Sun Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Well, do you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 We eat dinner, but I grew up in an area where some folks called it dinner and some called it supper. The people who ate supper seemed to eat a bit earlier, generally speaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freckles Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I say dinner or supper for the evening meal, but typically in the South dinner may also be used for the noon meal or the largest meal of the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 My parents call the noon meal "dinner." It is so confusing when we're trying to plan with them, LOL. We call THAT "lunch" and the evening meal is mostly "dinner" and sometimes "supper." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 We eat dinner. My in-laws (from Wisconsin) call lunch "dinner" and the evening meal "supper". I think. :p It's always very confusing to me when we visit them. Especially since they eat their evening meal at 4:30pm. To me, that's a late lunch. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 When I was growing up, we ate supper. After I left home I rebelled and started calling it dinner, and that's what we call it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathnerd Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 We eat dinner. My in-laws (from Wisconsin) call lunch "dinner" and the evening meal "supper". I think. :p It's always very confusing to me when we visit them. Especially since they eat their evening meal at 4:30pm. To me, that's a late lunch. :D Is that a cultural thing? That would confuse me too. How about the restaurants in Wisconsin - do they call the noon meal "dinner" or is it just how families call them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trinchick Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I eat dinner. DH eats supper. We enjoy these meals together every night around 6:30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mytwomonkeys Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Both. They mean the same thing to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandelion Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Is that a cultural thing? That would confuse me too. How about the restaurants in Wisconsin - do they call the noon meal "dinner" or is it just how families call them? I'm really not sure. I haven't noticed this at restaurants in WI, but then again we really don't go out to eat much when we visit them (they live in a small farming community - there's not much around). They do have a "Supper Club" nearby. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I always understood "dinner" to be the largest meal of the day, regardless of time served. So, we usually eat lunch and dinner, as we eat our largest meal in the evening. But on holidays (Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas), we eat dinner in the afternoon. On those days we are usually we are not then hungry for supper. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 It's dinner in California, which is where I've lived most of my adult life. However, in southeastern Virginia/Outer Banks North Carolina, it was supper. Dinner was the mid-day meal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Lulu* Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 It's dinner in California, which is where I've lived most of my adult life. However, in southeastern Virginia/Outer Banks North Carolina, it was supper. Dinner was the mid-day meal. This has been my experience in all the southern states we/our families have lived in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I say dinner or supper for the evening meal, but typically in the South dinner may also be used for the noon meal or the largest meal of the day. Which is probably why my grandparents (and their relatives) called the mid-day meal "dinner." My g-grandfather was a farmer (after he retired from being a minister); my g-grandmother prepared a whopping big breakfast, then set to work on a whopping big dinner, with supper being mostly leftovers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamzanne Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I live on the west coast and we have dinner in the evening. I lived in Kentucky for college and we had dinner at noon and supper in the evening. Unless it was a casual noon meal, like sandwiches, in which case it was called lunch. Very confusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Lunch for lunch, supper for the evening meal, and dinner occasionally in reference to a large meal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Evening meal is supper. Mid-day meal is lunch, unless we're back home at my parents' place, then it's dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Growing up in the south (NC) and being the grandchild of farmers, the midday meal was called dinner and the evening meal was supper. Now the midday meal is lunch and the evening meal may be called either supper (usually the casual reference) or dinner (more formally). I voted for supper because within our immediate family that's typically what we use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Library Momma Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner with leftover Halloween candy somewhere in between. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubix Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Dinner and Supper mean the same thing here, the evening meal. We usually call it dinner. Lunch is Lunch. More often though, it is brunch because we don't get up early enough, or eat early enough once we are awake to have both breakfast and lunch. It's 1:30 here and I'm having brunch.