your evening meal - is it your tea? dinner? supper?
and what about your lunch - is it lunch or dinner?
2007-05-16 01:21:47 · 52 answers · asked by Kirsty 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I used to call it tea, but when I moved to London i started calling it dinner because people would giggle when I said tea! Now I have moved back up north I call it tea again, safe in the knowledge that no one will mock me!
2007-05-16 01:29:32 · answer #1 · answered by lily_sammie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lunch is always around midday.
The evening meal is dinner if it's cooked and tea if it's light like sandwiches and cake. Supper is if you have a biscuit or glass of milk before you go to bed!
2007-05-16 01:28:40 · answer #2 · answered by Clare D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tea. But that's just the English way. I believe Americans call it Dinner. Supper is after your evening meal... at night time.
2007-05-16 01:27:02 · answer #3 · answered by Danielle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I call evening meals tea and lunch is lunch. It was what I was taught as a kid so it's always been that way. Though my friend calls tea supper and lunch is afternoon munch.
2007-05-16 01:34:53 · answer #4 · answered by rachael t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dinner and lunch. where i used to live the evening meal was more commonly called 'tea', it seems to be more a northern british thing to have dinner in the middle of the day and tea at night.
2007-05-16 01:26:46 · answer #5 · answered by AJ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Breakfast, Dinner, Supper. Around other people we'll call dinner lunch though.
2007-05-16 01:25:57 · answer #6 · answered by They call me ... Trixie. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was brought up to have breakfast dinner and tea.
We had a carer from South Africa who tried to insist calling my ladies and gentlemen for dinner at 5pm .... They're confused enough upstairs but she wouldn't have it.
Supper is just before you go to bed, a small, light meal. We didn't have supper when I was growing up. Mam didn't want it lying on our stomachs.
I've I'm ever invited out for a meal (I'm never invited out for a meal), I still don't call it dinner (dinner? At night?), I just say I'm going out for a meal.
For the record the last time that happened was three years ago for my sister's 25th anniversary, which was the last time I left the North East (she's in Kent). Time before that that I went out for a meal would have been .... oooh .... errrrm .... my 24th birthday, I think (41 now). I had to arrange it and several tried to to get out of it.
I'm telling lies. My best friend came up at the start of the year and she insisted we went out for a meal on the day she came and the day before she left.
I estimate that I've been out for a meal about a dozen times in my entire life.
2007-05-16 01:34:50 · answer #7 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Breakfast lunch and supper. Sometimes I call supper dinner.
2007-05-16 01:24:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Between lunch and dinner, it's usually called afternoon tea.
2007-05-16 01:25:07 · answer #9 · answered by changmw 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
evening meal = dinner (sometimes I say tea)
lunch = lunch
2007-05-16 01:24:16 · answer #10 · answered by flyingconfused 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