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This started off as a bet between me and a friend who also uses NS. I say "dinner" for the evening meal and he refers to it as "tea." I assured him that dinner was correct but he just can't take it. So I wondered whether anyone would like to go on this lovely poll and either agree with or dismidd my word. There are several words for the evening meal now. In some cases, they are specific to certain areas. Which do you use and if you do use another word that is not listed please specify. (poll coming)

My family always called it supper. Dinner is what we had at like 2pm on Sundays at my gramma's house (always pasta).

I call it supper. But I am an American and completely insane.

Supper!

damn. should have thought of supper *slaps self*

It's generally called dinner around here, but I hear supper now and then.

You know, there is this difference between a dinner party and a tea party... ;)

Breakfast, (Elevenses/Brunch), Lunch, Tea, Dinner, Supper is the technical (chronoloigcal) order. Tea is the term I use for the evening meal, though it isn't technically correct, but then we don't have the meal that would be called tea any more, taken at (unsurprisingly) Teatime. (4-5p.m.)
Also, I tend to eat it at about 8 or 9, which really makes it supper, and I sometimes use that term.

You know, there is this difference between a dinner party and a tea party... ;)

Yes, but I'm referring to what you actually call the meal. ie. "Im just going to have my tea" or "Can't answer the phone now I'm eating my dinner." or something like that anyway...
I wish we could all have an online tea party.....

Breakfast, (Elevenses/Brunch), Lunch, Tea, Dinner, Supper is the technical (chronoloigcal) order. Tea is the term I use for the evening meal, though it isn't technically correct, but then we don't have the meal that would be called tea any more, taken at (unsurprisingly) Teatime. (4-5p.m.)
Also, I tend to eat it at about 8 or 9, which really makes it supper, and I sometimes use that term.

You forgot second breakfast.


Saxnot what your country can do for you...

You forgot second breakfast.


I was wondering how long it would take someone to say that! :)

You forgot second breakfast.


Saxnot what your country can do for you...

This isn't middle-earth, you know *shakes head vehemently*

We have tea, then supper. When I was growing up, dinner was the midday meal, but now we just use the word for a big sit-down meal, whether at lunchtime or in the evening.

This started off as a bet between me and a friend who also uses NS. I say "dinner" for the evening meal and he refers to it as "tea." I assured him that dinner was correct but he just can't take it. So I wondered whether anyone would like to go on this lovely poll and either agree with or dismidd my word. There are several words for the evening meal now. In some cases, they are specific to certain areas. Which do you use and if you do use another word that is not listed please specify. (poll coming)

Tea, it's definitely tea... your friend is right :D

This isn't middle-earth, you know *shakes head vehemently*

Yes it is! :)

i like dinner, but i do use tea very occasionaly

My main meal is at midday 'cause I usually skip breakfast and have lunch instead (or a brunch for that matter). For supper it's mostly a little less food and usually not prepared as a warm meal (or fried up leftovers from noon). Dinner is what I get served for lunch or supper when I'm visiting home on a weekend.

Dinner. Tea's just so common :p

My family always called it supper. Dinner is what we had at like 2pm on Sundays at my gramma's house (always pasta).

I started to say "same here!", but of course here it's 晩御飯 (ばんごはん　or "ban-gohan" - literally "evening rice/meal"). It is supper back home, however.

This isn't middle-earth, you know *shakes head vehemently*

My city was basically renamed middle earth for about 3 years. Apparently anyway.

Supper!

It goes..

Breakfast, Dinner, Tea, then Supper!

Yay.

Except I don't have tea, and I generally refer to Dinner as 'Lunch'.

I've never eaten tea. I don't even drink the nasty brew. Gimme Coffee!! :) When I moved to Houston 22 years ago I was very surprised one day to have someone tell me they were eating dinner at noon. I'd heard the word supper used for the evening meal but that was the first time I'd heard lunch called anything but "lunch". I grew up eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Dinner, where we eat the other white meat !

This is at 3pm usually.

It's tea, as in tea-time. At school we had the dinner hour. Also the term "school dinners" would become "school lunches". Also sunday dinner is eaten in the afternoon

I moved to SE England from the NW and noticed that there is a definite difference north/south - in the north it's brekkie, dinner, tea while in the south its mostly brekkie, lunch, dinner

Historically I know it was breakfast, luncheon, tea, dinner, supper though. Think tiffin might have a place in there as well somewhere

Where I am from and almost every one I know have it this way!
Breakfast in the morning. Dinner at midday. Then Tea at about 5. Tea is always a small meal of tea and porradge or a sandwhich.

I have tea at nite. Dinner at 1pm

Either dinner or supper works for me. I always thought "tea" was just a late afternoon snack in England. :confused:

I'll use either, really. For me, both refer to a hot evening meal. The food I have right before I go to bed is what I refer to as supper. And lunch is lunch. Simple. :)

Tea mostly, or dinner. I know people who say dinner when they're talking about lunch.

Emm, I go by what the meal is, not when I eat it. Dinner is the main meal - it has food like potatoes and meat and vegetables and stuff and is hot. Lunch is a sort of snack in the middle of the day - with sandwiches and coffee. Tea is the same, but later. And supper is a smaller kind of tea - maybe coffee or tea and some biscuits or a small sandwich - later on at night.
That's in my house, anyways. And we eat dinner whenever, anytime from twelve midday to nine pm...

I know that I use supper and dinner interchangibly...but in South Dakota, where a good deal of my family reside, they say dinner for the noon meal, and supper for the evening meal

Don't forget brunch. Admittdly a sort of a late breakfast, but you could have it as well as the others. If you're hungry or fat.