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over a year ago
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Tea. Dinner is a mid-day meal. I only know this because the staff serving the mid-day meal at school were called Dinner Ladies. If they were Ladies who Lunch they'd have been too pissed to serve 800 meals - I've seen Sex in the City, I know what happens at 'lunch'... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It depends on when I have had my main meal. If I have my main meal at 1pm than I would have tea in the evenings but if my main meal is in the evening then it's dinner. |
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By *VineMan
over a year ago
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It depends. Dinner is a term typically used to describe the main meal of the day, irrespective of whether it's in the middle of the day or in the evening.
I usually have a main meal in the evening so I mostly call it dinner. Although sometimes I refer to it as tea. Let's face it, it doesn't really matter.
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• breakfast - but only if you need to...
• lunch - if it's smaller/quicker and you are eating later too...
• dinner - is at any point when it's the one big meal of the day (or your at school where it's used formally along with lunch.)
• tea - is a communal family meal after work, ie "it's tea time".
• supper - is when you really enjoy your food. |
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By *ames5169 OP Man
over a year ago
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"• breakfast - but only if you need to...
• lunch - if it's smaller/quicker and you are eating later too...
• dinner - is at any point when it's the one big meal of the day (or your at school where it's used formally along with lunch.)
• tea - is a communal family meal after work, ie "it's tea time".
• supper - is when you really enjoy your food."
An exhaustive list |
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"• breakfast - but only if you need to...
• lunch - if it's smaller/quicker and you are eating later too...
• dinner - is at any point when it's the one big meal of the day (or your at school where it's used formally along with lunch.)
• tea - is a communal family meal after work, ie "it's tea time".
• supper - is when you really enjoy your food.
An exhaustive list "
--Or exhausting lol. But I missed out tiffing and elevenses. - |
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"You drink tea you eat dinner
Simples "
--What if your main meal is breakfast (which used to happen - not everyone needs large or calorific ones to last them the whole day now), nothing happens at lunchtime at all, dinner is mainly on Sundays (and often early!), and tea was what you drank when you gathered at night for what's left? (or supper if you missed it due to work).
All these things have history.- |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You drink tea you eat dinner
Simples
--What if your main meal is breakfast (which used to happen - not everyone needs large or calorific ones to last them the whole day now), nothing happens at lunchtime at all, dinner is mainly on Sundays (and often early!), and tea was what you drank when you gathered at night for what's left? (or supper if you missed it due to work).
All these things have history.-"
Stop bamboozling me with history and rationale! It’s cruel and complicates my simple mind  |
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For us; Breakfast if we wanted it, lunch (which was sometimes called "dinner time"), tea, and dinner most-typically when it meant something like Sundays.
The idea of dinner as the principal meal of the day has left us partly because we eat so much nowadays - esp breakfast, which is a huge sugar and salt industry which many people simply don't need any more.
So it's partly become a localised thing:
To some people 'dinner' as a set evening meal sounds over-formal, to others it's simply what they grew up with.-- |
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"You drink tea you eat dinner
Simples
--What if your main meal is breakfast (which used to happen - not everyone needs large or calorific ones to last them the whole day now), nothing happens at lunchtime at all, dinner is mainly on Sundays (and often early!), and tea was what you drank when you gathered at night for what's left? (or supper if you missed it due to work).
All these things have history.-
Stop bamboozling me with history and rationale! It’s cruel and complicates my simple mind "
lol sorry  |
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
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As per last week's thread.
Midday meal is dinner if you eat in or lunch if you eat out, or have made sandwiches.
Evening meal is tea if you eat in, dinner if you eat out. However if you are in your PJs it is acceptable to call this meal supper, as long as its after 7pm.
Clear? |
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I don't even why they ever came up with tea when it's dinner. We'll tea is tea who wants a cup of tea so a drink right so how can you call a meal tea silly really I will have my dinner later and may have a cup of tea after  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I first moved to Sheffield I got very confused when I girl I was seeing told me to call her at tea time. To me tea time was sort of 4pm ie late afternoon. Turned out that she actually meant early evening around 7? |
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Depends where you live around the country. There is no right or wrong answer. Call it what you like.
OP saying correct to people who agree with him. What's all that about?
What's next?
A cob, batch, barm & roll thread? |
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"Dinner.
The same thing restaurant menus all over the country call it."
---Many do Lunch and Dinner, but others do Daytime (or Lunchtime) and Evening menus, but this is always formal surely, as it's eating out (and the less formal the setting, the less likely they will call it Dinner I expect). --- |
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"Dinner.
The same thing restaurant menus all over the country call it."
Breakfast, lunch, dinner on menus
If people want to refer to their three square meals as breakfast, dinner tea then that's their right.
On a Sunday we have a roast dinner about 3pm. If peckish around 7pm we might have something light like a tin of soup or beans on toast.
Is that supper or tea? |
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By *otMe66Man
over a year ago
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"Tea. Dinner is a mid-day meal. I only know this because the staff serving the mid-day meal at school were called Dinner Ladies. If they were Ladies who Lunch they'd have been too pissed to serve 800 meals - I've seen Sex in the City, I know what happens at 'lunch'..."
Dinner is the main meal of the day. Sunday Dinner is an example of this.
Not so common now but it still is a thing, school was the place that children had their only meal or main meal of the day. This is why they were called Dinner ladies
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