where is your place for midlanders?! haha, i say tea. this kind of conversation came up in my english class, and tea is apparently from working class roots, whereas middle/upper class people tend to say dinner? it's kind of blurred nowadays though.
What do you call your evening meal? Are you a northerner or a southerner?
Tea Northerner
DEBATE AWAYYYYYYY......
First meal of day, Primarily before 10/11= Breakfast. If after 11 and consists of a larger meal= Brunch. After 12, having had a 'breakfast'= Lunch Between 3-4 it is customary to sometimes have a hot beverage and cake/biscuits= Tea Evening main meal= Dinner however this is also sometimes termed 'Supper'
I used to call it tea (only because my parents did) and called lunch dinner. But when i moved out and into a student house (from the north to the south), i realised how much more sense it made to call them lunch and dinner, then you don't get confused with drinking tea, which i am a big fan of
To all Midlanders: If you're north of the Watford gap you're a NORTHENER and if you're south of the Watford gap you're a SOUTHERNER. Stop sitting on the fence and take sides, polarise dammnit!
i was born in the north and raised in most aspects like a northerner and yet spend most of my live down south ... but i was brought up breakfast dinner and tea i remember at school up north we had dinner time as out midday break and eating period and down here in the south we had lunch time as our midday break and eating period and they had breakfast, lunch and dinner (as a rule) but southerners place r's after the a in any work with and a init except b*stard so it sort of proves northerners correct also one illogical way of thinking about is that if we are anglo saxons and the saxons invaded from the north and colonised and the anglo means angel and angels are from the north then northerners are descendants of original english men and angels hence "anglo saxon" so it is biblical that northerners will always be correct :P
Tea is either a drink, or afternoon tea, where your gran serves tea, biscuits, cake and dainty sandwiches to the extended family in the best room in the house, and you all make polite conversation.
Pretty interchangable really, depends who I'm talking to.
Dinner probably more often than tea though. I like how you didn't factor in evening meal or supper, some people do use these as well. I've occasinally used supper, evening meal is a bit of a mouthful though (buddum tshhh)