Ok. Tea is a meal typically served between 4pm and 7pm, historically with a pot of tea - and would be "simple food" such as sandwiches. It evolved to become a hot meal for the 'working class' - typically served straight after work. For the same working class in the UK - typically in the north / midlands - dinner is your 12pm meal, as lunch (luncheon) was considered too "posh" a word. Although again for the working class (think mechanics, builders) they would often have a "packed lunch" for their dinner. But dinner is really a more formal affair, e.g. You can have a dinner party, or to go a restaurant for dinner. If you wanted to go out for tea, then it would be less formal - e.g. Going to a pub / for a cheeky nandos. In summary: 1. English idioms are confusing even for the English 2. Tea is earlier than dinner and less formal 3. Dinner is later than tea and more formal. But unless you're a fatty bum bum you wouldn't normally have both dinner and tea in single evening...
Supper is what I would cook for myself, or somebody else would prepare in a casual setting. Whereas a dinner is a more formal event. I have Supper nearly everyday & Dinner on occasion. I feel that throughout my life supper has been served earlier? Dinner is a later meal? Supper.. Is that how it's spelt, it's turning into that semantic satation thingymigig UK by the way. Also perhaps that's why it's a Roast Dinner? It's a preplanned meal served less often & people make an occasion of it?
I say dinner but technically your brekkie should be the biggest meal of the day, not dinner, because it's what starts off your day. Eating huge meals before bed is bad for you since you usually won't burn it off before you sleep
Fatty bum bum. Nice explication! ?What would you call it though? ?Not as many people call it Tea, so far there are more dinner posts.
But you're supposed to be in bed around 10pm, so that gives you 4 hours (if you even eat that early) to burn off a full plate of food do you do a lot of exercise at night jiggy bum? Like go for an hour run or to the gym for hours? Hmm hmm?
I can't see any of the pictures, for some reason.? The struggle is real. Well those are some nice boxes.
Well now I can see them.? My 4G isn't very dependable. Anyways, dinner.? I rarely eat breakfast soz, dinner is def the biggest meal.?
It's all relative. I go to bed at 3am, dinner at 6 would mean 9 hours + sleep without food, The NHS recommend 400, 600, 600 (calories for breakfast, lunch & supper) The rest can be used for healthy snacks,