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I say it's tea time.
Is your evening meal called tea or dinner?
You have afternoon tea... you sit down for dinner (evening)... unless of course your a commoner
Roberrrrt
17-02-11, 11:14 AM
You have afternoon tea... you sit down for dinner (evening)... unless of course your a commoner
*you're
:smt016
So judging by your grammar you have tea then G?
*Beaten to it by Roberrrt*
**** education, never did me any harm ;)
(my punctuation and grammar is horrendous though lol)
Roberrrrt
17-02-11, 11:18 AM
Looks like we're all getting loads of work done today then eh?!
BernardBikerchick
17-02-11, 11:18 AM
Thank GOD for this thread !!!! an evening meal IS TEA lol dinner is lunch time hence dinner ladies heheheh
its TEA - you southerners need to learn this hehehehee:cool::cool::cool:
minimorecambe
17-02-11, 11:18 AM
Dinner is around midday - Tea is in the evening :)
Yay people who agree!
My mum is from burnley though, so I guess it's where I get it from.
Bloody northerners :rolleyes: at least I managed to straighten out my Kerry, she say most things right now.
BernardBikerchick
17-02-11, 11:24 AM
hahaha its TEA !!!! northerners rule hehehe
Probably one of the most north people that will post in this thread.
Dinner is around 12
Tea is around 5
Anyone who calls their tea dinner is posh ;)
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
WINNER :cheers:
metalmonkey
17-02-11, 11:31 AM
Dinner!
But in Northen company Tea so they know whats going on;)
missyburd
17-02-11, 11:32 AM
Thank GOD for this thread !!!! an evening meal IS TEA lol dinner is lunch time hence dinner ladies heheheh
its TEA - you southerners need to learn this hehehehee:cool::cool::cool:
Got it in one BBC, tea is definitely an evening thing. I think we northerners just like an excuse to use the word tea for something else other than the stuff we drink gallons of :mrgreen:
My mum is from burnley though, so I guess it's where I get it from.
That would explain so much!
#runs and hides ever so quickly# :mrgreen:
That would explain so much!
#runs and hides ever so quickly# :mrgreen:
http://www.sk8dork.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/wonder.jpg
WINNER :cheers:
:D
Tea is a liquid that you drink, Dinner is your evening meal
carelesschucca
17-02-11, 11:45 AM
Tea comes out a pot if you ask me!!!
:D
Tea is a liquid that you drink, Dinner is your evening meal
THEN WHY OH WHY ARE THEY CALLED DINNER LADIES?!?! GRRRRRRR:smt019
THEN WHY OH WHY ARE THEY CALLED DINNER LADIES?!?! GRRRRRRR:smt019
Lunch time assisants?
Lunch time assisants?
No.
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Exactamundo.
If you have fish and chips for 'tea' then is it still tea?? It's dinner u loons.
Tea means tea, perhaps we can allow some biscuit to be incorporated into that definition max.
hongman
17-02-11, 11:50 AM
Tea is liquid.
Dinner is an evening meal.
Dinner ladies are called dinner ladies just becuase. Lollipop ladies aren't really lollipop's are they?
Supper - now that's a load of tosh.
carelesschucca
17-02-11, 11:53 AM
Brunchfast - now thats the best meal of the day if you ask me, somewhere between breakfast and brunch...
THEN WHY OH WHY ARE THEY CALLED DINNER LADIES?!?! GRRRRRRR:smt019
Thought you're dinner was called dinner, not lunch?
Kinda contradicted you're self here mate...
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=162842
One goes out to dinner, doesn't one.
And one would have tea at home wouldn't one.
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper
Interspaced with beer breaks.
One goes out to dinner, doesn't one.
And one would have tea at home wouldn't one.
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper
Interspaced with beer breaks.
No
"I'm going to have lunch with my friends"
"Where shall we go for dinner this evening"
"Tea?" "Yes please one sugar"
;)
One goes out to dinner, doesn't one.
