TIGHTCHOKE Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 My eldest son has just got home from University in Carlisle, Mrs TC is cooking Fish, chips and peas. I asked him if he wanted gravy with his dinner and he answered, "I'm not that northern yet!" Apparently he gets told off up there for not calling dinner, tea. Anybody else aware of the great divide? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pumpkin Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 The great dinner/lunch/tea debate! Im near Middlesbrough and my wife says I’m posh for having breakfast, lunch then dinner. No tea for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westward Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 Dinner... Sminner. It's the gravy with fish and chips that I can't handle! Strewth... I'm going to need 6 months of therapy to get that thought out of my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 I live in Cumbria; it’s breakfast, dinner and tea. Up here people think you’re a puff if you mention going for lunch .? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted December 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 When Mike first went in to a pub in Carlisle he asked for a gin and tonic and was accused of being gay and drinking cocktails! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manthing Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 I'm a Tyke and have never had gravy with my fish and chips, makes the mushy peas far to runny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 Coffee or tea first thing with biscuits. SnackBreakfast.Elevensies. Usually a drink and snackOr you could have brunch which replaces breakfast, elevenses and lunch with maybe a full english late morning.Lunch something light at mid-day sometimes folks have cooked dinner now.Afternoon tea. Cakes and a cuppaDinner main cooked meal early evening if you didn't have it at lunchtime sometimes followed by a pudding which is still part of dinner.High tea which is what you have in early evening if you had dinner mid-day. Usually a lighter meal or sandwichesSupper light meal or snack just before bedtime to keep you going overnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted December 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 And then off to the weight-watchers meeting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 15 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: When Mike first went in to a pub in Carlisle he asked for a gin and tonic and was accused of being gay and drinking cocktails! I’m surprised you can get a gin and tonic in Carlisle. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted December 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 Vodka, lime and soda was the most exotic thing he ever saw served! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 20 minutes ago, Scully said: I live in Cumbria; it’s breakfast, dinner and tea. Up here people think you’re a puff if you mention going for lunch .? +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 1 minute ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Vodka, lime and soda was the most exotic thing he ever saw served! ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sha Bu Le Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 21 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: When Mike first went in to a pub in Carlisle he asked for a gin and tonic and was accused of being gay and drinking cocktails! Botchergate perhaps? Well at least they've stopped locking the traffic barriers on Fri & Sat nights. (accident prevention for those who don't know), kept the peecat death rate down. Don't come from Carlisle myself but daughter lives there, she was always such a good girl too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornfree Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 Breakfast dinner and tea in Norfolk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 I live in the north east and lots of people say teatime for evening meal and dinner time for lunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 Breakfast dinner and tea here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 (edited) Sorry chap! I am Newcastle born and bred! Gravy with fish? You are having a chuckle surely? That is just wrong on SO many levels, not just cultural chip shop curry is a different matter though! As is saveloy with stuffing, peas pudding and mustard with the bun dipped in the saveloy water mmmmmm northerntastic 47 minutes ago, loriusgarrulus said: Coffee or tea first thing with biscuits. SnackBreakfast.Elevensies. Usually a drink and snackOr you could have brunch which replaces breakfast, elevenses and lunch with maybe a full english late morning.Lunch something light at mid-day sometimes folks have cooked dinner now.Afternoon tea. Cakes and a cuppaDinner main cooked meal early evening if you didn't have it at lunchtime sometimes followed by a pudding which is still part of dinner.High tea which is what you have in early evening if you had dinner mid-day. Usually a lighter meal or sandwichesSupper light meal or snack just before bedtime to keep you going overnight. High tea in this household was sandwiches, cakes, biscuits, snacks, etc! Edited December 8, 2017 by Lord Geordie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnfromUK Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 Fathers family came from Sheffield, mothers locally here in Worcestershire/Gloucestershire borders, so I have both north and south ancestry. Lunch was a light meal one course or soup (except Sunday) taken (usually in the kitchen) in the week. Sunday lunch was dining room full roast and pud. Tea was usually a cup of tea and slice of cake, though in winter sometimes muffins, hot buttered toast or crumpets. Occasionally sandwiches in summer. Kitchen in summer, by the sitting room fire in winter. Dinner was the evening meal - dining room and usually a hot meal (roast, pie, caserole etc.) and pudding to follow - sometimes cheese as well. Soup or starter as well sometimes when guests present. In summer tended to be replaced by 'supper'. Supper was instead of dinner when a light ermeal was wanted (e.g. Sundays and quite often in summer) salad with cold meat or ham, pork pie in summer, often something on toast in winter. Often eaten on a tray in front of the TV in winter, or in the garden on a nice summer evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol p Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 It's all scoff in this house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger-Mouse Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 Definitely tea around here. Nowt wrong with gravy with your fish and chips either. Just put the gravy on your chips. I must confess I was reluctant to try it at first but really, it's very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 Curry sauce goes on your fish and chips round here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grrclark Posted December 8, 2017 Report Share Posted December 8, 2017 Breakfast, dinner and tea and a supper is what you get from the chippy. A fish supper with salt, vinegar and brown sauce. Chips in gravy with some grated cheese is perfect post beer munchies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 Fish and gravy? Is that smokes or cured salmon gravadlax with a nice mustard and dill sauce, very nice and tasty healthy too. Or are you refferrring to that most un healthy deep fried crispy coated dripping in dripping or cheap oil type of fish and some spiky anaemic potato bits fried in the same gloop served in old newspapers. Usually frequented by beer swilling uncouth fellows after a night in the local working men’s establishments. As for the curry sauce served in polystyrene cups. Where do they get that stuff from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old farrier Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 Just had a word with the butler he assures me that he only serves breakfast lunch and dinner apparently tea ? is something the ladies have in the afternoon or the evening when we’re having port and brandy in the smoking room or playing snooker ?all the best of Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old'un Posted December 9, 2017 Report Share Posted December 9, 2017 12 hours ago, grrclark said: Breakfast, dinner and tea and a supper is what you get from the chippy. A fish supper with salt, vinegar and brown sauce. Chips in gravy with some grated cheese is perfect post beer munchies. And don’t forget the deep fried Mars bar for pudding (Scottish thing I think) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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