Having ‘a cuppa’

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Why does this sentence infuriate me so? I already know I’m probably being unreasonable but it’s so grating. I can’t be the only one?

I used to find "cuppa" really irritating, but I've seen it so often on here it doesn't bother me any more.

"Holibobs", on the other hand, is an abomination and should be banned.

You'd hate me OP. My morning cuppa is the first thing I think about when I open my eyes on a morning! I am northern though, quite a normal term round these parts.

At home we have “posh” fish and chips - fried sea bass fried with oven chips.

That’s insane, everyone knows din dins is only for dogs.

Holibobs is reserved for the doggos as it sounds better than doggie prison (kennels).

"Takeaway fish and chips" means fish and chips, or anything else available in the fish and chip shop, surely.

Or would you say "You can't have sausage and chips, because although the fish and chip shop sells sausages you can only have fish and chips unless I list every item on the menu when describing the kind of takeaway you can buy in a fish and chip shop".

"Takeaway fish and chips" works very well in our family, because everyone knows exactly what's available in the fish and chip shop.

No because tea isn’t a meal unless it’s afternoon tea

Not everywhere it's not. In many places tea is a meal.

Ohhhh fancy!

Tea is and has always been the evening meal.

dinner can be at lunch or at tea time depending on when you have the main meal of the day!

Haven't RTFT but yep, cuppa. Or brew. And Corrie.

It reminds me of the PG tips advert where one of the chips asks "Avec vous un cuppa"?

Yanbu it sounds very uneducated for some reason. Probably the same type who uses picky bits.

In some areas it may be.

i have never called the evening meal tea so I wouldn’t expect to differentiate

Or Queen’s English? Or even Queens’ English if you mean plural 😬

I say meds because it is just an abbreviation

Google Gemini tells me that tea started off as afternoon tea and then was adopted in northern tows as their evening meal:

Tea as a meal was invented in two different ways by two different classes in the 19th century, resulting in two distinct traditions:

• Afternoon Tea (Upper Class): Invented by the upper class (specifically Anna Russell, the 7th Duchess of Bedford, around 1840) to bridge the long gap between a light lunch and a late 8 p.m. dinner . This was a "low tea" consisting of tea, sandwiches, and cake, served in the late afternoon.
• High Tea (Working Class): Developed by the working class as a substantial, hot meal, served at a "high" dining table around 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. after work . It was often the main meal of the day and served to provide energy to labourers.

• Te-derived (Sea Route): Coastal Chinese dialects (specifically Min Nan in Fujian) pronounce it te . Dutch traders, who dominated maritime tea trade, brought this term to Europe (Dutch: thee, English: tea, French: thé)

I call my evening meal tea as DH is from Yorkshire and it just caught on.

Sorry not sorry i say cuppa.
Brew is only said with a Northern accent (Apologies to everyone from Northern England).
I can't stand picky tea or chippy tea. Holibobs is childish.
Dont get me started on counting down 'sleeps' to anything....

Ah good old AI…

That's a really useful contribution coming after several posters from North Britain explaining that tea does mean an evening meal.

I mentioned it as being a working class thing in Scotland, but thinking more, it's not particularly class based.

I was told I didn’t understand the thread when I questioned that one too. It’s odd.

I’ve no objection to the word cuppa but I don’t use it. I always say cup of tea. What really bothers me though is ‘pension pot’ and people saying they ‘portioned out a meal’.

Are your horizons seriously that narrow?

No.

It literally says it is in the first line