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Dinner, supper or tea?

What do you call it and what time do you have it?

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dinner 7pm

supper just makes me think of 'the last supper'
Supper, and I have it at 8:30, but if I eat out at a restaurant then it's called dinner
I've never really understood why this is complicated.

Dinner is a formal meal, usually with more than one course served at about 8.30pm. It can also be less formal but still served after 8pm

Supper is a less formal, usually lighter form of dinner, had by the family possibly in the kitchen rather than the dining room. Again, at 8-8.30pm

Tea is a drink. Or a light meal consisting of sandwiches, small cakes/petit fours and the like served in the garden in the summer or inside not in the dining room at 5pm.

Dinner, which I have at about 6 or 7pm.

Supper reminds me of people who don't own a TV.
(edited 6 years ago)
Dinner, 5:30.

Supper means a snack after that imo.

Might call it tea if it were like lunch but in the evening.
Dinner, which can be any time between 5pm and 8pm.

tea is a drink
Reply 7
Ugh for me it's dinner time
Munch munch


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Tea - often also dinner - any time in the evening really
Dinner is the main meal of the day, whether it be lunch or tea. Supper is a snack after tea, usually just before going to bed, often consisting of hot chocolate alongside a small and not particularly healthy food item
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Reply 10
I just call it food...
so basically

Supper - Posh people
Tea - Northerners
Dinner - everyone else
Tea and normally around 8-9pm
Original post by TheGoodPharaoh
Tea and normally around 8-9pm


high 5
Original post by UWS
I just call it food...


ooo no labels so edgy n hip !!!
Reply 15
Original post by _princessxox
Supper, and I have it at 8:30, but if I eat out at a restaurant then it's called dinner


yeaa same matey
Original post by chanel_666
so basically

Supper - Posh people
Tea - Northerners
Dinner - everyone else


Why does supper = posh people? I have supper.
Original post by TheGoodPharaoh
Tea and normally around 8-9pm


Original post by chanel_666
high 5


peasants
Original post by chanel_666
high 5


Sorry I only go up to high 4's for free, after that I start charging
Reply 19
Original post by chanel_666
so basically

Supper - Posh people
Tea - Northerners
Dinner - everyone else


untrue. i say tea and im not from anywhere near the north. dinner seems more posh to me

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