What do you eat at about 5pm each day?

Cher_Alumni
Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,714 Championing
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What do you eat at about 5pm each day? 15 votes

Tea
46%
poppy123456Chloe_Alumnijaner196766MustangCher_AlumniRoss_Alumnijaknit 7 votes
Dinner
26%
carthaAdrian_ScopeOverlyAnxiousSallyH 4 votes
Neither of those, what are you talking about?
26%
leeCaldeb74[Deleted User]RAwarrior 4 votes

Comments

  • Oxonlady
    Oxonlady Scope Member Posts: 563 Pioneering
    Hi Cher_Scope, I'm usually asleep at 5pm!
    When I am awake I'd be having a cup of tea and a sandwich, so definitely tea!
    Dinner comes later, around 7-8pm. 
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Neither of those, what are you talking about?
    I don’t eat TIL 7/8pm then I have dinner. I’m hungry...
  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,783 Online Community Programme Lead
    Dinner
    We eat as early as possible with a little one. But we use the correct word — dinner.
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Tea
    Tea if at home but would be dinner if we went out lol 
  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,714 Championing
    edited September 2020
    Tea
    @Adrian_Scope interesting use of the word correct.

    Thanks everyone, I'm happy to see tea take an early lead  :)
  • Adrian_Scope
    Adrian_Scope Posts: 11,783 Online Community Programme Lead
    Dinner
    The poll says one thing but the thread seems to definitely say that the evening meal is dinner.

    Tea is something you dunk your Hobnobs in, not attack with a knife and fork!
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,171 Championing
    edited September 2020
    Tea
    We call it “tea” :o I kind of agree with the post that says if it was a meal out it would be “dinner”...!

    Is “tea” perhaps a northern thing?
  • Oxonlady
    Oxonlady Scope Member Posts: 563 Pioneering
    I see now, some people call the same meal tea or dinner!

    A friend informed me once that she has "high tea". Well I don't have a formal tea but I do make the distinction between tea and dinner.
    I have tea any time between 4 - 5pm, with a cup of tea, a sandwich and a treat.
    Dinner comes later in the evening, say at around 6-8pm. 
    And supper, if available, is at around 10pm. 

    Though I must say, there are regional differences. Does it really matter? 
    For example, we have "school dinners" and "ladies who lunch". Yet we are referring to the same meal. 
  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 425 Pioneering
    Neither of those, what are you talking about?
    @Cher_Scope

    I don't eat anything at that time but I do drink coffee
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    edited September 2020
    Tea
    I've always eaten my "tea" around this time. It comes from when my children were at school and were usually starving by this time because of the pack lunch at school. Also when they were smaller bed time was always very early. The time has stuck for me.
    I think by the vote, it's clearly "tea" :D
  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,463 Championing
    Tea
    66Mustang said:
    We call it “tea” :o I kind of agree with the post that says if it was a meal out it would be “dinner”...!

    Is “tea” perhaps a northern thing?

    Having lived in various parts of the country over many years i can tell you that some parts of the South say dinner and others say tea. Where live now in the North it's tea.
  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 425 Pioneering
    Neither of those, what are you talking about?
    i forgot to add that I think there might be variations regarding the word 'tea'. If I say  I mean the drink and not a meal/dinner. 

  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,468 Championing
    The real question is what you call the meal you eat at 1pm...

    I'm with those saying tea is the evening meal you eat at home, and dinner is a fancier tea.
  • jaknit
    jaknit Online Community Member Posts: 31 Contributor
    Tea
    Tea unless it roast dinner or eat later in evening, i normally answer cottage pie, around noon I have lunch but my son says dinner apparently only cricketers have lunch
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 4,926 Championing
    Dinner
    For me, a hot meal is always 'dinner' regardless of time.  But a sandwich could be either lunch or tea depending on the time. 

    99.9% of days I have a hot meal at 6pm, so my answer in the poll is dinner...but on those rare occasions I have a sandwich at 6pm, that would be tea...  :D

  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    Tea
    Tea all the way!!! Although, I'm still working at 5pm.  :D 

    I eat around 7pm.
  • Chloe_Alumni
    Chloe_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 10,506 Championing
    Tea
    Tori_Scope said:
    The real question is what you call the meal you eat at 1pm...

    I'm with those saying tea is the evening meal you eat at home, and dinner is a fancier tea.
    This is the TRUTH @Tori_Scope! 
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Tea
    I had a lovely breakfast this morning

    My dinner was also delightful

    And I can't wait to have my tea this evening :) 
  • cartha
    cartha Online Community Member Posts: 1,393 Empowering
    Dinner
    leeCal said:
    I don’t eat TIL 7/8pm then I have dinner. I’m hungry...
    Same here :-)

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