Food, Drink & Dining Out What do you call the evening meal?

[ToroHombre]

Settling a debate with a mate from the country.

Dinner or tea?

 

[magic_johnson!]

why can't we have both?

 

[nicky]

Tea = cup of tea
dinner = evening meal

 

[ToroHombre]

Tea = cup of tea
dinner = evening meal

Exactly.

My mate won't agree on this, he claims that the dictionary says he's right.

 

[smiths]

I have pre-dinner and dinner.

Pre-dinner will just be something small like subway/burger when I get home. Dinner is the real deal though

P.S Im not fat lol.

 

[BomberGal]

Tea when I was growing up in the country.

Dinner now.

 

[Shell]

I have given this question much thought...

When I was a kid and asking mum what we would be having for dinner it would "tea".. ie. "what are we having for tea?"....

But I also use "dinner".

So the answer is both

 

[Power King]

Tea = cup of tea
dinner = evening meal

This.

It's primarily bogans and poms that use tea in the thread title's context.

 

[beez]

I had tandoori chicken for DINNER

 

[Leper]

Makan malam.

 

[raskolnikov]

To me dinner is the main meal of the day so if you can have dinner at lunch time if that's your main meal. When we were growing up mum used to make roast dinner for lunch on Sundays.

 

[gimp!]

It angers me when people say tea.

 

[HSSB]

Doesn't really bother me which one I call it, depends on the situation.

 

[Hard Ball Get]

Selected other because I say both.
Dinner usually when we go out. If I'm home I might say to mum 'whats for tea'?

 

[Caesar]

It's one of those alternative names that used to be class based. I read an etymology article once where it listed a whole bunch of words that were originally 'upper class' and their 'working class' alternatives. A few of the ones I can remember were dinner/tea, ill/sick, arthritis/rheumatism and Scotch/Scottish.

Obviously that distinction no longer really exists, and a few words (like Scotch and rheumatism) have all but disappeared.

 

[nicky]

It's one of those alternative names that used to be class based. I read an etymology article once where it listed a whole bunch of words that were originally 'upper class' and their 'working class' alternatives. A few of the ones I can remember were dinner/tea, ill/sick, arthritis/rheumatism and Scotch/Scottish.

Obviously that distinction no longer really exists, and a few words (like Scotch and rheumatism) have all but disappeared.

I was invited out to dinner by a scottish man but fell ill with rheumatism.

 

[Damon_3388]

I've always called it dinner. I don't even drink tea, so come to think of it, I rarely ever even say the word

For some reason though, my mum has a habit of calling lunch "dinner". I don't really know why it is, but when I've been at home and my mum has made me something for lunch, more than a few times some form of the phrase "your dinner is ready" has been said.

 

[Kahuna]

When you go out dinner, staying in tea.

 

[Marklar_33]

I was invited out to dinner by a scottish man but fell ill with rheumatism.

I think its Sick to dip my Scotch Finger biscuits in Tea, but my Arthritus makes them hard to hold

 

[nicky]

I think its Sick to dip my Scotch Finger biscuits in Tea, but my Arthritus makes them hard to hold

This sick scotch **** taught me golf and showed me how to tea off but my arthritis was playing up so i was s**t.

 

[HollyLovesWCE]

Tea.

Dinner is an annoying word imo.

 

[blues4flag]

I call it the evening meal.

Seriously though, I always get confused when people call it tea. Surely tea has to be involved for it to be tea?

 

[Marklar_33]

When I am eating tea, tea is clearly involved...its the meal I am eating

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Always tea when I was growing up, mostly dinner these days.

 

[Bomber32]

I call it both depending on the situation. I'm not really fussed either way about what it should be called.