Really OT I suppose…but supper or dinner?

RRP

Perhaps this was engrained in you as a child…but is your evening meal your supper or your dinner? Guess it makes no difference, but I always pick up when someone uses their chosen term which differs from mine, though I never comment!

REB17

Supper here

Ozzie_Isaac

I say dinner.  My northern family members say supper.

lousubcap

@RRP your default choice is??

GrateEggspectations

I should start by saying that I believe both are equally valid. There is no right or wrong answer. 

Growing up, it was always “dinner” to me. 

What about you, Ron? Which do you prefer, and why?

fishlessman

At 13, I had raw burger with my girl friends dad at 4:30during the news, dinner at 5.  at 5:30 at friend's house or so which is my second mom til this day.  Then dinner at home around 7. There was this dinner bell ringing around three with this clanking light under my girlfriends bedroom In the kitchen hanging light. Watched a lot of general hospital in bed back then... That's 4 or 5 dinners. When I was 14 my girlfriend got her license, add a dinner, mcdees and ice cream and.....hope you don't just have supper....life was well, just good. Mom and dad were horrified....

Legume

You never disappoint Fish.

fishlessman

Legume said:

You never disappoint Fish.

It's dinner, not supper,  and general hospital,well....

littlerascal56

What’s for supper?

GrateEggspectations

This is an article that provides a simple breakdown:

https://www.rd.com/article/difference-between-dinner-and-supper/

Makes sense to me, as “supper” always seemed to be more common amongst acquaintances in more rural settings. 

(Edit: For the record, it was always “dinner” for me, though I’ve noticed my mother now sometimes references “supper” when speaking to my children. 🤷‍♂️)

Botch

I only eat two meals a day now, and often sleep thru breakfast, so now I'm all confused.    
 
Growing up in SD, breakfast was at 0600, "lunch" at 0900, dinner at noon, "lunch" at 1500, supper at 1800, and then snacks after you had your shower and turned on the TV.  "Lunches" back then were fresh-baked cookies, or cinnamon rolls, home-made doughnuts, cheese-n-crackers, or sardines-n-crackers, maybe a slice of watermelon; just a little "pick me up" at mid morning and mid afternoon.  I miss those days (and that metabolism).  

fishlessman

Botch said:

I only eat two meals a day now, and often sleep thru breakfast, so now I'm all confused.    
 
Growing up in SD, breakfast was at 0600, "lunch" at 0900, dinner at noon, "lunch" at 1500, supper at 1800, and then snacks after you had your shower and turned on the TV.  "Lunches" back then were fresh-baked cookies, or cinnamon rolls, home-made doughnuts, cheese-n-crackers, or sardines-n-crackers, maybe a slice of watermelon; just a little "pick me up" at mid morning and mid afternoon.  I miss those days (and that metabolism).  

No breakfast here, lunch was the tiny can of raviolis or roller coaster cans from a vending machine, I needed 4/5 thousand calories for dinner growing up. Graduated high school under 100 pounds, broke 5 feet in college..the growing pains to hit 5_10 were incedible

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WeberWho

It was supper growing up or at least that's what my mom called it. 

It's dinner here at my house. .

My mom also calls the TV remote a "clicker". So it's not all that strange when I hear my mom call lunch dinner. 

4TheGrillOfIt

Interchangeable at home, but if one is going out he is going to dinner.  

lousubcap

Supper here but @4TheGrillOfIt codified it when on the move.  
Never invited a friend out for "supper!"

The Cen-Tex Smoker

WeberWho said:

It was supper growing up or at least that's what my mom called it. 

It's dinner here at my house. .

My mom also calls the TV remote a "clicker". So it's not all that strange when I hear my mom call lunch dinner. 

This is why it’s called a clicker. It clicks ha ha. We keep this one in the living room just to remind us of the good old days. 

And it’s dinner. 

HeavyG

toe-may-toe/toe-maahh-toe

Legume

Great timing posting this after UK is mostly down for the night so they couldn’t f it up with “tea”

It’s always been dinner to me.

TEXASBGE2018

It's called dinner in the ALLCAPS CHATEAU

The Cen-Tex Smoker

In east Texas (land of Louis Goemert) lunch is dinner and dinner is supper. And Louis Goemert is considered smart so that tells you all you need to know.

RRP

lousubcap said:

@RRP your default choice is??

Like I said I guess the term is based upon what was engrained in  EACH of us as a child.

I grew up being told  Breakfast was morning…

Dinner meant your noon meal.

but Supper meant your meal in the evening…but like @4TheGrillOfIt just said,
…we never ask friends “do you you want to go out fo DINNER? It’s always - do you want to go out for SUPPER?…and then of course…where?

GrateEggspectations

To me, dinner has always suggested a more formal affair, which corroborates the point about going out for “dinner”, I guess. Now that I think about it, I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of “supper by candlelight”. 

lkapigian

Dinner for me, though it rarely happens…. I will add on a side note, the demise of the family unit with Breakfast Lunch and Dinner at the table, no tv cell phones etc…. Has contributed to this Cluster of a nation we are 

kl8ton

Dinner is the evening meal except on Sunday..... On Sunday dinner happens around noon. 

I'm curious about tea. I always thought tea was tea until those on the other side of the pond started dropping "tea" pics....  Do you have 4 meals a day over there? Does tea happen more than once?

Botch

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

This is why it’s called a clicker. It clicks ha ha. We keep this one in the living room just to remind us of the good old days. 

You damn kids with your "clickers" and your "good old days"...
 
In the REAL old days Dad would order me to get off my wooden box and click the knob on the box TV, and then re-adjust the tinfoil on the wire clothes-hanger for the best picture (and hold it, if required).  
 
Damn kids.  

JohnInCarolina

As long as it’s not the “last supper” I’m not sure it really matters.

alaskanassasin

Around here dinner is on @RRP schedule but if you call supper dinner no one will argue about it. 

Canugghead

Supper date? supper party? I dunno

nolaegghead

fishlessman said:

Botch said:

I only eat two meals a day now, and often sleep thru breakfast, so now I'm all confused.    
 
Growing up in SD, breakfast was at 0600, "lunch" at 0900, dinner at noon, "lunch" at 1500, supper at 1800, and then snacks after you had your shower and turned on the TV.  "Lunches" back then were fresh-baked cookies, or cinnamon rolls, home-made doughnuts, cheese-n-crackers, or sardines-n-crackers, maybe a slice of watermelon; just a little "pick me up" at mid morning and mid afternoon.  I miss those days (and that metabolism).  

No breakfast here, lunch was the tiny can of raviolis or roller coaster cans from a vending machine, I needed 4/5 thousand calories for dinner growing up. Graduated high school under 100 pounds, broke 5 feet in college..the growing pains to hit 5_10 were incedible

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Tapeworm

alaskanassasin

^^^ post of the day ^^^

Gulfcoastguy

Botch said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

This is why it’s called a clicker. It clicks ha ha. We keep this one in the living room just to remind us of the good old days. 

You damn kids with your "clickers" and your "good old days"...
 
In the REAL old days Dad would order me to get off my wooden box and click the knob on the box TV, and then re-adjust the tinfoil on the wire clothes-hanger for the best picture (and hold it, if required).  
 
Damn kids.  

Every Super Bowl I had to climb on the roof with a pipe wrench and turn the antenna according to relayed instructions.