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Wideboy
21-12-08, 08:38 PM
dinner or tea
ITS CALLED TEA!!!
I always thought tea was a drink and dinner was something you ate? ..maybe I'm wrong?
I always thought tea was a drink and dinner was something you ate? ..maybe I'm wrong?
no you are right..... VERY VERY RIGHT
Wideboy
21-12-08, 08:44 PM
no you are right..... Very very right
noooo!!!
Tea:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=define%3Atea&btnG=Search&meta=
Dinner:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=define%3Adinner&btnG=Search&meta=
Dinner FTW!
not this again.
TEA TEA TEA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner
Bluepete
21-12-08, 08:57 PM
Ooooh, laaa de dah, Sir and Madam are sitting to the table for Dinner are they? Dof me cap to you I do whilst I go 'ome and eat my tea!
Wideboy
21-12-08, 09:00 PM
Ooooh, laaa de dah, Sir and Madam are sitting to the table for Dinner are they? Dof me cap to you I do whilst I go 'ome and eat my tea!
HAHAHA!!!
chalk up 1
Biker Biggles
21-12-08, 09:07 PM
I called mine chicken.
Ha ha ha ha right back at ya
Dinner
dinner is at 1pm
thats why in school we have dinner ladies
:p
Wideboy
21-12-08, 09:14 PM
dinner is at 1pm
thats why in school we have dinner ladies
:p
the man speaks sence!
Doesn't matter, it's called supper anyway :D
Jayneflakes
21-12-08, 09:21 PM
dinner is at 1pm
thats why in school we have dinner ladies
:p
Sorry, in the modern age, they are called meal time assistants! Also, they can be male these days too. (says the woman who worked in a school until last April!)
I refer to my meals as breakfast, lunch and dinner. Although on Sundays, it was high tea when I was a child and we were staying with my Grandma. sadly the drive back to Dorset meant that all of that lovely Sherry Trifle was tasted again... :pukel:
Wideboy
21-12-08, 09:22 PM
doesn't matter, it's called supper anyway :d
ooooh just leave!!! :d
dinner is at 1pm
thats why in school we have dinner ladies
:p
H me duck, tea is at 4pm. With bread and jam. I'm never home for 4pm, we usually eat at 8 - 9. So it's dinner.
As for dinner ladies, I assume you mean this:
http://www.the-dinner-ladies.co.uk/
Our school they are called 'Lunchtime Supervisors'. Must admit when I started there my reaction was WTF????
Anyway, on topic, it's all according!!!
If it's the main meal it's dinner, if main meal was had at lunchtime (and still called dinner) then the snack in the evening is called Tea.
H me duck, tea is at 4pm.
i thought thats what we were on about
brekfast 8am
dinner 1pm
tea is at 5pm
supper 9pm
i thought thats what we were on about
brekfast 8am
dinner 1pm
tea is at 5pm
supper 9pm
:cheers:
i thought thats what we were on about
brekfast 8am
dinner 1pm
tea is at 5pm
supper 9pm
Blimey you eat late!
Blimey you eat late!
i dont normaly eat supper
but it consists of 2 cream crackers or somthing simerler
Jayneflakes
21-12-08, 10:09 PM
Mother always told me that to refer to ones evening meal as tea was highly questionable and a touch common, which would never do.
One must say that one does so rarely get invited to tea parties these days, but does often attend Dinner parties.
The hardest question that one should answer surely is, how much one should pay the Nanny for working as a serving girl on her one evening off? Well what else does that tiresome girl do once the children are in bed?
Bring back flogging for the servants is what Daddy says, when he is not out shooting with the Major and his wife.
http://backseatcuddler.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/kate-middleton-and-prince-charles.jpg
BanannaMan
21-12-08, 10:10 PM
Doesn't matter, it's called supper anyway :D
+1
MR UKI (1)
21-12-08, 10:17 PM
Depends really, tonight it was ****ing disgusting.
urbane1
21-12-08, 10:25 PM
In Canada it's supper, but I dont know what a late evening meal is. We still call it dinner (I've only been here 12 years - so I'm still learning the language!)
