I make the distinction between tea, high tea, dinner and supper by degrees of formality and hour. Tea is a more casual meal. high tea would be when the whoe family sat down together, in the evening, around the dining table and dinner was when friends were around.
Supper is the late evening "top-up" just before bed. Note - hitting a kebab van after a skinfull and after 11pm is pure greed and not supper. Stopping for a fish supper on the way home from the pub is, again, pure greed as there is too much volume to be classed as supper.
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Date: 2011-06-29 10:41 am (UTC)Supper is the late evening "top-up" just before bed. Note - hitting a kebab van after a skinfull and after 11pm is pure greed and not supper. Stopping for a fish supper on the way home from the pub is, again, pure greed as there is too much volume to be classed as supper.
Afternoon tea is a whole new ball game.