[Closed] Tea or Dinner?

Dinner if I'm cooking properly, supper if not much effort, tea if it's early and only said in ironic tones. Don't know why, probably cos I'm a posh bird.

Tea, always have. 8)

tea. yorkshire born & yorkshire bred, strong in t'arm & thick in t'ead 😉

dinner is the midday meal

supper is just before bed time

probably depends on location

me in the sticks breakfast / dinner / tea / and supper

and now im posh its breakfast / lunch / TEA / no supper cos ate too much tea and need to lose a bit

it was always the dinner bell at school never the lunch bell

Tea is sandwiches and cake at 4 pm. Dinner is a cooked meal at 7 - 8 pm. I often have both.

Tea, obviously

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner.

Let's put it like this, if you were invited to a dinner party and turned up at lunchtime, people would probably consider you to be something of an eccentric!

Tea.

Dinner is another word for lunch. School dinners. See?

I used to call it tea, but then I moved down south and everyone calls it dinner, and now when I forget and ask for tea, someone gets up and puts the kettle on, and at midday when I say I'm dying for my dinner I'm told I've got a long wait cos it's ages til dinner so why don't I have some lunch!!!
And don't get me started on muffins!

dinner is the midday meal

What???

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner.

Thank god there's at least one normal person on here.. 😀

Muffin the mule whats that all about

Any time is Muffin Time

Breakfast, dinner, tea - simples

coffee
Brekkie
coffee
dindins
tea
coffee
beer.

first breakfast
second breakfast
elevenses
first lunch
second lunch
afternoon tea
Dinner
Supper
Midnight snack

TandemJeremy - Member
first breakfast
second breakfast
elevenses
first lunch
second lunch
afternoon tea
Dinner
Supper
Midnight snack

Ah, the lesser known, but infinitely more satisfying pIeDave diet.

yeah, I like the sound of that PieDave diet!

Got to keep my [s]weight[/s] strength up

Breakfast (5.30)
Second breakfast (8ish)
Morning tea (10)
Lunch (12)
Afternoon tea (3)
Tea (if consumed 6ish)
Supper (if consumed 9ish)

I don't have all of those I should add, pick 3. Growing up in NZ we were an odd family it was only Tea because my first father was Scots, childhood friends often thought they were being offered a cup of tea.

Dinner is what my cat has.

Dinner and then Tea.

No set times I'm not Rain Man.

Dinner then tea.

They're dinner ladies not lunch ladies.

krag - Member
Dinner then tea.

They're dinner ladies not lunch ladies.

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...and what time do 'ladies who lunch' eat their lunch? That's right, at lunchtime.

Lunch, the international word for lunch to be used on occasions where you wish to indicate that you are referring to lunch!

I think it depends on where you're eating. At our house:

Lunch is at midday, and is eaten out.
Dinner is at midday, and is eaten at home.
Dinner is in the evening, and is eaten out.
Tea is in the evening, and is eaten at home.

Dinner if I'm cooking properly, supper if not much effort, tea if it's early and only said in ironic tones. Don't know why, probably cos I'm a posh bird.

+1 divagirl, at least the eating bit.

TandemJeremy
first breakfast
second breakfast
elevenses
first lunch
second lunch
afternoon tea
Dinner
Supper
Midnight snack

You sound fat.

I find that once one hauls oneself out from the deprevation of the north and finds oneself again in the company of civilised men you would be well advised to call your evening meal Dinner. Tea is something one partakes in after a vigorous opening in cricket or after a pleasent afternoon stroll.

We have supper in our house 🙂

It's tea crazy fools dinner is at dinner time. I noticed when in the army most people said lunch and dinner apart from Yorks Lancs lot who said dinner and tea

Dinner at dinner time (as served by dinner ladies)
Tea at tea time

Tea's something you dunk biscuits in.

Supper. Unless it involves putting on a Dinner Jacket or mess dress, in which case it is a dinner.

Tea is a drink, of which the act of drinking may involve biscuits.

For all those who have dinner at lunchtime, does anything change on a Sunday? Do you have a Sunday lunch?

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

Unless it's Friday (cake day) which is

Breakfast
Cake
More Cake
Lunch
More Cake
More Cake
Physical pain inducing cake
Sleeping
Supper

I want some cake now

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trout - Member

probably depends on location

me in the sticks breakfast / dinner / tea / and supper

and now im posh its breakfast / lunch / TEA / no supper cos ate too much tea and need to lose a bit

it was always the dinner bell at school never the lunch bell

+1 with an added...

It's a Sunday Dinner which can either be at lunchtime or tea time...

Either way
[edinburgh]you'll have had it [/edinburgh]

What is this 'breakfast' thing?

Get up, have a brew
Go to work, have a coffee
Have another coffee
And another
Dinner with a brew (lunch to you lot)
Another brew
And another
Go home
Tea with, er, a brew
Another brew
Mebbe a beer
Bed

Weekend:
Brunch - abou 10am - bacon sausage & egg butty
With a brew
More brews
Tea
More brews
Beer
Bed

See, lunch never comes into it

Breakfast
Lunch
Tea...

...for me

Although I only ever have breakfast when I've got a day off.

