Okay, a roll can be a bap or a teacake, but what do you call.......

foodpoison said:
You don't have 'sunday dinner' do you? you have sunday lunch!

and so therefore a meal eaten in the evening is dinner.
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I have sunday dinner.

The only time I have sunday lunch is when I'm out watching motorsport, invariably I don't have dinner at all on those sundays.:thumbs:
 
I grew up a northerner and had an evening meal around 5.30 that we called tea, if we ate again later, it was supper.

For the last 5 years I have lived south of the border [Watford Gap] and we have an evening meal usually between 7 and 8 and its called dinner. Certainly not averse to afternnon tea at 4ish though, as long as cake is on the menu :naughty:

That stuff in the middle of the day, thats breakfast that is :D


oh and Sundays, we still normally eat in the evenings, but earliest is about 3.30 and thats the exception, thats definately Sunday DINNER!
 
its tea!! its a common misconception that its called dinner... me and the wife constantly argue the case (shes a weirdo -its dinner- person as well).

it originates back to the time when they had -tea at 5- this was always accompanied by cakes or scones or sandwiches, the whole thing being called tea, as time went by the drink faded out as a set time due to the wider availability of tea, but the meal stayed bearing the original name......
 
babytiger said:
dinner is lunchtime ........ tea is tea-time simples :lol:
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yep yep my thoughts exactly

although my boyfriend cant get his head round it so we call it Lunch and Dinner now
 
Breakfast, Dinner, Tea, Supper is what we used at home growing up in Lancashire. Having lived down south for many years and now living with a Londoner, I use Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and never get a supper! My old usage of Dinner and Tea frequently slip out.

As for bread rolls, they're barm cakes but nobody knows what I'm on about if I use that term.
 
ChrisGaskin said:
its tea!! its a common misconception that its called dinner... me and the wife constantly argue the case (shes a weirdo -its dinner- person as well).

it originates back to the time when they had -tea at 5- this was always accompanied by cakes or scones or sandwiches, the whole thing being called tea, as time went by the drink faded out as a set time due to the wider availability of tea, but the meal stayed bearing the original name......
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Ah but thats where your wife, as always, has you beat, because generally people that could afford the luxury of afternoon tea, also had dinner later in the evening. Therefore, the MAIN evening meal is dinner :p




and yes, bread rolls are indeed barm cakes, but you try walking into a London chippy nd asking for a chip barm... :cuckoo:
 
SimonTALM said:
If you really want to confuse them ask for a chip barm with a dollop of gravy :D
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THAT has been my moan for the last five years...however, I did recently find a chippy in Nth Finchley that actually does gravy! :eek: Sadly, I can't say I was overly impressed with the chips that went with it :shake:
 
Yv said:
THAT has been my moan for the last five years...however, I did recently find a chippy in Nth Finchley that actually does gravy! :eek: Sadly, I can't say I was overly impressed with the chips that went with it :shake:
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That brings up another point for another thread...what do you call a portion of fish and a portion of chips in your part of the world? :naughty:
 
Breakfast (morning)
Lunch (Mid-day meal)
Tea (evening meal)
Dinner (evening meal if it's too special to be call tea)

PS

My dogs all get their 'dinner' at 6:00pm
 
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Tea, but the dog gets his "Dinner" at the same time.

These "rolls" you speak of, you mean softies, don't you?:D
 
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