2006-07-14 11:50:33 · 18 answers · asked by the monster 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
The DIFFERENCE between supper AND dinner depends on where you were raised. People in the south have supper at night.
2006-07-14 11:53:00 · answer #1 · answered by nbinthahouse 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, supper was originally a light meal eaten just before bedtime. This meaning is still retained for the case of an "after-theatre supper".It was in addition to the main evening meal of dinner or high tea, eaten in the early evening.
Dinner traditionally meant the main meal of the day. Because of differences in custom as to when this meal was taken, dinner might mean the evening meal (typically in the higher social classes) or the midday meal (typically in lower social classes, who may describe their evening meal as tea). There is sometimes snobbery and reverse snobbery about which meaning is used. Large formal evening meals are invariably described as dinners (hence, also, the term dinner jacket which is a form of evening dress). School dinners is a British phrase for school lunches.
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2006-07-14 18:58:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supper is the evening meal - ordinarily the last meal of the day. What it entails varies greatly from region to region. ... In the United Kingdom and Ireland, supper was originally a light meal eaten just before bedtime
dinner] ... According to definition, the term dinner is simply the largest meal of the day ... As such, the term dinner could even be used for different meals in the same family
2006-07-14 18:54:05 · answer #3 · answered by Backwoods Barbie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinner is actually lunch and supper is the appropriate term for the evening meal.
2006-07-14 18:54:02 · answer #4 · answered by randyboy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're usually interchangeable, but sometimes lunch is called dinner and dinner supper.
2006-07-14 18:53:05 · answer #5 · answered by Aloofly Goofy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are the same. Us southerners prefer to say supper. The more proper ones say dinner. You are invited to a "Dinner Party" sounds better than "Supper Party". So they say................
2006-07-14 18:54:47 · answer #6 · answered by B Y 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only difference is where people are from. some people say supper(more southern) and dinner(midwest) but they both mean the same thing.
2006-07-14 18:54:07 · answer #7 · answered by Ms. DeVine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me they're the same meal.. the late one. But some people refer to the mid day meal (lunch) as supper. Don't ask me why... doesn't make any sense to me.
2006-07-14 18:53:57 · answer #8 · answered by ladyangelovely 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, It doesn't matter here in the U.S., but in other English speaking coutries SUPPER is LUNCH and DINNER is DINNER
2006-07-14 18:52:08 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
supper is dinner in the country or dinner for hicks
2006-07-14 18:53:24 · answer #10 · answered by DeAd DiScO 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