It's not 'Tea' it's dinner

[Jay794]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_(meal)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner

Problem solved - The biggest meal of the day is referred to as dinner, regardless of when you eat it..........

By that logic, I have 3 dinners a day lol

 

[craptakular]

I'm in the south and I call my evening meal tea.

 

[Arnie]

Breakfast > Lunch > Tea

Dinner is interchangeable with Lunch and Tea.

 

[Noel Gallagher]

I hate people who call it tea.. it's a meal not a bloody CUP OF TEA!!!!!!!!1111111


Breakfast, Lunch then DINNER.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

All you regional people I ask the question -
When you were at school what were the ladies called that provided the meal around 12 to 1pm?

 

[Cosimo]

We've been here before....

.... and we'll come again.

 

[godinman]

Dinner Ladies.

So, if the mid day meal is officially called 'Dinner', what is the evening meal called? Why, it's called Tea. Funny that.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Breakfast > Dinner > Tea.

Do you have lunch ladies or dinner ladies at school?

I rest my case.

 

[fadetoblack]

it's dinner at 12:00 and tea at 18:00

Bet you southern boys call your bait box a lunch box!

 

[Jay794]

Breakfast > Dinner > Tea.

Do you have lunch ladies or dinner ladies at school?

I rest my case.

We had canteen staff

 

[Noel Gallagher]

You called them dinner ladies because that is what you're taunt.. and then you grow up to learn the truth, and move on.

 

["andy"]

Do schools down south not have dinner ladies then if that's not your dinner ?


How bizzare

 

[Andr3w]

Breakfast - Dinner - Tea.

Deal with it

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

 

[Cosimo]

The only tea is afternoon tea.

http://www.theritzlondon.com/tea/

Anything else is just for plebs.

 

[marc2003]

it's always been tea for me and i'm southern.

 

[D.P.]

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

It is not northerners per se, but lower class folks who work in the coal mines!


I'm frae scotland and I call it Dinner, tea is a hot herbal drink

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Do schools down south not have dinner ladies then if that's not your dinner ?


How bizzare

Funnily enough when Jamie Oliver went all around the country teaching all sorts of schools to serve proper meals, all the women were called DINNER LADIES.
How bizarre.

It's southern nancy boys trying to be posh and calling it lunch.

 

[D.P.]

No, its wrong.

Wikipedia has dinner as a meal at noon.

Tea and supper are the later meals.

Its;

Breakfast, (early morning)
Brunch or 11's, (11ish smallish meal)
Dinner, (noon)
Tea, (later on around 4ish)
Supper. (a couple of hours before bed, usually 6-7)

Thats the correct format. You have Christmas Dinner at noon, not Christmas Lunch.

I have Christmas dinner at 8pm

 

[Glaucus]

All you regional people I ask the question -
When you were at school what were the ladies called that provided the meal around 12 to 1pm?

What box do you put your sandwich in?

As said by far the biggest meaning, is largest hot meal of the day.
So if you have a sandwich at midday it's lunch (lunch box), if you have a cooked meal aka school meals then it's dinner (dinner ladies)

 

[D.P.]

All you regional people I ask the question -
When you were at school what were the ladies called that provided the meal around 12 to 1pm?

canteen staff