The Evening Meal

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

I know many are becoming tired of the various pronunciation threads that have been around lately, so I've decided we should press onto more hard hitting issues. The evening meal is an often hotly debated topic, it's time we end the debate for good - tea, dinner or supper?

 

[Sportman1987]

You'd have to be a tool to call it supper, I call it my din dins

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Food time.

 

[Thrawn]

Dinner.

I've always thought of supper as a very small snack before you go to bed...

 

[MF]

Haha, I was having this discussion with someone just yesterday. If I'm going out to eat then it's dinner, if I'm eating at home then it's tea. If anyone I knew ever referred to it as supper then I'd punch them.

 

[Ben the Gooner]

Haha, I was having this discussion with someone just yesterday. If I'm going out to eat then it's dinner, if I'm eating at home then it's tea. If anyone I knew ever referred to it as supper then I'd punch them.

Pretty accurate. It used to always be tea for me. Now it's whatever comes to mind apart from supper.

 

[-CG-]

Haha, I was having this discussion with someone just yesterday. If I'm going out to eat then it's dinner, if I'm eating at home then it's tea.

Pretty much the same here!

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

Got nothing against Americans, but you'd have to be one to call it supper. Dinner or tea for me

 

[TorresIsGod]

Going out for dinner
Eating tea at home

 

[raskolnikov]

For me dinner is the main meal of the day, so if I have my main meal at noon then that's dinner and if I have something light at night that's tea. If I have my main meal at night then I have lunch at noon and dinner at night.

 

[Plogs]

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=345436

 

[DeadlyAkkuret]

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=345436

Tea a bogan word? What a tosser

 

[blues4flag]

My main meal is my dinner (could be any time between 3 and 8).

A light evening snack is called a snack.

If I'm drinking tea, then it's tea.

 

[Juddy88]

I've discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.

Brunchfast.

 

[Fender]

It's called Tea in the cricket so Tea it is.

 

[Giants FC]

Tea in cricket is at 3:10 in the afternoon - more like afternoon tea, a short snack between lunch and tea/dinner.
Like other posters on here, I call it tea if I'm at home and dinner if I'm going out.

 

[Thrawn]

Like other posters on here, I call it tea if I'm at home and dinner if I'm going out.

Why?

 

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

Why?

Dinner sounds more formal.

 

[Juddy88]

Dinner sounds more formal.

What if you have a formal dinner at home, and then the next night you don't?

You're at the same table, doing the same thing yet it is called something different

 

[DonMania#5]

Wtf is tea? It's dinner..

 

[Hooley McBoob]

Have dinner at home, go out for dinner. It's just dinner

Whenever somebody calls it tea I think of that scene from Grease:
"My parents want to know if you want to come over for tea tonight?"
"I don't like tea."
"You don't have to drink tea!"
"Well I don't like parents."

 

[Bomber32]

It has always been dinner for me. Regardless of whether I go out or stay at home to eat it.

 

[Power King]

'tea' ? the **** is this, all hail britannia?

dinner for the win.

 

[Juddy88]

Yeah always dinner.

Going out for dinner.

What's for dinner?

etc..

 

[Mario the Lothario]

A "hit".