[Closed] What time do you eat tea??

[i]Supper in our house (not posh) was something light to eat near bedtime.[/i]

Yep same here

peterfile - Member
Breakfast 6
Lunch 12
Dinner 8

Supper in our house (not posh) was something light to eat near bedtime.

Tea is a drink. High Tea is eating out for old people.

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must be a Scottish thing 🙂

Supper in our house (not posh) was something light to eat near bedtime.

A wee slice of roasted cheese perhaps?

A wee slice of roasted cheese perhaps?

hahahahah yes!!! 🙂

you mean 'cheese on toast' ? yes !

What about all the mums screaming out into the street at the muddy faced urchins... "TEA'S READY"..???

Big ol' can of worms this one!

I do vary though...
either:
-breakfast, dinner, tea
or
-breakfast, lunch, dinner

Never supper. I'm not a Northern pauper.

DrP

supper for me was always two weetabix in front of the telly, probalby with doctor who or tomorrow's world on it, probalby wearing PJs having already had a bath

you mean 'cheese on toast' ? yes !

Yeah, Roasted Cheese! 😉 It must be a Weegie / Lanarkshire thing. 😀

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peterfile - Member
Breakfast 6
Lunch 12
Dinner 8
Supper in our house (not posh) was something light to eat near bedtime.
Tea is a drink. High Tea is eating out for old people.

Never supper. I'm not a Northern pauper.

Supper is also a super posh thing too. It's only the middle class that don't do supper.

It's only when I started mixing (sort of) is posh circles I realised being asked round for supper was like being asked round for dinner but posher mostly involving food stuffs I'd never heard of before and talk of where one finds a good nanny.

Supper is also a super posh thing too. It's only the middle class that don't do supper.

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I was invited to my boss's house (well, country estate...she was old money from the SE) for supper when I started in my old job. I cringe about it now, but I did actually make a confused statement about being surprised at how early she must eat dinner if they ate supper at 7pm 😳

Might as well put the big light on while I'm at it!

Supper is also a super posh thing too. It's only the middle class that don't do supper.

I'm happy on my middle class societal rung!!

DrP

Supper is also a super posh thing too.

Would Sir care to sample the Welsh Rarebit?

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Tea.

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Afternoon tea (posh bollocks)

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Supper

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Dinner

From the Oxford dictionary:
"Tea
British A cooked evening meal:
fish and chips for tea
[COUNT NOUN]: the food was nothing like the teas his wife cooked"

Winner winner chicken tea...

DrP

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Can't be supper. It's still light outside!

[i]A wee slice of roasted cheese perhaps?[/i]

Are you from Ayrshire?

[i]you mean 'cheese on toast' ? yes ![/i]

No, he means toasted cheese 🙂

North of the border, fish and chips is a "fish supper".

Case closed.

yes but you have it after being in the pub for the evening, so after dinner 🙂

Are you from Ayrshire?

No. My parents aren't even related....... 😳

North of the border, fish and chips is a "fish supper".

Exactly.

something light to eat near bedtime.

North of the border, fish and chips is a "fish supper".

Case closed.

Once you step inside a fish and chip shop, supper simply means "with chips".

I've now managed to switch to calling the mid-day meal lunch (otherwise that oddity of brunch wouldn't make sense)

Yeah, otherwise it'd be Binner- wait a minute...

North of the border, fish and chips is a "fish supper".

A little further South of there and it's something you'd hope to get at the end of the night in a Preston night club.

I finish work about 5 get home between 5:30 & 6 depending if we have to pick the kids up from the child minders.

If we have to they have usually eaten so they get a snack before bed and we eat after, usually about 8:30 - 9.

If kids are not at child minder then we will eat between 5:30 & 6:30.

Our lass says tea cos she's a Yorkshire lass but i'm a midlander so i'm never bloody right!

Might have a fish supper for me tea tonight though......

A little further South of there and it's something you'd hope to get at the end of the night in a Preston night club.

Once you step inside a fish and chip shop, supper simply means "with chips".

Indeed. Including a "chip supper" 😀

Only in Scotland tho. Our chip van man in Northumberland was quick to point out. 😳

And don't get me started on "sot'n'soss?"

We only manage to eat early with the little man (3 year old) weekends and the two days he's not a nursery and we work each work a half day from home normally, and each will have it ready as the other arrives.

We don't like him eating too late/close to his bed time on those days. Doesn't always work and sometimes we eat later on those days, but we like to eat together as a family as much as we can, as he gets older and bed times move back a bit it'll be easier to eat together at 7ish which we'd find a bit more normal.

My Mum and Wife use "tea" to refer to meals too, I correct 'em every-time 😉
They're both born and bread souther's too. The thing that bugs me most is that that use it completely ambiguously. Could mean Lunch, Dinner, Supper or even posh high nonsense, which I've never personally partaken in in my life. But I was brought up in Council house by my single parent mum and I don't don't drink tea or coffee, and sandwiches in my book are best cut as doorstops, as should cake, ploughman's and a pint is more me. High tea is for the ladies wot lunch. 😆

nbt - Member
supper for me was always two weetabix in front of the telly, probalby with doctor who or tomorrow's world on it, probalby wearing PJs having already had a bath

Well I'm just eating my Fish Pie, not Ton's version 😉

Are you from Ayrshire?

No. My parents aren't even related.......

Bravo!

