Tea or Dinner?

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **HrC** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:58 am

Carlos wrote:Dinner is a meal eaten by southerners at the end of the day. In the North we have tea instead. This is how Ive always seen it, having lived on both sides of the divide.

I'm a Geordie and I call it dinner...

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Return_of_the_STAR** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:00 am

Carlos wrote:Dinner is a meal eaten by southerners at the end of the day. In the North we have tea instead. This is how Ive always seen it, having lived on both sides of the divide.

This explains why as i live in the midlands i constantly change my mind as to what i call them. I always say lunch, however for my evening meal i use Tea and Dinner. Don't think i use one more than the other. Maybe it depends who i talk to at the time.

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Steve** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:38 am

Jus Luke wrote:I call it Tea because that is what it's called.

What do you call it then, tea or dinner?

Dinner. Isn't the term 'tea' and 'supper' just words used by poor people & northerners?

YouTube · PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Earfolds** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:46 am

I just looked this up.

If you miss out breakfast, it’s brunch. If you have breakfast, it’s lunch/dinner.

If you eat it at 3pm-5pm, it’s afternoon tea. If it’s at 5pm-6pm, it’s high tea.

Dinner is the main meal of the day, and is interchangeable depending on how heavy your lunch/tea is. The heavier one is/can be dinner. Either that, or upper-class people say dinner is the evening meal, while the working class use it for midday. I guess that includes middle-class, but some people say Breakfast, Lunch, and Tea, which is really weird.

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Steve** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:49 am

Ookami wrote:I just looked this up.

If you miss out breakfast, it’s brunch. If you have breakfast, it’s lunch/dinner.

If you eat it at 3pm-5pm, it’s afternoon tea. If it’s at 5pm-6pm, it’s high tea.

Dinner is the main meal of the day, and is interchangeable depending on how heavy your lunch/tea is. The heavier one is/can be dinner. Either that, or upper-class people say dinner is the evening meal, while the working class use it for midday. I guess that includes middle-class, but some people say Breakfast, Lunch, and Tea, which is really weird.

Breakfast, lunch & dinner. They are the three labels for the three meals a day. Anything else is clearly wrong 8-)

Anything in-between or after these meals is called a snack.

Brunch is a dog gooseberry fool word for yuppie tossers who think they are too important and too busy to make time for breakfast.

YouTube · PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Earfolds** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:53 am

Steve wrote:Brunch is a dog gooseberry fool word for yuppie tossers who think they are too important and too busy to make time for breakfast.

Exactly what I think of people who call dinner “lunch” but we can’t have it all?

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Steve** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:00 am

Ookami wrote:
Steve wrote:Brunch is a dog gooseberry fool word for yuppie tossers who think they are too important and too busy to make time for breakfast.

Exactly what I think of people who call dinner “lunch” but we can’t have it all?

But you have your dinner in the evening (a proper meal), lunch is just, well, lunch! (Sarnies or something small but enough to keep you going to the main meal of the day...).

YouTube · PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Earfolds** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:03 am

Steve wrote:
Ookami wrote:
Steve wrote:Brunch is a dog gooseberry fool word for yuppie tossers who think they are too important and too busy to make time for breakfast.

Exactly what I think of people who call dinner “lunch” but we can’t have it all?

But you have your dinner in the evening (a proper meal), lunch is just, well, lunch! (Sarnies or something small but enough to keep you going to the main meal of the day...).

Not if you have a cooked meal at 1pm, and a light meal at 5.

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Spindash** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:03 am

Steve wrote:(Sarnies or something small but enough to keep you going to the main meal of the day...)

You mean butties.

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **SEP** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:04 am

What if you have two main meals?

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Steve** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:05 am

MCN wrote:What if you have two main meals?

Potential Fat Bastard syndrome?

YouTube · PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Earfolds** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:05 am

MCN wrote:What if you have two main meals?

Breakfast, Dinner, ’nother Dinner.

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **SEP** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:06 am

Steve wrote:
MCN wrote:What if you have two main meals?

Potential Fat Bastard syndrome?

There's no "potential" about it. I'm fat and perfectly comfortable with it.

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Cuttooth** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:07 am

Soon we'll move onto the whole sofa/couch/settee debate.

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **SEP** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:11 am

Cuttooth wrote:Soon we'll move onto the whole sofa/couch/settee debate.

Wikipedia redirects both "Sofa" and "Settee" to "Couch".

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Starbreaker** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:21 am

Cuttooth wrote:Soon we'll move onto the whole sofa/couch/settee debate.

Sitting room/lounge/front room?

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Qikz** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:23 am

Starbreaker wrote:
Cuttooth wrote:Soon we'll move onto the whole sofa/couch/settee debate.

Sitting room/lounge/front room?

Lounge and the Setee, it's the only way.

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Starbreaker** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:24 am

StayingDead wrote:
Starbreaker wrote:
Cuttooth wrote:Soon we'll move onto the whole sofa/couch/settee debate.

Sitting room/lounge/front room?

Lounge and the Setee, it's the only way.

Poof.

Sitting room/sofa ftw.

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Spindash** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:24 am

Living room and settee.

PostRe: Tea or Dinner? by **Cuttooth** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:25 am

It's living room and always living room. And sofa.

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