Supper or Tea or Dinner?

If it has gravy on it, it is dinner, regardless of the time.

Breakfast at 8am(or 7 if we are on the school run)
Lunch at 1pm to co-incide with the lunchtime news.
Dinner at 6.30 pm.
Weekdays same as weekend.

Breakfast - any time before midday
Lunch - food of any sort eaten around midday
Tea - sandwiches/cake - late afternoon
Dinner - hot meal anytime from 6 pm
(Not usually ALL eaten!)

Breakfast 7.30-9am
Lunch 1.30 pm
Dinner or tea 6pm.
Supper (dont always have ) around 9.30-10pm.
Same on Sundays.

sundays when my grandchildren and daughter come for dinner. (after church) yes i say dinner (vegetarian i am ).they say lunch.told them dinner at nannies is at 1pm...tea is about 4pm......and they love tea as i always have jam sandwiches and cake. i have stretched to peanut butter or chocolate spread....after dinner they have fruit......

Our evening meal after 6 is dinner and always eaten at the table even though we both grew up having tea at about 5.

I was just going to mention eating at the table, teetime.

We always eat whatever it is called at the table except on Saturdays when we eat from a tray in the lounge/sitting/drawing room. Though sometimes we eat in the playroom. We rarely eat in the dining room.

Eating at a table is completely non-negotiable as far as I am concerned. I loathe both breakfast in bed and a meal on a tray. My capacity for spilling food, if not on me, on the floor or in the bed is unlimited.

I am not even that keen on picnics unless I can sit on a chair with my food on a table. The table doesn't have to be laid, nor do other people have to be with me.

In fact I actually prefer to sit at a table to do almost anything, read the paper or a book, even have an occasional afternoon snooze sitting at a table with my head on my arms on the table rather than sit in an arm chair. I am currently sat comfortable sat at my desk to writethis post.

When my children were growing up it was breakfast dinner and tea. Now they are adults with their own children it is breakfast lunch and dinner . The grandchildren also call it that so I try to remember to do the same so I don’t confuse them but don’t always manage it. In my own childhood my mother always said the same as me

Greenfinch you quote lunch to coincide with lunchtime news but what about dinner to coincide with school dinners and dinner ladies, they surely aren’t lunch ladies ???

It is all to do with where you were raised and what class you were raised in No working class man had lunch ? and also a generational thing I never heard anyone talk about ‘having lunch’ in my childhood but then eating a gravy dinner at night didn’t happen either

Its tea time in our house and lunch at lunchtime

In the Northern City where I lived from 1- 23yrs old it was breakfast dinner and tea at approx 8am 12.30pm and 5.00pm.
Supper about 7.30- 8 before bedtime was a hot milky drink and a plain biscuit or bread and jam after a bath and pjs.
Now, living in the South, it's b'fast lunch and dinner. 3 meals. A meal by any other name doth taste as sweet.

Lunch - midday. Tea at 4 p.m. Dinner at 7.30 (ish), Supper is either 9.30 p.m. ( hot drink and a couple of biscuits) or Kitchen Supper Hot but casual meal around 7.30. The evening meal here is NEVER called tea!!

Dinner at 1 pm-ish, tea at 5 pm-ish.

Depends on the meal. On sundays we have cooked dinner at 1pm and tea and sandwiches about 5. Weekdays we have sandwiches , soup etc at 1 and cooked dinner at 5

Tea is in the afternoon....3-4 pm....supper is an informal evening meal, 5-7 pm.... whereas dinner is a more formal meal served later say around 8 pm....

Has always been lunch for me (when I eat it, which is rare) and dinner in the evening - any time between 6 and 8pm.

Yes dinner here too, around 7.30. The meal in the middle of the day is lunch. Tea may or may not happen around 4.30 and is bread and butter, cake etc. Supper can be anything at around 9-10pm.

I've always had a ridiculous dislike of people calling their dinner tea. I know its a regional thing.

It’s definitely a class thing. We used to have breakfast, dinner, tea. But when we changed to breakfast, lunch, dinner, posh folks changed dinner to supper to keep one step ahead.

I remember years ago being invited to supper at a posh (pretentious) friends house, we weren’t sure if it meant cocoa and biscuits or what, so we ate a light meal before going. I still think it is very pretentious to call dinner, supper.

I recently had some American visitors. They were looking forward to High Tea at Fortnums in London. They thought that High Tea was an upper class thing and was something they needed to experience. They were mystified when I told them that High Tea was quite the opposite. The upper classes have Afternoon Tea with cakes and dainty sandwiches, whereas we of the lower orders have High Tea, a full meal, usually including a hot dish. Getting Americans to understand the class differences was quite difficult. They still went ahead and visited Fortnums but then talked about it as Afternoon Tea....it cost them about £100 per couple!

No dinner in this abode. Breakfast, lunch and tea was all. Nowadays, however, it's called 'whenever snack'!

4pm to 5pm-ish is time for tea and around 8pm-9pm is supper.

We have lunch middle of the day. If we've had a cooked meal for lunch (eating out, Sunday roast etc) we have tea late afternoon. If we have sandwiches etc for lunch then tea becomes dinner later. So ours depends on what we eat ?

Lunch 12.30ish dinner about 5.50-6