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?!

@AryaStarkWolf

The only thing chips should have on them is a bit of vinegar

Curry sauce from the chipper

Definitely not. What is this thing of people covering chips with gravy or curry sauce?

Chips really should be nice and crisp on the outside so covering them in something makes them soggy. Mind you chip shop chips aren't usually crisp so I guess it doesn't make any difference.

I detest gravy and just don't see the point of it

Have you tried chips and gravy or curry sauce though ? Don't knock it untill you have tried it.

'Lunch' is what you eat at lunchtime. Hence the name.

'Dinner' is one's evening repast.

'Tea' is a drink. 'Afternoon tea' is afternoon hot drinks with cakes, scones or small sandwiches. Hence the name.

Chips and batter with salt and vinegar covered in curry sauce. Mmmm

@KaptainKaveman

'Lunch' is what you eat at lunchtime. Hence the name.

'Dinner' is one's evening repast.

'Tea' is a drink. 'Afternoon tea' is afternoon hot drinks with cakes, scones or small sandwiches. Hence the name.

Agree! It makes me cringe when adults say going home for my tea . Sounds so childish. Also say fish and chips because thats what it is

Also say fish and chips because thats what it is

It's only fish and chips if you're actually getting fish and chips which I never do

@TheChip

Chips and batter with salt and vinegar covered in curry sauce. Mmmm

Agree!

@AryaStarkWolf

Also say fish and chips because thats what it is

It's only fish and chips if you're actually getting fish and chips which I never do

Yes thats what I have

Yes thats what I have

I assumed you meant that Chippy tea/Chipper should be called Fish and Chips instead, my apologies if I misunderstood you

Re the bits of batter, I've moved around quite lot and I would call them scraps but I've lived in places where they're called bits or scrumps

It makes me cringe when adults say going home for my tea .
Sounds so childish.

Wow. How ridiculous.

How lovely of you to brand large parts of the country 'childish' for using local/regional dialect.

@Bluesheep8

Re the bits of batter, I've moved around quite lot and I would call them scraps but I've lived in places where they're called bits or scrumps

Scrumps!!!! I love it. I've never heard them referred as scrumps. I love learning new regional words for things.

Me and DH grew up less than 30 miles away from each other yet sometimes it's like we're speaking different languages!

It's dinner, not tea.
It's your, not you're.

@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?!

Have you seriously never heard of a concept called “regional variations”? It’s quite short-sighted and arrogant to assume your way of doing/saying something is the right way!

Chippy tea?! What fresh hell is this

Is chippy tea baby speak gone out of control?

My Irish side calls it the chipper. How does it become chippy?

Gosh it's a good thing this country invented the English language and can therefore take these kinds of liberties

Is chippy tea baby speak gone out of control?

Do you mean to sound so rude?

I live in the north west and only posh folk call your evening meal "dinner".

It's always dinner where I live, or supper for some of my more well-to-do friends. Having said that, I'm well aware that other regions call meals by different names and wouldn't dream if telling them they're 'wrong'. I can only imagine the reaction if a 'southerner' originated a post like this and I'm sure it would include a lot of grumbling about 'Londoners' being patronising and arrogant.

Chippy is that common where I live that there are a number of chip shops called whatever chippy

Terrible load of snobs on here. Chippy tea is surely just a variation of going to the chip shop for tea we call it the chippy or having a chippy as we all like different things.

I call my evening meal dinner and tea, I’m not sure why, one parent Scottish one English. I will need to ask my mum what she says as it’s not something I’ve thought about before. Mumsnet is mental only place I’ve seen people actually write vile and vulgar, can’t say I hear those in every day life tbh. I think many feel they are positively too good to have a chippy for their tea.

Is chippy tea baby speak gone out of control?

No. On the contrary, it's an evening meal purchased from an establishment which retails fried chipped potatoes and a variety of fish coated in batter, accompanied by a puree of petits pois if one so desires. Often described as a chippy tea.

Bloody hell, this again.

You are being unreasonable to not realise people say different words in different regions.

Where I live people say dinner for their evening meal but I still understand people who say they are going to have fish and chips for tea. I don't get confused and think but tea is a drink.
🙄

Well, I have never heard the expression 'chippy tea', thank goodness. It sounds absolutely awful.

I call it a chippy but never a chippy tea
I dont eat fish and chips so wouldn't call it that

Breakfast lunch and dinner here

Because of home schooling teens it's more like:
2 course breakfast
Brunch
Snack
2 course lunch
Snack
Afternoon tea
Snack
2 course Dinner
Snack
supper
Emergency snack should god forbid you might wake up hungry 🙄