Dinnertime

[Yorkie]

Well that is me then. I am sure that Supper is the evening meal.

Also where does High Tea fit into all of this.

Tea used to be a cup of tea and cake/scones around 4-4.30pm

I think High tea was something a little bit more substantial as in ham salad and cake. That's what I always used to get when visiting an aunty of mine.

 

[tinx]

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, anything els eis simply snacking whatever you call it.

On a friday I have dinner at abotu 6 then post pub munchies. Normally a doner and chips.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I was musing on this the other day when listening to the Radio Four weather forecast.

"The rain will ease off by about teatime".

What the hell do foreigners make of that?

Is there a tea drinker in the land who ever waits until teatime before drinking a cup of the stuff?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

An ethnic northerner speaks:-

High Tea is eaten in the front room. Tea is eaten in the kitchen.

 

[Brovion]

Well I understand Lord B!

I'm just eating my dinner/lunch (I use the words interchangably) whilst perusing NSC. For me there are three meals in a day: Breafast, Dinner and Tea, therefore Dinner is in the middle of the day. I have my tea in the evening, usually a hot meal but not always. Despite the fact that my wife is a posh bird from Orpington (well, posh by my standards) she's largely adopted my mannerisms in this respect so we say things to each other like "What's for tea?", "When do you want your tea?", "Shall we go out for tea this evening?" etc

Is this my Council Estate upbringing?

 

[Yorkie]

Well I understand Lord B!

I'm just eating my dinner/lunch (I use the words interchangably) whilst perusing NSC. For me there are three meals in a day: Breafast, Dinner and Tea, therefore Dinner is in the middle of the day. I have my tea in the evening, usually a hot meal but not always. Despite the fact that my wife is a posh bird from Orpington (well, posh by my standards) she's largely adopted my mannerisms in this respect so we say things to each other like "What's for tea?", "When do you want your tea?", "Shall we go out for tea this evening?" etc

Is this my Council Estate upbringing?

I think it is more to do with the area of your birth

 

[London Calling]

My Dinner time was always mid-day.

School dinners were mid-day.

Sunday dinner was mid-day and so was Sat's.

I only heard about "lunch" when I had to start mixing with Middle Classes.

LC

 

[Brovion]

I think it is more to do with the area of your birth

Ohhh that's a bit cruel! True, but cruel!

I'll have you know that I spent the first few years of my life in a VERY nice part of Croydon.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

This is a class/ north/south thing. If you are middle class/ southern you are more likely to refer to your evening meal as dinner. If you are Northern/ working class then it's tea.

 

[Yorkie]

This is a class/ north/south thing. If you are middle class/ southern you are more likely to refer to your evening meal as dinner. If you are Northern/ working class then it's tea.

I'm Southern working class and my hubby is Northern working class.

We both say dinner for evening meal and lunch for midday

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Just repeating the gist of a Radio discussion I heard on this. Some expert on language made the claim. He also said though that the use of tea was dying out as regional differences were decreasing.

 

[London Calling]

My evening meal was always Tea.

LC