Do you say dinner or supper?

Answer 1

I grew up saying supper. Someone, a teacher, I think, explained to us that dinner was the biggest meal of the day. In the farming area where I lived, people used to eat huge mid-day meals, with meat, biscuits, three or four vegetables, before they went back out to labor in the fields. That was their dinner. The lighter meal at the end of the day was supper.

I ate what I consider to be one of the last great Southern mid-day dinners on a farm in Tennessee in the 1980s. The salt-of-the-earth woman who made this kind of feast every day has since passed on, and her descendants don't do that kind of manual labor anymore.

Answer 2

If you are being proper dinner is what you have in the early evening, supper is a late dining experience, usually very late when most people are thinking to be in bed. The use of the words has been changed in some areas where supper is used instead of the word dinner. It is not correct usage but some people don't care or don't know the proper usage of the terms.

Answer 3

I find myself saying both. Breakfast, lunch and dinner is what I would call three meals in a day. I may say I need to fix supper, but I never go out for supper, I go out to dinner. Kind of silly of me, actually.

Answer 4

I say lunch and supper. But I'm going out to dinner.

Answer 5

I say dinner
but I think many people say supper because in Europe, they dont eat lunch, but rather dinner that early,and then when its time for dinner, they eat supper
is that too confusing sounding lol?

Answer 6

I never say dinner. It's lunch & supper. Dinner is confusing because to some people it's the noon meal & to others it's the evening meal. Invite someone to dinner & they may show up on your doorstep at noon when you weren't expecting them till six. Can it be more confusing than that? Interesting question!

Answer 7

I think dinner is the main meal if it is served at noon or later in the evening . Supper is a smaller meal following a noon dinner

Answer 8

I use either - but I know to my grandparents dinner was what I call lunch and supper was the evening meal that I usually call dinner.

Answer 9

Dinner.

Answer 10

DINNER! Supper is more of a back eat thing to say just like they say pop instead of soda.