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?!

@WagnerTheWehrWolf 😄 I agree and it's my first language! Lol

@DrCoconut

To me dinner is a hot/main meal. So you could have breakfast dinner tea. Or breakfast lunch dinner. Supper is a bowl of cereal or some toast before bed and was virtually compulsory during my childhood. Is that regional too? My southern ex had never heard of supper in this context.

Same here.

I have lunch and dinner and everyone I know calls them that too.

@FrankskinnerscRoc

I use both, but never use the L word & want to kill those that do 😡

Blimey 😂

Lunch reminds me of Luncheon Meat🤮

I never say the word.

@PicsInRed

That title has everything.

This must be a wind up? 🤣

I came on here to say the same thing.

For us the main hot meal of the day is dinner. Lunch or tea usually sandwiches.

Where I come from its tea but my OH who's from the North East calls it dinner

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

No one calls it tea.we only have tea at xmas. Way after dinner you have picky bits tea.

@FrankskinnerscRoc

I use both, but never use the L word & want to kill those that do 😡

Bit of an overreaction!

Your not you're!!! Don't care what you call your tea!!!

Only children under 12 (and possibly geriatrics) have tea (like sandwiches or soft boiled egg with soliders) as their evening meal having had a hot meal at lunch time. The rest of us are out of the house from 7-6. So couldn't be home for tea time have breakfast, lunch and dinner (or supper) at supper time.

It’s very much a regional thing, and people who feel superior because they use one, or the other, are daft.

@ringydinghy

Tea is a drink. Dinner is a meal. I don't understand why northeners always call it "tea"

Tea is also a meal in some parts of the country. Just because you only know it as a drink, doesn't make you correct

Depends where you live.
Midlands and North tend to say Tea.

South, Dinner.

You post sounds incredibly ignorant...

No one cares, this type of thread subject has been on here so many BORING times.

@Biscoffaddict

I don't think it's unreasonable to call your evening meal dinner, tea or even supper, as it differs depending on region and / or class. What I think is unreasonable is that you don't understand this and think everyone should use the same language as you and the actors on Coronation St.

Amazingly there is more than one dialect in this country.

I use both dinner and tea.

"Picky bits" are going straight in Room 101. I'm WC. I eat breakfast lunch and dinner. But I usually eat dinner at teatime!

Tea is at tea time, 4 or 5pm. Dinner is at dinner time, 6pm onwards.

Lunch is at lunchtime, middayish.

[quote ofwarren]@christonapeloton
Cooked or uncooked, the midday meal is dinner here [/quote]
Thanks for answering!

(Even if it does sound bonkers to me )

I find it quite irrationally annoying

That’s ok. I find people who don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re” rationally annoying.

@HowQuicklyTwoAndTwenty890

In my household it is breakfast, second breakfast, morning tea, elevenses, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, supper, snack, bedtime cookies.

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You forgot about breakfast pudding

I call meals lunch and dinner, DH dinner and tea. Poor DC don't know what meal we're referring to most of the time