Dinner or tea

[Sophisticatedsarcasm]

I’ve been seeing all these memes on Facebook about wether it’s called dinner or tea.... so what do you say...
I’ve always said dinner, if someone says tea. I’m gonna say a little milk and 2 sugars please 😊

Either! N Scotland

I’m English so I probably say dinner but the kids and dh would say tea so I use that too.

Dinner. Dh and I always bicker about this. He asks daily "what's for tea" and I refuse to answer him. If I'm cooking it, I get to bloody name it!!

Breakfast, dinner and tea
North West

Breakfast lunch and dinner. always. Tea is either a cup of tea or cake and a biscuit at around 4pm.

I think we can call it what we like! It doesn't matter unless this is a snobbery thing.
I call it tea or supper and never dinner.

From South Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 if it matters where we say it regionally.

I had to explain to my (exclusively southern living) DD(11) that the evening meal is often called tea - and I use that because of north western 'heritage'

I will always say dinner is middle of the day and cannot envisage using that for the evening meal.

DD is polar opposite :)

North west - breakfast, lunch/dinner, tea.

I always said tea growing up (Scottish) but I now say dinner as I’ve been living down south for a while and my OH has rubbed off on me

For me it depends on the time:

Afternoon tea is 2-4

Tea is 4-6

Dinner is 6-9

Supper is 9-11

Midnight snack 12-3am

Dinner, though OH is form the NE and his 'tea' seems to of taken over

@Pimmsypimms east mids here too and I have to say I agree! Even though I never realised

I tend to just go with the flow, but if calling down my family for 'tea' I'll say 'your dinner's on the side" I have no rules it would seem, just like the scone/scon debate

South East, we use tea and dinner interchangeably, though say tea most often.

My mum grew up in the West Midlands though, so maybe that's why I'm used to saying 'tea'.

I would never say 'dinner' for lunch though.

It's Breakfast, then Lunch, then Tea/Dinner

I was brought up with supper but my OH and I now call it dinner. Never tea!!!

I’m with you @zzzzz - ‘dinner’ if we’re having guests at home for a meal or ‘going out’ to eat in the evening...

Breakfast lunch and supper

Dinner but I was brought up with my parents using both Dinner & Tea for the same meal. On a Sunday we had roast at 1pm which although a "dinner" was called Sunday lunch and at 7pm we had Sandwiches and Seafood which was called a "tea" which I suppose it was. Confusing?