Dinner/Tea or Lunch/Dinner?

[El Guapo]

Dinner and Tea.

 

[ForssAwakens]

It's not time related, dinner is the main meal of the day or a large meal.
So Sunday dinner, or dinner ladies makes perfect sense however calling a sandwich dinner is clearly insanity.

Lunch and dinner
Or dinner and tea

If you take a packed lunch to school it would clearly be lunch and tea

Also is you have a large meal in a pub during your break, it’s a pub lunch, even if you had a carvery

Too many people trying to make this an exact science, but it’s a complicated thing we are discussing here

 

[TeessideCleveland]

Always call them Dinner and tea, but not too bothered if others want to call them otherwise

 

[SocraTees]

Rang my son the other day and him and his wife were in Manchester shopping. He said they were just picking up some bits for the kids then they were going to nip for a bit of brunch.
I have disowned him and written him out of my will.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

My wife recently got invited to a bottomless brunch.. starting at 5pm.
That's was too much for me.

 

[Druss_The_Legend]

Mam. Dinner/tea.

Wife says Mum, lunch/dinner.

Kids are very confused.

That's the same with me

 

[Druss_The_Legend]

The best one for me is me using owt(anything) nowt(nothing) and she started saying it to me taking the Mick out of my accent, little did she know that after several years she now uses them on conversations

 

[wilkos_perm]

If you take a packed lunch to school it would clearly be lunch and tea

Also is you have a large meal in a pub during your break, it’s a pub lunch, even if you had a carvery

Too many people trying to make this an exact science, but it’s a complicated thing we are discussing here

Yes indeed some nuances in there. But broadly speaking

Lunch = lighter meal middle of the day
Tea = lighter meal end of the day
Dinner = main meal irrespective of time

The placing of dinner as a time dependent item is where people are foolishly mistaken

 

[ForssAwakens]

Yes indeed some nuances in there. But broadly speaking

Lunch = lighter meal middle of the day
Tea = lighter meal end of the day
Dinner = main meal irrespective of time

The placing of dinner as a time dependent item is where people are foolishly mistaken

Well your forgetting about the well known phrase, ‘are we going out for tea’

 

[DonTheKing]

Well I was born in London, moved to middlesbrough as a young lad about 5.
Moved back to London when I was 18, never moved back up north but I am there quite alot.
I still use dinner and tea. Although I must admit my kids/grandkids (full on londoners) say lunch and dinner.

 

[kader63]

As some of you probably know my Mrs is a Southerner.
She always calls it Lunch(mid day meal) Dinner(evening meal).
I lived in Boro until I was 21 and I have always called it Dinner(mid day meal) and Tea(evening meal) it has been a significant topic of debate over the years between the two of us .
I'm curious is this a north/south divide thing or do others on here call it lunch/Dinner or dinner/tea?

Dinner/tea for me as well

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

A few people on here are "out to lunch"