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.

Hectic...all our meal times are!!!

Seriously, we have breakfast lunch and an evening meal. unless we have main meal at lunch time then that becomes dinner and evening meal will be tea

It's mainly a class thing, paula.

Middle/upper would not call the midday meal 'dinner'. Working class would.

Middle/upper would not call the evening meal 'tea'. Working would.

Only upper/upper middle would call the evening meal 'supper'.

That's generally speaking.

Breakfast,dinner,tea,supper.Sunday lunch though(roast)

LOL at SoH

I call it breakfast, lunch, dinner.

For reasons best known to himself, Dh has suddenly decided to call the evening meal supper. I smirk every time he says it.