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?!

Dinner is the meal you have in the middle of the day

No thats lunch
Dinner is your evening meal
Tea is a hot drink

If someone invited me for tea I would presume they mean for soft drink.

Breakfast is well breakfast
Brunch if you skip breakfast and have a early lunch that’s breakfast themed
Lunch is the midday
Dinner is evening meal.

Brinner when you have a fry up for dinner

Growing up in the north it was breakfast, dinner, tea.

After living in London more than half my life it’s breakfast, lunch, dinner.

I have my dinner in the middle of the day. I get it’s probably regional. I live in Wales. But when you watch Coronation Street for example, set in Manchester, they also say tea.

I have family in Wales and they call the midday meal dinner. I think it was because that has always been their main hot meal of the day (farming community).

Supper just makes me think of Hyacinth Bucket and her candlelight suppers

I'm in the south, I always have lunch and dinner. Tea is a (horrible) drink.

Depends where you live. My parents call it tea, DH and I call it dinner. Neither is wrong. For us tea is a drink or afternoon tea. It gets confusing when I'm talking to my parents and pre-covid they'd invite me over for "dinner" - mine (evening) or yours (lunchtime)

Like many others have said, it's regional. I call the 3 meals I have
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Dh on the other hand calls them
Breakfast, dinner, tea
He then also has a bowl of cereal before bed and calls it supper... that's a bedtime snack dude!!!

You’ll be horrified to know that when I learnt English as a second language, we were taught that the evening meal is called dinner. No-one ever mentioned the word tea, unless of course they were referring to the drink

Dinner.

Seems like tea is the regional working class word. The billion+ english speakers outside the UK call the evening meal dinner along with over half the UK so not sure why there is such a strong argument from the tea crowd.

Also curious for those that call it tea, do you drink tea with this evening meal? And if so is it the main feature?

I agree. Dinner is something a dog has. Breakfast, lunch and tea.

It's a regional thing! Everyone where I live now (Yorkshire) calls lunch dinner snd dinner tea. And I've lived here so long I now use dinner to refer to both lunch and dinner. It's very confusing for all involved.

I don’t know anyone who calls it ‘tea’ abs mean the evening meal. Except on MN. Everyone I know calls it breakfast-lunch-supper with a few calling it dinner. If you said tea, I would assume a cup of tea.

And following on from my tv analogies in Liverpool in Bread the grandad always said "wheres me dinner" never where me supper

Dinner is something a dog has

What does that even mean? You must be aware that Americans, for example, eat 'dinner'?

I don't mean to be 'the thread police' but surely you can see that tea/dinner/supper are variations depending on region, upbringing etc. and it's pointless asking whether YABU or NBU. Why not just start a discussion 'what do you call your evening meal'?

DS has just asked me “what’s for dinner tonight?”. Our evening meal is “dinner”. Sometimes if we’ve had a big lunch we will have “tea” instead which would be sandwiches or something on toast.

We don’t have “dinner ladies” we have “midday / lunch supervisors”.

I don't drink tea with my tea no.
I don't have a drink with my tea at home. If I have tea out though I would have a cold drink.
The only meal I would possibly have tea with is a full English breakfast in a hotel or something.

I’ve never met anyone who calls it ‘tea’.

My Mum calls it dinner, my grandparents called it dinner (well actually one half of them were foreign so called it something else altogether) , my friends call it dinner, my work colleagues (colleagues are by default, people from work) call it dinner etc.

The meal we have in the middle of the day is called lunch. Tea is a drink that my DP has at 3pm with a biscuit (or several)

Whatever any posters call whichever meal, they're all correct. Apart from the arseholes PPs who are saying that tea can only be a drink, thereby implying that those of us who call their evening meal tea are wrong. We're right, as are those who call it dinner.

It's breakfast, lunch and dinner. I drink tea (and plenty of it!)

I'm a southerner, so is my mum, and my father is welsh...it's always been tea..

What is more amazing is that this has never come up before on MN.

Oh.......
Wait.......

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3247540-Dinner-or-tea

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pedants_corner/537588-tea-supper-dinner

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/food_and_recipes/57016-breakfast-dinner-and-tea

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1112936-Lunch-Dinner-and-Tea-What-do-you-have-when

Tea if it's cold. Dinner if it's hot

Omg not this class based mealtime shit again