Seggons
21-12-08, 10:41 PM
Tea is the winner:
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Dinner&word2=Tea
Doesn't matter, it's called supper anyway :D
+1
+1
GazandKatie
21-12-08, 10:53 PM
its defo TEA
but what about T Cakes?
do they have currants in or not?
jans1971
21-12-08, 10:59 PM
its tea not dinner, the ladys at school in the play ground where called dinner ladys not tea ladys , tea tea tea tea tea , i tell you
dizzyblonde
22-12-08, 12:12 AM
what about afternoon tea??
hmm i skip breakfast time
dinner time I eat sandwiches
Afternoon tea??? ah well thats the time for cake iinit, before picking son up from school
Tea time is main meal of the day
and supper time, well we kind of have tea pretty late, so we don't always have that
Civilised people call the evening meal their dinner.
no you are right..... VERY VERY RIGHT
+1 absolutely!! :D
dizzyblonde
22-12-08, 12:53 AM
Civilised people call the evening meal their dinner.
Now you see, I am a civilised person, but I am a northerner, and ooop norf we call it tea
Sid Squid
22-12-08, 07:55 AM
what do you call your evening meal ?
David.
injury_ian
22-12-08, 08:12 AM
Dinner,
tea is traditionally at 4 O'clock
Dinner,
1st meal of day........... Breakfast
midday meal................Lunch
mid pm drink and scone/cake.......high Tea
early evening meal..............Dinner
snack and drink before retiring to bed....Supper.
sorted:-D
Daryl.
Well it obviously Dinner.
You dont have a Gala Tea
You dont have a 5 course Tea
You dont have a black tie Tea
Pretty much sums it up really.
SoulKiss
22-12-08, 09:07 AM
David.
You called?
Alpinestarhero
22-12-08, 09:44 AM
its dinner, tea is a drink best served hot with some milk and no sugar!!!
Dappa D
22-12-08, 10:55 AM
dinner
MCN_LiamM
22-12-08, 11:01 AM
TEA
timwilky
22-12-08, 11:20 AM
It depends within chez wilky
Breakfast,
Lunch,
Tea, if served as a light informal meal at the end of the afternoon,
Dinner, if served as a the principal meal of the day.
Maybe a supper, if dinner was sacrificed in favour of a light tea and one is then feeling a tad peckish.
Tea&supper was how the children were brought up. Feeding them small amounts often. Whereas Lynne and I would partake of dinner once the children had been safely despatched to the land of nod and it was our time. Supper would then be the obligatory kebab or curry post chucking out time whenever we ventured into town.
Tiger 55
22-12-08, 12:02 PM
We have tea at home but go out for dinner...
I have used either, but most of the time its Dinner.
But then what would i know, i'm an antipodean :smt083
chakraist
22-12-08, 01:51 PM
Not sure if this has been said, but dinner is a meal defined as after 8pm. Tea is an evening meal between lunch and dinner.
Quiff Wichard
22-12-08, 02:01 PM
Dinner,
1st meal of day........... Breakfast
midday meal................Lunch
mid pm drink and scone/cake.......high Tea
early evening meal..............Dinner
snack and drink before retiring to bed....Supper.
sorted:-D
Daryl.
ooo Daryl- me be round for high tea of cucumber sandwiches(no crusts) pot of earl grey and scones and cream at 3pm..
oh wait up- I am always round to see Bev at 3pm anyway when you are at work.. .. she does a lovely breakfast.
(Hi Bev- hope you have a great Chrimbo- no offence I know you up for a laugh - well you must be living with the Ninja Turtle Daryl.. )
Quiff Wichard
22-12-08, 02:02 PM
David.
I love that man..
He is on another plane of intellect and humour
awesome Sid.. made me giggle me pants wet.
Miss Alpinestarhero
22-12-08, 03:43 PM
Dinner is your main meal.
Tea is either (a) a drink or (b) a snack in between lunch and dinner
Sorted!!
sv-robo
22-12-08, 03:55 PM
TEA!!......or scran....or fodder.....or...............
blue curvy jester
22-12-08, 04:54 PM
supper innit
Wideboy
22-12-08, 06:20 PM
tea
Dave20046
22-12-08, 07:03 PM
Definitely tea. Round these parts there's also confusion to whether it's lunch or dinner :mad:
Now you see, I am a civilised person, but I am a northerner, and ooop norf we call it tea
:cheers:
I think Tea is defo a northern thing.
