What do you call your meal times?????

[VoluptuaGoodshag]

My DH insists on calling the meal we have in the evening tea. Fine by me but I've always referred to it as dinner.

So here are my definitions of mealtimes in the order of the day

Breakfast - obvious
Lunch - again obvious I'd have thought
Dinner - the main meal anytime after 5pm
Supper - a bit of toast watching the news

Variations
Tea - a cup of tea or an early main meal consisting of one course with lots of bread and cakes
Brunch - when you get up too late for normal breakfast time and are too early for lunch.

I know dinner time is sometimes referred to as lunchtime i.e. dinner ladies at school but again I'd have thought this was a throw back to when it was probably the main meal of the day.

QueenEagle - is supper just a pre-bed snack? Thats what it is in our house, but some frightfully posh friends of mine call their evening meal supper.

Breakfast
Lunch - even if it's our main meal
Tea - usually our main meal

Only ever go out in the evening for dinner

Rarely say supper.

Tea also means the drink and could mean a high tea with sarnies, cakes etc.

I'm with Piglit. We only have 'dinner' - the evening meal - when we have people round and that would be for a three course (at least) meal!

Supper is cereal or toast or even just a biscuit with bedtime milk in my household.

My DH and I have both always called any meal dinner but 3yo dd tells us off and says lunch (think the cm has taught her that one). She changes her mind over whether evening meal is dinner or tea.

Scoff

Grub

Snack

And class rears its ugly head again! It's like, do you say loo, lavatory (lav-try) or toilet? I say bathroom, but that's because I'm Canadian & above all this silliness. Yes, of course it's silly to say bathroom when you have absolutely no intention of bathing but... (shrugs). However, my Canadian stepmother says serviette instead of napkin & that really sets my teeth on edge. To answer the question, I say breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea is what you have at 3 or 4 o'clock with scones & cucumber sandwiches (yeah, right!) or more likely, a couple of choccy digestives.

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

Tea is a hot drink ... But in NZ they have have Morning Tea (morning snack) and Afternoon Tea (afternoon snack) so we have kind of adopted it.

Breakfast

Lunch

Tea or Dinner

Supper- pre bed snack or a very late dinner when I couldn't be arsed to make anything earlier, bu then decided kids di really have to have something before bed.

Oh and you get "high teas", don't know if it is a scottish thing but high tea is served in restaurants of a certain kind. Usually pot of tea, small portion of fish and chips (or similar), bread and butter and a cake or something.

breakfast
lunch
dinner

morning tea/smoko

afternoon tea

lunch - anytime between 12 and 3
afternoon tea - between 3 and 5
high tea - between 5 and 6
dinner - 6 o clock plus
supper - snack before bed for us would be after about 8:30om

dinner is the phrase used for the main meal so if this is at midday, lunch becomes dinner, dinner becomes tea or supper.

Breakfast
lunch
Afternoon tea
Cocktail hour
dinner

Could it be to do with where you're from?

Me (from dorset) - breakfast, lunch, dinner

tea is a hot drink, and brunch is breakfast and chips like they sell in greasy spoons

my friend (berkshire) breakfast, dinner, tea

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

I would happily call Dinner Tea but DH is not British and finds it too confusing

breakfast
2nd breakfast
lunch
tea
dinner is an evening meal we rarely have because we all eat our tea before 6pm here

My family call it:

Breakfast

Lunch

Supper

Tea is a hot drink, or scones/cakes etc. at 4o'clock (yeah right...like that ever happens at my house!!!)

Dinner...well that's formal meals like a dinner party or what you eat at a restuarant if you go out in the evening.

When asked what he was having for his 'tea' one day by someone, my 3 yr old DS replied "well, Earl Grey I think"

Nowadays we say: breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper.

When we were little used to say: breakfast, dinner, tea, supper.

We call our main hot meal dinner, whether we eat it at lunchtime or tea time. This totally confuses my dh though because he then calls the sandwiches lunch even if we have them in the evening which is obviously tea.
In other words you can only ever have lunch at lunchtime (sandwiches). If you eat hot at lunch time then its dinner.
In the evening if its sandwiches its tea, or if its hot then its dinner.

I just can't understand why he never gets it

It's mainly a class thing.

in Edinburgh they say "you'll have had your tea"

Is it a class thing?