Back in the day you had dinner in the afternoon, and supper in the evening.
Now you have dinner in the evening, and who even invited this lunch guy?
When did this change happen? Is there a reason for it?
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I think this is largely regional, so I’ll preface this by saying I’m from the south of the UK.
I was always told that a small cold meal in the middle of the day like a sandwich was lunch, whilst a larger hot meal in the middle of the day was a dinner. And then tea is the name for the evening meal.
So if you have a Sunday roast at 1:00pm that’s a dinner. If you have a sandwich at 1:00pm that’s a lunch, if you’re at school and you get Shepard’s Pie or something then that’s a dinner. When you go home and have spaghetti or something like that at 6:00pm that’s tea.
I’ve never heard anyone use ‘supper’ before but if I heard it I would assume it means the same as tea.
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