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baseball mom Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 mid day meal = lunch evening meal = supper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Dinner, but supper sometimes. We do call the holiday meals that you eat around 2ish "dinner." So Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas dinner... Also (when I was growing up), there's "Sunday Dinner," which is around lunch time. This was mostly at grandparents' homes, tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luanne Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Dinner is the meal you eat on Sunday afternoon with your entire family. Supper is the meal you eat in the evening every day of the week. Unless of course you are at work when you eat and then no matter what time of day it is, it is lunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelli Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I grew up in Arkansas, and I call the evening meal supper. The only time I use "dinner" is for lunch on Sunday when it always has been called "Sunday dinner". The rest of the week that meal is called "lunch", but not on Sunday. ETA: I forgot about holidays! Those are also always a "dinner" no matter what time of day they are served (Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas dinner, etc.). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 all of the above. Let me explain... At noon, *I* eat lunch, whereas all the local people here are saying that I am eating dinner at noon along with them. In the evening, around 6pm or so, *I* eat dinner, whereas all the local people here are saying that I am eating supper in the evening along with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom in High Heels Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Dinner. There's something about the word "supper" that I don't like. Isn't that odd? When it's a holiday meal that we eat later in the afternoon (2ish), we call that dinner as well, and later in the evening, we call it leftovers! Mmmm…leftovers. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatHomeschoolDad Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 That is confusing. For sure I never call lunch dinner. Lunch is lunch! When DD has a night gig of some sort, we switch the larger meal to mid day and pack a lunch-sized meal to take. Those days, we call it linner and dunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom in High Heels Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Sometimes tea, sometimes dinner. Supper is the meal we have after tea/dinner and usually consists of chocolate. And, confusingly, tea. Now, see, I can get down with the word supper, if it meant chocolate! Please explain "tea" to me (not TeA-I've got that!). Is it just dinner, or is it an afternoon snack? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leav97 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 We eat breakfast, lunch, and supper. My parents call lunch dinner. My in laws call supper dinner. It gets confusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MistyMountain Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 We have breakfast, lunch and dinner. I never call the evening meal supper and I definite do not call lunch dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbeym Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 We have lunch 11-1 and dinner after 4. Anything in between is usually a snack. But for holidays we have big dinners around 2 and then have leftovers around 6. Very, very occassionally, and mostly if we're around my northern-born and raised parents, we have supper at night instead of dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather in Neverland Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Well, I call it dinner but the people here call it "taking food" and will ask you "did you take food yet?" They also take tea which is a light breakfast around 10am. I have adopted that and love it! So I basically take tea at 10am and take food at 5pm then a light snack around 9pm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Strawberry Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Dinner. There's something about the word "supper" that I don't like. Isn't that odd? When it's a holiday meal that we eat later in the afternoon (2ish), we call that dinner as well, and later in the evening, we call it leftovers! Mmmm…leftovers. ;) I wish I could bring myself to say"supper". It would clear up so much confusion. We have breakfast/ brunch, lunch/dinner, and then dinner(again). My kids say supper, but dh and I do not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbelle Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 When I was a child dinner was lunch. The evening meal was supper. Then a lot of people moved to our area from somewhere else and were confused so it changed to accommadate them. My husband tells the children to come eat their tea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissKNG Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 We call it supper or dinner but we don't eat it as a family because of dh's hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetMissMagnolia Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 I use both words to mean the same meal...usually just whatever happens to come out of my mouth....It's the last meal of the day-usually the later it is I'll call it supper--the earlier I'll call it dinner--but heck means the same thing for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Dinner together always Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maela Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 We call it dinner and we eat it together every night at 6PM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Dinner=noon meal Supper=evening meal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRAAB Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Dinner whether it's at 3:00 PM on Sunday or 6:00 PM on Wednesday. It's our main meal of the day. Supper would be a very light meal after dinner and would only occur on Sunday where the main meal is served earlier. Actually, it's usually 'Food's ready', and everyone comes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlbuchina Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 I use both to mean the evening meal, but mostly call it dinner. When the girls and I were listening to the Little House books, lunch was always called dinner, and the girls would get so confused as to what time of day it was in the books. :lol: From what I understand, historically, dinner was what most people now call lunch, and supper was the evening meal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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