Forget dinner, it’s officially tea time...
IT’S an age old debate that’s divided a nation – is your evening meal called ‘tea’ or ‘dinner’?
Some argue you could tell where you are in the country depending on which you hear.
In the north, you’d expect people to say tea, while in the south you’d be surprised if you heard anything other than dinner.
Think about that next time you watch Coronation Street and Eastenders.
Now a YouGov poll has settled the debate once and for all, by revealing the boundaries of where dinner ends and tea begins.
More than 42,000 English people answered the survey asking what they prefer to call their evening meal.
Just over half (57 per cent) call it dinner, while just over a third (36pc) call it tea.
Dinner is more popular in the Home Counties, in places like East Sussex, Essex and Kent, according to the figures.
And, you guessed it, people in Greater Manchester, Tyne and Wear and Merseyside in the north are most likely to say tea.
The Midlands is split, with people in Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Herefordshire and Shropshire being slightly more in favour of tea, while those in Worcestershire are more likely to say dinner.
It also appears that a person’s class is no longer a great reflection of whether they opt to say dinner or tea.
Tea is still chosen by the majority of those in the north who count themselves as ‘working class’ or ‘middle class’, according to the survey.
In total, 58pc among middle class and 67pc among working class used tea rather than dinner.
However, middle class northerners are about nine percentage points more likely to say dinner, when compared to working class people – 37pc vs 28pc.