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Dinner or Supper- What do you call it?

Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:52 am
Posted by DLauw
SWLA
Member since Sep 2011
6193 posts
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
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 by Shexter
Prairieville
Member since Feb 2014
19186 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:52 am to
Lupper = between lunch and supper
Posted by red sox fan 13
Valley Park
Member since Aug 2018
18485 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:52 am to
Dinner all the way. Never had supper in my life
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
43116 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:52 am to
I thought supper was lunch.
Posted by LSUJML
Central
Member since May 2008
51940 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:53 am to
Lunch
Supper

I never say dinner
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
34489 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:53 am to
Dinner is evening meal and a supper club is where I drink old fashioneds.
Posted by jimmy the leg
Member since Aug 2007
42225 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:00 pm to
Supper = country folk.
Posted by Packer
IE, California
Member since May 2017
8686 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:04 pm to
Dinner. My family in Wisconsin calls it supper though.
Posted by Chucktown_Badger
The banks of the Ashley River
Member since May 2013
35843 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:05 pm to
quote:

My family in Wisconsin calls it supper though.


Yup. We grew up calling it supper. Now I call it dinner.
Posted by IAmNERD
Member since May 2017
23743 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:06 pm to
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.
Posted by RougeDawg
Member since Jul 2016
7326 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:06 pm to
Happy hour.
Posted by Mouth
Member since Jan 2008
22968 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:07 pm to
depends.

am I being sacrificed for your sins the next day?
Posted by madamsquirrel
The big somewhere out there
Member since Jul 2009
55037 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:08 pm to
quote:

Supper = country folk.
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.
Posted by JDPndahizzy
JDP
Member since Nov 2013
6918 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:08 pm to
Lunch and Supper...

If I'm at maw-maws Dinner and Supper
Posted by DLauw
SWLA
Member since Sep 2011
6193 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:09 pm to
quote:

depends.

am I being sacrificed for your sins the next day?
That was one of the arguments I used. It was the Last Supper, not the Last Dinner.
Posted by pbro62
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2016
15171 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:09 pm to
Supper
Posted by LSUBoo
Knoxville, TN
Member since Mar 2006
103533 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:10 pm to
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 by GreatLakesTiger24
Member since May 2012
59104 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:11 pm to
How old are you
Posted by TheWiz
Third World, LA
Member since Aug 2007
11865 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:13 pm to
Breakfast is breakfast
Lunch is lunch
Dinner is dinner

Brunch is for Sundays anywhere from 10-14:00 and day drinking.
Posted by Scoop
RIP Scoop
Member since Sep 2005
44583 posts
Posted on 7/24/20 at 12:14 pm to
The evening meal eaten at home is supper.

Going out for the evening meal is dinner.
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