What are you having for tea tonight?

[biscuits]

What are you having for your evening meal?

I haven't got a clue and it's dangerously creeping closer to being too late to have anything for dinner.

[Scurrilous Rumour]

Pizza.

I've been on a salad diet recently in an attempt to see my toes again, so I think I deserve pizza.

[Laurel]

Avocado and marmite sandwich

[genovese]

^ Woulda been good in the Guess thread

[Shy_pretty_Angela]

Salad and boiled potatoes. Salad cream.

[BFG_]

Lentil vegetarian spaghetti bolognese.

Vaguely similar to the BBC recipe but much nicer.

[humphrey]

Pork chop, cauliflower cheese (homemade), new potatoes.

[Amara 94]

Cauliflower fried rice with Chicken thigh and a Broccoli Salad

[Jam do Bronx]

Ive just realised that I've never questioned this before as I, nor anyone I know, calls it that, but why do people call evening meals 'tea'?

There's no logic in that. Tea is a drink. To me, calling your evening meal 'tea' is as daft as calling it 'milkshake'.

"Ere, Barbara, wot you avin for your milkshake tonight?"

I need a white person to explain this to me.

[biscuits]

^ for me it's like... if you have it before 6pm it's tea and if you have it later than 6 then it's dinner. (I don't think anyone else shares this malpractice.)

If I tell people I have dinner between 5 and 5:30 they say it's too early for dinner. But if you say you're having tea then they let you off.

Yeah - for me it's just dependent on time.

[anewyear]

For me it's where I'm eating it. If it's at home watching Rob and Romesh on telly then it's tea. If I'm going out then it's dinner

[biscuits]

^ that's important. location is key as well - tea is only ever at home

[Jen.]

I always thought the difference between the name for an evening meal was just regional, I didn't realise some people said different things depending on the time they ate it.

[Scurrilous Rumour]

Dinnertime was lunchtime when I was a kid in the 70s, hence school dinners. Then I vaguely recall it suddenly becoming a sort of class snobbery thing to have 'dinner' in the evening, but that might just be my memory playing tricks.

Anyway, Having a huge meal in the evening is an excellent way of getting fat. I prefer a cooked meal at lunchtime, or 'dinnertime' as it used to be called, and then a very modest tea at about 6 0'clock.

[biscuits]

Originally Posted by Jen.

I always thought the difference between the name for an evening meal was just regional, I didn't realise some people said different things depending on the time they ate it.

That's incorrect because I live in the south. I'm going to put a faint green little spot in my location

[Percy]

Cheese burger and fries.

[Merry]

Chicken curry

[Pink*Lady]

Macaroni cheese

[BFG_]

If I feel motivated enough I'll be cooking Thai cashew chicken https://schoolofwok.co.uk/tips-and-r...cashew-chicken

[anxiouslondoner]

I've got half a tortilla to finish.
Probably with some extra veg and potatoes thrown in.

[biscuits]

^ yummm.

I'm having corn on the cob and roasted sweet potato.

[Appear]

Originally Posted by BFG_

If I feel motivated enough I'll be cooking Thai cashew chicken https://schoolofwok.co.uk/tips-and-r...cashew-chicken

This sounds lovely. Recipe officially bookmarked for later.


I've put a fajita rub on some chicken breasts, and we're having it with some odd barbecue bits we have leftover - a burger for him, chill sausages for me. I made some guacamole earlier to have with it, along with some lettuce and the bulgar wheat thingy I do.

[Shy_pretty_Angela]

Mashed potato mixed veg snd chicken

[Chess&Junkfood]

Cheese & onion pasty and chips. Or as I like to call it, my healthy meal! It's just a shame I don't have a pint of lard to swill it down with. Although I do have my ben shaws shandy

[Mo34]

I got 2 sticky asian inspired pork bellies in Tescos much reduced. No idea what it will be like.

Picked up some pak choi too.

[Merry]

aagh
I don't know!!

^Sounds nice, I love pak choi

[biscuits]

mmmm I love pak choi too.

[gregarious_introvert]

Originally Posted by Jen.

I always thought the difference between the name for an evening meal was just regional, I didn't realise some people said different things depending on the time they ate it.

I buck the trend too, because I was raised in the South East (That London) but evening meal was tea and the midday meal was dinner (school dinners, as Scurrilous said) but now I live in the Midlands, just short of the Yorkshire border, and I've switched to dinner in the evenings, preceded by lunch (not that I eat lunch). Now, tea means Afternoon Tea - sandwiches, cakes and scones accompanied by a pot of tea, which is one of my favourite treats (although I haven't had it in over a year, as it's something which requires company).

Anyway, tonight I am having hamburger with quinoa salad, as there is no other viable option, owing to the cupboards being bare pre-flight.

[Merry]

I've never had proper afternoon tea, with the fancy sandwiches and cakes etc. It's something I'd like to try.
My social anxiety has always been at it's worst trying to drink in public so going out for coffee or tea and cake aren't things I've done much of.
I am ok with my family though, and now one friend who I quite often have a coffee with after a walk, so maybe it's a new possibility

[Chess&Junkfood]

Toast, cheese and spaghetti. It's my fav meal at the moment.