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Hi cornetto, Yes, I live in sunny SA - nothing to beat that African Sky! Where are you?

Hi Gracia are you still in Africa? I think that is really true what you said dinner is when you invite people over, when you are on your own, its supper.

Breakfast
Lunch - Be it a sandwich or a roast
Supper/Dinner - Normally a cooked meal

I beg to differ, Bunnychow. I am South african and I call the evening meal 'supper'. I call it 'dinner' when I invite people over and set a formal table - but that is just me!
I always say " I'm going to make supper now" when I am about to start 'supper'!

Hi all, I am welsh and live in the vale of glamorgan, and have myself and my two boys have always had breakfast, lunch, dinner ( and in the boys case supper). I dont think its a posh southern thing - its just what you are bought up on - my parents called their meals exactly the same - that where i got it from ! But as long its good food - i dont mind what i call it really!!

What a great question. I come from the south east originally and we say midday - lunch and evening - dinner. When I moved to Derbyshire where my partner is from, they thought I was posh when I called our midday meal 'lunch'. My partner and his family refer to their meals as midday - dinner and evening - tea.

My family are from Italy, they have a slight difference to us:-

Collazione - breakfast
Pranzo - dinner
Te' - afternoon tea
Cena - Supper

Of course in England it depends where your from and what traditions you have, we slightly differ from North to South.

I'm from the good old North East as well, and it has always been breakfast, dinner, tea, and no matter what time I do Sunday roast for, it's always Sunday dinner.

The correct way according to my Grandmother is:

Breakfast
Luncheon
Tea
Dinner
Supper

breakfast, then lunch, then dinner, then (if i'm feeling greedy) supper
and a snack is called nibbles
i don't know why, lol

Breakfast, brunch, lunch, tea (sitting at the table for some toast or something when i'm back from college), Dinner (the main evening meal) then supper (before bed). I'm from the south. My northern grandparents had it the same.

I'm with Dirt diggler on this one too - its always been

Breakfast

then,

Dinner

then,

Tea

then,

Supper.

And i'm from south wales......

We have breakfast, lunch and tea, unless we go out for our evening meal, then its dinner because thats posher!

Don't have supper because I have nightmares if I eat too late a night!

If we have a roast on a sunday then its sunday dinner no matter what time we eat it, but usually its in the evening.

Our main meal is always dinner regardless of what time of the day we have it. Sometimes it's mid day sometimes evening.

So one has breakfast
lunch OR dinner
tea/supper OR dinner

We're trying hard not to eat between!!

I'm from the NE of Scotland and it was always as a kid..

Breakfast
Dinner
Supper

When I was a child we had breakfast, dinner and tea.

Then my sister's new boyfriend informed us it should be breakfast, lunch and dinner. (He'd been to public school and knew better than us)

I believe that "dinner" is the main meal of the day, hence we had school dinners and tea when we got home, or a packed lunch and dinner when we got home.

Then again Sunday lunch was the main meal but it was still lunch, followed by Sunday tea.

Supper has only ever been a late night snack, also tea was a cold meal but high tea was a hot one.

Clear as mud?

Hi, (first time posting!) I'm from Scotland, West Coast, and we say dinner. Breakfast, lunch then dinner and maybe supper if anyone is a bit peckish! Sometimes at the weekend if we have a long lie it's brunch then dinner and definately supper! (Hope this helps.)

Dinner is the evening meal in our house. When I was a boy in Wales, Dinner was mid-day, followed later by Tea and then Supper. Now of course it's Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Supper. Things changed during my sojourn in the big wide world.
Ahh! Where's Tea you may be thinking - I've asked myself that question for years!

Where I come from it's, breakfast, lunch then dinner. When I was growing up in the 60's it was breakfast, dinner, tea then supper.

I'm with Dirk Diggler (or Mark Wahlberg ) on this. Here in the North West it's breakfast first thing in the morning followed by dinner and then tea when you get home from work, supper optional.

T.

For what it is worth I think if you have a large meal lunchtime then that is dinner; a light meal lunchtime is lunch; a large meal in the evening is dinner; a light meal is tea. I am from the south (my mum was an east London girl) but my dad was from Lancashire so I suppose like my explanation it is a bit of a mixture!

I am a Sheffield lass and I always call it dinner (except like Braces - on a Sunday dinner is at lunchtime). I have a friend at work who is from Felixstowe and she calls it tea if just eating with her husband, but if they are having friends round has a "dinner party". I always say she is having a "tea party" which doesn't go down too well.

Nah it wouldn't be bliss lesley we'd be bored stiff, mind you not if you've got a dishy dishwasher!

0h snowlight you have just described a typical day in ones hestablishment !!!!! here the servant does all the cooking and cleaning and menu writing and shopping it would be absolute bliss if only I wasn't that servant!!! mind you my dishwasher is really tasty !!!!

I say - Breakfast, Lunch, Hi-Tea, Dinner and Supper.
Hi-Tea was from the past long ago when you used to have sandwiches, cakes and a cup of tea, then you had your evening dinner about 7-8 o'clock. You know when one had servants and one would go out to lunch with friends. I wish.
Nowadays its Breakfast, Lunch, Tea and Supper.