FabSwingers.com forum: Tea or dinner

By *ames5169 OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

What do you call your evening meal?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dinner.

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By *ryandseeMan
over a year ago

Yorkshire

I will search for dinner or tea for last week's thread, a very interesting a lively debate

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tea. Dinner is a mid-day meal. I only know this because the staff serving the mid-day meal at school were called Dinner Ladies. If they were Ladies who Lunch they'd have been too pissed to serve 800 meals - I've seen Sex in the City, I know what happens at 'lunch'...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dinner

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It depends on when I have had my main meal. If I have my main meal at 1pm than I would have tea in the evenings but if my main meal is in the evening then it's dinner.

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By *VineMan
over a year ago

The right place

It depends. Dinner is a term typically used to describe the main meal of the day, irrespective of whether it's in the middle of the day or in the evening.

I usually have a main meal in the evening so I mostly call it dinner. Although sometimes I refer to it as tea. Let's face it, it doesn't really matter.

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By *ames5169 OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Dinner. "

Posh !! Xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sometimes tea sometimes dinner

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By *ames5169 OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Dinner. "

What time do you want me? Lol xxx

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

• breakfast - but only if you need to...

• lunch - if it's smaller/quicker and you are eating later too...

• dinner - is at any point when it's the one big meal of the day (or your at school where it's used formally along with lunch.)

• tea - is a communal family meal after work, ie "it's tea time".

• supper - is when you really enjoy your food.

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By * and R cple4Couple
over a year ago

swansea

Tea …

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By *ryandseeMan
over a year ago

Yorkshire

Breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper. Apparently dinner is your main meal so if you have yours at lunchtime it's your dinner. I have a light lunch so my evening meal is me dinner

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By *ames5169 OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Tea …"

Correct !!! Xxx

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By *ames5169 OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

"• breakfast - but only if you need to...

• lunch - if it's smaller/quicker and you are eating later too...

• dinner - is at any point when it's the one big meal of the day (or your at school where it's used formally along with lunch.)

• tea - is a communal family meal after work, ie "it's tea time".

• supper - is when you really enjoy your food."

An exhaustive list

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Just calling tea 'dinner' (esp after eating properly earlier) is very 'milk in first' imo! Mutton dressed as lamb you are!

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"• breakfast - but only if you need to...

• lunch - if it's smaller/quicker and you are eating later too...

• dinner - is at any point when it's the one big meal of the day (or your at school where it's used formally along with lunch.)

• tea - is a communal family meal after work, ie "it's tea time".

• supper - is when you really enjoy your food.

An exhaustive list "

--Or exhausting lol. But I missed out tiffing and elevenses. -

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By *toC Thats MeWoman
over a year ago

Sheffield

Tea.

It’s breakfast, dinner, tea.

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By *ancer36Woman
over a year ago

Stirling

Dinner x

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By *ames5169 OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Tea.

It’s breakfast, dinner, tea."

All present and correct xxx

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

Tea......

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By *ames5169 OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Dinner x"

Is that a Scottish thing? What do you want me? Lol

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By *ollycouple71Couple
over a year ago

manchester

"Tea.

It’s breakfast, dinner, tea."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You drink tea you eat dinner

Simples

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By *ames5169 OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

"You drink tea you eat dinner

Simples "

An interesting argument

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

Dinner....in Scotland its breakfast, lunch and dinner x

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By *inkyRebelMan
over a year ago

Swindon

Breakfast, lunch and Dinner in my family

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"You drink tea you eat dinner

Simples "

--What if your main meal is breakfast (which used to happen - not everyone needs large or calorific ones to last them the whole day now), nothing happens at lunchtime at all, dinner is mainly on Sundays (and often early!), and tea was what you drank when you gathered at night for what's left? (or supper if you missed it due to work).

All these things have history.-

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By *al kalMan
over a year ago

london

Stomach orgy…

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By *ames5169 OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Stomach orgy…"

A new one !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chow time.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"You drink tea you eat dinner

Simples

All these things have history.-"

Stop bamboozling me with history and rationale! It’s cruel and complicates my simple mind

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By *he love catsCouple
over a year ago

South Wales

Breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dinner

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

For us; Breakfast if we wanted it, lunch (which was sometimes called "dinner time"), tea, and dinner most-typically when it meant something like Sundays.

The idea of dinner as the principal meal of the day has left us partly because we eat so much nowadays - esp breakfast, which is a huge sugar and salt industry which many people simply don't need any more.

