What do you call the main meal you eat in the evening?

Ross_Alumni
Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
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Very curious about this question, as it has been debated many times within my household, family and even within the community team.

I recognise that answers may be influenced by location and upbringing, but I'm curious to know what the vast majority of people call the meal you eat in the evening, is it...

What do you call the main meal you eat in the evening? 25 votes

Dinner
36%
leeCalexdvr[Deleted User]DragonslayerPixie51CressmzjojoJessJsuper222 9 votes
Tea
52%
deb74easy[Deleted User]Garzajaner1967OverlyAnxiouschiarieds66MustangGrinchyCher_AlumniRoss_AlumniSandy_123Lisatho11987777 13 votes
Other (please specify)
12%
WaylayQuintyNotReally 3 votes
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  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Tea
    Tea for me. I was brought up my entire life by a family of people who say "tea is ready" and "for tea we are having..." so it has stuck with me :) 
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Tea
    Tea for me unless going out for meal 

    If go out around 7pm or later call it dinner 
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,155 Championing
    edited March 2021
    Tea
    Tea for me too....is it a Yorkshire thing, or more widespread? If I can even remember it, going out for a meal is dinner/evening meal.
    There's also a thread on here 'What's for tea tonight?' so we're not alone.
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Tea
    I always assumed saying tea was a Yorkshire thing. But I guess not? :) 

    My partner says dinner, which confuses me a whole lot because I call the meal in the middle of the day dinner :D 
  • Welshjayne2021
    Welshjayne2021 Online Community Member Posts: 85 Contributor
    Tea.  I’m not posh enough to call it dinner.
  • Ami2301
    Ami2301 Online Community Member Posts: 7,877 Championing
    It depends on who i'm speaking to, if it's my mum then i will say tea. But if i'm talking to Ewan, then i will say dinner because we have had many debates over the correct terms for mealtimes, to be fair though, he is from Windsor  :lol:
  • NotReally
    NotReally Online Community Member Posts: 70 Empowering
    Other (please specify)
    Food.

    What?  I'm autistic ... did you really expect anything else?
  • JessJ
    JessJ Online Community Member Posts: 8 Listener
    Dinner
    Dinner's ready! 
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    Tea
    I have always called it tea 

    It's normaly said like this 

    Breakfast 
    Lunch
    Dinner 

    My aunt also lived in Windsor  lol 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 63,123 Championing
    Tea
    Always known it as tea, quote from Google below.
    High” tea
    In the past, high tea was an alternative to afternoon tea. ... This eventually evolved into the lower classes calling their midday meal “dinner” and their evening meal “tea”, while the upper classes called their midday meal “lunch” and referred to the evening meal as “dinner”.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Dinner
    We have an evening meal which we poshly call dinner,,,even if it’s only fish fingers! 
  • Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer Online Community Member Posts: 2,164 Pioneering
    Dinner
    I used to call it tea all the time, until I married my American wife, now its dinner and lunch, whether eating in or out or what time we have it. Its all food anyway whatever we call it.
  • deb74
    deb74 Online Community Member Posts: 819 Pioneering
    Tea
    I am from the west midlands and it is always breakfast dinner and tea. Like @leeCal says it is posh to call it dinner.
  • Grinchy
    Grinchy Online Community Member Posts: 1,953 Championing
    Tea
    Tea,  i'm from Liverpool, so we are having our Tea, glad we all have differences, its interesting
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,168 Championing
    Tea
    I’m from the south and we call it tea

    Breakfast - lunch - tea

    I agree “dinner” is a posh tea - i.e. going out - also “tea” at lunch time is posh if it’s afternoon tea!
  • Swatteam
    Swatteam Online Community Member Posts: 175 Empowering
    TEA where I come from the northeast 
    Breakfast 
    Dinner 
    Tea
    Supper
  • Waylay
    Waylay Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 965 Trailblazing
    Other (please specify)
    Supper, but I grew up in Quebec. My Mum (English from Portsmouth/London) said dinner before eventually switching to supper. My Dad (wrong side of tracks London), said tea.
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Tea
    Waylay said:
    Supper, but I grew up in Quebec. My Mum (English from Portsmouth/London) said dinner before eventually switching to supper. My Dad (wrong side of tracks London), said tea.
    Interesting, thanks for sharing :) 
  • Quinty
    Quinty Online Community Member Posts: 47 Contributor
    Other (please specify)
    Supper  tea, and dinner. It depends what mood Im in.
  • Queenofdisabilities
    Queenofdisabilities Online Community Member Posts: 91 Connected
    I call it tea time.

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