What's difference between having dinner and having supper? According to the dictionary both of them are "main meals". Are they synonyms? Thanks!
What's difference between having dinner and having supper? According to the dictionary both of them are "main meals". Are they synonyms? Thanks!
Tea - Main meal of the day, usually meat and vegetables with chips/rice/pasta etc.
Where I live at least, dinner is used for the meal which is eaten at around 12.00pm, and tea is used for the main meal at around 5.00 to 6.00pm. I know else where in England, what I call dinner is called lunch (a word which I never use to describe a meal) and what I call tea is called dinner.
Supper is also independent of all the other meals. For me, a typical day goes like this:
Breakfast - Toast, cereal etc.
Dinner - Sandwiches, fruit, yoghurt etc.
Tea - Main meal of the day, usually meat and vegetables with chips/rice/pasta etc.
Supper - Often a takeaway such as Chinese food.
A very balanced diet Mike, I normally have haggis neeps and tatties for lunch and Lorne sausage for breakfast washed down with a pint of IRN BRU. Substitute the JD for a nice single malt and we're in a parallel universe
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washed down with a pint of IRN BRU.
There is 'tea' and there is 'high tea'
Thanks everyone! Quite a big mess to remember this question of meals around the world. Now... what's the difference between "tea" and "high tea"?? (Confuse me a bit more!! :roll: )
Hopefully this will explain it to you:Thanks everyone! Quite a big mess to remember this question of meals around the world. Now... what's the difference between "tea" and "high tea"?? (Confuse me a bit more!! :roll: )
A very balanced diet Mike, I normally have haggis neeps and tatties for lunch and Lorne sausage for breakfast washed down with a pint of IRN BRU. Substitute the JD for a nice single malt and we're in a parallel universe
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