And one would have tea at home wouldn't one.
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper
Interspaced with beer breaks.
Here Here
Fecking Southeners!
454697819
17-02-11, 12:28 PM
Tea and Dinner can be both evening meals however Dinner in the evening has to be hot other wise it is Tea.
Dinner can also be had at lunch time but this is a hot dinner, followed by tea in the evening.
Hope this helps
Dinner! Dinner! Dinner! Dinner! isn't that the noise you hear before :batman: Batman appears?
Breakfast
Lunch (as in packed lunch!)
Tea
Supper
:takeabow:
Wideboy
17-02-11, 01:09 PM
*yawn* done this thread years ago Andrew
You can't compete with me don't even dry
Bitch
_Stretchie_
17-02-11, 01:24 PM
THEN WHY OH WHY ARE THEY CALLED DINNER LADIES?!?! GRRRRRRR:smt019
You are a star, but you beat me to it.
Lunch time assisants?
In this day and age they are probably called:
Mastication and Digestion Enabling Technicians
** EDIT **
P.S. it goes:
- Breakfast
- Dinner (or 'Lunch' if you have ideas above your station)
- Tea
yorkie_chris
17-02-11, 01:26 PM
Supper - now that's a load of tosh.
In my experience supper tends to be more pie with peas and gravy or fish and chips or something?
454697819
17-02-11, 01:26 PM
You are a star, but you beat me to it.
In this day and age they are probably called:
Mastication and Digestion Enabling Technicians
** EDIT **
P.S. it goes:
- Breakfast
- Dinner (or 'Lunch' if you have ideas above your station)
- Tea
what does that make hookers
past time and leisure carnal assistance?
dirtydog
17-02-11, 01:28 PM
We've had this conversation many times in our house with me being a southerner and kitkat being of jockanese persuation.
and the answer according to a dictionary
"Dinner is the main meal of the (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/the) day, eaten in the evening or at midday."
Oh and Tea is a drink!
Roberrrrt
17-02-11, 01:35 PM
In my experience supper tends to be more pie with peas and gravy or fish and chips or something?
I could right do a fish supper n'all...
Thought you're dinner was called dinner, not lunch?
Kinda contradicted you're self here mate...
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=162842
No no, I'm just so intelligent that I can have two words for the same thing. :smt040
Littlepeahead
17-02-11, 02:02 PM
10.30 - toss
11am - start
1.00pm - 1.40pm - lunch
3.40 until 4pm - tea
6.00pm - stumps
Then dinner in the evening.
We stop for tea at the home of cricket every day, but you only have a toss on day 1.
hongman
17-02-11, 02:03 PM
10.30 - toss
.
And there I was thinking you were a lady :smt083
Ceri JC
17-02-11, 04:20 PM
The way of determining how to refer to a meal is simple:
Breakfast is always Breakfast,
Brunch is always Brunch,
If it's the main meal at lunchtime it's called "dinner", if not, it's merely "lunch",
If the main meal is in the evening, then that's "dinner", don't you see?
It's only if you had your main meal earlier, you refer to food at this time as "tea".
I just made that rhyme up (although the message it conveys is correct).
I have never heard a suitable explanation for the quandry; "What happens if you a big meal at lunchtime, fully intending for it to be the main meal of the day, but then you eat a larger meal in the evening?" Other than, don't be such a fat knacker! :D
EDIT: "Supper" is only ever used to describe a meal/sizeable snack after the meal occurring at tea time, irrespective of whether or not that meal was dinner or tea. Using it to describe the main evening meal itself is incorrect. Also, "Tea" in the context of food only ever refers to a light evening meal. If you're talking the mid afternoon sandwiches and cakes beloved of the upper-middle classes, that is correctly called, "High Tea".
davepreston
17-02-11, 05:22 PM
i hate myself for this but i must side with the southerners here
breakfast lunch dinner supper
why ,well
tea is a drink, posh high tea was a brew with some sandwiches not a proper meal
you sit at a dinner table to eat your main meal, a tea table holds your brews
if asked out to dinner you wouldnt tip up midday
and its that way because i was dragged up properly
Bluefish
17-02-11, 06:17 PM
so where does tiffin fit in then? ;) ps, and it's dinner, breaky, lunch and dinner, poor people may call it tea, cos they can't afford dinner.
