Its the question that devides my friends for ages.
Do you eat 'Dinner' or 'Tea' as your evening meal
I call it dinner as my argument is that you drink tea from a tea cup.
I know that others call it Tea as 'Dinner' is the meal for during the day.
Splits us up, but what do u call it, and why?
2007-11-25 19:13:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I M AN AUSTRALIAN RILEY!!!
and to anyone else who thinks im an American
2007-11-25 19:52:16 · update #1
same as .............dinner is sitting down with the family and having a meal in the eving after the day that has just gone
tea is a cup of tea
tea for dinner is old auzy slang
2007-11-25 19:20:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a regionalism. In Australia, people eat the evening meal and call it "tea." In the US, many people eat "dinner" in the evening. Though, there are a lot of Americans who eat "dinner"around noon and "supper" in the evening.
Look around, and see what Samuel Clemens meant by Brits and Americans as two peoples divided by a common language. Those Brits have different words for lots of common things. You know, an elevator is a lift; a lawyer is a solicitor; "knock you up" means "knock on your door," not what it does here, LOL.
2007-11-26 03:30:43 · answer #2 · answered by going_for_baroque 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Australia we have:
Brekky- Breakfast @ 7am
Smoko- Smoke and coffee break @10am
Dinner- Lunch (Big Meal) @12 midday
Arvo Tea- Smoke and coffee break in the Afternoon@3pm
Tea- Dinner (light Meal)@ 6pm
Supper- Late night Snack @ 10 -12 pm
It's Australian /Kiwi slang , Lunch used to be the main meal of the day so they called it dinner, Tea was a light evening meal of sandwiches and tea it changed to being called dinner Yank influence eating a big dinner (lunch instead at night )
2007-11-26 03:36:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Tea is not a dinner. Tea is a evening meal. We take dinner at night not during evening.
2007-11-26 03:20:34 · answer #4 · answered by sam.y 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dad told me in New Zealand when someone ask you over for tea, they dont mean just to drink tea and gather around. They actually meant you to have dinner with them. I would use dinner as a more appropriate word.
2007-11-26 03:17:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the answer to that. We don't call any meals "Tea" in the United States.
I do enjoy tea though, and should really try to drink more of it.
2007-11-26 03:16:33 · answer #6 · answered by The Yeti 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I call it 'tea'- Because I actually only have tea then.
'Course when I have visitors and guests I serve food then. But I still call it 'tea'.
2007-11-26 03:26:13 · answer #7 · answered by ✡ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the same meaning but i prefer calling it dinner
2007-11-26 03:16:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