Why do some people call the evening meal ‘tea’?
Posted by Sinemetu9@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 6 comments
I call it ‘dinner’, or with my family, ‘supper’, which I suppose are both from French, and I’m in London, so is it a geographical north/south thing? But why ‘tea’? It seems confusing, when tea is traditionally at 4. Edit: Put ‘dinner’ twice, changed one to ‘supper’.
nicknockrr@reddit
Breakfast, dinner, tea. Just always been the way
Sinemetu9@reddit (OP)
Ah right? Didn’t know the midday meal was called dinner.
t_treesap@reddit
Just want to throw out some some further detail on midday meals being called dinner:
By historical definition dinner is the largest meal of the day, while supper is the evening meal. (Apparently the larger meal shifted to later in the day a few hundred years ago.)
t_treesap@reddit
Just want to throw out some some further detail on midday meals being called dinner:
By historical definition dinner is the largest meal of the day, while supper is the evening meal. (Apparently the larger meal shifted to later in the day a few hundred years ago.)
OneAbbreviations8070@reddit
Must be an north of England thing I've only know breakfast , lunch, dinner. Tea is what we drink.
Simmybong@reddit
north are true English,south are invaders of england,as northern we say breakfast,dinner,tea,,but upper class and middle class changed the name why south says it diffrent