To think that you are evening meal is called ‘tea’ not ‘dinner’?!

[FelicityMingington]

The first thread is now full, and there are still a lot of nuances here that we haven't even touched on.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4156280-To-think-that-you-re-evening-meal-is-called-tea-not-dinner

You're all wrong it goes

Breakfast
Elevens
Lunch
Fours
Dinner
Supper.

Hth

The title is still wrong

I am not an evening meal.

The title is still wrong I think that's the point

Dinner in London. Tea is a drink.

Born and bread Londoner, still living in London - it’s tea.

I’ve no connections to the north at all.

Although family heritage is working class.

Dinner.
Tea is a fucking drink 🤦🏼‍♀️

Tea in the north for me. I couldn’t say dinner as dinner is lunchtime

Born and bred Londoner: breakfast, lunch, dinner. Brother’s wife is from the Midlands: breakfast, dinner, tea.

Definitely dinner. Agree with the PP - tea is a drink

Main meal of the day is dinner, whether that's around the middle of the day,or around the end if the day.

Londoner here. Depends on when you eat your main meal.

Dinner is the main meal of the day if eaten in the evening it's dinner and food at lunchtime is lunch.

If dinner is at lunchtime and a lighter meal in the evening then that is tea. Usually we have tea/teatime on Sunday's.

It’s dinner here. Tea is something we drink

Those who claim tea is just a drink, how do you feel about a cream tea (which the Queen enjoys) , a high tea or afternoon tea (started by a Duchess)?

Nope, its dinner here

Tea is a drink.

As a southerner in the NW, I fully accept that Tea/ Dinner is interchangeable but I will always say Lunch and Dinner. [Stands ground]

Anyone calling it tea or supper is an absolute wrong un

I am posh so we have supper.

But we might invite people over for dinner.

But never at lunchtime. That would be for lunch.

Tea, a drink with jam and bread - often at 4.30ish

@Ponoka7

Those who claim tea is just a drink, how do you feel about a cream tea (which the Queen enjoys) , a high tea or afternoon tea (started by a Duchess)?

That's easy, they all mean a different thing to tea. It's possible to entirely change word meanings by adding another word - like washing vs white washing.

It's not posh to say supper or any other varient, it is sodding regional, there is no status attached to what meals are called but on MN where they are all MC until an election comes around and everyone is all of a sudden WC.

It means nothing in a wider context and anyone trying to apply such 'non existent' class parameter onto such sayings are the complaining to the local paper in green ink brigade.

It's just sodding dialiect where no one is wrong and no one is right, the imaginary hierarchy hasn't existed since the late 1800, anyone wanting to prove a narrative are usually the less educated or social climbers who pretend they are working class come an election.

@Longdistance

Dinner. Tea is a fucking drink 🤦🏼‍♀️

🤣🤣🤣

It's breakfast lunch and dinner here, with supper being late eve snack. I'm as south as you can go.

Tea, yup that's a cuppa in our household. Think original op is north of Watford gap?

breakfast - lunch - dinner definitely.

if i go on a date its too Dinner or lunch or breakfast, never tea

If someone says hey fancy going out for tea? i would expect they mean an actual drink

also pretty sure tea is supposed to be like a snack not a meal, Like a small cake and a drink etc not an actual cooked meal

Ha can't believe this is still going!
Lunchbox
Dinner plate
Tea cup