What do you call your main evening meal?

[col]

Tea here,supper is later before bed.

 

[just jim]

DINDINS

 

[yenrod]

It was tea when i was a kid, and became dinner when i started getting above my station :-)

Yeah, but what happens when your on the train...

Great POLL btw !

 

[spandex]

I call it food!

but going by the list in your poll Dinner is the meal I would say you would have between 6 and 9. Supper is one of two things 1st food you have some time after your dinner 2nd something else you can eat in bed.

 

[cchapman]

Dinner is what school children have in the middle of the day (school dinners?) and tea is "my husband likes his tea on the table when he gets home after work"

 

[Cranky]

Did you soft southerners not have dinnerladies at school?

Unfortunately, yes (assuming I meet the criteria for soft southerner).

 

[Keith Oates]

I don't care what it's called as long as it's something I like!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[beanzontoast]

It was tea until my parents decided to posh.

Still tea with me.

Nail. Head.
'Nuff. Said.

 

[beanzontoast]

Right we've got one "supper" eater....

I vote we drown him in the nearest duck pond?

I suspect there are many closet supper eaters who are hiding within the dinner-tea debate. You may need a bigger pond...

 

[ChrisKH]

Breakfast, Dinner, Tea when I was younger as main meal was in the middle of the day and last meal was between 4.00 pm and 6.00pm which, if I'm not mistaken, is tea time. Dinner hour at school was exactly that, an hour within which to consume school dinner.

Now Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner as I have a lunch break and a bigger meal in the evening. I still tend to call lunchtime dinner though and get corrected by all the posh twats at work.

Supper's for people who still have tea at tea time but can't wait until breakfast for their next meal.

 

[beanzontoast]

Breakfast, Dinner, Tea when I was younger as main meal was in the middle of the day and last meal was between 4.00 pm and 6.00pm which, if I'm not mistaken, is tea time. Dinner hour at school was exactly that, an hour within which to consume school dinner.

Now Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner as I have a lunch break and a bigger meal in the evening. I still tend to call lunchtime dinner though and get corrected by all the posh twats at work.

Supper's for people who still have tea at tea time but can't wait until breakfast for their next meal.

Mrs B to a tee!

 

[Arch]

The more I think about it, the more I realise I might refer to it as any of those.

Although tea would be most likely if I'd had a main meal at lunchtime, and was only having toast or something like that.

Supper is a bedtime snack. Crisp sandwiches were a childhood favourite. But you can never take them as a packed lunch, unless you enjoy soggy crisps.

 

[beanzontoast]

The more I think about it, the more I realise I might refer to it as any of those.

Although tea would be most likely if I'd had a main meal at lunchtime, and was only having toast or something like that.

Supper is a bedtime snack. Crisp sandwiches were a childhood favourite. But you can never take them as a packed lunch, unless you enjoy soggy crisps.

I have to time anything like that for about an hour before I go to bed, or I can guarantee I have nightmares.

 

[Chris James]

We should have a google map to show responses.

Tea all over the North, Dinner all over the South and Supper for privately educated individuals from throughout the country!

 

[numbnuts]

Jesus had supper unfortunately it was his last