americans did you know?

I'm English and have friends in St Louis, I did learn them all about our English ways and they loved it too.

I am London Born and Tea is a drink

and Tea is dinner

afternoon teas of various kinds, and provides menus for the old-fashioned tea, the at-home tea, the family tea, and the high tea.[1] Teatime is the time at which the tea meal is usually eaten, which is late afternoon to early evening, being the equivalent of merienda.[2] Tea as a meal is associated with Great Britain, Ireland, and some Commonwealth countries. Some people in Britain refer to their main evening meal as "tea" rather than dinner or supper. This article is instead concerned with the various types of secondary, lighter, meals called "tea".  But the meal at 1600 Hrs is called Tiffin 

No, I didn't and now I will forget that triviality.

I enjoy watching UK Tv as well.All day long it seems people talk about and drink tea.OMG- isn't the kettle on ? It is so important that people seem as if they will pass out with out Tea all day long. While we tend to drink Coffee here in the USA, we don't need it every second .Many of us also enjoy Tea.

Yes, I do know that. But there is also afternoon tea, popularized by Queen Victoria. That's the custom we picked up, with many hotels serving afternoon tea with sandwiches and cakes.

I also know that you call most desserts "puddings" while we only use that word for a certain kind of flavored custard.

Tea can be dinner, and dinner can be lunch also. Supper can be dinner, unless you've having fish and chips in Scotland, when it's a fish supper at anytime of day.

Yes, it can be so - UK can make the distinction, if they want to fine tune it, say in a restaurant, by spelling the meal, tea with a capital letter - Tea.

Yep. I watch a lot of British shows on Netflix.

Lawrence Berkeley National Labs owns a $27 million electron microscope. Its ability to make images to a resolution of half the width of a hydrogen atom makes it the most powerful microscope in the world. Even this magnificent machine couldn't measure how little I care about that.

So tea time is really dinner and tea leaves should be called brew leaves.