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re: When you were growing up how did your family refer to meals.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 6:11 am to waiting4saturday
Posted on 1/17/26 at 6:11 am to waiting4saturday
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Breakfast/lunch/dinner
Anything else is wrong.
I guess Jesus got the Last Supper wrong then...
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Posted on 1/17/26 at 6:12 am to The Torch
Breakfast, Lunch and Supper
Posted on 1/17/26 at 6:38 am to RetiredSaintsLsuFan
My dad's family was always breakfast, dinner, supper. My mom is from Denmark where they ate 4 meals that they called their version of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper. The late afternoon dinner has really become just pastry and coffee, but supper is still really late in the day.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 6:59 am to The Torch
quote:
When you were growing up how did your family refer to meals.
No wonder you are overweight. You're always thinking about food.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 7:21 am to The Torch
Parents were from Yankees from New Hampshire so it was
Breakfast
Lunch
Supper / Dinner
Mom was the cook and Yankee food wasn't quite as delicious as South Louisiana cooking but every meal was huge and very nutritious so there's that.
Thank you Mom!
Breakfast
Lunch
Supper / Dinner
Mom was the cook and Yankee food wasn't quite as delicious as South Louisiana cooking but every meal was huge and very nutritious so there's that.
Thank you Mom!
Posted on 1/17/26 at 7:32 am to The Torch
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner/supper
Lunch
Dinner/supper
This post was edited on 1/17/26 at 9:24 pm
Posted on 1/17/26 at 8:23 am to The Torch
quote:
Breakfast - Morning
Dinner - Noon
Supper - Night
We were kind of country though.
This was mine - young folks I work with think I'm making it up and then they look it up and see it is or was at least - common in rural communites where farming is the major industry.
My Mom grew up on a farm - she would say when folks challenged her on calling the noon meal dinner - "lunch is something you eat out of a bag".
Posted on 1/17/26 at 8:27 am to The Torch
breakfast, lunch, supper/dinner
This post was edited on 1/17/26 at 8:29 am
Posted on 1/17/26 at 8:29 am to waiting4saturday
quote:
Breakfast/lunch/dinner
Anything else is wrong.
This.
There was only one Supper and it was the Last One.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 8:32 am to liz18lsu
quote:
I guess Jesus got the Last Supper wrong then...
Of course he didn’t, but it was the Last one for a reason.
So now the only accurate descriptions are breakfast, lunch and DINNER.
This post was edited on 1/17/26 at 8:33 am
Posted on 1/17/26 at 8:32 am to The Torch
Breakfast, Lunch, Supper. Still that way and always will be.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 9:40 am to The Torch
Supper is what my parents called the evening meal. I always call it dinner myself. I think of "supper" as more of a special ocassion. "Come to our church supper."
I can accept supper or dinner for an evening meal. However, calling a noon meal "dinner" always seemed very weird to me. "Hey, baws, I am clocking out for dinner."
I can accept supper or dinner for an evening meal. However, calling a noon meal "dinner" always seemed very weird to me. "Hey, baws, I am clocking out for dinner."
Posted on 1/17/26 at 9:43 am to The Torch
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner or supper. Dinner was usually a special meal. Supper was every day. My mom’s British so she would randomly call supper “tea” to screw with us.
Lunch
Dinner or supper. Dinner was usually a special meal. Supper was every day. My mom’s British so she would randomly call supper “tea” to screw with us.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:15 am to forkedintheroad
quote:
Breakfast, second breakfast, luncheon, dinner, and supper.
No elevenses?
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:21 am to The Torch
Breakfast
Lunch if in a sack/lunch box. Dinner if eating at the table with the family.
Supper
Lunch if in a sack/lunch box. Dinner if eating at the table with the family.
Supper
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:22 am to The Torch
Breakfast, dinner, and supper.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 10:22 am to The Torch
Dinner is at night.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:29 pm to The Torch
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Except on Sunday when our noon meal was dinner. I was taught dinner was the main meal of the day, so lunch/dinner or dinner/supper depending on when you had the bigger, nicer meal.
Lunch
Dinner
Except on Sunday when our noon meal was dinner. I was taught dinner was the main meal of the day, so lunch/dinner or dinner/supper depending on when you had the bigger, nicer meal.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:37 pm to Champagne
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Dinner and supper are both used to refer to the main meal of the day, and especially to that meal as eaten in the evening. Supper is used especially when the meal is an informal one eaten at home, while dinner tends to be the term chosen when the meal is more formal. In some dialects and especially in British English, supper can also refer to a light meal or snack that is eaten late in the evening.
Dinner is incorrect for the noon-ish meal. It's lunch. I grew up hearing "dinner" mean lunch time. But I was also borderline poor white trash in Mississippi.
The above separation between dinner and supper makes sense to me and I think I have intuitively used these terms this way as an adult.
Posted on 1/17/26 at 1:37 pm to Lynyrd
Breakfast
Lunch
Supper
Lunch
Supper
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