymore but I thought they were called lunchtime supervisors or midday supervisors now.

I’m not horrified by the use of dinner to mean lunch.

But at DD’s school they have “lunch”. It’s a very small school so rather than “go see a dinner lady” they’re far more likely to call them by name so a collective noun isn’t as necessary but I guess it’s “lunchtime” staff

South coast here. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

My friend is Welsh and says breakfast, dinner and tea. When I lived in midlands it was breakfast, dinner, tea and definitely anywhere in north is the same.

And DD has “school dinners” but it’s called lunch at school

I'm from Scotland and say lunch and tea.

If you look at job sites they are often advertised as catering assistants etc... and the job category is usually "School Dinners"

Hertfordshire, so S/SE, and we always say 'tea' for evening meal.

And we're defo middle class

Lunch and tea or dinner. But I've lived in both the North and South.

The Royle family , Barbara always asked about what they had for tea . Most northerners call evening meals tea .

Never heard of a traffic light -they sound gorgeous.

we have lunch - tea (bigger than snack, smaller than full meal) and dinner