Is dinner lunch or is dinner tea?

My wife insists that the midday meal is always dinner. This causes problems. She is from Manchester and quite common sometimes.

the 6 meals of the day in order

Breakfast
Elevenses
Lunch
Tea
Dinner
Supper

Hobbit.

Dinner is Supper.

But supper sounds very midwestern or something.

Dinner is the evening meal but that certainly doesn't equate to "dinner is tea".

for my family dinner is lunch and tea is the evening meal. but i haven't found it to work like that outside the west of scotland very often so i have to navigate carefully.

Tea is basically an afterschool snack, right?

i'm not sure if it's just that my family are a bit mental but we would have the proper evening meal, which is tea, very early - usually between 4 and 5.

Tea is when you like have cakes and biscuit and you know, drink tea

cakes and biscuit

like this?

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?

Could you ask your mom for a gogurt instead?

dinner is evening meal, tea is what you drink 6-8 times a day, supper is a posho thing

i thought supper just means something "with chips"

Dinner is tea, although we still call it tea.

Tea is not a meal, it's a drink.

^ sayin

it is a custom, an occasion, a comfort and a fixture, but it is not a meal

Fish Supper.

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Tea can be the evening meal if it involves Pies, otherwise Matt DC OTM.

O-Zone would have ir: "Dragostea dinner tea"

so much unchecked privilege with this 'tea is not a meal' nonsense.

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Going with dinner is just the main meal of the day and the other is either lunch or tea depending when it is, but I mostly use dinner to mean tea.

haha this is the most baffling thread title ever to me

dinner is tea but it was tea when I was growing up

i got ribbed mercifully for changing my stripes when I left home

orange juice isn't just for breakfast anymore

when y'all say "dinner is tea" that means instead of eating dinner you drink tea? what in the....

haha this is the most baffling thread title ever to me

yeah to an american this reads like a poorly translated zen koan or something

you eat tea too???????

smdh

ive covered the tea thing, yanks

in one ear and out the other innit

eh not the traditional serving methed, no

we need an equivalently confusing thread like 'is doritos locos tacos a form of chips or a form of tacos'

why don't you run along and do that then :)

eh it's tacos what's confusing about that

well the goal would be to throw the britishers off w/ the word chips

When I was a lad it was:

Dinner = lunch
Tea = dinner

But now it's:

Lunch = lunch
Dinner = dinner

Sad in a way but you can't hold back progress

Tea, as a name for a meal, no longer exists for me :(

I thought you had tea at tea time, which was like 4 pm

so do you have two teas

Supper is the last meal of the day, often just a snack. Dinner is the main meal of the day. For many Americans before electricity, that means they were dining some time in the afternoon. For some Northern Britons, their tea would be my dinner but I imagine my dinner's later than their tea.

High Tea at 4, iatee. Tea is a Northernism for dinner.

No, tea was the main evening meal, as in "You'll have had your tea?" (reference completely lost on Americans)

(xp)

Not "northern" it's working class

Pretty sure Cockneys, for example, say it (or used to)

yeah "tea" rarely refers to a time of day in the US. But not as confusing as the differences re: meals in Canadian French vs. French French. "déjeuner" is lunch in Paris but breakfast in Montreal.

Yes, pudding is dessert, that's another one!

what if someone wants pudding for pudding

you... eat pudding?

is pudding a more popular pudding in the uk than it is as a pudding in america

More confusing when someone wants something other than pudding for pudding

What puddng are we having for tea?

After tea

so you can have tea during pudding, pudding during tea, tea with your pudding during pudding, pudding with your tea during team, tea with something other than pudding during pudding, pudding with something other than tea during tea

I do drink tea with my tea too

After tea, hmmm. Is dessert part of dinner?

dessert is generally considered its own meal tho it immediately follows dinner most of the time

Did I mention that you can have a supper for your tea? A fish supper for instance?

pudding for breakfast obv

this is like a working-class brunch thread huh

Brunch? No time for brunch at the pithead, laddie

Xp so what's lunch in Montreal? Grand dejeuner?

