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 like to use them all. Dinner/lunch and tea/dinner depending on how I feel. I don’t mix lunch and tea because that would be madness!

@Blabla81
I was just coming on to say the EXACT same thing! 😊
No one in my family calls anything you eat tea (although does bubble tea count as food lol)

@Blabla81

Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Tea is what I drink.

Snap!

Depends where you’re from! Tea for me is afternoon tea. ‘Tea’ is supper here, and dinner is either going out to eat or eating with friends so a bit smarter. Lunch is the meal in the middle of the day 😁

Tea is a light meal, such as a sandwich and cake. Dinner is the main meal of the day.

So it depends what time of day you eat your main meal as to what you call it.

With us It's breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea is a drink in the afternoon, perhaps with a cake.

I call it pudding regardless of whether it’s a banana, yoghurt or cake. I’ve never heard anyone say afters.

My friend mum says afters in an affected voice

@HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee

Love it

As a child when I heard the word ‘tea’ I thought it was going home and having a cup of tea!

We have always called it dinner and the afternoon meal is lunch.

Evening meal is dinner, middle of the day is lunch, Tea is a drink 🤷‍♀️ The only person I’ve ever met who called it dinner was from up north

I’m genuinely shocked at the generalisations and North/South division on here from some posts. It’s really sad and a little ignorant!

Tea is afternoon tea (4pm) or a hot beverage. Lunch is middle of the day and dinner in the evening. If a heavy lunch is eaten then it’s a light supper at the end of the day. At our school we have a catering team, not dinner ladies! And yes, there are males in that team too!! But I live in the south. I think it’s a regional thing.

@MummyJ12

I’m genuinely shocked at the generalisations and North/South division on here from some posts. It’s really sad and a little ignorant!

Welcome to mn, class is such a big deal

South west/countryside here...

We seem to go by Breakfast, lunch, tea 😂😂

Breakfast (8ish), lunch (1ish) and dinner (6ish). Tea is a drink. You can’t eat it.

We're all universal on breakfast I take it?

I'm sure most of you don't care but here in the US it is breakfast, lunch, dinner or horror supper.

Biscoffaddict My Dad took his piece to work

Don’t worry I am sure there will be a class based bun fight over tea/afternoon tea /high tea /dinner /supper in due course.

Do you mean a patisserie altercation??!! ;)

Completely agree

I’ve always called it dinner, London born and bred. DH has started calling it tea since moving back from Chile. His parents called it dinner.

OP, have you never heard of lunch?

Breakfast, lunch, dinner. I don’t know anyone who says tea for their evening meal.