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over a year ago
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Which one do you call your evening meal? It's dinner then tea for me being a northerner, rather than lunch and dinner. I feel this is the correct way purely based on the fact you don't have lunch ladies at school do you, its dinner ladies  |
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"Which one do you call your evening meal? It's dinner then tea for me being a northerner, rather than lunch and dinner. I feel this is the correct way purely based on the fact you don't have lunch ladies at school do you, its dinner ladies "
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"Which one do you call your evening meal? It's dinner then tea for me being a northerner, rather than lunch and dinner. I feel this is the correct way purely based on the fact you don't have lunch ladies at school do you, its dinner ladies "
... Lunchtime supervisors... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lunch
We have lunchtime supervisors
Dinner
That’s a peculiar way to say dinner lady.
That’s because they’re lunchtime supervisors
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I guess it’s a Northern thing but as we all know, Northerner’s are always right |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Lunch
We have lunchtime supervisors
Dinner
That’s a peculiar way to say dinner lady.
That’s because they’re lunchtime supervisors
I guess it’s a Northern thing but as we all know, Northerner’s are always right "
What a typical northern thing to say |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Which one do you call your evening meal? It's dinner then tea for me being a northerner, rather than lunch and dinner. I feel this is the correct way purely based on the fact you don't have lunch ladies at school do you, its dinner ladies
... Lunchtime supervisors..."
Really? Never in my life heard them called that |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Which one do you call your evening meal? It's dinner then tea for me being a northerner, rather than lunch and dinner. I feel this is the correct way purely based on the fact you don't have lunch ladies at school do you, its dinner ladies "
We used to say lunch lady 
Also it’s lunch then dinner for me. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Lunch
We have lunchtime supervisors
Dinner
That’s a peculiar way to say dinner lady.
That’s because they’re lunchtime supervisors
"
thats like calling a lollypop lady the director of transport safety  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lunch
We have lunchtime supervisors
Dinner
That’s a peculiar way to say dinner lady.
That’s because they’re lunchtime supervisors
I guess it’s a Northern thing but as we all know, Northerner’s are always right
What a typical northern thing to say "
We don’t make the rules. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lunch
We have lunchtime supervisors
Dinner
That’s a peculiar way to say dinner lady.
That’s because they’re lunchtime supervisors
thats like calling a lollypop lady the director of transport safety "
Well ….. I’ve just taken that, and I’ll use it next Tuesday |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Lunch
We have lunchtime supervisors
Dinner
That’s a peculiar way to say dinner lady.
That’s because they’re lunchtime supervisors
thats like calling a lollypop lady the director of transport safety "
Or the milkman the dairy produce delivery service. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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This is and always be a very controversial subject
As a southerner who has lived up north for more than 20 years, I’m not offended when dinner gets called tea or if a bread roll is called a bread cake
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lunch
We have lunchtime supervisors
Dinner
That’s a peculiar way to say dinner lady.
That’s because they’re lunchtime supervisors
thats like calling a lollypop lady the director of transport safety
Well ….. I’ve just taken that, and I’ll use it next Tuesday "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lunch
We have lunchtime supervisors
Dinner
That’s a peculiar way to say dinner lady.
That’s because they’re lunchtime supervisors
thats like calling a lollypop lady the director of transport safety
Well ….. I’ve just taken that, and I’ll use it next Tuesday "
He’ll love being called that |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Schools have dinner ladies.
It’s in the title.
Thread closed."
Why thank you, I don't think Victoria Woods comedy would have been very funny had it been called lunchtime supervisors either |
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"Which one do you call your evening meal? It's dinner then tea for me being a northerner, rather than lunch and dinner. I feel this is the correct way purely based on the fact you don't have lunch ladies at school do you, its dinner ladies "
Quite agree. Breakfast, dinner and tea, regardless of how much or little I have at each of them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lunch
We have lunchtime supervisors
Dinner
That’s a peculiar way to say dinner lady.
