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over a year ago
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What do you call your evening meal?
I call it TEA and midday is DINNER or LUNCH. She completely disagrees and will correct me every time haha
What were you brought up calling it? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Lunch is st lunch time
dinner is at dinner time
Tea comes in a mug...
With our without milk
Sorted...."
That's exactly what she says!!
Apparently it's a Norfolk thing to call it tea  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Breakfast 7-9
Brunch 10-11
Elevenses
Lunch 12-1
Tea 3-4
High tea 4-5
Supper 6-7
Dinner 7-9
Stuffed "
I always thought brunch was skipping breakfast and knowing you weren't having lunch so you had a big brunch??? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Breakfast 7-9
Brunch 10-11
Elevenses
Lunch 12-1
Tea 3-4
High tea 4-5
Supper 6-7
Dinner 7-9
Stuffed
I always thought brunch was skipping breakfast and knowing you weren't having lunch so you had a big brunch??? "
Think you are Probably right , an instead of rather than an as well meal. ? |
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"What do you call your evening meal?
I call it TEA and midday is DINNER or LUNCH. She completely disagrees and will correct me every time haha
What were you brought up calling it? "
Evening meal would be tea or supper  |
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As a kid we were brought up having tea as an evening meal on a Sunday.
Probably because it consisted of a plate of sandwiches made from cold meat from Sunday lunch and usually served with a pot of tea.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Lunch is st lunch time
dinner is at dinner time
Tea comes in a mug...
With our without milk
Sorted....
That's exactly what she says!!
Apparently it's a Norfolk thing to call it tea "
It is, I called it Tea as a kid. Then I got educated  |
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We were abroad on holiday at a gite in France. A local invited us round to theirs for 'tea' later that day. We arrived smart with a bottle of wine, to realise they meant late afternoon cup of tea and biscuits.
We felt very embarassed, but they didn't realise the double meaning , so luckily they weren't aware of our embarrising mistake. We felt very un-cosmopolitan  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Lunch is st lunch time
dinner is at dinner time
Tea comes in a mug...
With our without milk
Sorted....
That's exactly what she says!!
Apparently it's a Norfolk thing to call it tea
It is, I called it Tea as a kid. Then I got educated "
Excuse me Mr moriarty..... What are you trying to say????
Don't make me crack my whip!! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"We were abroad on holiday at a gite in France. A local invited us round to theirs for 'tea' later that day. We arrived smart with a bottle of wine, to realise they meant late afternoon cup of tea and biscuits.
We felt very embarassed, but they didn't realise the double meaning , so luckily they weren't aware of our embarrising mistake. We felt very un-cosmopolitan "
Oh my, I actually just laughed at this!!!! brilliant |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lunch is st lunch time
dinner is at dinner time
Tea comes in a mug...
With our without milk
Sorted....
That's exactly what she says!!
Apparently it's a Norfolk thing to call it tea
It is, I called it Tea as a kid. Then I got educated
Excuse me Mr moriarty..... What are you trying to say????
Don't make me crack my whip!! "
Sorry, I forgot what it's like your side of town. You're doing well to manage three meals a day, go you  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"i thought tea was a northern colloquialism.
I called it dinner as a kid and got scoffed at.
I still believe it is.
Tea is for you common types.
i drink my tea not eat it.  "
Common as muck we are  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Lunch is st lunch time
dinner is at dinner time
Tea comes in a mug...
With our without milk
Sorted....
That's exactly what she says!!
Apparently it's a Norfolk thing to call it tea
It is, I called it Tea as a kid. Then I got educated
Excuse me Mr moriarty..... What are you trying to say????
Don't make me crack my whip!!
Sorry, I forgot what it's like your side of town. You're doing well to manage three meals a day, go you "
I only state 2 in my opening thread and most days I only have my TEA |
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By (user no longer on site)
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For this reason calling Tea time meal dinner.. I'm intregued to know what you called the ladies in your school that made your meal.. because I called them dinner ladies! Hence breakfast dinner tea ..  |
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"For this reason calling Tea time meal dinner.. I'm intregued to know what you called the ladies in your school that made your meal.. because I called them dinner ladies! Hence breakfast dinner tea .. "
Look on some advertisements, they require "lunch time assistants". |
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Was brought up in Cheshire. So Breakfast, Dinner and Tea. Then lived in Surrey for 12 years and I changed to Breakfast, lunch and Dinner to fit in with southerners!
Now living in Cheshire again with folks on a temp basis and my Dad says "What do you want for your Tea?"
My argument is always that you had Dinner Ladies at school; not Lunch Ladies.
So...it's Tea for evening meal!  |
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It depends where I am and who I’m speaking to as to what I call it so I don’t confuse them. If I’m north or talking to a northerner it’s dinner and tea, if a southerner or I’m down south it’s lunch and dinner. I don’t bat an eyelid to any of them, I’ve split my time enough to know what someone means and to adapt automatically when saying it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Was brought up in Cheshire. So Breakfast, Dinner and Tea. Then lived in Surrey for 12 years and I changed to Breakfast, lunch and Dinner to fit in with southerners!
Now living in Cheshire again with folks on a temp basis and my Dad says "What do you want for your Tea?"
My argument is always that you had Dinner Ladies at school; not Lunch Ladies.
So...it's Tea for evening meal! "
Lunchtime Controllers now but yep back in the day we called them Dinner Ladies. |
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Breakfast (meal before noon)
Lunch (meal between 12-3pm)
Dinner/Tea (meal between 3-6pm)
*Supper (meal had before bedtime)
*usually light, had especially when dinner (or tea) is had earlier that 6pm and you stayed up late in the evening. |
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"We were abroad on holiday at a gite in France. A local invited us round to theirs for 'tea' later that day. We arrived smart with a bottle of wine, to realise they meant late afternoon cup of tea and biscuits.
We felt very embarassed, but they didn't realise the double meaning , so luckily they weren't aware of our embarrising mistake. We felt very un-cosmopolitan "
I was visiting my French relatives back in 2002 and at 4pm they started getting quite agitated and looking at their watches and sort of looking at me expectantly.
Turns out they assumed everyone in England drinks tea at 4 o'clock, and the fact that I hadn't asked for any was setting them on edge!
They'd gone and bought some teabags in readiness for me! (Lipton of course, as that's the only bloody teabags they seem to do over there as far as I've seen!) |
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