Firefly Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Growing up we always called it dinner, and still do. I actually like supper better-- sounds old fashioned-- but I haven't been able to train myself to use it. Old habits die hard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthodox6 Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Chesterfield = sofa :) Also a brand of cigarette ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne J Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Hmm. My grandma always called her sofa a davenport. Also, we have breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It was a bit of a class issue for my mom's family--her mother (not the davenport grandma) didn't like calling it "supper" because that was "crass" and "lower class." Apparently breakfast, dinner and supper were too rural/farmer--breakfast, luncheon, and dinner were "higher class.":001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellyndria Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I grew up calling it supper. We ate at 7:00 or 7:30 usually. Ever since moving out I've called it dinner. We eat earlier now, around 6:00. It didn't seem late enough to be called supper anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Although my DH grew up in Wisconsin and his mom calls the mid-day meal "dinner" and the last meal "supper" (or maybe it's the other way around - don't remember exactly, but it always confuses me when we go back to visit). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynnette in WA Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I grew up in a family that called the last meal of the day supper -- dinner was what we only had on Sunday afternoons. When I got married, it turned out that I had been calling that last meal by the wrong name all those years -- it's actually dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I voted other. I grew up in the south and we always said the following... Breakfast - morning meal Brunch - combination of breakfast & lunch Lunch or Dinner - Lunch if just a small meal. Dinner if it is our big meal of the day. Supper or Dinner - Supper if just a small meal. Dinner if it is the big meal of the day. So in a given week we may have any of the above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qcaller Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Breakfast, lunch, and supper here. I've never actually heard it called anything else when put in order above. Dinner is the largest meal of the day as long as that is lunch or supper. Many people go home from church to their dinner (lunch), but also come home from workdays to their dinner (supper). :iagree: Generally, "dinner" is the evening meal during the week and the after-church meal on Sunday. So on Sundays, the evening meal (when it is more than just popcorn) becomes supper. I think this is a southern thing. Living in Missouri, we are kind of on the cusp of the south, the north, and the west. We mix it all up and go with what works. Pam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyinND Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I call it Dinner, but I'm in the minority out here in farm country. Everyone else in town says Breakfast, Dinner & Supper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medieval Mom Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Weekdays 6am Breakfast 9 am Second Breakfast 12noon Lunch(eon) 3pm Tea 5pm Dinner 8pm Supper/Bedtime Snack Lazy Weekends 8am Breakfast 11am Elevenses or Lunch 3pm Tea 5pm Dinner 8pm Supper/Bedtime Snack Sunday Family Reunions: as above, but Elevenses becomes the main meal, Brunch. Holidays-- Main meal is Dinner, at noon or 1pm. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 I grew up calling it breakfast, lunch, dinner. Here, they call it breakfast, dinner, supper which I surmise as a result of some bastardized franglais translations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wapiti Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 That's odd - I could swear that there was a thread or poll on this question not that long ago - but I cannot find it. I say dinner. When I was growing up, my parents always said supper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatfishes Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Growing up I called it Breakfast,Dinner,Tea . If we were staying with my Grandmother [whom we called Nanny]we had supper -at bedtime.2 digestive biscuits and some Horlicks. My kids call it Breakfast,Lunch ,Dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertDweller Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 We usually call it breakfast, lunch, and supper. However, we use dinner and supper interchangably. We basically consider them to be the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColoNative Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 We call it breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's not supper because Jesus had the last one....:001_smile:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 we always used dinner. my grandmother was from MO and always called it supper - unless it was a big family toodoo and then it was dinner. (and usually earlier in the day.) very confusing as a child. she also called the refridgerator the "ice box" and I always thought that meant freezer. made sense to me. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tntgoodwin Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Weekdays 6am Breakfast 9 am Second Breakfast 12noon Lunch(eon) 3pm Tea 5pm Dinner 8pm Supper/Bedtime Snack Lazy Weekends 8am Breakfast 11am Elevenses or Lunch 3pm Tea 5pm Dinner 8pm Supper/Bedtime Snack Sunday Family Reunions: as above, but Elevenses becomes the main meal, Brunch. Holidays-- Main meal is Dinner, at noon or 1pm. ;) Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medieval Mom Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip. Didn't I mention we're Hobbits? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 (edited) Supper. I can code- shift dinner to lunch if I have have to. Edited July 26, 2011 by LibraryLover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalanamak Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 The largest meal if the day is dinner, and the other non-brekkie meal is lunch or supper, to go along with the dinner of the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Both. They are interchangeable in our household for the last meal of the day. So ... I voted "other." :) :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elise1mds Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 I call it either one, but both mean the evening meal. The exception is when we go to my grandmother's house, and then dinner is the big meal and is always eaten at lunchtime. Supper is usually sandwiches or leftovers and eaten in the evening. My kids always get so confused when she starts saying, "Dinner will be ready in 15 minutes," at 11:45 a.m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptwoman Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 The last (and main meal of the day) is dinner. Supper is 9pm or later, tea or hot chocolate and biscuits (which you would call cookies) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom in High Heels Posted July 23, 2011 Author Share Posted July 23, 2011 The last (and main meal of the day) is dinner.Supper is 9pm or later, tea or hot chocolate and biscuits (which you would call cookies) If they're McVitties Chocolate Digestives, I'd call them delicious! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 In my home it is dinner. Around my grandmother's, dinner is lunch and thus supper. LOL as I was I was typing this, dd4 ran by and said...."whats for dinner". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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