Lets get this right it's - Breakfast, Lunch, DINNER. in that order! Anyone who doesn't agree, fails at life. :D
MisterTommyH
17-02-11, 06:56 PM
Breakfast, Lunch, Tea.
Seems I'm the only person on here who doesn't have dinner.
seedy100
17-02-11, 07:06 PM
Breakfast
Tea
Tea
Lunch
Tea
Tea
Tea
Supper
Coca
Bed
Repeat until Sunday and then its:-
No Breakfast
Tea
Tea
Dinner
Beer
Beer
Tea
Supper
Port
Bed
**** Its monday morning.
maviczap
17-02-11, 07:20 PM
Breakfast, Lunch, Tea.
Seems I'm the only person on here who doesn't have dinner.
No its Tea in my house too :mrgreen:
Breakfast
Brunch
Lunch
Afternoon tea (scon or scone, your choice :p)
Dinner
Supper
Oh and to LPH: that would explain why day 5 is always so stressful, if they haven't been allowed to toss since the morning of day 1...
Geodude
17-02-11, 07:42 PM
Ive just had my tea ;)
Ive just had my tea ;)
bu99er, you be me to it dude.:smt019
timwilky
17-02-11, 08:53 PM
Well this northern monkey has
Breakfast,
Lunch
Possibly tea with the grand kids
Dinner
Beer
Supper AKA Kebab
CheGuevara
17-02-11, 10:55 PM
If not "dinner", then what was the evening meal called in England before tea (the beverage and the word) arrived here from China?
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner for me, although I'm not a Brit. Can't forget brunch also of course, but that's more of a Sunday thing.
Ever have breakfast for dinner and dinner for breakfast? Steak and mushrooms for breakfast and then bacon, eggs, and fluffy pancakes with maple syrup for dinner.... yum :)
metalangel
19-02-11, 09:15 AM
If not "dinner", then what was the evening meal called in England before tea (the beverage and the word) arrived here from China?
They didn't eat, they toiled in the fields before dying of plague!
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner for me, although I'm not a Brit. Can't forget brunch also of course, but that's more of a Sunday thing.
This. Mrs Metal and have a long-standing dispute over this as she insists it's dinner and tea, she asks what do you want for dinner and reply it's only 11:30am, a bit early isn't it? She says it's midday, it's DINNER and I tell her she would think that because Wales has only just left the dark ages.
Ever have breakfast for dinner and dinner for breakfast? Steak and mushrooms for breakfast and then bacon, eggs, and fluffy pancakes with maple syrup for dinner.... yum :)
We do have breakfast for dinner a lot, yes, tis great, especially as I generally can't eat a big breakfast at breakfast time as it makes me sick.
Tim in Belgium
19-02-11, 11:00 PM
I'll just go and put on my dinner jacket on for tea??
No for dinner!
Food goes like this in chronological order:
Breakfast
Ten O'Clocks
Lunch
3 O'Clocks
Tea
Dinner
Supper
7 meals a day, simple.
Obviously I've left out evening cocktails and nibbles etc!
3 meals a day? Which heathen thought up that idea?
andrewsmith
19-02-11, 11:27 PM
haha reeder post some daft shizz at time
anyways its
Breakfast at 6am
Coffee
coffee
Coffee
coffee
Lunch about 13.30
Tea
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee, Final one around 18.30 on the way home
Supper about 19.30
Beer/ Spirt/ near frozen gnats p***
In my experience supper tends to be more pie with peas and gravy or fish and chips or something?
Na, supper is tosh.;-)
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