Tea, dinner, supper, evening meal. What do you call it?

Breakfast, lunch, dinner except on a Sunday when it's Breakfast, dinner, tea but only because we have our main meal at lunchtime.

Generally, if someone asks me would I like tea I assume they mean a hot drink, not food - unless it's afternoon tea when it's accompanied by scones with jam and cream!!!

Breakfast, lunch and dinner for me.

I call it dinner, but I used to call it tea when I was younger, which means it could be a northern thing as my mum is originally from yorkshire. I've always associated supper with being something you have late, after dinner, but think you can call your main meal that too. Weird either way!

His argument is that school's have 'dinner time', and 'dinner ladies' so that dinner must be the midday meal. My counter-argument is that i took a packed lunch to school!

Both good points! I had a packed lunch but then then some of the other kids had school dinners!

I call it Tea.

I've just got back from my dinner break at work. Maybe its a midlands thing?

Oh and its a cob

Oww i'm midlands and I say dinner and bap

It's a bread roll. I was going to say it's always called a lunch break never dinner, but I've just been proved wrong there! Never heard that one before!

Yep. Northerners tend to say tea for the evening meal (the hot brown stuff you drink is indeed a brew, as in the first phrase heard on entry to my parents' house: "are you brewing up?"). Midday meal is more ambiguous as it was always dinner (as in school dinners) but I find in a work context it's more of a lunch (as in "I'm going on my lunch now").

I think bread rolls have more regional variation. I know the word cob but we don't use it here (maybe more Yorkshire?) I would probably say bun as default but bap is also acceptable.

Sorry, stupid small font above. I don't know why it does that.

Definite Southerner here - it's breakfast, lunch, dinner, but Sunday is breakfast, Sunday lunch (whatever the time!) and then Sunday tea, which usually consisted of a cup or pot of tea, a couple of sandwiches and a bit of cake, or crumpets!!!

And talking of weird things kind of on a similar topic (ish ?) - my OH before he met my mum had never heard of having crumpets (often as part of sunday tea!) with melted cheese? Is it rare or is it normal, southern or Northern? Crumpets and cheese are the best thing EVER!!!!!

I flipping love crumpets and cheese! Yummy, i could just eat them non-stop. Everyone up here thinks i'm Southern but technically i'm an East Midlandser.

I've heard of crumpets with cheese, but it's not really my thing. I've mostly eaten them with just butter, but sometimes jam or peanut butter.

Where do people stand on chips and gravy?...

I have only ever had chips from KFC and their gravy, which is super yummy, but I believe the main 'seller' of chips and gravy would be a fish and chip shop? I think I'm positively uneducated - it sounds amazing though!! Do you dip the chips, or just pour the gravy over them??

Ooh, yes ID. Ha, my secondary school used to sell chips, cheese and gravy for LUNCH yum!

Yeah, I never get chips from the chippy without also getting gravy. I just pour it over, I guess you could dip but we don't! I also like curry sauce, but gravy is always my first choice.

I'm clearly a piggy- wig cos it's breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner & supper for me- not all in one day I hasten to add it depends on the time I eat what I call my meal.

Oh, ID I love chips and gravy! Again though, that's because mum is northern ;-) one of her favourite meals is chips and mince, basically just mince, onions and gravy, yum. Im not a huge fan of crumpets with cheese, although I'm a bit odd as I love both separately. Im the same with jacket potatoes

Breakfast, dinner, tea.

Cup of tea = brew.

Chips & curry sauce, mmmmm.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Chips on gravy is a foodstuff for those North of the Watford gap.

Dont get me started on asda and morrisons.

Being from the Midlands, as a child we used a weird hybrid and had breakfast, lunch and tea - but the drink was also called tea (specified as "a cup of tea" if necessary), would never say "a brew" or "brew up." Having become progressively more Southern and middle class, I now have dinner in the evening instead of tea.

Growing up in the Midlands it was always breakfast, dinner and tea...from uni years onwards it got confusing cus everyone else did breakfast, lunch, and dinner so that's what I say now!

Also cobs are crusty, baps are soft...i briefly worked in greggs, so I knows it!

I may be a southerner, but I loooove chips and gravy!

Chips and gravy! Yummy! When I was at uni in hull it used to be chip spice, never heard of it anywhere else.

definitely, breakfast, dinner and tea with a brew for us northerners! And it's a barm round here! Lol xxx

For me its breakfast, dinner and tea - supper is something like cereal before bed.

Northern thing for sure.

Also, chips and gravy is the end of a good night out - or what we eat for the couple days before payday when we have sod all else in haha.

as for bread...its bread buns or stotties. anything that isn't a stottie is a bun.

What's a stottie?

I've lived down south all my life but mum is from Rotherham and dad is from Coventry. The word brew has never been used in our house!

Thats a stottie - always had in this house with ham and pease pudding. They're so delicious i can't even put it in to words.

wiki description - 'Stotties tend to be eaten split and filled. The heavy texture of the bread gives it its name. To 'stott' is Geordie meaning 'to bounce'[2] because if dropped it would (in theory) bounce.'

Im from rochdale and call it tea and supper is what you have after tea

i think its a northern thing as the people around here seem to call it dinner

Breakfast, lunch and dinner,

Also usually have brunch at weekends (instead of breakfast and lunch not in addition to )

OMG we made stotties at primary school! After they were featured on a programme we watched in class called Geordie Racer

Ha, was that the one about the pigeons?! I vaguely recall this programme!