What do you call it? Dinner or supper?

Question

I've called it dinner my whole life and personally think the word supper is overdoing it and very corny/annoying.

Answer 1

dinner... supper is so little house on the prarie... when i hear people say it i think they are joking .

Answer 2

I called it supper for 19 years, and have called it dinner for the past 8 years.

Supper wasn't designed to be interpreted as corny...it's a reference from "The Last Supper", to describe the last meal of the day. I only changed over to dinner because most people didn't know what I meant when I said supper.

Answer 3

Largest meal of the day is dinner regardless of time or so "they" say. Supper is a lighter, later meal. When this was primarily an agricultural economy, the largest meal was served in the middle of the day & was called dinner. At night at the end of the work day, a lighter meal was served called supper. Now if someone can explain how "lunch" came into being, we will know all of our meals!

Answer 4

I grew up contained in the ranch lands of the finished Plains, close to the Colorado Rockies. There, the midday meal become dinner with meat, potatoes, vegetables and bread, and the evening meal become supper very reminiscent of dinner, yet with dessert. "Lunch" become reserved for a mild meal on an afternoon when we were no longer exerting a lot actual attempt. we've lived everywhere in the south and southwest. Lunch and supper are the most problem-free names given those nutrients in our adventure. Our daughter-in-regulation is from outdoors the united states. She generally fixes a higher meal with soup, a protien dish, and vegetables at midday, and supper is a a lot lighter meal of a salad and fruit or soup and a salad. She calls all of them "nutrients." "The meal is waiting."

Answer 5

Both are correct, but are served at different times of the day. Dinner was a very hearty meal for farmers so they would have the energy to work until dark. They would then have Supper before going to bed.

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Answer 6

Since I am from the South, it's supper. Sorry it's corny and annoying, but that's how things are done in the South.

Answer 7

When I lived in the North it was dinner.

I moved to the South and when I said dinner,
everybody thought I was referring to the Sunday
meal at noon!!

Now I just say supper like everybody else down here.

There is also the 'dinner bucket' which is what ya
carry your lunch in. Dinner time is noon here.

Answer 8

Supper. Dinner to me is a large meal at noon

Answer 9

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. I always thought supper was a late night meal.

Answer 10

Dinner is the noon meal. Supper is the evening meal.

Although I think sometimes lunch is the noon meal, dinner is the evening meal, and if you have a late meal (like after the theater) some call it supper.

Bottom line, I'm having biscuits and homemade sausage gravy for supper, and probably will eat the leftovers for dinner tomorrow.

Niiiice. Thanks for the deuce!

Answer 11

I grew up in a very traditional household so it was supper. As in breakfast-lunch-supper. Somehow I just started calling it dinner and it stuck for all these years.