To think that you’re evening meal is called ‘tea’ not ‘dinner’?!

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I see so many posters on here referring to their evening mea, as ‘dinner’, but in real life I’ve never met anyone who does this and it’s always ‘tea’. It always has been tea. My parents call it tea, my grandparents called it tea, my friends call it tea, my work colleagues call it tea etc. ‘Dinner’ is the meal you have in the middle of the day and that’s why school dinner ladies, are called dinner ladies!

I don’t know but I find it quite irrationally annoying! Surely I’m not alone?!

If you invited me to lunch I would turn up at 1pm, for tea at 4pm, for dinner at 7.30-8pm and supper at 10pm.

@thepeopleversuswork

FFS

I’m really over these goady, faux innocent “aren’t people strange” threads. I’m sure OP knows full well it’s a regional thing and at least half the country doesn’t call it “tea.

Try another one this is really old now.

Agree,

It’s tea and mine is cooking ready to eat at 6.

None of this ‘dinner’ business. Or even worse a 3 course meal called supper at 9.00 pm.

Supper is hot chocolate and a biscuit before bed.

I can JUST tolerate dinner but supper is pretentious!

It’s teatime here right now - off to have me cottage pie.

I really want a high tea now with some flaky pastry sausage rolls and some butterfly buns.

If someone could attend to that I'd be very grateful.

So what's lunch? Or have you never heard of lunch?

Essex. Council estate. Called it tea, it was a hot meal, and ate it in front of the TV as soon as we got home from school or work (where we had a packed lunch) during the week - about 4pm for my sisters, about 5pm for me, about 6pm for my mum. Dad had it with whoever he felt like having it with. We might have something else to eat before bed, like a slice of toast or something, we wouldn't call that anything.
Sunday, would have Sunday dinner at lunchtime, a roast, and then tea again at 5ish, probably sandwiches/ salad/ something on toast.

After school you would "go round someones for tea" not dinner. As a family, visiting family friends, it would be for tea, not lunch or dinner and tea would be served at about 3-4pm, and would be a buffet, and desserts like trifle or blancmange.

I now call the midday meal lunch, unless its a roast in which case it is dinner, and the evening meal tea.

Another Glaswegian with lunch and dinner.

Unless we went to the chip shop, then we would have a fish supper.

Breakfast, lunch and tea here - I'm in Manchester, everyone I know calls it tea.

But none of them are wrong, it would be a boring world if we were all the same. Does make me laugh though when people get really offended that others use different words - does it really matter?

@SachaStark

We use both.

So long as it’s not called “supper”, which is properly insufferable.

Indeed. Have trained oh out of this impossibly up itself terminology

Oooo just to shit you up...
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner OR Tea
😂

It’s regional. No point arguing over it really...

Many, many people don’t use the term ‘tea’ for their evening meal. And many, many people have their evening meal much later than ‘tea time’, too.

Luckily I’m Danish so I really don’t GAF about what’s ‘common’, ‘posh’, working class, upper class or whatever else.

Hold the front page.

Some people do things differently and use different words.

Read all about it ...

We did have school hot dinners tho - confusing!

While 'supper' is rather insufferable, 'kitchen supper' is the most twatty.

My grandparents would be rolling in their graves!!!
Tea is sandwiches and cake that you have an 4pm. Dinner is the evening meal.
Its a working class versus upper class thing.
Children would have high tea at 5pm which was a more substantial meal than afternoon tea which is why some people call it tea but adults always had dinner.

Sure this exact thing has been discussed at least once a week on here for quite a while now. Surely we are all aware that the entire country don't all speak exactly the same

I'm from Manchester, I say dinner, but some people do say tea, think it depends on the person 🤷🏾‍♀️ tea is a hot drink!

Breakfast, lunch, tea or dinner. You're the one who is the winner. Give yourself a shiny 😁

I’ve worked in schools in the north for years.

Midday meal is called dinner time, staffed by dinner ladies, and if it rains it’s a ‘wet dinner’ or ‘wet dinnertime’

You’re wrong OP, it’s your.

Have you ever travelled, OP? Even within the UK. I think you're being obtuse.

@midsomermurderess

While 'supper' is rather insufferable, 'kitchen supper' is the most twatty.

My MIL has been known to use the term "Kitchen sups"!

I call it dinner but live somewhere where it varies a lot (so meeting for dinner has to be clarified to avoid confusion). Tea means a cup of tea or afternoon tea to me, not an evening meal! Dinner ladies are meant to be called lunch time supervisors even back when I was at school (we had a male one)

Come on OP, surely you’re not so blinkered, sheltered and unworldly not to know that different people use different words for things?

Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I’m not in the UK, but even I know ‘tea’ for the main meal has, uh, certain connotations.