So it's partly become a localised thing:

To some people 'dinner' as a set evening meal sounds over-formal, to others it's simply what they grew up with.--

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"You drink tea you eat dinner

Simples

All these things have history.-

Stop bamboozling me with history and rationale! It’s cruel and complicates my simple mind

lol sorry

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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago

Camberley occasionally doncaster

As per last week's thread.

Midday meal is dinner if you eat in or lunch if you eat out, or have made sandwiches.

Evening meal is tea if you eat in, dinner if you eat out. However if you are in your PJs it is acceptable to call this meal supper, as long as its after 7pm.

Clear?

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

The northern in me still says tea sometimes but I mostly say dinner now

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By *ildmanYorksMan
over a year ago

Doncaster & Bembridge

If we're at home cooking something it's tea, but if we're going out for a meal it's dinner.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Dinner.

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By *r easy1981Man
over a year ago

leeds

Tea

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By *aughty_Smooth_OperatorMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

I don't even why they ever came up with tea when it's dinner. We'll tea is tea who wants a cup of tea so a drink right so how can you call a meal tea silly really I will have my dinner later and may have a cup of tea after

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London

Dinner.

We know the tea/dinner divide happens somewhere along the M1, but do we know where? What's the furthest south that "dinner" is routinely called "tea"?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dinner x

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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago

cognito

Didn’t we already have this thread last week?!

It depends on if mercury is conjunct Mars in Aries and the moon is full in Capricorn as to whether I call it dinner or tea

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dinner..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dinner

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

Dinner, it does depend what we’re having though. Let’s say it was egg & chips, I couldnt call that dinner. If I made something posh involving a lot of pans, it’s dinner

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By *ife NinjaMan
over a year ago

Dunfermline

Tea....breakfast, dinner, tea, supper. Easy really

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By *apxxxWoman
over a year ago

North Shropshire not Wales!!!ffs & Manchester

Breakfast, elevenses, lunch,afternoon tea, dinner and supper!...suddenly dawned on me why I'm q bbw

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Future poo.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dinner

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tea

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I first moved to Sheffield I got very confused when I girl I was seeing told me to call her at tea time. To me tea time was sort of 4pm ie late afternoon. Turned out that she actually meant early evening around 7?

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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago

Camberley occasionally doncaster

Very disappointed that as I scrolled down quickly past a line of

Dinner

Responses nobody put "batman"

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By *awpleasureMan
over a year ago

Sutton Coldfield

Depends where you live around the country. There is no right or wrong answer. Call it what you like.

OP saying correct to people who agree with him. What's all that about?

What's next?

A cob, batch, barm & roll thread?

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"Future poo."

Colonic brew

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dinner.

The same thing restaurant menus all over the country call it.

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By *ames5169 OP Man
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Dinner.

The same thing restaurant menus all over the country call it."

Good point I guess xxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What do you call your evening meal? "

Burnt again!!

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By *appytrailmanMan
over a year ago

Manchester

It's your tea dinner is between 11:30 and 1:30 in my opinion

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"What do you call your evening meal? "

You drink tea and eat dinner

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

"Dinner.

The same thing restaurant menus all over the country call it."

---Many do Lunch and Dinner, but others do Daytime (or Lunchtime) and Evening menus, but this is always formal surely, as it's eating out (and the less formal the setting, the less likely they will call it Dinner I expect). ---

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By *awpleasureMan
over a year ago

Sutton Coldfield

"Dinner.

The same thing restaurant menus all over the country call it."

Breakfast, lunch, dinner on menus

If people want to refer to their three square meals as breakfast, dinner tea then that's their right.

On a Sunday we have a roast dinner about 3pm. If peckish around 7pm we might have something light like a tin of soup or beans on toast.

Is that supper or tea?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It’s breakfast, lunch and then dinner. You drink tea

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By *merald Eyes XWoman
over a year ago

Can you find me….

Dinner

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"What do you call your evening meal? "

Tea, dinner, supper, food, eats.... Any of the above

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Definitely Tea, dinner is at dinner time

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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago

Catthorpe

I have my dinner at work then another dinner later with the family.

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By *otMe66Man
over a year ago

Terra Firma

"Tea. Dinner is a mid-day meal. I only know this because the staff serving the mid-day meal at school were called Dinner Ladies. If they were Ladies who Lunch they'd have been too pissed to serve 800 meals - I've seen Sex in the City, I know what happens at 'lunch'..."

Dinner is the main meal of the day. Sunday Dinner is an example of this.

Not so common now but it still is a thing, school was the place that children had their only meal or main meal of the day. This is why they were called Dinner ladies

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