I only call it dinner when it's something more official, like Sunday dinner or we're having someone round for tea.....then it's a dinner 😀

Luncheon.

It's something I still cannot handle in The North - the reference to lucnh as dinner.

However, since all of them (even the posh ones) consider themselves to be working class or at the very least one step removed from the pit, then I will allow them "tea".

Low tea - what the landed gentry have at around 4pm after a hard afternoon shooting peasants.

High tea - what working class people who don't have time for sandwiches without their crusts at 4pm would eat after returning from work.

[url= http://oldfashionedliving.com/lowtea.html ]More information on "tea" here.[/url]

So, roughly speaking, the use of lunch, tea and dinner largely refers to one's class or class aspirations.

Breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, supper - artistocrats
Breakfast, lunch, dinner - middle class
Breakfast, dinner, tea - working class

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I am a suthener who has moved tup north and i finaly understand this.

Dinner is traditonaly the hot/main meal of the day.

Up north the main meal was eaten at mid day as they spent a hard day doing hard work. Then they would come home to a smaller meal a exactly 5:00 and supper later.

Down south as we did less phisical work we had a light lunch at mid day then dinner in the evening with the family traditionaly later than 5:00

us kool kids like to get our eat on, all the rest of you are old, my gran used the word supper.

willard - Member
Supper. Unless it involves putting on a Dinner Jacket or mess dress, in which case it is a dinner.

Tea is a drink, of which the act of drinking [s]may[/s]will involve biscuits.

Oblique is correct:

Breakfast.

Luncheon.

High Tea at 1630. (Cake and biccies)

Supper.

Dinner is by definition the main meal of the day, so for many it could be eaten at lunch time.

I have evening Dinner at formal occasions or when out.

I've never had a packed dinner though...

The Flying Ox - Member
I think it depends on where you're eating. At our house:

Lunch is at midday, and is eaten out.
Dinner is at midday, and is eaten at home.
Dinner is in the evening, and is eaten out.
Tea is in the evening, and is eaten at home.

Slight variation, I use these terms depending whether i'm in work or at home...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Tiffin...

[i]Tiffin is lunch, or any light meal. It originated in British India, and is today found primarily in Indian English.[1] The word originated when Indian custom superseded the British practice of an afternoon dinner, leading to a new word for the afternoon meal[/i]

Breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, supper - artistocrats
Breakfast, lunch, dinner - middle class
Breakfast, dinner, tea - working class

Wrong.
Breakfast, lunch, supper/dinner = aristos + southern England
Breakfast, dinner, tea = non aristos + northern England and Scotland

For us its breakfast, lunch, supper unless we are eating out in which case it's dinner.

Edit - tea is something you have around 3:30 and is a cup/mug of tea plus an appropriate sweet commestible

How many restaurants, sandwich bars etc advertise a dinner menu when they mean lunch? It's always lunch menu

I'm throwing another one in here - is it:

Pudding
Sweet
Dessert

?

I'm throwing another one in here - is it:

Pudding
Sweet
Dessert

That's easy. The answer is dessert, because the final course might not be either sweet or a pudding

Beaten to tiffin by 18 mins. 😆

Breakfast.
Lunch.
Dinner.

Tea is a drink.

Pudding is hot and baked and has custard.

Dessert is cold.

Sweet is what is on the menu in restaurants, or the trolley even.

No class indicators there !

Pudding is hot and baked and has custard.

Dessert is cold.

Sweet is what is on the menu in restaurants, or the trolley even.

So when you ask "what's for pudding?" is "a yoghourt" a correct answer? (Even if apple crumble and custard would of course be a better one 🙂 )

No.

For a start, it's yoghurt. The correct reply is "we are having dessert today dear not pudding now take this yoghurt and enjoy it".

Tea (Cuppa)
Breakfast
2nd breakfast
Early moning snack (cake)
Mid-morining snack (Possibly cake)
Elevenses (To include cake)
Lunch or dinner (Depending on the type of meal)
Desert
Tea & Cake
Early afternoon snack (Cake)
Afternoon tea (possible cake, or scones depending on location and availability)
High tea (Sarnies and cake)
Tea (Definate cake)
Dinner or tea, depending on the type of meal (possible desert)
Early evening snack (Maybe a bun)
Supper (Usually the same as breakfast)
Late evening snack (Bedtime cake)
Midnight snack (Cake if any left)

This leaves time for cake baking in the PM, with the mandatory licking out of the mixing bowl.

Is there ANYTHING better than cake? I suspect not. 😀

So when you ask "what's for pudding?" is "a yoghourt" a correct answer?

No. Not on your nelly. Yoghurt is for washing desert down. Desert is something like pie, crumble or steamed sponge pudding. ALWAYS with custard. 🙂

Cake does not count as desert.

Cake exists purely in it's own right, as a revered thing of beauty and tastyness. Fact.

Is there ANYTHING better than cake? I suspect not

The aforementioned apple crumble and custard, for starters. Though cake is pretty good.

I see your apple crumbe and custard and raise you steamed ginger and golden syrup sponge pudding. With custard.

Beware. I haven't played my ace card yet.... 8)

PS

Mrs PP has a secret crumble recipe. It remains undefeated.

Pudding !!!! <keels over at other choices>