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Evening meal
What do you call yours? Tea, supper or dinner?
I call it dinner.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Well working-class-origin old me had never had a mid-day big meal, mainly because of work. So the skimpier middle of the day meal became lunch when I was at work. When I cooked a bigger meal for myself and my x naturally it was 'dinner' for us, often eaten between 7 - 8 p.m. Confusing because before I was married I had jobs in the West End which gave Luncheon Vouchers (who remembers those, and what happened to them?) and yet what I bought with those were 'dinners' - hot main meals of the day. I have mainained my lighter mid-day meal although it's often brunch now! My evening meal is 'dinner' and although I have tried to eat it earlier iof late t could never be 'tea'. For me it is a time -title, i.e. the main meal of the day. Also, when I lived at home, people were out working all day in the 50s so our 'dinner' was in the evening at about 7.30 p.m. My husband always delighted in calling his middle of the day meal 'dinner' even though that wasn't what it was, amount-wise.
If I skip dinner and have a late snack, that is what I would call 'supper' - around 10.30 p.m. and it is cut down to a bowl of soup and bread.