Re: Time for Tea?
 

cos im not a pig ;)

my food for the next week consists of 2 tins of tomato soup... :)

Re: Time for Tea?
 

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So there you have it, dinner is whenever you want it to be!

Re: Time for Tea?
 

I like you, Dave

- not that it will help you, in any shape or form, but I wanted to say it - good luck with only the soup for tea, eat it all at once, then suffer, I reckon ;)

Re: Time for Tea?
 

According to www.dictionary.com which is where I believe you got the above from....it says that Dinner is the Chief meal of the day. So could be either taken at Midday or in the evening. This would infer that lunch is a light meal taken at midday..

Re: Time for Tea?
 

:confused: Why would you want a snack if you've just eaten your neighbours :disturbd:

Greedy boy :)

Re: Time for Tea?
 

I think it was dictionary.com, but I found the same paragraph on several sites.

Lunch can only be taken at midday, without exception everybody understands that. The issue is Dinner and Tea.
If you have Dinner (your main meal) at lunchtime then you may have a tea at teatime, but if your main meal is Dinner in the evening, then you may have had a lunch?

Re: Time for Tea?
 

I use breakfast>lunch>dinner but you can see from the above dictionary.com entry why we are a little confused about the subject


edit........I see that bootboy et al got there first :D

Re: Time for Tea?
 

For a moment there, I thought that your dad must be called Clark... ;) :D

It's called tea in my house.

Re: Time for Tea?
 

It's dinner monday to Saturday, and then on Sunday it's tea, because you have a sunday roast at lunch time.
It's the law you know

Wow Ya learn something all the time!!

I havent ever heard it called TEA :D

I usually call it supper........ (Sometimes Dinner)

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Talk about resurection of threads!


Probably everyone finished their dinner by now.

Re: Time for Tea?
 

6pm would be snack time.


If I could get away with it meals would be
morning = breakfast (light)
midday = lunch followed by snooze
evening (1800) = nibbles/snacking
night (2100 or later) = dinner


tea is a drink.

Re: Time for Tea?
 

I have always said Breakfast > Dinner > Tea > Supper.


My sister started to say Breakfast > Lunch > Dinner.


This got confusing to her kids when we had them for a few days

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Be a Hobbit.

Breakfast - 7 a.m.
Second Breakfast - 9 a.m.
Elevenses - 11 a.m.
Luncheon - 1 p.m.
Afternoon Tea - 3 p.m.
Dinner - 6 p.m.
Supper - 9 p.m.


(Yes, I know it’s six in the book…)

Re: Time for Tea?
 

When i was younger my parents called it Tea, but i call it Dinner now as doesn't sound right calling it Tea, you can't exactly say lets go out for Tea thats crazy and would confuse everyone.

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Supper