When do you eat dinner/tea?

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Just reading this article on the BBC about working class tea at 5 o'clock and was wondering what time people here eat their dinner/tea/whatever you want to call it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8223453.stm

Growing up we always ate dinner at around 5:30.
My dad is from a working class background, he grew up in a large council estate in Manchester (Wythenshawe for those that know it) , I never realised that it was a particularly working class thing to do though.

These days I generally start cooking whenever I get home from work and eat when it's done, so depending on they day I could eat anywhere from 5:30 - 9, usually it's 7ish though.
 
5.30-6.30ish no later than 8 at any rate. Eating later then 8 is just wierd unless you have real need to such as working late or having a special dinner/ take away.

And also nowt wrong with egg and chips for tea :p
 
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About 8pmish usually. Feels totally weird to eat a meal at 5pm!

Tea time invovles a cup of tea and perhaps a biscuit. An evening meal is called 'dinner'.
 
Odd, I would have thought that 'working class' would have eat dinner when the 'worker' got home from work be it in a shop/factory/retail/industrial or whatevere else line of work.

I eat my dinner when i get in from work, which tends to be around 6pm, finishing at 5pm. I'd have thought most working class would have been the same. 5 seems to be more a time when mum has managed to coral the kids, bring them home from school, started to cook and then it is ready by 5, so thats when they eat.
 
At home it's 6.30 because my dad likes to stay fairly late at work but here at Uni it's usually 7.30 because lunch is my favourite meal of the day and I tend to overeat lol :D
 
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