Time for Tea?
 

The meal you have around 6pm every night is called by many names. In the north a lot of folk call it "Tea" whereas in the South it is called "dinner".

What do you call it?

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Tea Time :)
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We have Breakfast > Dinner > Tea > Supper.

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What about a roast on a Sunday at around midday.

Would that be Sunday Dinner or Sunday lunch or either?

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Both, interchangeably ... I always saw them as meaning the same. I voted 'tea' as I probably use that more often.

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Dinner or Lunch - both are the same to me - the day of the week has no bearing on the name here.
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Not according to the list :confused:

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I changed my mind and used my supermod powers to edit the results. ;)

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Same here :)

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I call it "dinner" most of the time.
Supper is more a late night snack around 11pm isnt it ?.

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Tho as weekend I may sleep in:

We have Breakfast > Tea > Supper

Therefore having Breakie at 11am...and then Tea a couple of hours earlier...and when we do...have supper no later than 9pm...(:nono: sleeping on a full tummy! ;))

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Am I allowed to add what my 19 month old daughter calls it?

"Num Nums" :D

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There's always one .... :erm: :p:

I see, in that case I'll use my super-super powers to fix it better ;)

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Show off :p:

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I'm a Southerner and I call it tea - usually!

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Tea - from high tea, light afternoon meal 4pm - 6pm
Dinner - formal evening meal 6-8
lunch - lunch

When I was young, it was always Breakfast-dinner-tea-supper (if we were lucky)

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I voted dinner, because its always been Dinner since I was a sprog. :)

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Tea !

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Depends what day it is. Mon to Fri its tea, Sat and Sun its dinner due to lack of lunch.

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I'm a 'Tea' Man - my dad is a 'Supper' man...

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I said tea too. I always think of dinner as being at midday-ish, kinda like when it was dinner-time when you were a school kid, so to now call the meal in the evening dinner would just confuse me.

Although, we actually eat very late compared to friends & family... eating at anywhere from 8pm onwards. We're very continental in our house ;)

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You eat horse meat and smell of garlic?;)

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the rules of the universe dictate that meals go in the following order:

breakfast >> brunch >> dinner >> afternoon tea >> tea >> supper >> 3am snack

therefore, it is tea and anyone who says otherwise is just plain posh :p:

and no i don't live in a posh house, afternoon snack is during or just after neighbours :)

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Where's lunch in all that then?

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Lunch is just another name for Dinner.

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He's a student, what we call lunch is on his list as 'breakfast'. ;)

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LOL

Students are allowed to get up late. Imagine all that work we have to do. Its very stessful you know.
Especially going in only twice a week. ;)

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i have 5 days a week, 730am getting up time. anyone who has otherwise is quite simply a git, or as i happily refer to my sport/exercise sciences housemate, doing a mickey mouse :)

dinner is usually 12-1 or 1-2, if i am lucky i can get home before neighbours starts...

have to get up early on the weekend too for work, no lie ins for dave at uni, its all work work work :(

/moan off

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I've always considered the use of "lunch" and eating a large meal at 6pm as things that the upper classes do. For me, it's:

Breakfast -> Dinner -> Tea -> Supper

Though I nearly always skip breakfast (too early to eat) and I eat tea at around 7pm - I get home around 5:40pm and start cooking at 6:00pm - so tea is effectively supper. At weekends I eat when hungry, and I try and push the boat out for Sunday Dinner.

When I stayed with friends in Scotland, we had "high tea", which was basically a late tea. I love regional variations on things.

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If you have brunch during the morning your logic is all screwed. Brunch is a meal consisting of a late breakfast combined with an early lunch so you should have lunch following brunch not dinner.

We call the 6:00 pm meal tea except on Sundays when we have the Sunday Roast at that time and call it dinner. The mid-day meal is lunch but that has changed since schooldays when we called it dinner.

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ok i will call it brinner then :)

brunch, in between breakfast and dinner :)

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Why not just put 24 hour troughing? :D

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cos im not a pig ;)

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

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

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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 ;)

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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..

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

Greedy boy :)

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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?

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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

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

It's called tea in my house.

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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.

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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.

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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…)

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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

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In my experience it seems to be a class and a geographical thing.

Working class people (particularly in the North) often say dinner & tea. Down South (or middle class people in the North) tend to use the terms lunch and dinner.

Myself I tend to use lunch & dinner interchangeably for the midday meal & evening meal for the later meal.

Yes but who cares..... Thats a good schedule!!