I've lost count of how long it's been since I laughed like that. Surprising considering the amount of fingers and toes I have... But roasted cheese? Not an Ayrshire thing. Maybe Inverclyde, they come out with some right pish up there.

Dinner is at 1730-45 (depending how shit I've been at timekeeping) for me and child then 1830 for the mother. About 2030-2100 if we're eating together.

Peterfile nailed it though. The argument that is, not my wife. Or my dinner.

Do schools have lunchladies nowadays then?

a very non specific time now I'm single and work from home, it's not uncommon to get till around 9pm and then realise I've not eaten or just to skip it if I've had a very late lunch..
Breakfast wake up time - Noon,
Lunch Noon - Dark
Dinner 4-Midnight

Chuck in that sometimes my early morning meetings/calls run over breakfast can easily become lunch too.

Routine is very important to me

[i]But roasted cheese? Not an Ayrshire thing. Maybe Inverclyde, they come out with some right pish up there.[/i]

I've only ever heard two people call toasted cheese 'roastit cheese', one from Kilmarnock and one from beith (yes I admit I know someone from beith).

Beith would be far preferable to Kilmarnock!.

As per peterfile, but dinner at 5.30. I get home from work at 5, even after a 30 minute commute on the bike, and eating at 5.30 still allows time to do something in the evening. If I ate dinner at 8pm, I wouldn't night ride frinstance.

And it's definitely toasted cheese!.

Actually just had Tea for the first time 17:30, Pot of tea, toast and marmalade 🙂

Tea=dinner in our house. Except when tea=hot water strained through dry plant leaves.

For colloquialisms though I raise you..... a slice roll. Inverclyde/greenock region. Means?

Ill have mine at around 6pm and watch the news on week nights except Friday as it depends on what time the BF4 multi player game finishes im in the middle of:-)

We have no kids so its 6-7pm for me then 8-9pm for my partner as she works nights i usally wait until she has gone to work then do all the wahing up 9.30pm ish Modern man and all of thar lol

Breakfast around 8.00am
Dinner around 1.30pm
Tea anywhere between 6.30pm and 1.30am, depending on what I'm doing after work and how easily I'm distracted.

Breakfast sometime around 6:30, lunch after 13:00, then dinner at 20:30 or so. When the kids were smaller we used to have dinner at 20:00, now the youngest is 11 it's got a bit later.

Weekends breakfast @ 8, lunch @ 15:00, dinner @ 22:00.

Spanish timetable (although my weekday lunchtime is a bit early, 14:00 would be more usual). And the Spanish find it completely weird/amazing/incredible that lunch in the UK is sometime around midday...

A slice roll? Not a colloquialism at all, it's a roll and Lorne sausage, otherwise known as slice(d) sausage. Round here, in fact most places, it's a roll and link or roll and slice to differentiate between sausages.

But fair enough, both are Ayrshire but not the same Ayrshire I know (Beith is over the valley and Kilmarnock, well, there should be a wall around the East Ayrshire boundary)

Well, as we are the family that eat late referred to in the first post, about 9:30. Our kids are very reluctant to sleep and we've got loads to do. It's works for us.

But, DrP's face when it was our night to cook and I informed him the earliest I would consider was 7pm. It was a sight. I even entered a different earlier race category so the poor darling wouldn't have to wait too long. 😉

I cannot imagine eating at 5:30, I haven't done so since I was at school.

I cannot imagine eating at 5:30, I haven't done so since I was at school.

Late lunch, perhaps?

It was boarding school and it was dinner.

Home around 8pm onwards, so half an hour after that usually.

But, DrP's face when it was our night to cook and I informed him the earliest I would consider was 7pm. It was a sight. I even entered a different earlier race category so the poor darling wouldn't have to wait too long.

🙂

And I thank you kind sir...

I suppose the other thing to consider is the fact that OUR little darling gets us up at stupid o clock (520am today) so for me breakfast is often uber early.

I remember at school I used to eat all my lunch at first break - 1030ish.

I guess I've just knocked forward my eating schedule.

Don't get me started on how much food I need to eat to survive even a modest bike ride!!

DrP

There was a bit on radio 2 about a month ago that I think can shed light on the tea vs dinner debate.

The aristocracy would take afternoon tea (you know the sort- earl grey, cucumber sandwiches with no crust, jam and scones etc) around 3pm.

The folk serving them, once they had finished clearing up, would then have something to eat, known as 'high tea'. The difference from afternoon tea simply being the temperature of the food. Normally eaten between 430 and 6pm

Then at around 8, dinner would be served to the aristocracy.

Iirc supper was what was left over for the servants.

So, if you are anything other than the aristocracy, it's tea.

Growing up on the farm my Grandma would always serve tea - not post but bread, jam, cake etc. with a couple of pots of tea about 3:30/4 which was good enough to get a break from the cold and keep you going until dinner/supper after a good few hours more work.

Not uncommon in a busy lambing or winter time to start in the dark with a cup of tea, breakfast (full english) at 8, pop in for a hot drink at 11, Lunch at 12/1, tea at 3 the finish up about 7 just in time for dinner.

Not just for the aristocracy 🙂

[i] it's a roll and Lorne sausage, otherwise known as slice(d) sausage. Round here, in fact most places, it's a roll and link or roll and slice to differentiate between sausages.[/i]

Also know as square sausage, even though it's a rectangle.

Whatever time Eurosport shows the highlights of that day's racing is when we sit down and eat...can be [i]quite[/i] late...