re: Dinner vs. Supper

Posted by Napoleon

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 8:53 pm to beejon

That's what people who live in the country or in small city America call it.

Posted by Mullen3:16

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 8:55 pm to beejon

Calling it supper is very white trash

Posted by Ric Flair

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 8:56 pm to beejon

Lunch is lunch, except on Sunday's, Christmas, and Thanksgiving, then the midday meal is dinner. I use dinner and supper interchangeably as the evening meal.

Posted by 84outlaw

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 10:23 pm to Ric Flair

Did Jesus have a last dinner or supper?

Posted by Carson123987

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 10:24 pm to beejon

supper

Posted by Kafka

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 10:25 pm to beejon

FWIW, it's possible for a thing to have more than one name

When I was a kid the only noontime meal that wasn't lunch was Sunday Dinner. But I guess that's dying out along with Sunday drives.

Posted by Bleeding purple

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 10:25 pm to beejon

Again another descriptive title.

Posted by RedMustang

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 10:39 pm to beejon

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I still call the last meal of the day supper, not dinner. Dinner is the midday meal, not lunch. I'm tired of the old ways being discarded in favor of the pressures of citified wimpy folks.

I totally agree. I think it comes from my grandparents who were farmers. It went like this:
Breakfast: 6:00
Lunch: 9:00
Dinner: 12:00
Lunch: 3:00
Supper: 6:00
Night lunch: 9:00

BTW, that's what the small town folk and farmers in Minnesota still go by. I think they call it that because of their Scandinavian heritage.

This post was edited on 2/26/13 at 10:43 pm

Posted by YogaPants

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 10:43 pm to RedMustang

So yall would say to a coworker around noon, "lets go grab dinner."??

This post was edited on 2/26/13 at 10:44 pm

Posted by RedMustang

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 10:48 pm to YogaPants

quote:
Posted by YogaPants So yall would say to a coworker around noon, "lets go grab dinner."??

Yes, what else would you say? If you ask them to go to lunch, it would be between dinner and supper at roughly 3:00.

Posted by Darla Hood

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 10:59 pm to Salmon

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I don't think I've ever known anyone that called lunch "dinner"

You don't know anyone who has a big meal on Sunday at midday and call it Sunday dinner?

Posted by SG_Geaux

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 11:01 pm to Darla Hood

What about second breakfast?

Elevensies?

Posted by bossflossjr

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Posted on 2/26/13 at 11:09 pm to beejon

"Dinner" is your largest meal of the day after breakfast.

If you have a sandwich at noon and smothered pork chops with rice/gravy and green beans at night..... U had lunch then dinner.

If u had chicken and dumplins with a biscuit at noon and leftovers at night, u had dinner then supper.

Whats difficult about that? Jeesh,

Posted by TIGRLEE

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Posted on 2/27/13 at 7:28 am to jimbeam

Breakfast
Lunch
Supper

Dinner f we going out somewhere nice.