Do you say Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, or Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper?

Question

I'm from Louisiana and my family has always called Dinner, Supper.

Weirdos!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Supper is mostly Southern

Answer 2

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.

Answer 3

I am from Louisiana as well but my family has always said Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

Answer 4

I grew up in southeast Texas (not far from Louisiana) and we always said breakfast, dinner and supper. I married a midwesterner and we now live in New York and up here it's always breakfast, lunch and dinner. It took me a while to get that straight. I used to confuse people when I said dinner. I meant the noon meal and they thought I meant the evening meal. lol I just had to adjust. (-:

Answer 5

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper is more common in the south I think.

Answer 6

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Desert
4 main meals.

Answer 7

I say breakfast, lunch and supper (if eating at home)

I use the word dinner when going out to eat.

Answer 8

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner - though I have to say, I've always thought supper sounded better. Even Charlie Brown serves Snoopy supper in the comics - so it has to be cooler.

Answer 9

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. Supper is usually eaten later at night. Like 8 o'clock at night or later.

Answer 10

Supper is the name for the evening meal in some dialects of English - ordinarily the last meal of the day, usually the meal that comes after dinner.

The term is derived from the French souper, which is still used for this meal in Quebec French and sometimes in Belgian French. It is related to soup. It is also related to the German word for soup, Suppe.

In well-off families in England during the mid-17th century, dinner was served at any time between 11 a.m. and noon and was a rich, heavy, alcoholic repast that lasted for anything up to 3 or 4 hours. After the repast proper, the men would stay at the table to smoke, chat, and drink, while the women would retire to a boudoir to talk, sew, and brew tea.

Then during the 18th century, dinner was served at a gradually later and later time until by the early 1800s, the normal time was between 7:00 and 8:30 p.m. and an extra repast called luncheon had been created to fill the midday gap.


In the United Kingdom, dinner traditionally meant the main repast of the day. Because of differences in custom as to when this repast was taken, dinner might mean the evening repast (typically in the higher social classes) or the midday repast (typically in lower social classes, who may describe their evening repast as tea). There is sometimes snobbery and reverse snobbery about which meaning is used. Large formal evening repasts 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.

Ambiguity is often avoided altogether by using lunch for the midday repast and tea or supper for the evening repast, though these terms can also carry their own ambiguities.

A more formal definition of "dinner", especially outside North America, is any repast consisting of multiple courses. The minimum is usually two but there can be as many as seven.

Personally, we called the last meal of the day "supper" informally, and "dinner" formally.

Answer 11

Supper is usually a late night, light meal. You eat your dinner earlier. Dinner is the main meal of the day, which is eaten after midday. Either at lunch time or early evening.
Here in the UK they eat "tea" , too, which comes from "high tea" something kids had at 5 o'clock.