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

Geordie Racer! That's a blast from the past.

It is breakfast then lunch or dinner then tea for me, but I am from Yorkshire. Lunch if it's a small midday meal and dinner if it's a big one.

I say 'bun' for everything. Bread bun or for what my husband (West Country) calls a fairy cake. No idea what he calls bun cases!

I get mocked for referring to his packed lunch as 'a pack up'. It seems people don't say that down South.

I LOVED Geordie Racer. It was about pigeons, and the great north run. I liked it because I had been to Newcastle so when we watched it in school I couod proudly boast that I had been to where it was filmed. (I was a twat at school )

Flying free, flying high,
Flashing wings across the sky,
Geordie racer, Geordie racer.

On the road, in the street,
Hear the sound of pounding feet,
Geordie racer, Geordie racer.

Don't wait, don't stop,
You're heading home.
Don't rest, don't drop,
You're heading home.

In the air, on the ground,
See them moving all around.
Running hard, flying fast,
See them all go rushing past,
Geordie racer - fly!

It is breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast, dinner and tea are the northern way to say it. I am a northerner but l have lived down south too long.

With regards to the bread thing then it could be a roll / cob / bap / oven bottom etc!

Not sure about the crumpets and cheese thing?

Chips and gravy are amazing! I have even got Mr Erin to like them thanks to KFC. But really it’s a northern thing. Despite being Northern then l hate pease pudding, mind you that is more of a north east thing and l am from the north west

I don't know what pease pudding is either!!

How about parched peas? Butter pies?

Lol, nope. Im starting to feel uneducated!

I'm with you Mrs S!!

oh really? Its lovely - though not easily available if you're not in the north. I advise to never buy the tinned stuff as its usually bloody awful haha.

Parched peas are just black peas that have been boiled to death and seasoned with salt and vinegar. I don't see them as much in Manc but in Preston town centre there are vans that sell them, just in a polystyrene cup with a fork. I kind of want some now I'm thinking about it!

Butter pie is a pie filled with sliced potato and a bit of butter, and sometimes cheese as well. They are another Preston staple - in fact I had it at my 21st party, served from a giant tray like hotpot. Obviously now I'm a vegan I cant eat commercially made ones, but I can make my own, although I don't very often.

Only in the north would you get potato and butter in pastry! Haha. I think I need to do a northern food tour!

Oh, and H just asked me what I decided to do for tea, dinner and tea interchangeable in this house!

Breakfast, lunch and tea for me

For me, dinner is the evening meal eaten between 5 & 7. I grew up in the North and this was the convention in our house. Supper was something we had before going to bed - a very light snack if dinner had been early.

Kids I grew up with used tea instead - I think in many ways it depends on the family.

My mum is American, dad from Kent and I grew up in Scotland. It was always breakfast, lunch and dinner in our house, and dinner was always between 7-9pm. anything after 9 was supper. sometimes lunch was dinner & dinner was supper. now i live in Manchester with h2b who's from Northumberland, and his use of "tea" has slowly crept into my lexicon. The first time I said "tea" to my mum referring to dinner, she stuck her nose very high up in the air. She's a snob - to her it's not regional, it's all about class. Ridiculous.

The only Pease pudding I know is the tune I learnt to play on the recorder in first school "Pease pudding hot, Pease pudding cold..."

Yes! I knew I'd heard it somewhere in a song but couldn't put my finger on it.

Ah. Could have been a class thing. I think it's anything goes now which is why we're all a funny mix!

Breckie - dinner - tea time unless we are going out and we may describe it as going out for dinner. Supper is something I had as a kid when it was a little bowl of cereal before bed now its just munch time!!

Im a midlander

Anybody ever had chip spice? Or a Yorkshire fishcake? its odd as I call a large battered potato a 'scollop' whereas my hubby who is only from 10 minutes down the road had to have this explained to him, he calls them a potato fryit.

I have a friend from London, who the idea of a chip 'cob' just repulses her as its bread on potato.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner or tea. Also interchangeable in this house.

I have never used the word supper. It makes me cringe for some reason.

It reminds me of keeping upon apperences when hyasynth has her candle lit suppers

We call the battered potato slices scallops here too. I was very confused when I realised there was a type of seafood also called that. What makes a Yorkshire fishcake different from a standard one? (That sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but I am actually asking.)

It's a scallop potato with the fishcake part inside (no bread crumbs) then another scallop of potato our local chippy does them in batter but I'm sure when I was in Yorkshire they came in bread oats

Lol, just did a Facebook quiz that tries to guess where you come from based on how you say or refer to certain things and the first question is this! I ended up getting mancunian, which makes no sense, but I do have an odd mix of pronunciation

I had no idea there was any part of England that used mom. I know certain parts of the North are more likely to say mam than mum, but I'm guessing the teacher assumed it was an Americanism that needed to be stamped out. I learned my alphabet from Sesame St, and when I got to school I got told off for saying 'zee' instead of 'zed'. But yeah, unnecessary.

Yep, I bet that's what it was. I agree though, it was mean!

We call our mums "mam" where I live and my god I f'in hate it with a passion. my mum is mum occasionally mommi for some reason but we tend to all call her nana

what's grandmothers called where you are? I told my friend in London my mama had passed and she thought I meant my mum! !

My mum's mum was Nana, my dad's mum was Grandma. But I'm pretty sure my parents invented that system - my friend across the road called both of hers "Grandma [surname]". My niece calls my mum Nana (or she will when she can talk!), and my aunt's grandchildren call her Nanny.

I have always used mom, I think it's the midlands influence (they moved there when she was 8) both my parents mums were Nanna to me, my mums dad is grandad and my dad's dad was popop, we have no idea why but it's what my uncle now is to his grandkids and it's what my dad wants to be if we have any

Here it's always mum and both my grandmothers were nanny. But to distinguish them, we had nanny and grandad and just nanny!! when my eldest was born, she had two granddmothers and three great-grandmothers so we had grandma, nanny, great-nan, great-nanna and great-grumpy (but not to her face!!!).

Grandad is harder, my dad didn't want to be grandpa because he said it made him feel old so both were just grandad.

that is mean- its not incorrect, its just different!

but ahh I always wondered about the 'mom' thing, cus thats what I call mine, and it wasnt til fairly recent years where I realised you can only seem to get mothers day cards with 'mum' on, and I though have I been getting it wrong all my life? :-D I just assumed it must be a midlands-y thing cus I dont know anyone else that does it...

as for nans, i think thats down to your parents isnt it, mine were just both nan, with the addition of the first letter of the surname if needed to differentiate between then, but I know lots of people have different terms for each

I'm very late to this thread ... but ... ?

er, Vegan!?

Are you telling me chip shop gravy is 'safe'!? That I have been depriving myself for ALL THIS TIME!?

Well, it depends. Different chip shops make it differently, but they're certainly not making it the traditional way (ie juices run off from cooking a joint of meat, cos they're not cooking any meat there, unless you count the elephant's leg on the rotisserie they use to make kebabs). My nearest chippy (Piccadilly Gardens) uses regular Bisto, which is vegan. I wouldn't trust Harry Ramsden's, but then even their chips are not veggie, let alone the gravy!