Do you call lunch dinner and dinner tea?
SparkleBabe
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Ive always refered to midday as 'dinnertime', so do all my family. Evening, around 5pm is 'teatime'. At those times we eat our dinner and our tea. Everyone round here calls lunch, dinner, and dinner, tea.
I always assumed it was just posh people who ate lunch and dinner?
Is it a regional thing?
I always assumed it was just posh people who ate lunch and dinner?
Is it a regional thing?
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edit - with regards to regional, it may well be, I'm in Hampshire but I just caught it from my parents to be honest, Mum's from Surrey and Dad's from Birmingham so I have no idea!!
I might say dinner if I was going out somewhere for it.
Otherwise it's 'evening meal' for me.
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Also sundays is dinner at lunchtime and afternoon tea like cake and tea
So do i and i'm british
oOOOhhhh how posh
For me its breakfast, lunch and dinner ...... with pudding if poss.
My wife's family use it to refer to the milk and bread you have just before bedtime. So when her uncle was invited to someone else's for 'supper' (meaning the evening meal at around 7 o'clock) not only were they surpirsed that he didn't turn up, but they were even more surprised when he did turn up at around 10.30.....
I remember living with a girl from North Wales who used to say ‘we’ll meet you at teatime’ and not having the faintest idea what time that was. Still not sure if it’s 5pm, 7pm or whatever really.
Main evening meal
Tea is the main evening meal, even if the diners are not drinking tea. It is traditionally eaten at 5 o'clock in the evening, though often it is later, as late as 9pm.
Especially in East Anglia, the North of England, The West Country, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, tea as a meal is synonymous with dinner in Standard English. Under such usage, the midday meal is sometimes termed dinner, rather than lunch.
Good point though..i think we called them school dinners even though they were at lunchtime!
You get a lunch-hour at work and when you get home in the evening you get your dinner.
I've never heard of a dinner-hour!
I probably call my lunch, Lunch, because this is what it is referred to at my school; 'lunchtime'
What's the difference between dinner (or tea, if you prefer), and supper?
I eat my main meal at about 8-9 pm, but to avoid controversy I just call it my evening meal rather than dinner.