Lunch and Dinner or Dinner and Tea?

[machine cat]

Which of these two terms do you use? Do you ever use both?

I tend to say dinner and tea but have been known to say lunch and dinner (unintentionally of course) on occasion.

I suspect the poll results may show a North/South divide...

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It was dinner and tea when I was growing up. I say lunch and tea/dinner now.

 

[Biddlybee]

Mix of the two... tend to say lunch and tea. It confuses some people if you call your midday meal dinner

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Which of these two terms do you use? Do you ever use both?

I tend to say dinner and tea but have been known to say lunch and dinner (unintentionally of course) on occasion.

I suspect the poll results may show a North/South divide...

Dinner and Tea or, sometimes, Lunch and Tea. Very, very rarely do I refer to the evening meal as dinner, really only if I am going out somewhere!

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

erm WHAT?

surely it's lunch and tea?

the poll is FLAWED!

 

[innit]

lunch and tea or dinner (I make tea but go out for dinner?)

 

[TitanSound]

Lunch and Dinner

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I make tea but go out for dinner

That sounds about right for me too.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

lunch and tea or dinner (I make tea but go out for dinner?)

Good description

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

i've never met anyone who refers to lunch as 'dinner'??

 

[Lea]

Lunch and dinner. I always think of tea as high tea! Very posh!

 

[Biddlybee]

i've never met anyone who refers to lunch as 'dinner'??

Did you never have dinner time at school or dinner ladies?

 

[tarannau]

Nobody should ever call lunch 'dinner' unless they are in primary school and go to bed before 7pm

And nobody should call dinner 'tea' unless they're a fusty archaic type from middle England's Just William books or similar.

Only humorous northern relatives used to call dinner 'tea' when I was a nipper in London. And now it seems only to be throwback and pompous types who get aggravated about the correctness of saying 'tea,'the sort who get sniffy about the use of settee, lounge and lavatory

It's clearly lunch and dinner, isn't it? Get with the rest of the world and common sense

 

[danny la rouge]

i've never met anyone who refers to lunch as 'dinner'??

School dinners. Dinner ladies.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

lunch and tea or dinner (I make tea but go out for dinner?)

yeah, or this. Good, i haven't gone mad.

 

[machine cat]

i've never met anyone who refers to lunch as 'dinner'??

I do

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

Did you never have dinner time at school or dinner ladies?

it was always called 'lunch' time and 'lunch' ladies.

 

[boing!]

Lunch and tea.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Saying tea is posh?

 

[Biddlybee]

pompous types

and that up there ^ isn't a pompous attitude?

 

[Biddlybee]

it was always called 'lunch' time and 'lunch' ladies.

lunch ladies?

 

[Idaho]

lunch and tea or dinner (I make tea but go out for dinner?)

Yes.

My in-laws sometimes refer to the evening meal as "Supper" which is plainly wrong. Supper is a hot drink and a biscuit at about 9 o'clock.

 

[danny la rouge]

Saying tea is posh?

No. Saying Dinner at teatime is posh. That's why when you have people round for a posh tea you call it dinner.

 

[machine cat]

who the fuck says lunch ladies?

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

lunch ladies?

That's what they were called!

 

[danny la rouge]

who the fuck says lunch ladies?

Ladies-Who-Lunch probably do. Proving once and for all how unbelievably posh it is.

 

[tarannau]

How is it pompous to call dinner and tea their most logical and often used names?


Oh, I'll call this meal the name of a hot beverage because that's what Great Aunty Ethel said in the 1950's. That's that and there can be no changing of language, at all. I'm proud in sounding like an archaic type from a provincial boarding school.

 

[machine cat]

That's what they were called!

You're nuts!

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

I think 'tea' for dinner might be a scottish expression?

 

[danny la rouge]

Yes.

My in-laws sometimes refer to the evening meal as "Supper" which is plainly wrong. Supper is a hot drink and a biscuit at about 9 o'clock.

Correct.