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Dinner or Supper- What do you call it?
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:52 am
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:52 am
Discussion at the office on a friday:
My youth was split between Texas and Louisiana and what I learned was:
Dinner = Lunch
Supper = Evening meal
"What's for supper?" was what my Pop always asked my Mom when he got home from work.
When I started working summers in my teens (construction), I heard "Dinner time!" when it was lunch time.
From Dictionary.com
My youth was split between Texas and Louisiana and what I learned was:
Dinner = Lunch
Supper = Evening meal
"What's for supper?" was what my Pop always asked my Mom when he got home from work.
When I started working summers in my teens (construction), I heard "Dinner time!" when it was lunch time.
From Dictionary.com
quote:
What do these words mean?
Dinner, which dates back to the late 1200s, refers to the main meal of the day—historically, a meal served midday for many peoples.
The term comes from the Middle English diner, which, via French, goes back to a Vulgar Latin word represented as disjejunare, meaning “to break one’s fast.” The verb dine also comes from this root.
Supper, in terms of word origins, is associated with the evening. It comes from an Old French word souper, meaning “evening meal,” a noun based on a verb meaning “to eat or serve (a meal).” Fun fact: the word soup, also entering English from French, is probably related. The deeper roots of supper, soup, and related words like sup and sop, appear to be from Germanic roots from way back when.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:52 am to DLauw
Lupper = between lunch and supper
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:52 am to DLauw
Dinner all the way. Never had supper in my life
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:52 am to DLauw
I thought supper was lunch.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:53 am to DLauw
Lunch
Supper
I never say dinner
Supper
I never say dinner
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:53 am to DLauw
Dinner is evening meal and a supper club is where I drink old fashioneds.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:04 pm to DLauw
Dinner. My family in Wisconsin calls it supper though.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:05 pm to Packer
quote:
My family in Wisconsin calls it supper though.
Yup. We grew up calling it supper. Now I call it dinner.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:06 pm to DLauw
I've always said both. Lean more towards dinner but I know I ask my wife all the time:
"What's for dinner?"
"What are we doing for supper tonight?"
I guess it just depends on which rolls off the tongue in context at the time.
"What's for dinner?"
"What are we doing for supper tonight?"
I guess it just depends on which rolls off the tongue in context at the time.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:07 pm to DLauw
depends.
am I being sacrificed for your sins the next day?
am I being sacrificed for your sins the next day?
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:08 pm to jimmy the leg
quote:exactly. You call to make dinner reservations not supper reservations. Restaurants have lunch and dinner menus. And they are not shown at the same time.
Supper = country folk.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:08 pm to DLauw
Lunch and Supper...
If I'm at maw-maws Dinner and Supper
If I'm at maw-maws Dinner and Supper
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:09 pm to Mouth
quote:That was one of the arguments I used. It was the Last Supper, not the Last Dinner.
depends.
am I being sacrificed for your sins the next day?
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:10 pm to DLauw
quote:
My youth was split between Texas and Louisiana
Mine too.
I've always used the term "dinner" but considered dinner and supper interchangable. I've always considered supper to be the main dmeal of the day though.
Neither was synonymous with lunch.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:13 pm to DLauw
Breakfast is breakfast
Lunch is lunch
Dinner is dinner
Brunch is for Sundays anywhere from 10-14:00 and day drinking.
Lunch is lunch
Dinner is dinner
Brunch is for Sundays anywhere from 10-14:00 and day drinking.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:14 pm to DLauw
The evening meal eaten at home is supper.
Going out for the evening meal is dinner.
Going out for the evening meal is dinner.
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