Today I learned...

[Liar]

...that there are people in the UK who call lunch "dinner", and dinner "tea". I have yet to figure out what they call actual tea.

How I've been alive of 40-something years without hearing of this before is beyond me.

 

[Sean]

That would be me.

 

[Liar]

So what DO you call the beverage?

 

[jaF0]

I have yet to figure out what they call actual tea.

Piss.

 

[Sean]

So what DO you call the beverage?

Char.

 

[HisArpy]

Piss.

With vinegar.

 

[surdeep]

So what DO you call the beverage?

In my part of India we tell American tourists it is called Tea Pee.
We then wait and watch their faces, which are mostly too funny!

 

[jomar]

Back in the USA day south the noon meal was called dinner and the evening meal was supper.

 

[pointless]

i'm from the midwest. i call lunch both dinner and lunch and i call supper both dinner and supper. versatility, bitches. suck it.

 

[jaF0]

I'm from no where and I call it all food and eat when I feel like it.

 

[silver gurl]

So what DO you call the beverage?

It depends. Are we speaking of afternoon tea, high tea or low tea?
*Dinner is lunch, supper is dinner.

 

[jomar]

i'm from the midwest. i call lunch both dinner and lunch and i call supper both dinner and supper. versatility, bitches. suck it.

Millennials, what are you gonna do...

 

[DeluxAuto]

i'm from the midwest. i call lunch both dinner and lunch and i call supper both dinner and supper. versatility, bitches. suck it.

Is the refrigerator an ice box and soda is pop?

 

[pointless]

Millennials, what are you gonna do...

bitch, i'm late gen x.

Is the refrigerator an ice box and soda is pop?

no, because i hate the word pop.

 

[PapaRomantic]

In my part of India we tell American tourists it is called Tea Pee.
We then wait and watch their faces, which are mostly too funny!

Wacky, fun-lovin' Indians!!

 

[PapaRomantic]

Is the refrigerator an ice box and soda is pop?

And water runs in a creek (pronounced "crick"), and we wash our clothes (pronounced "warsh")

 

[pointless]

that's not a midwest thing. that's a hick thing.

 

[dolf]

The Bodybuilding Toyboy With The Huge Cock© does this. It's pretty common.

Dinner/tea usually regional.

 

[dolf]

Of course tea (dinner) should also not be confused with "afternoon tea" , which is something completely different.

 

[silver gurl]

Of course tea (dinner) should also not be confused with "afternoon tea" , which is something completely different.

Do you do this? Just curious.

 

[dolf]

Do you do this? Just curious.

Afternoon tea? Not regularly, but yes. As an occasional treat, I'm rather partial to a fruit scone.
It's because formal dinner was served so late in the evening, and people would be waiting a long time between lunch and dinner.

 

[Emerson40]

Afternoon tea is a fine time to treat yourself to clotted cream on scones and wee sandwiches with the crusts trimmed off.

Pinkies up!

 

[butters]

Is the refrigerator an ice box and soda is pop?

i'm still confused over this as to whether it means the fridge or freezer as it seems to be interchangeable maybe that's just our house, though

in the u.k when and where i was a kid, dinner was the midday meal: school broke at 12-1 for dinner. we had 'dinner ladies'. tea was around 6 and supper, if we wanted a snack, was about 8. meals were generally smaller and more frequent, with breakfast, elevensies, dinner, four o'clocksies, tea-time, and supper. probably a much healthier way to eat than huge blow-out meals or once-a-day eating.

as i got older, 'dinner' just became the main mealtime and lunch the quick break between breakfast, working/being busy, being more busy, and dinner.

 

[SilvaTungDevil]

i'm from the midwest. i call lunch both dinner and lunch and i call supper both dinner and supper. versatility, bitches. suck it.

I'm from the mid-midwest and I call lunch, lunch. But dinner and supper are teh meal we have of an evenin'.

 

[Sean]

Afternoon tea? Not regularly, but yes. As an occasional treat, I'm rather partial to a fruit scone.
It's because formal dinner was served so late in the evening, and people would be waiting a long time between lunch and dinner.

But do you pronounce it to rhyme with bone or gone?