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 🤣🙈

Grew up in London with Irish parents. We always said breakfast lunch and dinner, I do the same with my kids. I used the term tea occasionally as lots of the other parents seem to refer to giving kids tea on a play date and this fits better than calling it dinner somehow.

🤣
See, I would call hotdog bread a bun! But a sandwich one a roll. DP has hummus buns for his lunch, which I’m sure is not a phrase his ancestors envisaged 🤣

I hate both terms. Dinner is annoying because nobody agrees which meal it is and can be used for both interchangeably. Tea is annoying as it can also mean drinking tea.

6:00 -10:00hrs Breakfast
10:00 -12:00hrs Brunch
12:00 - 14:00hrs Lunch
16:00 - 18:00hrs High Tea
18:00 - 20:00hrs Dinner
20:00- 21:00hrs Supper

Hot dogs go in finger rolls.

I was born in the Midlands with parents who origins further north. For us it was always breakfast dinner and tea. I now use these terms interchangably.

I think it was Jilly Cooper whose kids said ‘Mummy says toilet is a much worse word than fuck.’ It’s a v English thing.

This is brilliant.

I also use both. But it's a bit weird to look down on regionalisms. Maybe some internalised classism?

They are just called hot dog rolls in Tesco.

And I thought I ate a lot.

I thought it was ‘pardon’ rather than ‘toilet’.
“There are circumstances in which a gentleman might say ‘fuck’ but he would never, not to save his life, say pardon.”
But that’s a whole other pointless argument.

Growing up it was breakfast lunch and dinner. My husband calls it breakfast dinner and tea.
It causes no end of confusion as neither of us will change. Luckily the kids now know what meal we're talking about depending on which parent is talking.

Have never heard this before but a quick check online tells me you are of course correct! My Tesco is playing it safe and is offering buns, baps, finger rolls and hot dog rolls to cover all bases…

😁I'd like to use the above table as an excuse to eat a lot.

On another point as a child I was taught never to use the word toilet, lavatory or loo as this was considered vulgar in polite society. The correct word is W.C.

I worked in a guest house in the seventies. We had breakfast dinner then tea or high tea.
It then changed to breakfast lunch and dinner in the evening.

I remember my mum loved to go to a certain hotel for high tea. There may have been pudding served as well along with tea bread and butter.

I'm sure finger rolls used to be called Bridge Rolls at one time.
And I hate the word supper instead of dinner as an evening meal. Is that where this
"kitchen supper" came from?
We did say dinner at one time, but have reverted to tea now. Obviously finally accepting my plebian northern roots.

Of course! I also have a lot of "candlelight suppers"!😅

They’re barms in my part of the NW- your head would explode!!