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| When you hear 'tea' do you usually think of: |
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56% |
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| most times I think of eating |
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| most times I think of drinking |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| JustJohn wrote: |
| Even if you're talking about the meal you say "have" (or maybe "for" like the guy right above me said) as in "when are we having tea?" Who says "when are we eating tea?" That just sounds weird. Of course, I'm a migook, so I normally hear it referred to as a drink anyway... |
Yer mardy sod! Don't be such a bleedin' pedant! I was refering to what you might be thinking of, not the particular verb that would jump into your head.
Anyway, I disagree. The following conversation sounds quite natural to me.
A: Can tha gi' uz a hand fixing me push iron, cocker?
B: Bugger off, will yer? Can't yer bloody see I'm eating me tea? |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
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Canadian. So unless your talking Texas tea, me not understand. |
OK, I'll post an explanation later (suddenly too busy). |
I'm waiting in suspense.
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I just googled up a site to better explain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon_tea. Tea is also a meal. But depending on where in the world, or which part of the country you live in in fact, even the meal tea still means different things to different people. For example, for me tea is the main evening meal. For tfunk, tea is a small meal you have later, taken after the main evening meal. For some people, it is a light snack in the afternoon, taken a few hours before the main evening meal.
This thread was inspired yesterday, when an American friend of mine expressed surprise (or amusement?) when I told him I was going to eat my tea. It then occured to me that 'tea' does not register as 'evening meal' for all and sundry.
Where I come from, we have: breakfast, dinner and tea. I realise that many other people know it as: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Actually, it would be interesting if posters would note down the 3 meals they eat in chronological order.
Dome Vans has: breakfast/lunch/tea
Big_Bird has: breakfast/dinner/tea
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xtchr
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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For me (NZer), it's breakfast, lunch, and tea.
Tea is an evening meal, while the drink is always prefixed with 'a cup of'.
Dinner is usually 'special', i.e Christmas dinner (at lunch time) |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| Big_Bird wrote: |
| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
Canadian. So unless your talking Texas tea, me not understand. |
OK, I'll post an explanation later (suddenly too busy). |
I'm waiting in suspense.
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I just googled up a site to better explain it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon_tea. Tea is also a meal. But depending on where in the world, or which part of the country you live in in fact, even the meal tea still means different things to different people. For example, for me tea is the main evening meal. For tfunk, tea is a small meal you have later, taken after the main evening meal. For some people, it is a light snack in the afternoon, taken a few hours before the main evening meal.
This thread was inspired yesterday, when an American friend of mine expressed surprise (or amusement?) when I told him I was going to eat my tea. It then occured to me that 'tea' does not register as 'evening meal' for all and sundry.
Where I come from, we have: breakfast, dinner and tea. I realise that many other people know it as: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Actually, it would be interesting if posters would note down the 3 meals they eat in chronological order.
Dome Vans has: breakfast/lunch/tea
Big_Bird has: breakfast/dinner/tea |
Ooh. Look at me. I eat tea. No? |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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"Just popping home for me tea" is a pretty working class expression. I can remember playing football with me mates on our estate when I was younger and around 5:00pm the sound of Mothers calling their kids out of kitchen windows would echo round the streets, whereupon we'd all scuttle off home with dirty hands and faces for fishfingers, beans and chips.
Most middle-class people would frown upon using such a proletarian expression, but there again I hate the word supper and view people who do so as cocks.
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BS.Dos.
Breakfast/Dinner/Tea (circa 1970s/80s)
Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner (Present) I'm educated now don't you know.
I would never use the word 'tea' these days to indicate my evening meal although I sometimes use dinner instead of lunch, which my American GF gets arsey with, especially when talking about eating a Sunday dinner back home, which is typically eaten at lunchtime and is usually followed by an afternoon of heavy drinking and fighting. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| Ooh. Look at me. I eat tea. No? |
Oh yeah, man! When I eat my tea, I look so cool!!
