To not want to say tea instead of dinner

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Grew up in the North west, child of the 80’s, teen of the 90’s
Working class dad, middle class mum, we grew up in a nice area. Mum always called ‘Dinners ready!’ Dad would call it tea, friends either called it dinner or tea, grandparents said dinner, then supper.
Anyway, as an adult and ever since, I just naturally say dinner, as in ‘What’s for dinner’ ‘Where are we going for dinner’
Ive no idea why, but when Dh says ‘What’s for tea?’ Or a friend will ask ‘Shall we take the kids out for tea?’ I just hate it 🤷🏻‍♀️Whyyyy 🤣🙈

It's dinner here, but I'd just the kids are eating it's sometimes tea. My mum calls it supper as she think it makes her sounds posh, that really annoys me.

I'm in the south east and it's 'school dinners', no one else ever refers to the midday meal as dinner. They have dinner ladies but lunchtime supervisors in the playground.

All a bit odd.

This really annoys me. Tea is a drink.

We call it tea Mon- Fri and dinner at weekends.

Oh and g it's a main meal, lunch on Sunday is Sunday lunch, never Sunday dinner.

I use Tea mainly…but I associate Tea with an early evening meal - say 6 or 6:30 …so family at home, kids involved.

Dinner is after 7:30 pm…so for me and mine normally is eating out, or a special occasion at home. Dinner also usually infers a meal and afters and probably drinking alcohol - so Sunday roast is dinner even if at lunch time, Tea tends to be water or a cuppa and no pud !

Well, my DH and I are as middle class as they come, but we both grew up saying "tea" (West Midlands and Yorkshire) and that's what we still say, even though we live in the south!

Not if it's afternoon tea 🤣🤣

Nah. That's a brew

All my family and Dps, and close friends say Breakfast, dinner and tea. There are a few work colleagues that say dinner and lunch.

I'd never use the word lunch as I don't like it... Like moist!

Tea and supper make me irrationally annoyed. I only say dinner.

So don't say it? I don't know why you'd get annoyed about it.

It’s dinner for me too. No one I know calls lunch dinner but at school it’s dinner ladies/ dinner hall.

We have a mixture. DH is from a dinner is lunch family, my parents used dinner or tea for evening meal depending on what we were eating as a result my children often say breakfast dinner and dinner.
It gets confusing when family say they'll pop round after dinner!

I'm foreign, living in the UK and I hate it too!

Tea is a drink, dinner is a meal.

It's breakfast, lunch, dinner.

End of.

For some reason when someone says “supper” (which I hate) I always think of something bread with butter and jam or some other sort of cheap / easy / small meal. No idea if that’s correct or not but my Dad always used to say he had bread and jam for supper sometimes and it’s stuck in my head!

We do the following

Breakfast - morning meal
Lunch - afternoon meal
Tea- after school/3-5pm is
Dinner - evening meal

I am from the north and I too find it weird when people (other northerners usually) call the evening meal tea.

It confuses me, tea is a cup of tea. Dinner is your main meal of the day.

I think it’s both a regional and class thing. I hate the term tea for dinner too.

did you get on with your Dad growing up? I avoid things that remind me too much of mine tbh

Also northern here and as a kid it was always dinner mid-day and tea in the evening. I switched when I started working in hospitality (you don't book breakfast and tea in a hotel, it's always dinner) and it stuck when I moved south.

I still occasionally revert back to tea when making plans with Northern friends though

I come from an area where dinner can be at lunch time, tea can be a drink or an evening meal and you go out somewhere for dinner. I’ve never been confused because there’s always context so you know what they are talking about - and people just end up saying what comes naturally. You can’t help it if you say dinner OP, others can’t help it if they say tea.

As long as somebody else cooks it occasionally I don’t give a monkey’s.

Well for me the midday meal is lunch. If I’m eating before 5ish then it’s probably tea, but there won’t be a hot component to that meal. An informal meal, hot or cold, at home in the evening is supper. A more formal meal at home, or eating out in the evening is dinner.

I always said breakfast, lunch and dinner growing up. Now I’ve moved to the north west and everybody calls it breakfast, dinner and tea. At first I couldn’t get my head around using the word tea for an evening meal but I guess I’m used to it now and I use dinner and tea interchangeably. I can’t get used to using dinner to refer to lunchtime though. Only time that makes sense is if it’s a school or roast dinner.

I do understand what you mean about words feeling so alien they get stuck in your mouth. I felt like that about the word ‘brew’ for a while, as in ‘do you want a brew?’ It just felt so weird to say brew instead of hot drink or cup of tea etc it was like there was some kind of block stopping me. However at some point that must have stopped, it’s become natural for me to say brew now.

Me too! I literally hate the word and I don't know why!! My friend and I have had conversations about it (she hates it too). 🤣🤣

I hate the term brew for a cup of tea! My ILs always say ‘do you want a brew?’ and I think ‘what kind of potion are you offering me?’ 🤣 Because to me you brew a potion or beer. Tea isn’t brewed, it’s just…made.