That’s because they’re lunchtime supervisors
thats like calling a lollypop lady the director of transport safety
Well ….. I’ve just taken that, and I’ll use it next Tuesday
He’ll love being called that "
i still go with lolly pop lady |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"This is and always be a very controversial subject
As a southerner who has lived up north for more than 20 years, I’m not offended when dinner gets called tea or if a bread roll is called a bread cake
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I bet you have a bread roll with your dinner dontcha |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"This is and always be a very controversial subject
As a southerner who has lived up north for more than 20 years, I’m not offended when dinner gets called tea or if a bread roll is called a bread cake
I bet you have a bread roll with your dinner dontcha "
its a fuckin tea cake |
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"Which one do you call your evening meal? It's dinner then tea for me being a northerner, rather than lunch and dinner. I feel this is the correct way purely based on the fact you don't have lunch ladies at school do you, its dinner ladies "
I agree. My family was from tut Midlands, but now I live in Kent it's lunch, dinner, tiffin and supper darling! So posh, lol |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"This is and always be a very controversial subject
As a southerner who has lived up north for more than 20 years, I’m not offended when dinner gets called tea or if a bread roll is called a bread cake
I bet you have a bread roll with your dinner dontcha its a fuckin tea cake"
Fight me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"This is and always be a very controversial subject
As a southerner who has lived up north for more than 20 years, I’m not offended when dinner gets called tea or if a bread roll is called a bread cake
I bet you have a bread roll with your dinner dontcha "
I bloody do |
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I know it's controversial up here but it's breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper for me. The official stand is that it depends on what you are having and whether it's a light lunch meal or not. There is an assumption you only have one big meal a day and that's what you call dinner whether you have it at lunch time or evening. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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The only concession I have is if for example I was going out for an evening meal with someone, I might call it going for dinner. While fighting the urge to tell people "m'off art for tea" |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The only concession I have is if for example I was going out for an evening meal with someone, I might call it going for dinner. While fighting the urge to tell people "m'off art for tea" "
woah woah no backtracking |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Which one do you call your evening meal? It's dinner then tea for me being a northerner, rather than lunch and dinner. I feel this is the correct way purely based on the fact you don't have lunch ladies at school do you, its dinner ladies "
My thoughts exactly xx |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"The only concession I have is if for example I was going out for an evening meal with someone, I might call it going for dinner. While fighting the urge to tell people "m'off art for tea" woah woah no backtracking "
Shut it you (teacakes have currants) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The only concession I have is if for example I was going out for an evening meal with someone, I might call it going for dinner. While fighting the urge to tell people "m'off art for tea" "
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The only concession I have is if for example I was going out for an evening meal with someone, I might call it going for dinner. While fighting the urge to tell people "m'off art for tea" woah woah no backtracking
Shut it you (teacakes have currants)"
ffs thats a currant teacake  |
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We have lunchtime supervisors
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That’s a peculiar way to say dinner lady.
That’s because they’re lunchtime supervisors
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They were called lunchtime supervisors where I worked and Ideplored the fact that teaching staff never picked up on the pupils' use of 'dinnah lady' or habitual reference to 'me dinnah' instead of 'my lunch'. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"It's dinner, you can drink tea with your dinner if you like.
If I offer a northerner tea and they say yes, I'm going to stick food in a mug and microwave it for them "
I like a cup of tea with my tea |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"This is and always be a very controversial subject
As a southerner who has lived up north for more than 20 years, I’m not offended when dinner gets called tea or if a bread roll is called a bread cake
I bet you have a bread roll with your dinner dontcha its a fuckin tea cake"
It’s a bun |
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"It's dinner, you can drink tea with your dinner if you like.
If I offer a northerner tea and they say yes, I'm going to stick food in a mug and microwave it for them
I like a cup of tea with my tea "
Are you asking for tea? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Which one do you call your evening meal? It's dinner then tea for me being a northerner, rather than lunch and dinner. I feel this is the correct way purely based on the fact you don't have lunch ladies at school do you, its dinner ladies "
The only correct answer |
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"Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper
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Same. Assuming "tea" was around 4pm, post school and literally a slice of cake or toast?!?
Supper or dinner interchangeable in our house for the main evening meal growing up, depending on Mum's mood I think! I just use dinner now!  |
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"Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper
Same. Assuming "tea" was around 4pm, post school and literally a slice of cake or toast?!?
Supper or dinner interchangeable in our house for the main evening meal growing up, depending on Mum's mood I think! I just use dinner now! "
Supper was you pre bed cereal. It was the 70s, we were fed differently back then |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"It's dinner, you can drink tea with your dinner if you like.
If I offer a northerner tea and they say yes, I'm going to stick food in a mug and microwave it for them
I like a cup of tea with my tea
Are you asking for tea? "
If its the liquid kind, I don't much fancy a roast dinner I mean roast tea in a mug |
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"Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper
Same. Assuming "tea" was around 4pm, post school and literally a slice of cake or toast?!?
