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Yep, definitely my main association, Rhuby, probably making this mainly a Southern (English) thing. Tea's more of an extra than a standard meal, often associated with holidays. You can have several different types of tea, though - I'd think can of pink salmon rather than fish-paste, for instance, and "posh" teas probably would include little dainty cakes as well as the cutting cake(s), etc.
Tea is often a follow-up to a good hearty lunch, and may include cold meat left over - this especially applies to Christmas tea, where you also have other cold meats (say ham), pickles and whatnot (yum!). But tea's generally more sweet than savoury.
However, I have to say that sometimes it doesn't feel right calling my evening meal (8pm-ish) "dinner", and it's too early to be called "supper". It depends a bit upon how casual an affair the meal is, and how much effort it takes to prepare the meal, but "dinner" is definitely more like meat & two veg than Spag Bol. Spag Bol would be "tea".
Similarly if I'm getting home early enough to have fish & chips () with my family - say, 6pm - I'd definitely call that tea. I'd also drink tea with it, but that may be by the by.
Of course my wife is a Brummy so I may just have been corrupted by her North-of-Watford influence.
Oh, always "lunch" for the midday (-ish) meal for me, BTW.
"Dinner" is always an evening thing (often special occasion), and "supper" is a very occasional late night extra. After-pub snacks don't qualify - it has to be a sit-down meal, cooked in the kitchen, that you eat around 10pm.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever had supper.
Is that a US-only saying? Or do you use it across the pond and up North? (Hi Bean)
If I "have tea" in late afternoon it's usually just a cup of tea perhaps with a cracker/cookie/toast if really hungry (no lunch!) This is what was called "A cup in your hand" in Ireland - rather than High Tea!
To me this has a very specific meaning of having been in bed, then getting up needing "a little something" and eating in the kitchen in your pyjamas. If it's food in the late evening and I've been awake all day, I'll call it a "bedtime snack".
What I have concluded from this thread is that if any one of us were to invite anyone else over for a meal, the mealtime would probably have to be in UTC or something, to account for different time zones, and the meal itself would have to remain unnamed, so as not to cause confusion among dinners/supppers/lunches/teas. And as a result no one would quite know what type of food would be forthcoming!
That would be it, 'tie - although I'm pretty sure that traditional Brit Spag Bol would have very little resemblance to pasta dishes that are (or have been) cooked in the vicinity of Bologna.
Traditional Brit "Spanish Omelettes" are similarly laughable (basically a vegetable omelette, often withfrozen veg
).
Though really I'm talking about 1960s-ish convenience cooking here - times have changed. A bit.
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