Reply to: Dinner or Tea?

[DaveB]

dinner = lunch
tea is the evening meal.


breakfast elevenses dinner tea supper

<voodooflux>

Breakfast,
Second breakfast
Elevenses
Luncheon
Tea
Dinner
Supper

+ snacks for when you get peckish between meals.

</voodoflux>

[TheFaQQer]

While growing up I had a friend who lived up the road in a more "well to do" family and they always referred to their evening meal as supper.

There's a good bit in Stuart Maconie's Pies and Prejudice where he talks about someone in the south inviting him round for suppah and wondering if it was appropriate for him to turn up for a bit of cheese on toast in his pyjamas, since that's what supper means to those from the north.

[Gonzo]

I think Kate Fox's analysis is spot on.

The evening meal has always been "dinner" in my house and "lower middle class" is about the right social description for me, however much I dislike it.

While growing up I had a friend who lived up the road in a more "well to do" family and they always referred to their evening meal as supper.

[NotAllThere]

Do you refer to the meal you have in the evening as dinner or tea?

I've always called it dinner. It's not a snobbery thing it's just that when I've spent hours slaving over a stove putting together a gourmet feast with all the trimmings for someone to say "thanks for tea" just doesn't seem to do it justice somehow. Especially not when it's served at 8pm.

So, you've never worked out how to do a poll on these forums?

[RichardCranium]

Unfortunately written English doesn't really have any equivalent to a glissando

[lje]

Dinner is the evening meal unless it's Sunday when it's at lunchtime... Tea is also the evening meal as well as a drink. Perhaps I'm just confused because I'm a southerner living in the north?

[TheFaQQer]

I am so looking forward to voodooflux's version of this.

I think that it's just "om nom nom nom"

[Zippy]

It's always "mealtime" in VF's world.

It's always "caketime", I think

[cailin maith]

I am so looking forward to voodooflux's version of this.

It's always "mealtime" in VF's world.

[NickFitz]

I am so looking forward to voodooflux's version of this.

Unfortunately written English doesn't really have any equivalent to a glissando

[NickFitz]

breakfast elevenses dinner tea supper

You don't do brunch then?

[RichardCranium]

breakfast elevenses dinner tea supper

I am so looking forward to voodooflux's version of this.

[TheFaQQer]

dinner = lunch
tea is the evening meal.


breakfast elevenses dinner tea supper

WHS

[EternalOptimist]

dinner = lunch
tea is the evening meal.


breakfast elevenses dinner tea supper

[moorfield]

Prior to 6pm = Tea
After 6pm = Dinner

In our house anyway.

Southerners = Dinner

Northerners = Tea