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| BS.Dos. wrote: |
"Just popping home for me tea" is a pretty working class expression. I can remember playing football with me mates on our estate when I was younger and around 5:00pm the sound of Mothers calling their kids out of kitchen windows would echo round the streets, whereupon we'd all scuttle off home with dirty hands and faces for fishfingers, beans and chips.
Most middle-class people would frown upon using such a proletarian expression, but there again I hate the word supper and view people who do so as cocks.
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BS.Dos.
Breakfast/Dinner/Tea (circa 1970s/80s)
Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner (Present) I'm educated now don't you know. |
Ee, yer posh bugger! Gettin' all hoity-toity on us.
| A reht posh git wrote: |
| I would never use the word 'tea' these days to indicate my evening meal although I sometimes use dinner instead of lunch, which my American GF gets arsey with, especially when talking about eating a Sunday dinner back home, which is typically eaten at lunchtime and is usually followed by an afternoon of heavy drinking and fighting. |
I got a nasty rebuke from my German boss once, when he got confused about my use of dinner (I was only 18 at the time). I then explained that 'dinner' meant 'lunch' in England. He was really cross and said he had worked as a waiter in London and dinner did not mean lunch, you had it in the evening. Being so young I was too shocked to know how to handle his strange reaction. Now I would simply point out that in different parts of Britain dinner often means lunch, not dinner - but in a formal situation like a restaurant (particularly in London) dinner would just mean dinner. But yeah, it's funny how people can get really pissed off about little things like that. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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I have no idea where this comes from, Big_Bird, but Chileans "take eleven" [tomar once] when they drink tea at 8:00 pm or so nightly. It may be related to something British; they call themselves "the British of South America," after all.
Does that mean anything to you? |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
I have no idea where this comes from, Big_Bird, but Chileans "take eleven" [tomar once] when they drink tea at 8:00 pm or so nightly. It may be related to something British; they call themselves "the British of South America," after all.
Does that mean anything to you? |
That sounds like the British elevenses. Except elevenses is usually had in the morning (perhaps about the time you would have brunch). Elevenses is usually a light snack.
I imagine that you eat breakfast/lunch/dinner. Am I right? If not, correct me. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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Last I heard, Sir BS. Dos sits on a doiley when he eats!
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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Last I heard, Sir BS. Dos sits on a doiley when he eats!
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To keep his great big posh bottom nice and clean? |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I always extend my little finger when I drink tea too so I must be posh. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
I have no idea where this comes from, Big_Bird, but Chileans "take eleven" [tomar once] when they drink tea at 8:00 pm or so nightly. It may be related to something British; they call themselves "the British of South America," after all.
Does that mean anything to you? |
Well, I decided to google elevenses (to see if I'd spelt it properly, and to see if - as I'd always assumed - it was called such because 11 is about the time you are supposed to eat it) and I wikied it and found this:
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In the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth Realms, elevenses is a snack that is similar to afternoon tea, but eaten in the morning.[1] It is generally less savoury than brunch, and might consist of some cake or biscuits with a cup of tea or coffee. The name refers to the time of day that it is taken: around 11 am. The word "elevenses" is seen as a little old fashioned.[1]
Among Chilean Spanish, the tradition was known as las onces (the same word is still used in Colombia), although in modern times, it has shifted in most respects to later in the afternoon, more closely reflecting the pattern of British "tea time".[2] In Australia and New Zealand, it is called morning tea or smoko (often little lunch or playlunch in primary school). Choice of foods consumed at morning tea vary from cakes, pastries or lamingtons, or biscuits, to just coffee. In the Royal Australian Navy it is commonly referred to as "Morno's".
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BS.Dos.
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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Cute pic. And we've all 'eard 'bout wot 'appens t' them wot goes t' public schoowell, eh? Say no more! 
And Ah bet a posh git like yersen often 'as elevenses, too. |
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