What do you call it - meal names?

Ok I want to know if this is UK wide...

Breakfast is Breakfast

Lunch is Dinner (normal time)

Dinner is Tea (4-5pm)

Supper is Dessert but its before bed and its bowls of cereal or muffins...

So what is it at your house?

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner/Tea - mostly dinner.  A few of my Scottish friends do refer to it as tea almost exclusively so this could be my BF "talking American" to me. 

Pudding

Growing up:
Breakfast
Lunch (unless it was Sunday or a holiday, then it was dinner)
Supper

Now:
Breakfast (if we have it)
Lunch
Dinner. I'd call it "Supper", but I've not heard it used here much at all.  I called it "Supper" until I moved here.  You can take the girl out of the country (which happened to me 20 years ago), but you can't fully take the country out of the girl. YEE HAW.

I don't like calling the evening meal "tea" and I always get confused when people use "tea" as an indication of time.  "We'll be over at tea time."  WTF?  Does that mean 3-4 or does that mean they are popping around at 6-7?  Or maybe they are talking about tea breaks at work, so around 10:30 AM.  I have actually said, "Tell me in clock terms what that means."  Thankfully, I can be direct.

Besides that, I don't drink tea with my supper.  Enough said.

Breakfast

Lunch

Supper

(But if supper is a more formal meal, like in a restaurant or at a dinner party, then it's dinner)

I don't think there are any UK-wide rules, to be honest. It's based on region, age, class, and whole host of other factors.

Dinner. I'd call it "Supper", but I've not heard it used here much at all. 

Most of my British family calls it supper.

LOL LA...Love it!

Ok so also is it common to have a 4th meal later even after you had tea/dinner (no matter what time it is?)
I jut can't grasp the concept of having a 4th meal after the above meal.  I can see a cookie or maybe some crisps but how can you have room for more food  

I don't think there are any UK-wide rules, to be honest. It's based on region, age, class, and whole host of other factors.
Most of my British family calls it supper.

I agree which is why I was wondering how everyone here did it ;-)

Supper is Dessert but its before bed and its bowls of cereal or muffins...

This sounds like more of a family tradition.

breakfast
Lunch (although in my office you go out for Snap or dinner, not lunch or food)
Dinner (my husband and I are the only ones I know that refer to it as dinner, everyone else calls it tea unless it's a sunday then it's dinner I think...)
Supper (hubby calls it this, I call it Snack)

This sounds like more of a family tradition.

Yeah, I agree with this. I don't know anyone else who does this. We'll have a cup of tea (or decaf coffee) with a biscuit or something as our dessert, but never a bowl of cereal or another 'meal'. And we'd never call it supper.

In our house it's:

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Growing up we'd call lunch on Sundays 'dinner' and I know my parents used to say 'supper', but I stick with BLD.

My in-laws call their mid-day meal 'dinner' (it's the largest meal of the day), then they'll have a sandwich or something small with a cup of tea in the evenings and I think they refer to that as their 'tea'.

It was explained to me this way - all based on the time of day.  

Breakfast until 10 ish.
Elevensies 10-12
Luncheon from noon to 3ish
Tea around 4 or 5.  Usually informal
Dinner around 6.  More formal
Supper after 8pm.

This came from a co-worker raised in an aristo family. 
A working class Bristolean at work calls the afternoon meal dinner.
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supper

Interesting if a little archaic (New Englanders really don't eat fish, potatoes, chicken, or beans every night.  Really they don't).

Now that I think about it, "dinner" was used as a more formal meal, but not just evening or noontime.  We called what we ate at noon (or soon after) on Sundays "dinner", but we'd also call a big meal on the holidays "dinner" whether it was eaten at noon, in the afternoon, or in the evening.

It was explained to me this way - all based on the time of day.  

Breakfast until 10 ish.
Elevensies 10-12
Luncheon from noon to 3ish
Tea around 4 or 5.  Usually informal
Dinner around 6.  More formal
Supper after 8pm.

My family has always called it supper and eaten it at about 7-8pm. Anything after that is more formal and is dinner. If you go to a dinner party, you likely won't sit down to the table until after 8pm.

Tea is a drink. End of.

Tea is a drink. End of.

Amen! 

Tea is a drink. End of.

Yeah I give up on that at least DH "corrects" himself and says dinner I even have the oldest DSD refer to lunch as lunch as when she says dinner I have looked at her weird so now she laughs and says lunch...

Tea is a drink. agreed

The dinner at lunch time, and calling the evening meal tea is very much a northern thing.

When I was a kid
Breakfast
Dinner
Tea
Supper - usually cereal.

No
Breakfast
Lunch
Tea (sometimes call it dinner) DW even calls it tea now!
Supper

Don't always have any supper, just occasionally a bowl of cereal at about 10pm-10:30pm if a bit peckish. Or some toast.

dinner is the main meal to me, not a specified time, although at work would still say it's "dinner hour"

What's all this about dessert being supper? Dessert, if you have it, is directly after your main meal, it's pudding, sweet. It could be some strawberries and cream, ice cream, rice pudding etc.

I don't like calling the evening meal "tea" and I always get confused when people use "tea" as an indication of time.  "We'll be over at tea time."  WTF?  Does that mean 3-4 or does that mean they are popping around at 6-7?  Or maybe they are talking about tea breaks at work, so around 10:30 AM.  I have actually said, "Tell me in clock terms what that means."  Thankfully, I can be direct.

Reminds me of a story a boss of mine told me. He picked his wife up from shopping at 5pm and as it was raining she was soaking wet. He asked her why she didn't take an umbrella as the forecast had said "rain at teatime" and she said "but I have my tea at 7"!