Supper or dinner interchangeable in our house for the main evening meal growing up, depending on Mum's mood I think! I just use dinner now!
Supper was you pre bed cereal. It was the 70s, we were fed differently back then "
Haha, ok. In that case, supper was different! My brain's addled as I also had lunch at your dinner-time so my "same" was a complete lie! I clearly need to get some sleep! |
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
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"Which one do you call your evening meal? It's dinner then tea for me being a northerner, rather than lunch and dinner. I feel this is the correct way purely based on the fact you don't have lunch ladies at school do you, its dinner ladies "
Midday meal is lunch if you go out, or dinner if you stay in. Late meal is tea if you eat in or dinner if you go out. Unless it's supper, but that is only if you are wearing PJs. |
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"It's dinner, you can drink tea with your dinner if you like.
If I offer a northerner tea and they say yes, I'm going to stick food in a mug and microwave it for them
I like a cup of tea with my tea
Are you asking for tea?
If its the liquid kind, I don't much fancy a roast dinner I mean roast tea in a mug "
I could make you a cup of tea and roast DINNER |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Which one do you call your evening meal? It's dinner then tea for me being a northerner, rather than lunch and dinner. I feel this is the correct way purely based on the fact you don't have lunch ladies at school do you, its dinner ladies
Midday meal is lunch if you go out, or dinner if you stay in. Late meal is tea if you eat in or dinner if you go out. Unless it's supper, but that is only if you are wearing PJs."
Ahhh I've just thought of another one that kinda disproves my original train of thought, its ladies who lunch isn't it, not ladies who dinner |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"It's dinner, you can drink tea with your dinner if you like.
If I offer a northerner tea and they say yes, I'm going to stick food in a mug and microwave it for them
I like a cup of tea with my tea
Are you asking for tea?
If its the liquid kind, I don't much fancy a roast dinner I mean roast tea in a mug
I could make you a cup of tea and roast DINNER "
Deal |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Dinner. But at the weekends i have high tea.
Oooh that sounds very posh, what would a high tea consist of and at what time would you have it
Bread and cake. Maybe crumpets."
Liking the sound of high tea |
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Anyone who uses the term 'dinner' for their evening meal is worthy of deep mistrust and suspicion. A soft, shandy-supping type found in the south of the country. We didn't have 'lunch ladies' at school did we!?!  |
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"It's dinner, you can drink tea with your dinner if you like.
If I offer a northerner tea and they say yes, I'm going to stick food in a mug and microwave it for them
I like a cup of tea with my tea
Are you asking for tea?
If its the liquid kind, I don't much fancy a roast dinner I mean roast tea in a mug
I could make you a cup of tea and roast DINNER
Deal "
Can we just go to a carvery instead? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Which one do you call your evening meal? It's dinner then tea for me being a northerner, rather than lunch and dinner. I feel this is the correct way purely based on the fact you don't have lunch ladies at school do you, its dinner ladies "
As a northerner working in the SW.
Dinner at 12 noon/
Tea at teatime |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I have lunch at midday
If it’s 5pm and I’m staying in and cooking for my children , it’s tea.
But if I am going out to a restaurant, I’m having dinner.
There’s no right or wrong. There is just one way to say it, and another way to say it.
Wx |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
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"I know it's controversial up here but it's breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper for me. The official stand is that it depends on what you are having and whether it's a light lunch meal or not. There is an assumption you only have one big meal a day and that's what you call dinner whether you have it at lunch time or evening. "
Spot on. |
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By *ubandsubCouple
over a year ago
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Was always breakfast, dinner and tea. Then I went to catering college and it became breakfast lunch and dinner. Altjough the head of department insisted it wasnt afternoon until you have had your lunch. Which for us was usualy after lunchtime service around 2pm.
Like others i think its a northern thing! |
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I grew up saying breakfast lunch and dinner, with the more rural version being breakfast lunch and tea.
It's not that deep to me as long as I can work out what you mean. (It was a learning curve. I eventually spotted a pattern that locals said "dinner" to refer to the meal in the middle of the day) |
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It gets complicated
So if the main meal of the day is in the middle it’s dinner, with a lighter option for tea.
However, if the main meal is at night it would be lunch then dinner.
My heritage of north/east/Scot/south messes it all up |
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