yesterday i asked a question and asked what should i cook for tea ok so what do you call and early evening meal and yes i am british
2007-03-01 22:31:51 · 50 answers · asked by old-bag 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
its a north/south divide thing, i think. Southerners prefer dinner and Northerners prefer tea. similarly southerners call the midday meal 'lunch' and northerners favour 'dinner'. perhaps it's different for every different region.
Here in the north east, it's breakfast, dinner, tea, supper in that order.
2007-03-01 22:53:48 · answer #1 · answered by isildurs_babe 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Isn't the order supposed to be, depending on where you are from
Breakfast
11's
Lunch
Tea in the late afternoon or early evening
Dinner in the evening
Then supper late at night.
I normally eat earlier so I would call my meal tea but by the time the other half gets home his meal is dinner.
It has become very confusing because not everyone has time for breakfast now let alone all the other meal times.
2007-03-01 23:02:19 · answer #2 · answered by Jo H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I call the main cooked meal of the day dinner, whether eaten at lunch time or in the evening.
Tea consists of sandwiches, cakes etc normally eaten in the afternoon or early evening, having had a cooked meal between 1 and 2 pm.
2007-03-01 22:48:14 · answer #3 · answered by Clive 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For an informal family meal when we all get in from work or school, we'd say "tea"
For a more formal occasion, or if we go out to eat in the evening, we would say "dinner".
If I was talking to someone about what we were going to eat I would refer to it as our "evening meal".
I think that's what I'd say anyway, I always find with this sort of question that when I think too hard about it, I can't remember for sure!
2007-03-01 22:46:59 · answer #4 · answered by chip2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It goes
Breakfast
Brunch
Lunch
Tea
Dinner
Supper
So an early evening meal is typically called Dinner though can be called Tea or Supper depending on regional variations
2007-03-01 22:41:50 · answer #5 · answered by Claiire 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tea
2007-03-01 22:44:51 · answer #6 · answered by sm80 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being from Yorkshire, normally I say tea. However, if going to eat out at a restaurant in the evening, I generally go out for 'dinner' (even though, yes, I know, dinner to me is actually around 12ish midday).
At home though it's definitely tea.
2007-03-02 04:01:08 · answer #7 · answered by hevs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinner - your supposed to have 3 meals a day - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tea and supper are just snacks
2007-03-01 23:43:12 · answer #8 · answered by Angels are everywhere! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always used to call it Tea, and the meal and noon was dinner, but since I moved down south It has become Lunch and dinner! I`m ashamed to say it, but I am becoming un-northern!!
2007-03-01 23:47:53 · answer #9 · answered by mrssandii1982 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I call it Tea.
Breakfast, Dinner and Tea
2007-03-01 23:00:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