do you have dinner at dinner time?

[Bobbisox]

and tea at tea-time?
We Northern folk class dinner-time as 12-1, whereas my sister who has lived in Kent for years says it's between 5-7ish, that's tea-time oop Norf...lol
although we have our main meal then...are you confused yet..lol
so am I !!

Bobbi ♥

[hc4361]

When do you have lunch?

[Bobbisox]

at dinner time..lol

[joggerjayne]

Yes.

5-7 is tea time.

7-9 is dinner time.

9 or later is supper time.

So if you eat "dinner" in the middle of the day, when do you have lunch?

[cazzz1975]

I tend to describe a meal it 12-1 as lunchtime/lunch and the evening meal as dinner and I am from the midlands, mind you some parts of the midlands describe lunch as "dinner time" and evening meal as tea time, at least breakfast is a constant ;)

[ayresy81]

i live down south wiltshire and ive always classed dinner as 12ish and tea 7ish its like when your at work you go for dinner you dont go for tea

[McMouse]

What about supper?

[B00]

I'm with you Bobbs- dinner is at 12-1pm ish, and tea time is at 5pm ish.

[logic]

when i was a child, breakfast was 0800
dinner 1200
Tea 1600

and if you were not there you missed it.

My dad was a strict millitary minded man.

[Bbbananas]

When I'm with my family & friends (Fen Wobbits), we have dinner at lunchtime.
When I'm with the BF or his family (Cardiff Posh) we have dinner in the evening.

[Bobbisox]

I don't suppose 'lunch-time' was ever used in the North by the miners and such so dinner time kinda stuck

[LoftyLottie]

We have dinner at dinner time in the evening and lunch at lunch time (1.00ish) and don't ever, never ever, have a meal called 'Tea'. We drink tea not eat it. Dinner, is surely a main meal and you can't eat dinner and call it tea. Buif we do have tea as a meal (and if it is sandwiches or similar)if we are invited out for tea but that is usually in the early evening. Are you more confused now Bobbi. ;o)

[joggerjayne]

So are Mancunian "Ladies Wot Lunch"

... known as "Ladies Wot Dinner"

??

[Bobbisox]

Fen Wobbits???
love that..lol
errmmm what are they?

[Bbbananas]

Confucious.com

[LoftyLottie]

We don't have supper time, dinner time is the last meal of our day. However, if we have another meal after dinner it is called being just plain piggish!!

[Sqad]

When I was working class, as a child.......dinner was around mid-day.

Now I am posh and upper middle class (birth precludes me from being upper class) dinner is in the evening.

[Bbbananas]

People who live in the fenlands bobbi - usually the Lincolnshire Fens.

[Bobbisox]

I most certainly am Lottie..he-he
OMG yours was defo a military run home logic..lol

[Bbbananas]

It's a phase coined by an old mate of mine. Funny really - he came from Sheffield, so he could hardly be derogatory.

[Bobbisox]

OK sqad, define middle class please ..lol