Lunch and Dinner or Dinner and Tea?

[tarannau]

Little Stirling and its inhabitants could fit many times into the suburban-o-bubble that is Croydon alone

(((sub bubble Stirling)))


I agree that tea is a Northernism in the main. But it's declining as surely as the diversity of dialects. Which is why it's slightly humorous to see people get animated about protecting its use down in the South in particular. That's doomed to affected failure.

 

[danny la rouge]

I call the evening meal 'tea' and I am none of those things

"Tea" is a northernism. I actually recall Brian Sewell bemoaning the use of the word instead of dinner. I can imagine the two of you together, agreeing. Like best friends.

That's exactly how I see Tara. I can imagine them eating pickled whelks from a market stall as if they did it every day, bemoaning, with their mangled diphthongs, the decline of the cockney culture they used to imbibe at their Bultlers' knee.

 

[yardbird]

What do you have between ten thirty and eleven?

Well spotted.
Pace up and down the kitchen waiting.

Supper can be rissoles
Never waste leftovers.

 

[danny la rouge]

Little Stirling and its inhabitants could fit many times into the suburban-o-bubble that is Croydon alone

And what? The Sewells outnumber us? So what? We'll eat you for dinner. Deep fried.

 

[discokermit]

What do you have for breakfast?

bacon sandwich. you'd get fed up with chips if you had them too often.

 

[tarannau]

Blimey, you clearly don't know Sewell or me. I think his whelk eating days are long gone

I'll meet you down the pattie shop from some brown stew fish though Danny. I'm a typical London mongrel of many an influence, whilst old Sewell boasts received pronunciation as surely and affectedly as the average homesick Northerener keeps on moaning about 'tea' on plates.

 

[Idaho]

I agree that tea is a Northernism in the main. But it's declining as surely as the diversity of dialects. Which is why it's slightly humorous to see people get animated about protecting its use down in the South in particular. That's doomed to affected failure.

I think you are affecting the humour. Your teethy guffaws are just to impress Brian.

 

[tarannau]

I do love the idea of Sewell associating himself with Croydon though

 

[danny la rouge]

Blimey, you clearly don't know Sewell or me. I think his whelk eating days are long gone

No, I don't know his dining habits as well as you.

 

[tarannau]

Call it a hunch. He's a different tribe

His Sloaney pals sometimes refer to 'tea' though. It's a throwback to their boarding school days in the regions.

 

[Idaho]

I'll meet you down the pattie shop from some brown stew fish though Danny.

That's definitely an affectation. An attempt to claim some fashionable heritage.

 

[machine cat]

bacon sandwich. you'd get fed up with chips if you had them too often.

best not be greedy eh?

 

[Idaho]

Call it a hunch. He's a different tribe

His Sloaney pals sometimes refer to 'tea' though. It's a throwback to their boarding school days in the regions.

They are only joshing with you.

 

[danny la rouge]

Call it a hunch. He's a different tribe

His Sloaney pals sometimes refer to 'tea' though. It's a throwback to their boarding school days in the regions.

No, you're thinking of afternoon tea, a different meal altogether. All cricket and old ladies and cucumber sandwiches.

 

[tarannau]

Never heard of that tea at all. I'm deprived

Cricket lunches are rum, chicken and pholourie, surely?

 

[danny la rouge]

Cricket lunches are rum, chicken and pholourie, surely?

Wouldn't know. And I haven't heard of the last thing, you ponce.

 

[tarannau]

They're cheap, deep fried things Danny, I thought you'd like them

 

[danny la rouge]

They're cheap, deep fried things Danny, I thought you like them

Must be southern. Will they have them when I go to Cornwall?

 

[DotCommunist]

I tend to go for the neutral of 'food' given that we eat at incredibly erratic times in this house

 

[kyser_soze]

I don't know what my answer to this thread is, but BY GOD I'm angry at everyone who disagrees with me over it.

 

[tarannau]

They're part of the melting pot of London Danny, not Southern in the slightest.

I'm not angry in the slightest Kyser. More bemused that anyone can get so animated or insistent about the use of a declining and soon to be archaic term.

 

[danny la rouge]

They're part of the melting pot of London Danny, not Southern in the slightest.

Ah, good. We have haggis pakora. Are they like that?

 

[tarannau]

Nah. It's more like a good old pakora without the Scottish affectation.

Think more like a split pea mini-festival. That's a corn dumpling to you

 

[Vintage Paw]

Ah, this old chestnut.

It's blates dinner and tea. And if I go out in the evening for a meal, I say I'm going out for a meal (or a curry, or a chinese, etc.). The only time I go out for dinner is if I eat out somewhere around midday.

I find myself slipping into saying lunch sometimes because I mix with nobbers who say lunch, but I really do try to stick to dinner where at all possible.

 

[danny la rouge]

Nah. It's more like a good old pakora without the Scottish affectation.

Not melting pot at all, then.

Think more like a split pea mini-festival. That's a corn dumpling to you

Corn dumpling?

 

[Idaho]

They're part of the melting pot of London Danny, not Southern in the slightest.

I'm not angry in the slightest Kyser. More bemused that anyone can get so animated or insistent about the use of a declining and soon to be archaic term.

Completely bemused that people might gently remind you that they aren't frauds and weirdos because they refer to a particular meal in a particular way in the face of your repeated suggestions otherwise

What zealots we 'tea-sayers' are. Why don't we just chill out and agree with your ranting?

 

[kyser_soze]

Midday-4pm is lunch

4-6pm is tea

6pm - 9pm is dinner

9pm+ is supper.

 

[Idaho]

Corn dumpling?

It beggars belief doesn't it?

 

[danny la rouge]

It beggars belief doesn't it?

Tara writes that thing in Guardian, doesn't he?

 

[tarannau]

How can a corn dumpling be seen as Guardian food? It's as traditional and established an ethnic snack as samosas or bhajis



There are frauds on here though Idaho. DLR and other yokels have special dispensation as stated.

It's those living amongst the normals in Southern civilisation that prattle on about the correctness of calling it 'tea' who deserve opprobrium.