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. Dinner. Supper before bed if you're hungry.

My parents call it dinner. My grandparents call it dinner. My friends call it dinner (except a couple who say "supper" thinking it makes them look posh). My work colleagues (when I worked) call it dinner. The elderly residents where I worked called it dinner and some of them were over 100 years old.

Tea is a hot drink.

And, like everyone else has said, its a regional thing. I'm in the SE but not stupid enough to think that the names we use here are the only/correct ones.

yabu
it's breakfast - lunch - dinner

tea is a drink
or at a push tea is a small snack& beverage between lunch and dinner

We have lunchtime supervisors here. Nobody I know says tea.

All you've done in your defence op, is confirm the regional variation you know and referred to a television programme set in a place which largely uses the same variation. You should visit where I live. Ask for tea and it comes in a mug.

dinner party

a formal evening meal to which a small number of people are invited:

No-one has ever been to a dinner party in the middle of the day!!

Safe to say it's not a class thing in Ireland anyway. Well..in my experience.

When you go to a hotel or restaurant or anything the menus say breakfast lunch and dinner..

Don't worry what anyone calls it but the term 'kitchen supper' makes me eye roll.
So pretentious.

Breakfast lunch dinner. Tea is a drink.

@MrsPerfect12

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

You are indeed Perfect, Mrs as you are completely correct.

@Shoxfordian Or ...”a drink with jam and bread”...

Also..can I ask..why do some people from the uk say 'wedding breakfast ' if it's the meal after the wedding...usually in the evening? Or have I got that totally wrong?!

We have breakfast lunch and dinner. In real life I’ve never met anyone who says tea and it’s always dinner. It always has been dinner. My parents call it dinner, my grandparents called it dinner, my friends call it dinner, my work colleagues call it dinner etc. Tea is a drink you have in a cup, that’s why it’s called a ‘cup of tea’.

Breakfast, dinner and tea

Dinner is the name of the meal coming next, unless the next meal is breakfast.

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

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I am not upper class but meals to me are:

Breakfast
Lunch
Afternoon Tea
High Tea (I'm from a country where High Tea is a big deal if you have children as it's their 'dinner')

Dinner
Supper
)yes, supper is a small meal like cheese on toast/hot chocolate and a biscuit - as it's been so long since the children's dinner)

Those who call the midday one "lunch" do you call your kids meal at school lunch too?

Yes. As does the school website, in spite of the fact that it's a normal comprehensive in the NW of England. It refers to 'lunch time', 'lunch time activities'and 'menus for school lunches'. No reference to dinners anywhere.

Adults have supper and children have tea (or high tea on my mothers side). Dinner is an occasion.

Absolutely, one million percent, breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Tea is a drink.

Breakfast, lunch, tea. Haven’t called the midday meal dinner since about 1984 😀

In my world, dinner is the main meal regardless of when you have it, then the small meal is either lunch or tea. For example, conversation on a Sunday morning 'are we having dinner at lunchtime or teatime ?'.
I think this is fairly unusual though, as people tend to be horrified when it comes up in conversation and I'm southern - home counties

@Alrassan

Don't worry what anyone calls it but the term 'kitchen supper' makes me eye roll. So pretentious.

I don't like the word 'supper' in general!

@Notimeforaname

Also..can I ask..why do some people from the uk say 'wedding breakfast ' if it's the meal after the wedding...usually in the evening? Or have I got that totally wrong?!

Now I might be wrong, but I once went to a very expensive wedding and we had the dinner, then dancing then the wedding breakfast was at 3 in the morning an dfeatured bacon butties. It was bloody marvellous. That is what I think of when people say 'wedding breakfast' but I know that is not the right word.

Nope, breakfast, lunch and dinner is how me my family and everyone I know says it. Never said tea for my evening meal.

Definitely depends on your background / where you live. Where I am it is 'dinner' and is the main meal of the day. Tea is a drink here.

Just to complicate matters - I always have breakfast and tea, but if I have a hot meal in the middle of the day I call it dinner and a cold meal is lunch. So I would have Sunday dinner if I was having a roast on a Sunday lunchtime. And it's definitely Christmas dinner not Christmas lunch.

Oh and they're lunchtime supervisors here.