What do you call your main meals of the day?

[matticus]

Tea is at Tea Time 5 to 6, supper is after 8 to 9 and doesn't involve a sit down meal job, that's how its done in my part of Yorkshire so it must be right.

So if you go to a slightly fancy (or very fancy) restaurant for a meal at 8:30, or something formal like a reunion dinner, what do you call that?

 

[nickyboy]

It's not "tea", it's "w'tea"

FFS, do you know nothing?

 

[matticus]

It's not "tea", it's "w'tea"

FFS, do you know nothing?

From what region does this charming piece of dialect originate?

 

[Mo1959]

I’ve just had my tea.

 

[MichaelW2]

I’ve just had my tea.

You'll have had your tea then..

 

[alicat]

Can't decide what to 'ave for me tea.....

 

[oldwheels]

You'll have had your tea then..

Only if you live in Edinburgh.

 

[Arrowfoot]

Same confusion in Australia and New Zealand and depends on the state as well.

 

[Venod]

So if you go to a slightly fancy (or very fancy) restaurant for a meal at 8:30, or something formal like a reunion dinner, what do you call that?

Purgatory

Seriously we would say we are off out for a meal.

 

[PK99]

Lunch is at lunchtime - during the day
Dinner is at dinner time - at the evening

School dinner ladies?

 

[Fiona R]

I’ve just had my tea.

Blimey, I'm just about to start roasting the chicken for our dinner, which will be around 7.30. Didn't have it at the weekend as was too busy doing important things like riding my bike.

 

[Dave 123]

What about the posh folk who think their evening meal is supper?

Should be horse whipped!

 

[Profpointy]

What about the posh folk who think their evening meal is supper?

Those posh folk in Scotland who have a fish supper after the pub for instance

 

[Profpointy]

Dinner ladies, clue is in the name 😆

Ah yes but the dinner ladies were working class but the posh boys would have been having lunch.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

School dinners in the school dining hall in 1967