My sister has started calling her evening meal supper ...

[TheFateofOphelia]

She was talking about having friends round for "supper" on Friday. I was puzzled as she knows, and I know, that supper is a piece of toast if you're feeling peckish at bedtime.

Apparently, now she's moved to Surrey she no longer has her dinner between 12 and 1, she has lunch. Now I'm ok with that but AIBU to draw the line at her having supper at tea time?

I agree. Dd's nursery used to call it 'tea' and I found that very odd

I dint understand the u in room? Room can't be pronounced differently surely?

RUM and ROOM
DDs BF from Surrey says RUM and we take the piss

S Yorks.
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Out for a meal between 5-6.30 is going out for tea.
After 6.30
Going out for a meal.
Supper is a snack before bed.

London- I have never had supper in my life at any time of day, nor has any of my family or friends. Have never heard this word in real life.
breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks

never realised until now supper was supposed to be posh? . Always thought it sounded common 🤣

Yes this is true, it’s either a single fish/sausage/hamburger/pizza/smoked sausage or a supper if you want chips with it. I thought this was standard in the UK.

However we also had something like toast, plain biscuits, crackers or cereal as a supper when I was young, don’t do this now as dinner (not lunch) is late enough, usually around 6pm.

I agree BUT I fear that this marks out our social status.

ALL my “boarding school educated” friends call their main evening meal “supper”. For them, dinner is black tie, four courses.

@Hoppinggreen would she say Rum on the Brum and not room on the broom ?

I think we did it when we were young as we’d had our dinner at maybe 4.30pm, so would be going to bed hungry without a small snack. We also didn’t eat between meals and walked pretty much everywhere, so obesity wasn’t an issue.

Or Chippy Tea

Breadcakes in our house. I find it awkward saying brioche I think i sound wanky saying it. 😂

She can call it whatever she likes but they still won’t think she’s posh.

He not she but I am not sure how he says Broom, I will check
He also says Tuth and Medsin (tooth and medicine)

My mother still calls perfume “scent” and she grew up on a council estate.

Poor you having to listen to this. If she starts hosting or being a member of a ‘supper club’ then that’s a line in the sand.

We only have elevenses and high tea round these parts. Must be aware of the neighbours' feelings as they'd consider tea and supper frightfully common.

Oh no . It’ll be Boden, Waitrose and Umbria next . I’m really sorry OP . It’s hard when your family let you down.

Quite
We had Tea when we got in from school so 4 ish and there were no snacks so a bit of toast or cereal around 8 was fine
We eat Tea around 6-7 now so no supper needed

People get airyated about this as they think it's about class and snobbery.
It's really not.

There's nothing posh about the word, 'supper'. It's a normal evening meal, just not as big as dinner. More healthy perhaps because heavy meals aren't so good at night as one gets older.

I tend to have supper now I'm retired, can't cope with meat + 2/3 veg and pudding every evening. Soup, yogurt, maybe salad, depending what I fancy.

Breakfast
Lunch
Tea before 6
Supper after 6
Dinner for going out or cooking for friends

😮 Spam doesn’t need poshing up, it’s the best!!!

It's
Breakfast
Brunch/elevenses
Lunch
Tea
Dinner
Supper

Hope that helps.

I'm from Sheffield originally and it's most definitely dinner at midday, tea late afternoon or early evening and supper is an optional, not long before bed, snack-type thing of (perhaps) toast, cheese and biscuits or (in my late parents' case, cocoa and sweet biscuits).

When I lived in London for many years and my partner was a Southerner (as were most friends and colleagues), I adopted lunch and dinner as usual terminology. Since moving back to the North, it's a compromise of lunch and tea!