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?!

Breakfast, lunch, supper. Tea is for small children after school.

i make breakfast in the morning, lunch at lunch time mid day and dinner at dinner time as it is a substantial meal tea is a drink i make in a mug and drink hot

Dinner is at dinner time i.e. noon. Tea is at tea time i.e. 5pm sharp as tha does in Yorkshire. Brunch? Tha can't eat between meals else ye'll spoil ya tea and don't drink too much watter, again, ya won't want ya tea.
And then theres garlic bread....oh I arent eating none of that foreign muck...oh no. 🤣

Luncheon is just a terrible word.

I'm from London originally and it's always been breakfast, lunch and dinner and lunch ladies at school. Since moving further north I have got used to lunch being dinner and dinner being tea. It does not bother me and I don't really care either way.

Grew up in the NW always called our evening meal "tea"
Moved South aged 18 - got piss taken out of me. Now call it "dinner" but in my head it'll always be "tea"

I'm northern, and i'd call it tea. I am though clearly aware that some people call it dinner. My in laws who are even more northern than me (Cumbrian) call it supper?!

If I was going out for food at 5ish, I'd call it going out for tea. If I was going out after about 7, I'd call it going out for dinner...

I can't get het up about it. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Well apart from with regards to the people on here who talk so condescendingly about it! I can get a bit get up about that!

On my road when l was little in quite a posh bit of the north. Everyone said breakfast dinner tea.

Apart from the family up the road who thought themselves a cut above. They said breakfast lunch and tea.

Their kids were embarrassed by it.

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Nope. Breakfast in morning..lunch in afternoon..dinner in evening.
'Tea' is just a cup of tea here.

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Nobody uses 'tea' in London. It's dinner....

Breakfast dinner and tea... Midlands.

When the children were little and it was a birthday we would say ‘do you want to go out for tea’ to celebrate.

I agree dinner ladies for dinner at school 😊

Speaking as a foreigner, saying tea should be prohibited by law .

It's so confusing, if you get invited for tea it's even worse, will it be brown liquid or an actual meal?

Also I've heard of a dinner party, but never a supper or tea party. How do you differentiate?

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Also I've heard of a dinner party, but never a supper or tea party. How do you differentiate?

You just ask people if they want to come round for tea 🤷🏼‍♀️

It’s a regional thing and a class thing. I was brought up calling it tea, but I now call it dinner.

YABU.

Born and bred SE (very working class), now live in North Wales (V close to Cheshire). I was always brought up saying breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but up in this area they say breakfast, dinner, and tea. My DH's family is from Birmingham and they all say breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

It has been an automatic (non conscious) thing, to bring our DD up saying breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as that's what we both say. Due to people in this area saying breakfast, dinner, and tea, DD's friends say that. They all understand that whilst they use different terminology, they know what each other are talking about.

I was in hospital in Liverpool for a while once and wasn't completely with it when they asked what I'd ordered for dinner. I told them what I'd ordered and the nurse said 'that isn't on the menu', I insisted it was and she said not. We finally figured out I was talking about what I call dinner and they call tea.

Thankfully for the rest of the time I wasn't as out of it so never had the confusion again.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

If you’re eating at say 11am it’s brunch. Not brinner.

It's dinner round here!

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Tea is northern word for dinner. Dinner is northern word for lunch. Supper is small snack before bed. The end

Breakfast, lunch, and supper. Not that I eat proper meals anyway.

First breakfast, then second breakfast, elevenses, brunch, lunch, snack, dinner dessert and THEN it’s tea time!!

Tea is cold (sandwiches, pickles), dinner is hot

😂😂😂😂 how has this even started a 27 page chat?.... my god people are bored

The biggest meal of the day is dinner.

If you eat it in the middle of the day then it is dinner.

Lunch is only eaten in the middle of the day.

Brunch is a late breakfast/early lunch.

Elevenses is eaten around 11; it is tea/coffee with a few biscuits/slice of cake or teacake or scone.

Afternoon Tea is similar to elevenses but will include sandwiches.

Tea is either a drink, a children's after school meal at around 5 or a working person's meal taken after he/she's finished work - they will have had dinner at lunchtime.

Dinner is the largest meal of the day eaten at lunchtime/teatime or a later meal eaten slightly later at around 8.

If I'm invited for tea then I would expect a light meal.

Supper happens later and is a light meal or snack with a drink.

Midnight feasts happen later.

Many Northerners have Dinner in the evening.