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fishwife799 · March 2016

What do you call the meal you eat in the evening?

fishwife799 · March 2016

This question is brought to you by @MamaNicoleof3 saying supper in the random thread

huskypuppy14 · March 2016

I call it dinner, but supper is not wrong. My dad said back in the day dinner was a meal more in the middle of the day (like Christmas dinner) and supper was the meal in the evening.

PBear93 · March 2016

My mom always said that supper was what she always called dinner, but they called it supper on Sunday night.

CourtJack · March 2016

I call it both equally

starkeyclan · March 2016

I use both...

but the middle meal of the day is always lunch to me!

andiie5 · March 2016

I call it dinner, but here in Australia most people call it 'tea'. Yes, like the drink.

BPaisley · March 2016

DH from WI calls it supper and it kind of drives me crazy. My kids are confused, I think.

DeePaddy24 · March 2016

I've definitely used both on occasion, but I say dinner more often than not.

samsonator · March 2016

In South Dakota we called it supper, never dinner. In Chicago, I only hear dinner and not supper.

VikingGirl12 · March 2016

DH is southern as southern can be and he calls lunch dinner and dinner supper. I tell him that's just eating dinner twice. I voted dinner though, I've never called it supper and have no intention of it. I grew up in England where we either called it dinner or tea.

MrsAlliKat · March 2016

VikingGirl12 said:

DH is southern as southern can be and he calls lunch dinner and dinner supper. I tell him that's just eating dinner twice. I voted dinner though, I've never called it supper and have no intention of it. I grew up in England where we either called it dinner or tea.

QBF
I've heard lunch called dinner when it is the bigger meal of the day, like a Sunday dinner or Christmas dinner. But my evening meal is always called dinner.

MamaNicoleof3 · March 2016

fishwife799 said:

This question is brought to you by @MamaNicoleof3 saying supper in the random thread

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Since @samsonator and I both grew up in the same town (holla!!), we both call it supper. The only time we called it dinner was for Sunday lunch.

crdo · March 2016

Dinner, typically, but I grew up with the evening meal as "supper".

HBamama2B · March 2016

I use dinner most often so voted that, but do use supper fairly often. That's what my Grandma called it. So I say "what do you want for supper?" and my New England born and bred DH thinks it's funny.

samsonator · March 2016

MamaNicoleof3 said:

fishwife799 said:

This question is brought to you by @MamaNicoleof3 saying supper in the random thread

I thoroughly enjoy that I've inspired a thread *insert heart eye emoji*

Since @samsonator and I both grew up in the same town (holla!!), we both call it supper. The only time we called it dinner was for Sunday lunch.

Holla! Yeah my grandma calls it Easter Dinner and Christmas Dinner, but that's lunch. I was so perplexed when I moved to Chicago and people called the evening meal dinner. Dinner is a fancy lunch word!

Huskerfanz · March 2016

I use both but maybe supper a tad more

hockeyfan42 · March 2016

I've heard both used, but I hate the way the word supper sounds, so I've never used it myself.

kwife15 · March 2016

I thought supper was a British thing to say. Haven't heard it much around...

alysemci · March 2016

I exclusively say dinner and cannot stand how the word supper sounds BUT all the middle aged-older-old Irish ladies who originated from Boston say supper. We're 20 min south of Boston and live in an area where we have the highest amount of Irish per capita in the country so I hear supper a lot from friends parents and grandparents

MamaNicoleof3 · March 2016

alysemciver said:

I exclusively say dinner and cannot stand how the word supper sounds BUT all the middle aged-older-old Irish ladies who originated from Boston say supper. We're 20 min south of Boston and live in an area where we have the highest amount of Irish per capita in the country so I hear supper a lot from friends parents and grandparents

SUPPAH!!

alysemci · March 2016

MamaNicoleof3 said:

alysemciver said:

I exclusively say dinner and cannot stand how the word supper sounds BUT all the middle aged-older-old Irish ladies who originated from Boston say supper. We're 20 min south of Boston and live in an area where we have the highest amount of Irish per capita in the country so I hear supper a lot from friends parents and grandparents

SUPPAH!!

Yesssss hahahahaha this exactly. My MIL was one of them. She's from Dorchester and that's all I can think of when I hear it

Lyette1206 · March 2016

I use both equally

mar101483 · March 2016

Usually dinner, but I use them both

kbequette08 · March 2016

It's a southern thing. Dinner is around 2:00 and supper is in the evening. But I've always said supper growing up

RNMegan0711 · March 2016

My grandparents on my moms side (from Illinois) called it Supper. I always thought it sounded odd for some reason. I've always used dinner as the word for the last meal of the day.

peaceinnature · March 2016

MIL calls it supper and DS has actually said: "No Baba, it's called dinner." I laughed haha.

MistKeeper · March 2016

Dinner is more normal. Supper is a late lunch/early dinner. On Sundays we always used to go to my grandparents for supper around 2.

goldie987 · March 2016

Supper always sounded really pretentious to me, I don't know why, just does. Dinner all the way!

WinniethePoohsPants · March 2016

Sgoldberg247 said:

Supper always sounded really pretentious to me, I don't know why, just does. Dinner all the way!

Me too! For some reason I imagine these "supper' people eating pizza with their pinkies up.

Boonhilde · March 2016

I really wanted to vote "something you've never heard of" but I can't even imagine what that would be. Although sometimes I eat linner because it's lunch and dinner.

Boonhilde · March 2016

I've never said "supper" in my entire life.

BlueJuice · March 2016

I use both, though I think I used dinner more. The way I've always understood it is that dinner is the largest meal of the day (whenever you serve it), while supper is specifically the evening meal. So supper can be (and usually is, in our household) dinner, but dinner might not be supper (like we will often have Thanksgiving dinner around 1 PM and eat leftover turkey sandwiches and pie later on).

Also, after having now typed 'supper' and 'dinner' at least a few times each, neither one looks like a real word anymore.

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