2007-07-12 05:03:11 · 13 answers · asked by Mike M. 7 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Here are the quick and simple rules in Texas. If you have lunch, the last meal of the day is dinner. If you have dinner for the second meal of the day, you have supper for the last meal. Or some people completely confuse the whole issue and have breakfast, lunch, and supper. Simple! Huh?
The whole point is that everyone involved has to be using the "same" vocabulary for the same meal. Dinners are formal, while suppers are informal.
2007-07-12 05:28:59 · answer #1 · answered by Ariel 128 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a Southern thing. When I was little, I used to visit my grandparents in Fort Worth, Texas. They would have this big breakfast. Then at lunch time they would have what they called Dinner. A huge Meal. and then for what I called Dinner they would have Supper. A scaled down version of a "Dinner".
It used to drive me crazy. They were not rich, just farmers, but the meals were multi courses. I remember my grandmother was always cooking or baking something.
2007-07-12 15:23:19 · answer #2 · answered by Moe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on the part of the country you are from. Dinner is mid-day meal supper evening. Lunch mid-day meal dinner evening.
My friends in UK call mid-day meal Dinner & evening supper..with TEA in between.
2007-07-12 14:52:41 · answer #3 · answered by Celtic Tejas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinner is like around 12, 1 o clock and supper is like later like around 5, 6 o clock
2007-07-12 12:16:53 · answer #4 · answered by Spud The Diet Dew Drinker Go Me! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it has to do with the age of the person you are asking. To my generation the midday meal is referred to as lunch and the evening meal is dinner or supper. To a person of my mom and dad's generation, the noon time meal is referred to as dinner and the evening meal is supper.
2007-07-12 14:41:46 · answer #5 · answered by foodieNY 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
did you check the dictionary...??
that is the difference> definition....
Use the Yahoo Toolbar up there ^
It is Reference and then dictionary.
And it looks like this::::
din·ner (dnr) KEY
NOUN:
1: The chief meal of the day, eaten in the evening or at midday.
2: A banquet or formal meal in honor of a person or event.
3: The food prepared for either of these meals.
4: A full-course meal served at a fixed price; table d'hôte.
and
sup·per (spr) KEY
NOUN:
1: A light evening meal when dinner is taken at midday.
2: A light meal eaten before going to bed.
3: A dance or social affair where supper is served.
2007-07-12 13:05:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At our house dinner is a bologna sandwich, supper is a fried bologna and tomato sandwich. Come on over anytime for dinner or supper!
2007-07-12 21:58:11 · answer #7 · answered by Pioneer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dinner is for fancy people. Supper is more down-home.
2007-07-12 12:07:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the same thing. I always say dinner but my boyfriend says supper - it drives me crazy...
2007-07-12 12:12:01 · answer #9 · answered by Kathy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. Dinner sounds like you eat it at Chez Rouge, and Supper sounds like you eat it at the cow paddocks. LOL
2007-07-12 12:08:19 · answer #10 · answered by Lilly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