What do you call it? Dinner or Tea?

[Seatherny]

What do you call your evening meal? Tea or Dinner?

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[N!ck]

Tea...

[cocaine]

dinner

[Roxy]

Tea & I call lunch dinner

[hah]

dinner i never use tea lol
and i only call lunch things i eat during school :P

[Suspective]

Dinner

[Special]

Tea & I call lunch dinner

Same applies

[Eoin]

i call lunch, dinner.
and evening meal is called tea
;)

[Jamesy]

Tea. Lunch I call Lunch. Don't even think anyone in my family says Dinner

[scott]

dinner lol

[Rozi]

Am I the only one who says both? :S

[Hecktix]

I refer to it as both really, but I thought it was a North/South thing?

[Melsia]

I call it tea :D
dinner is usually a cooked lunch for me

[Meanies]

teaaa
dinner is lunch not tea soz

[GommeInc]

Depends what time really. Dinner is a late evening meal for me, while tea tends to be an early evening meal :) I tend to call it both though :/

[Seatherny]

Tea is a drink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Blue]

Tea is a drink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YESS

Lunch, then dinner

[dbgtz]

It depends on my sentence and who I'm talking to I guess. I naturally say dinner as it would kinda weird if you said: "would you like some tea with your tea, and with this tea do you want some sugar or milk?" so yer.

[Tash.]

Tea is a drink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahahaa I see you have failed in your attempt to prove me wrong!!

Tea is the meal you eat on an evening. Dinner is the meal we eat in the middle of the day, also known as Lunch to some.

[Blinger1]

depends on my mood i think, i call it both tea and dinner...

[ChickenFaces]

Never heard anyone call it tea before. Maybe because I live in the US could be wrong. I call it dinner. ;DD

[Smits]

I call it tea

[brandon]

Dinner.

When people call lunch, dinner, it confuses me. :(

[Swearwolf]

i get confused when people say tea lol. its a drink..... its dinner ofc

[crazed]

Tea & I call lunch dinner
This :)

[Misawa]

Dinner. "Tea" is old-fashioned and stems simply from afternoon/late afternoon tea, where people often had cups of tea in the afternoon with sandwiches and cakes. Top hotels still offer this service.

[dirrty]

dinner. i find it weird if i say tea, doesn't sound right.

[camera]

Tea is a drink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Exactly!

Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Tea? We dont even use that term for meals.

[Eoin]

Dinner. "Tea" is old-fashioned and stems simply from afternoon/late afternoon tea, where people often had cups of tea in the afternoon with sandwiches and cakes. Top hotels still offer this service.

is that high tea?

when you get tea/coffee and cakes after?

[buttons]

supper

dinner/lunch are the same thing up here lol

[Eoin]

supper

dinner/lunch are the same thing up here lol

supper is something to eat between teatime and bed for me

[Catzsy]

Whenever we have the main meal it is Dinner so evenings mostly but in the day on Sundays which is when we have tea later (it being a light snack). Otherwise the meal in the middle of the day is lunch.

[cocaine]

tea is a drink. dinner is the evening meal, suppers for greedy people who want to eat between dinner and bedtime

[FlyingJesus]

tbh my evening meal is usually breakfast but if I'm eating at normal times then the evening meal is dinner. People who use the term tea for it are poor

[Catzsy]

tbh my evening meal is usually breakfast but if I'm eating at normal times then the evening meal is dinner. People who use the term tea for it are poor

LOL:D

Tea was a actually a term used by the middle to upper classes and High Tea traditionally used by the working population.
It then devolved into tea. I don't actually think it matters much.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/food/tea.htm

[Nicola]

I normally call it tea but I will occasionally call it dinner.

[buttons]

supper is something to eat between teatime and bed for me
like what? my friend is from bristol n she calls a snack (ie a bowl of cereal ;l) before bed 'supper'

[ecstasy]

dinner

[Jam-ez]

i call it dinner when it's a /sunday dinner/, and tea the rest of the time. lunch is midday for me.

[Molly.22]

Mostly tea, I call it dinner sometimes though :P

[Jamiie]

Lunch or Dinner then Tea :D

[Misawa]

is that high tea?

when you get tea/coffee and cakes after?

Yes indeed.

[Oleh]

Tea obviously , as it should be called

We use lunch time or dinner time for meal at school

[Black_Apalachi]

Either really, but when I stop and think about it I hate the term 'tea' being used to refer to a proper meal. So I prefer dinner. My mum on the other hand, she calls every bloody meal 'dinner'.

I love the word 'supper'. I think of it as just a snack between dinner and bed. But I don't conform to any routine eating habit so I never actually say 'I am having supper', I just go get a packet of crisps or whatever I want.

[poppypuppy1]

Dinner.

I Think Tea is like 'Tea' (A Cuppa Tea) LOL

[syko2006]

Dinner. :D

[Martin]

Tea :D "It's tea time" or "What's for tea" etc etc

I sometimes call lunch dinner, like on a Sunday I'll call it "Sunday Dinner" :D

[nat965]

I call it tea mostly :)

[HotelUser]

in North America tea is a drink, and Dinner is what we call the third meal of the day.

[,Lexiilu]

DINNER ;D

same as david ^

[Richie]

Dinner, tea is a drink *glares at nicola*

[Black_Apalachi]

in North America tea is a drink, and Dinner is what we call the third meal of the day.

We still drink tea as well regardless of what we call our meals. :P

[ChickenFaces]

Calls it dinner. Thanks this is all over now that I have replied :D

[Yonder]

dinner lol

Tea but since i moved to Canada i confuse people so i try to say dinner.

[Robbie]

teaaaaaaa

[Hushie]

Teatime :)

[Cosmic]

dinner & tea. Think it's pretty much the same for everyone in my area.

[Aidenn]

Dinner =]

[wiktoria]

dinner...

[HotelUser]

We still drink tea as well regardless of what we call our meals. :P

Oh, I didn't know that :D

[Lindsey]

Dinner, or Supper, ;)

[Black_Apalachi]

Oh, I didn't know that :D

I thought the yanks had a stereotype that we live off tea?! I know you're Canadian but still :P

[Janet Snakehole]

tea, I see dinner as in like... dinner time at school/college or something haha.

[Chipmunks]

Dinner

[RoyalPacific]

Normally call it dinner, sometimes tea. :)

[-Moniquee.]

I say both, I probably use dinner more though.

[compositeLegend]

Dinner. I used to get confused about what tea meant.. I thought it was like a light meal, then I realised it referred to dinner.
It's sort of like in my language, where the word rice is used interchangeably to refer to dinner.