Your evening meal, do you call it Dinner or Tea?

It’s Dinner for me – Which is right in my household, as it is the main meal of the Day. Normally have sandwiches for the midday meal (Lunch) and then the main cooked meal is Dinner in the evening.

Tea.
Who looked after you at school for your midday meal? DINNER ladies! 😆

Dinner at dinner time, tea at tea time.
I am from the north though

Supper.

Tea for me. My mate calls it supper, even if served at 17:00. This makes me cringe a bit.

Tay

Tea.

Dinner.

Tea comes from a teapot and is served in cups.
😉

Tea

Breakfast, dinner, tea. I am from the north though.

Breakfast, dinner, tea. I am from the north though.

Dinner is the main meal of the day. Some have it at lunch time. Many have it in the evening.

So, one either has:

Breakfasts
Lunch
Dinner
Supper (pre-bedtime snack)

Or one has:

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper

Simples.

Grayson Perry deals with this complex issue..

Tea.
Who looked after you at school for your midday meal? DINNER ladies!

You’re right P20. Dinner ladies did serve school dinners, which were my main cooked meal of the day. Back in the 80’s I would then have tea in the evening, which was normally a light meal. As an adult, I now have my cooked main meal in the evening.

It is:

Breakfast*
Lunch
Dinner

* I do not, usually, take breakfast.
HTH
🙂

I worked in the catering trade for yonks and it, a least for the places I worked in, went like this;
Breakfast, Lunch, High tea (served after 3pm usually), Dinner (the big evening meal), Supper (late snack).

Tim.

Dinner if its a meal…Tea if its a sandwich..

Tea.

😎

I’m a breakfast, dinner and tea as well.

Tea is always the main meal of the day, dinner is just lunch.

Lunch was always ‘dinner’ time in school.

Tea

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Tea.
Who looked after you at school for your midday meal?

Lunchtime Supervisors

Breakfast, then dinner and finally tea

Faceplanter, you have a meal called ‘Tim’?

Tea.

Tea if you’re from oop North, dinner if you’re from dahn South.

Supper if it’s served by your nannny or butler 😉

Supper!

Meals are breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea and coffee are beverages. Obvious surely 🙂

I was brought up on Breakfast, Dinner at mid day and Tea about 6pm when dad came home. Never really did supper as such, still dont.

My wife does the whole, lunch then dinner thing. Just confuses things. Ill be sure to use the school dinner reference next time it comes up in conversation.

Tea, by gum.

Breakfast, dinner, tea. I am from the south though.

From Wikipedia (I know it may not be 100% accurate)

In some usages, the term dinner has continued to refer to the largest meal of the day, even when this meal is eaten at the end of the day and is preceded by two other meals. In this terminology, the preceding meals are usually referred to as breakfast and lunch.

In parts of the rural American South and northern England, the word “dinner” traditionally has been used for the midday meal even if it was a light snack taken to school or work.. The (lighter) meal following dinner has traditionally been referred to as supper or tea, though middle- and northern- English people still often refer to a large evening meal as tea.

While we are on this cultural, class and regional mine field who says scon and who says scone?
My wife who is from the NE is definitely not posh or a southerner but she says scon.I am from yorkshire and only thought people said scon on the telly til I met her.
{in fact when my yorkshire mates start moaning about southerners she gets in with,’You’re all southerners to me, pet.’]

Breakfast, dinner, tea. I am from the north though.

Supper or Dinner. Out to Dinner, in for Supper.

I grew up in a household where it was breakfast, lunch, dinner.
I went to a school where it was breakfast, dinner, tea.
I went to university in a town where it was breakfast, lunch, dinner.
I now live in a place where it’s breakfast, dinner, tea.

To avoid any mis-identified meals, I call them breakfast, lunch, tea. Dinner just confuses people.

PS there is only one way to pronounce scone – scawn. Those of you who say scone (to rhyme with cone) will be the first to go come the revolution.

I grew up calling it tea, but now its supper. I blame my OH.

EDIT: Dinner has always been the meal around mid-day.

Breakfast, lunch, then it gets confusing. If we have a late afternoon snack, cake say, then that’s tea, at tea time. I’ll ask The Wife what’s for dinner? She’ll reply she’s cooking tea, then call everyone “Tea’s ready!”

We all know that means food time.

*I’ve also been accused of being posh by calling lunch “lunch”. Others call it dinner. Then have a sandwich. 😕

I had a northern Irish friend, and she told me that the invitation to have a cup of tea where she grew up was: “will you take a wee cup of tea in your hand” as opposed to on the table, which included food.

I grew up breakfast, dinner, tea (at 5:00 when dad got home from work) then supper before bed. I’m a northerner, but university was breakfast lunch and dinner, and we’ve stuck with that ever since. Mind you dinner is now after 7 most nights, so perhaps it should be supper?