What time is Dinner time?

[lawrawrrr]

sparked by a debate with scottish; I'm doing some scientific research

What time do you class as "dinner time" (and for you northerners to confirm I'm talking about evening meals)

I think any time between 7-8 is ideal!

[FlyingJesus]

Ya generally between 7 and 9 I guess unless I'm out doing something or forget

[-:Undertaker:-]

dinner time is at midday

breakfast - dinner - tea

tea time is anywhere between 5 to 8

[Sloths]

Dinner time and tea time are the same for me - around 6-8pm. However I wouldn’t call it tea time out loud but I would say what’s for tea? Which annoys my bf cuz he only uses dinnertime.

[scottish]

5PM-ish.

[LUCPIX]

8-10PM

[Lewis]

Normally around 5pm.

[Sho]

6-8pm for me although i call it supper

[LUCPIX]

6-8pm for me although i call it supper

But wait, is supper for some the dinner for others?!?!

I do ate supper (coffee, bread) at 5-6pm and then we usually have dinner around 9-10pm if this doesn't sound too unhealthy or exaggerated for foreign's stardands

[YellowBelli]

I usually have dinner on the table for 6.30pm but that’s because i get home from work about 6pm...Ideally, dinner should be at 6pm for us. :)

[Sho]

But wait, is supper for some the dinner for others?!?!

I do ate supper (coffee, bread) at 5-6pm and then we usually have dinner around 9-10pm if this doesn't sound too unhealthy or exaggerated for foreign's stardands

yes it''s dinner for others (or some call it tea). from what i've gathered, in english, the word "supper" can mean both a light meal/snack in the late evening or the last "main" meal of the day.

when i was learning english they taught me to use the word "tea" for the evening meal and "dinner" for lunch. but then we had a new teacher midway who then said that afternoon meal = "lunch" and evening meal = "dinner" and that swap confused my little brain so much that i ended up looking up the translation for the welsh word "swper" and using that word for the evening meal.

hope this makes sense cos typing on my phone is hard!!!

[Neversoft]

8pm

[RuthOnToast]

5-6 during the week before swim training then anytime between 7-9 at the weekend

[Keegan]

Normally around 5pm for me

[lawrawrrr]

i'm surprised at the amount of people who eat at 5, aren't you at work?????

[scottish]

you'd eat when you get home (like I get home about 5:20-5:30 so put dinner on when I get in)

[FlyingJesus]

Don't people get really hungry later on eating so early

[scottish]

that's when you eat some fruit or other snack

then you have cereal at like 9

[velvet]

like 6 at the earliest and 10 at the latest, but usually around 7-8

[Sonnynixon]

6PM - 8PM