Lab 10,979 Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 So lets have it right......if you eat tea at dinner time......whats that liquid stuff with 2 sugars you drink with your bacon sarnie at breakfast time ? Actually on second thoughts i think i could be out numbered here call it what you like you lunatics !! Coffee!!!.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scothunter 12,609 Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 Hey ya cheeky c**t I call it lunch aswell lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 31,340 Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 Coffee!!!.... If you dont mind me asking mr Lab.......how does it work up there do yous call dinner tea as well ? or does the English language return to normal once over the line ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GrCh 856 Posted June 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 Hey ya cheeky c**t I call it lunch aswell lol thought you called it fast food? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lab 10,979 Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 Funny thread this cause when i was younger i used to say i was "going for my tea"............now i say "dinner"............. Maybe i just grew up.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scothunter 12,609 Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 Your teas out meant something completely different through here lok Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lab 10,979 Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 Your teas out meant something completely different through here lok That wiz the same this side of the bridge.................... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moll. 1,793 Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 Perhaps us Northerners are just more traditional/British than you southerners Tea is quintessentially British.....high tea, afternoon tea. All to do with the customs of drinking tea, and the snack food eaten with it. Dinner is the largest meal of the day, your work dictates when you eat it, so farmers, miners etc would have dinner in the afternoon (12.00 - 14.00hrs) to give them energy for the rest of the days work. The southern softies sitting in their offices would fall asleep if they had a big meal at 'DINNERTIME' because they would not be doing anything really physical to burn it off, so would wait till they got home. Another reason so many people are overweight nowadays, eating large meals too late at night, instead of a light TEA or supper. Is lunch not just another Americanised word which has crept into our dialect? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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