I just asked two Montrealers about this and got different responses - one said I had it backwards, the other said I had it right, and that the French don't need to make a distinction because the convention there is to not eat a separate breakfast and lunch, thus no need to call breakfast "petit déjeuner". ILX Quebecers, please chime in!

huh i thought dinner=lunch was strictly a southern (us) thing, anyhow voted accordingly

typical in my childhood would've been a fish supper for tea and then toast and tea for supper.

tho we weren't posh enough to use the term 'supper', i don't think that light evening eat really had a name.

and that the French don't need to make a distinction because the convention there is to not eat a separate breakfast and lunch

Wrong

Xp so what's lunch in Montreal? Grand dejeuner?

in Quebec:
breakfast = déjeuner
mid-day meal = dîner
evening meal = souper

The French have their meal names completely wrong. From what I understand it mostly has to do with the fact that Louis XIV generally got up around noon but still wanted his first meal of the day to be called breakfast.

tho we weren't posh enough to use the term 'supper', i don't think that light evening eat really had a name.

Nah, supper only used in connection with stuff from the chippy (sorry, that's the crispy to you Americans)

So clear in German: Frühstück, Mittagessen, Abendessen

First Piece, midday eats, evening eats

The French have their meal names completely wrong.

This makes sense since Québecois would have retained the older nomenclature (as they do with many things) w/o participating as closely in the evolution of French French. It also follows the general older European custom of a large midday meal and a smaller evening snack.

tryin to remember if we ever had enough structure or eat enough meals to qualify them tbrr

Not being as silly as the English, darragh, I imagined the Irish meals would be:

Maidin prátaí

Mheán lae prátaí

Guinness

Tráthnóna prátaí

Anraith prátaí

(Sorry in advance)

that's.....not as unfair as you'd think

obv you'd dip an aul prataí in the guinness to be sure

drunch anyone

Is that drinks and snacks before your evening meal?

I like the idea of tarting it up and calling it druncheon.

aiui le drunch is some new french marketing gimmick for late long weekend lunches, (6-9pm), with booze

For me it sounds like a bag of pretzels and a few too many drinks while the sun is still shining.

breakfast (8am)
lunch (1pm)
dinner (7pm)
supper (only occasionally, 9pm+)

This thread has absolutely delivered what I wanted.

Pudding and dessert are both afters btw.

Dinner is the main meal of the day. Working people in the past, when such people tended to be farmers or laborers at physically demanding jobs, would eat their main meal in the middle of their day, generally around noon. This was dinner. The meal nearer to the end of the day was supper and it was not as large.

The aristocracy pushed dinner to the end of the daylight hours, because this was more akin to the middle of their day, since they could afford artificial light and stayed up late. The middle classes, as usual, copied this as soon as they could figure out how, and as artificial light became cheaper and more available, and jobs less tied to farm work, so did the working class.

look at all you fancy bastards with yr supper

we only got supper when mum had friends over & was pretending to be classy.

morning tea & afternoon tea though
staff of life imo

Aimless OTM, though many people in wheat dependent areas augmented their noodles/bread and ale with other things cooked (both for flavor and for hygeine) in soups.

no valid american answer to this question

I always thought supper was what either people from other parts of the country called dinner or people who ate dinner at like 5 called it.

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

Tea as a term for dinner confused the fuck out of me at first. As did pudding as a general term for dessert so

"What puddng are we having for tea?

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is probably the most confusing question of all wrt this topic for an American. Or it was for me me at least.

i didn't understand it but then i looked on wikipedia and now understand it

and heaven knows i'm miserable now

Between us at home, we've compromised (she's a lunch/dinner person; I'm a dinner/tea person)

The meal in the middle of the day is lunch. The mean in the evening is tea. Unless we have visitors, in which case it's dinner.

for my family dinner is lunch and tea is the evening meal. but i haven't found it to work like that outside the west of scotland very often so i have to navigate carefully.

fwiw I'm an eastcoaster and grew up with this too- think it's a panscotual thing. Irn Bru Rudyard Kipling ad to thread.

yeah as a class traitor it's quite possible that i just know fewer working class people when i'm not out west.

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wait so is tea lunch?

tea is before you and after 5