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?

oh i hate the supermarket ones so much! genuinely rage inducing to me 😂

i use nuggs/nuggies and yorkies(pudding only) though.

who calls trainers 'runners'?

I like 'Marks and Sparks' and think that's in common usage all around the UK
My late husband was a Scouser and would shorten loads of words which I found endearing such as 'ozzie' (sp) for hospital and 'offie' (off licence). He once said there were a couple of 'allies' in the park and upon further questioning, I found out he was referring to 'alsatians'

When I watched this on a insta thread it was so bad it made me cackle

It's called a 'fish shop' in the city where I live. Gets on my nerves. Having said that, in the city I come from, we would usually go to the chippy for a Chinese.

Are you making memories Hun ?

I always look forward to my first "cuppa" of the day every morning. I don't care if that annoys people.

I've never, to my knowledge, used the words hubby or holibobs.

Ok none of that makes sense tbh. The common denominator of the orders from the chippy is the chips not the fish. And you’re saying the abbreviation for Chinese is “chippy”?!

Nah! ‘Dinner Ladies’ work in the schools around me, because the kids eat their food at dinner time! Then they go home and have their tea! If they have anything before they go to bed then that’s their supper! It’s not us Northerners that cause the confusion!

No she’s saying she would go to the fish and chip shops for a Chinese. Chinese immigrants bought loads of failing chip shops in the 60s and turned them into both Chinese and chippy. Very normal.

Tea for evening meal is a regional thing. It's a working class term used in Scotland, possibly less so now.
Everyone one if my friends and colleagues use 'tee' to describe a late afternoon/ early evening meal.
For us, it's Breakfast,lunch and tea unless we are talking about school meals and lunch turns into ' dinner time'
We could have a conversation at work about meeting a young person for their session with us and we would say something along g the lines of ' what time is Dinner at at ' St whatever high school'? Oh 12.15, I'll go and meet ( young person ) after my lunch then!

I can't bear the expression 'a brew' for a cup of tea or coffee, but it's usually tea. I don't know why, but I absolutely detest it. If anyone else feels like this and they can explain why, I'd really appreciate a bit of analysis!

I also flinch at 'let's have a coffee' . No! Just 'coffee' is fine, or 'a cup of coffee'. Again, can't explain it.

And when you read a menu and they put the indefinite article in front of sauces - that's so pretentious. 'Chicken in a tarragon sauce', or 'salmon in a wine sauce'. Aaarrrggghhh....what's wrong with just 'chicken in tarragon sauce'? I think what bugs me is the implication that the chef is such a maestro that he/she has a repertoire of wine sauces at their fingertips....which I very much doubt, especially if it's just come out of a packet or jar, You'd have to pay a lot of money these days for a chef to be creating wonderful, individual sauces for meals...but every damn gastro pub seems to use this phraseology.

Just remembered I also hate it when someone says they’re going to ‘grab’ a coffee or tea. Why ‘grab’?

I sound so intolerant on this thread! I’m not, in general; only about things that really matter like things people say 🤪

I'm fairly old and I hate it.

Much as I hate to say this, I have a feeling it's a class thing. Many years ago I read Jilly Cooper 'Class', just for fun. Much of what she wrote is very dated now but a couple of things stuck. 'A coffee' or 'a wine' were not well regarded. 'A cup of coffee' or just 'coffee?' were better, apparently. Likewise don't use 'cuppa' unless ironically.
I know it's all drivel but it might explain how we feel about words like 'cuppa'.
'A brew' might be dialect.

I adore Jilly Cooper and read all of her ‘name’ books in my youth. Plus all the horsey books that came after such as Riders. Never read Class but whatever Jilly said was gospel so I’ll go with the above.

A glass of fizz 🤮

Having some ‘bubbles’ is much worse.

People who say 'tea time' - really grate with me, I don't even know why.

"I'll be going at tea time." WTF does this even mean? 3pm? 6pm?

I have an elderly relative who will say, "I'll call you at tea time." But that could be any time?! Why not just say 4pm or 7pm! And what does tea have to do with anything?

This all screams to me of people taking the piss out of the way northern working class people speak. I do agree that some of the other phrases are twee and cringeworthy but a cuppa is in institution, as is a chippy.

Where I live if you call dinner lunch you are dead posh. My kids started using the terms lunch and dinner (for evening meal) instead of dinner and tea when they started to mix with southerners/more middle class people via activites and education and my parents think it sounds strange.

Bolly, darling?

I am absolutely fascinated by this thread. Have never in my life thought anyone would have the time or inclination to judge me as lesser or generally object to the use of something as thoroughly embedded as ‘cuppa’.

Then again I suppose I am absolutely judging these people right back 😂

As I’ve said before, I’m from a working class background and grew up on a council estate. So from my pov it’s definitely nothing to do with class or a north/south divide.