Wideboy
22-12-08, 08:44 PM
always been called tea in my house and im a shandy drinker
Jayneflakes
23-12-08, 12:14 AM
I too am a Northener, having grown up in Northern Germany!
Evening meal is Dinner.
I knew a Yorkshireman once, twas a strange booger! He ate Fruit cake with a slice of cheese, I was never sure if that was a Yorkshire thing or if he was just a loonie?
Next question.
Scone: does it rhyme with stone or gone?
joshmac
23-12-08, 12:19 AM
It's dinner or supper (bit of a sh*t poll IMO :rolleyes:)
DEFINITELY not tea!!
WTF?
Wierdos
joshmac
23-12-08, 12:22 AM
Next question.
Scone: does it rhyme with stone or gone?
It's gone... After eating it the scone is gone not Goane (phonetic sp) ;)
joshmac
23-12-08, 12:22 AM
always been called tea in my house and im a shandy drinker
Well that explains it :rolleyes:;)
joshmac
23-12-08, 12:23 AM
middle class
Tramp!!
HTH
Kate Moss
23-12-08, 02:55 PM
how did this get to 7 pages????
Dinner!
i think its a northern thing too
its tea
Dave20046
23-12-08, 06:14 PM
i think its a northern thing too
its tea
But your location's 'in the south' :confused:
Must be a Northern thing..
Tea.
But your location's 'in the south' :confused:
Yeah, but she's northern.
Anyway,
Breakfast 7am-9am(ish)
Brunch 11am
Lunch 1pm
Tea 5pm
Dinner 8pm
Supper 10pm
Midnight fridge raid 1am
But your location's 'in the south' :confused:
yep i moved down south 2.5 years ago
phil24_7
23-12-08, 11:09 PM
Tea FFS, I'm not posh me, I'm working class!
Yeah, but she's northern.
Anyway,
Breakfast 7am-9am(ish)
Brunch 11am
Lunch 1pm
Tea 5pm
Dinner 8pm
Supper 10pm
Midnight fridge raid 1am
i was going to do something like that layout.. memories of enid blyton books inspire me for Tea, which is 4 o'clockish (or snackage when i get home from school)
lunch 12 - 3pm
Tea 4ish
DINNER 5 - 8pm
supper - 10pm onwards (usually super noodles, or the like)
fridge break on xbox live 0200 am
oh yeah and Tea is short for afternoon tea, or high tea isn't it... which reminds me for the next thread i will now make
dissuade
24-12-08, 08:44 AM
Dinner, you plebs. Preferably served on Wedgwood plates by my butler, Jeeves.
Toodle pip.
and to add... if you hear someone say "Dinna" in a cockney-like voice.. tis not posh or upper-class in any way at all ;)
Next question.
Scone: does it rhyme with stone or gone?
Gone....
Why would you call it tea when there's no tea involved. It's dinner.
Just a thought, Christmas Dinner is always called Christmas Dinner. I have never heard it called tea or lunch or any other variation.
Does anyone call it anything else or does everyone also refer to it as Christmas Dinner?
Wideboy
25-12-08, 03:14 PM
Just a thought, Christmas Dinner is always called Christmas Dinner. I have never heard it called tea or lunch or any other variation.
Does anyone call it anything else or does everyone also refer to it as Christmas Dinner?
exactly...... so its tea! end of :mrgreen:
exactly...... so its tea! end of :mrgreen:
Well I am stuffed after Christmas Dinner :D;)
I've just woken up and I'm about to do a pizza.
I shall call it "something to eat"
I can't even think about food, have eaten too much already!!! :-?
Wideboy
25-12-08, 06:13 PM
I can't even think about food, have eaten too much already!!! :-?
can never have to much!!! eat eat!!! nom nom nom
nothing for me yet.The woman fell asleep
can never have to much!!! eat eat!!! nom nom nom
Even if it is a legless Turkey :smt044 ;)
Wideboy
25-12-08, 07:26 PM
Even if it is a legless Turkey :smt044 ;)
haha :lol:
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