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?!

@Ileflottante

Imagine not being able to imagine someone doing something different to you.

Standard Mumsnet, innit?

My family are very working class. We had dinner in the middle of the day, then tea at about 4.30/5. Then supper at 8.30/9. I don't consider supper to be posh for that reason.

Nowadays, I have lunch and tea. Not quite sure why

A weeding breakfast is the first meal after your wedding, so your break your [post-wedding] fast. Simple as that!

NoWord thanks so much!! Ive always wanted to know !

I don’t know but I find it quite irrationally annoying! Surely I’m not alone?!

Have you not travelled much in the UK @Biscoffaddict?!

Not a 'weeding' breakfast. Obviously! Silly phone! 😂

purple is a type of red, not blue.
why do some people call it a type of blue.
why do they insist on being so annoying. of course its red.

@Notimeforaname

In my household it is breakfast, second breakfast, morning tea, elevenses, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, supper, snack, bedtime cookies. 🤣🤣 Has to be a joke unless you're all eating a smidgen of food for each sitting...or you're all the size of a house.

definitely a joke. :) But I have a figure of blessed abundance (although dieting hard. :( )

Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Or if you have the most substantial meal in the middle of the day, it’s Breakfast, Dinner and Tea.

Unless it’s a Sunday and you go to a restaurant for a 3 course meal or have a roast at home, then that’s Sunday Lunch.

YABU. For me the midday meal is lunch, dinner is the evening meal, supper is a snack before bed, I might have dessert after dinner (never pudding, unless you're talking about a particular type of dessert) and tea is a drink.

I'm originally from South East London and I confuse everyone! In our house (mine when I was young and ours now), I'll say 'it's fish for dinner' then shout 'teas on the table' when the fish is cooked!

And the middle of the day meal is lunch UNLESS it's Christmas in which case it's dinner, then Christmas tea for the sandwich/nibbles evening meal.

I blame my mother....

@HowQuicklyTwoAndTwenty890

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

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Are you a hobbit?

Lunch at lunchtime. Dinner at dinner time. My fiance tries to say tea and I wont have him doing it when we have children because it isnt right

You're wrong, as wrong as your grammar.

When I first got here (not a Brit) my circle of friends were mostly my nct friends. One in particular was very posh, lived in a grand country house with acres and acres. She called it children's tea when she invited me and another NCT woman (very much so working class). When she invited me and a different NCT mother (middle class I guess?) round it was children's supper. When I asked her why she went bright red. She hadn't even realised she'd done it.

It’s regional. There is no right or wrong so on that basis YABU.

In my house, the midday meal is always called lunch whatever the size of the meal and whether it's hot or cold.

The evening meal is is either dinner (if the main meal of the day) or tea (if the smaller meal, like sandwiches or soup)

If it's a meal with sandwiches, pastries, cakes served on a cake stand with a pot of tea, it's tea and is eaten mid-afternoon but also messes up both the midday and evening meals (because you can never have too many mini cakes and pastries...)

I have never eaten supper, although feel like it should be something like cheese, crackers, fruit cake and port eaten after children's bedtime and is something I could fully get behind. Maybe as a second meal when I've had a cake stand and teapot version of tea.

I sometimes feel like the hobbits had the right idea about meal times

Supper or dinner for a more formal evening meal. YABU to refer to it as "tea".

I've had a few Weeding breakfasts in my time too. Though I liked to call those 'wake n bake'

If we eat before 6pm I call it tea, if later say around 7.30 it's dinner.
If we have tea, we have supper too.

Depends, working from home I have

Breakfast
Elevenses
Brunch
Lunch
Afternoon snack
Dinner
Supper

(I’m now 3 stone overweight)

I don't think it's necessarily true to say that it's dependent on what rather than when. Otherwise why do lots of people refer to their roast as 'Sunday lunch' when it is clearly the main meal of the day?

Oh and I drink tea.

Oh and a wedding breakfast is just...not a thing in my world! The meal after the wedding is probably a dinner.

Am not English. Growing up we thought the English lot had a set time for tea, like actual cup of tea, tea ☕️ 😂
We could never understand this whole announcement of having tea at a set time. We refer to the midday meal as lunch and dinner is in the evening.

Absolutely not. I don't know anyone who says 'tea'. 'tea' doesn't even make sense unless it is afternoon tea.