Tea time - why is it called that?

Question

Is dinner time lunch time or the evening meal?
What should be eaten for supper and what time should it be served.

Answer 1

Tea time throughout much, but not all, of the UK is traditionally 4pm. Tea,scones cakes etc.

We used to have dinner, never lunch, in the middle of the day.

In New Zealand and parts of Yorkshire 'tea' is the name for the evening meal aka dinner.

Supper is served later on before bedtime. In Scotland it can include meat pies !

Now, all this talk of food has left me drooling. Bye for now. Guess where I'm going ?

Answer 2

Tea time was originated in England when the Ladies would have an afternoon break, they would gather together and have coffee, and,tea, with crumpets and biscuits which is really a cookie in our united states. As for dinner,(or what we call supper) that is the largest meal of the day, usually a , salad, and main course with dessert. We would have dinner usually in the evening except on Sunday, than it would be in the noon hour. Supper is usually smaller than a dinner and less formal but larger than our lunch at noon. Supper is usually served ( in the evening) it is considered our dinner in most of the United States and now days Dinner is a formal get together served afternoon or evening and is usually for a party. Good examples of this would be our Thanksgiving Dinner, Christmas dinner or Easter Dinner. They are usually served around 1 or 2 pm and in a lot of homes goes all day long. So to make a long story short we have breakfast, lunch and supper.

Answer 3

Tea time is a short break (like the American coffee break) between 4 and 6 PM. It is typically between 10 minutes and 30 minutes in length. It is a beverage and a light snack, to perk one up, and hold them over until later. Today Americans call it an "after school snack".

Supper is the LAST meal of the day, regardless of what time it's eaten. The term is derived from the French "souper", or in English "soup", and is the final meal before bedtime (which at one time was literally soup because it was light on the stomach and easy to digest while sleeping, and had a calming/warming effect that aided sleep).

Dinner is the main meal of the day. It's the big, heavy, filling meal, and usually an opportunity to socailize with friends and family. For some people this is mid-day, and for others it's the evening meal.

Most Americans interchange Dinner and Supper, because we usually eat our big, heavy meal in the evening, and last of the day (so both terms are technically correct).

Lunch is the mid-day meal, unless it is your main meal, in which case, your lunch is also your dinner.

Answer 4

It varies around the country. Tea time is usually around 3-4 pm and consists of, for example, a few sandwiches, cake and tea. The tea is the answer to calling it Tea Time = time for tea.

Dinner is usually referring to the evening meal - any time from 6 to 9 pm.

If a large lunch has been served then dinner is sometimes missed and a supper is served in its place - a lightish snack being the general theme and eaten 8 to 10 pm.

And that brings you back to breakfast!!!

Answer 5

The British drink tea and biscuits at "Tea Time." Americans would mostly likely call that a coffee break and drink coffee and eat donuts.

Dinner is your big meal of the day. Some eat it at noon (mid day) and others eat it late afternoon or evening -- whatever fits in with their lifestyle.

Supper is what is referred to as the late afternoon, or evening meal. Lunch is the mid-day meal.

Summing up, the meal eaten at either midday (noon) or late afternoon (evening) can both be called "Dinner" depending on lifestyle.

The range on "supper" is usually between 5:00-9:00, although some people eat earlier or later. Supper, is usually, the biggest meal of the day. Salad, meat, potatoes and dessert is most common. Pizza, pasta and tacos are good too. People like variety.

Answer 6

Tea Time is a British thing and just means having a cup of tea and a cake, usually taken in the afternoon ( afternoon tea ). It is lunch lime (derived from the word luncheon ) and the evening meal is supper

Answer 7

break fast because you break the fast of not eating all night it being the first meal of the day.

lunch is at noon
dinner about 4 to 5 in the evening

dinner is about 7 to 8 in the evening

and supper is about 9 to 10 in the evening

times do change to suit peoples house holds

regards x kitti x

Answer 8

Especially in East Anglia and the North of England, tea as a meal is synonymous with dinner in Standard English. Under such usage, the afternoon tea meal is sometimes termed dinner, or called 'afternoon tea' or 'high tea' so as to differentiate it from just plain 'tea', the evening meal. In parts of Scotland, the Midlands, South Wales and North-West of England, the term 'dinner' replaces lunch and 'tea' is synonymous with the main evening meal.

Answer 9

Depends where you come from.

My parents are from Yorkshire. For us, the midday meal was called "dinner" and the evening meal called "tea".

"Supper" was something you have when you felt peckish late at night, and was something like cheese + digestives and a glass of milk.

Answer 10

Us Posh-Nosh English people used to have something called "Afternoon Tea" at about 4ish.
Now that's been scrapped, except by the really High-Class Snobs, And we just call it Tea. And it's our Evening Meal