It's not 'Tea' it's dinner

Merlin5 · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:36

Why on earth do northerners call it tea? There is lunch, tea and dinner where I come from. Tea is cakes and a cup of tea at 3 to 4pm. Dinner is the evening meal. Northerners, honestly

Kosmiche · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:38

Tea or supper.

cymatty · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:38

Breakfast - Dinner - Tea.

Deal with it

Glaucus · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:38

It's basically the mean hot meal of the day, deal with it.

Originally, dinner referred to the first meal of a two-meal day, a heavy meal occurring about noon, which broke the night's fast in the new day. The word is from the Old French (ca 1300) disner, meaning "breakfast", from the stem of Gallo-Romance desjunare ("to break one's fast"), from Latin dis- ("undo") + Late Latin ieiunare ("to fast"), from Latin ieiunus ("fasting, hungry").[3][4] Eventually, the term shifted to referring to the heavy main meal of the day, even if it had been preceded by a breakfast meal. The (lighter) meal following dinner has traditionally been referred to as supper or tea..

Hot meal at school dinner.
Sip day roast at midday is the main meal, so is dinner.
Where most working people have main meal in the evening so that's dinner.

Merlin5 · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:39

cymatty said:
Breakfast - Dinner - Tea.

Deal with it

" Aye, yer tea's in th'oven love" .

sparky05084 · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:39

+1

If in doubt refer to the above. If you don't like it lump it. Just going to make my supper

Skillmister · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:39

breakfast lunch tea

icedbullet · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:40

People from other parts of the country have different names for different things??!! What sorcery is this? :eek:

Aedus · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:42

Breakfast - Meal #2 - Meal #3 - Dinner - Meal #5

Master race.

Vonhelmet · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:42

This may just blow your mind, but in other parts of the world, they even speak different languages, let alone dialects.

Honestly, this sort of thing is pathetic. Get over yourself.

ianh · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:42

Breakfast, Lunch/Dinner (either) & finally Tea. Haven't had a Supper since I was a kid!

Inazuma · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:44

I'm actually from the north (liverpool) and never understood why people call it breakfast - dinner - tea.
Breakfast - lunch - dinner makes much more sense to me.

But then in Cantonese, the phrase for lunch (yam cha) literally means in english "drink tea" and dinner (sig fan) is "eat rice"

Kosmiche · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:49

What does supper mean then?

We always alternate tea/supper for the evening meal.

The Funktopus · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:49

It's tea, now pipe down you Babycham swilling southern dandy-ponce!

robgmun · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:51

Yeah it gets my back up when they call it Tea

AGD · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:51

Supper. Dinner is acceptable, but never tea.

Raymond Lin · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:52

We've been here before....

Aedus · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:52

The Funktopus said:
It's tea, now pipe down you Babycham swilling southern dandy-ponce!

No! It's dinner you dirty northern wife beating monkey!

(Am I doing it right?

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Firestar_3x · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:53

Raymond Lin said:
We've been here before....

Loki · 23 Dec 2011 at 23:56

\o/ for not having a thread like this for all of three months. Well Done. I'm sure 'Northeners could start a thread about breakfast dinner and tea. This thread is a waste of bandwidth.