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

[Biscoffaddict]

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?!

I'm in the west of Scotland, as is my entire family. It is lunch and dinner. None if my extended family use tea.
My friends are all lunch and dinner. Other school mums all say lunch and dinner.

I don't know anyone in real life who says tea and I also think it is totally wrong. Luncheon is the meal in the middle of the day. It's been shortened to lunch. Dinner is the main meal in the evening.

It's you're tea - and your dinner.

DH's family say dinner and tea. My family said lunch and dinner.
Unfortunately this has lead to our children saying breakfast, dinner and dinner.

I don't feel either is wrong or right though, we say packed lunch and dinner lady.

@urbanmist

Breakfast-dinner-tea.

Can we do the tea cake/roll/bap debate next?

And then the one about what people call alleyways

As stated by a previous poster, it's a regional thing.

Dinner is the main meal of the day. You wouldn't have a sandwich and a packet of crisps and call it dinner would you?!

I'm near glasgow we say lunch and dinner

My family are in north east England and they say dinner and tea

Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

It was always lunch lady rather than dinner lady at my school.

In the US, it's dinner. We don't have "tea" as a meal, it's a beverage.

@Biscoffaddict

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?!

That’s because you’re either northern and/or common, and all of your family and friends are northern and/or common too.

You may find it irrationally annoying but:
To think that you’re evening meal is called ‘tea’ not ‘dinner’?!
your shoddy use of “you’re” is irrationally annoying to others.

You can have your tea, I’ll have my correct your.

@WagnerTheWehrWolf Was your post shit, or was your post the shit? Poor foreigners, how can they ever hope to understand? lol

I'm in the North east and I say breakfast, lunch and tea. But if we are going out... its a meal .

@MrsPerfect12

Breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, supper. Afternoon and supper are snacks.

This a million times over. If you are being accurate. If you are going with regional versions then things may differ. But if you want to be accurate, the above is correct.

@PicsInRed

That title has everything.

This must be a wind up? 🤣

You're not wrong there, I think.

You have a ‘main’

Neither tea nor dinner. Menu from local restaurant.

[quote HurricaneBitch]@WagnerTheWehrWolf Was your post shit, or was your post the shit? Poor foreigners, how can they ever hope to understand? lol [/quote]
Well I'm a foreigner learning a lot about the British today.

I'm from the North West and everyone I know says tea for evening meal and tea as a drink is a brew

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
South

It is definitely regional.
I call the meal in the middle of the day lunch and meal in the evening supper. In my books supper is a proper meal and not a snack like a lot of people refer to it as

Everyone always says it's a northern thing, but we say tea in Cornwall too.

I voted YABU on the basis that this has been done to death on MN and obviously if you’ve never met anyone who calls tea their dinner then you are not very well travelled.

I say this as a northerner who is currently making “me tea”.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

Have you seriously never been to a restaurant with separate lunch menus and dinner menus?
It really isn't unusual. Lunch menu is usually lighter.

Yeah! Tea is a ‘brew’ in Manchester or a ‘mash’ in Sheffield!

So tea can be a meal too.

South east scotland and its tea here. Dinner if I'm talking to the perpetually meal time confused.

@WagnerTheWehrWolf so did you understand the difference between "shit" and "the shit" or do I appear extremely rude to you?

Shit - rubbish
The shit - brilliant