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I grew up eating breakfast, then at noon dinner, and at 5pm supper.
I know the terms lunch and dinner are interchangeable, as is dinner and supper.
What do you call dinner and supper?
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)on Sunday. Well, it was when I lived at my parent's home and went to church and then to Sunday dinner. I don't do any of that any more so it's just lunch now. I eat supper at night like Flying Spaghetti Monster intended.
elleng
(130,956 posts)'Supper' for me = late night after-dinner!
rurallib
(62,418 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,479 posts)...but I need to diet a bit.
I grew up in Philly and we mostly call it dinner but no one who calls it supper would be thought out of place, AFAIK.
Where are you from?
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)Except on holidays, then dinner is the main meal, usually at 1pm.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)it went from breakfast early in the morning to lunch at mid-morning, around 10:30a, to dinner at noon, lunch around 3p and dinner at 6p. These times were mostly only at spring and fall when there was a lot of field work to be done.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)dad and the east coast contingent, it's dinner. mom and the midwesterners, it's supper.
LumosMaxima
(585 posts)Lunch was never called dinner, and I think we used dinner & supper interchangeably.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I grew up on breakfast, lunch and supper. Now supper is dinner, but dinner was never lunch.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)In New York a carbonated beverage is soda
In Wisconsin soda is pop
In Florida pop is brand name only, ie coke, etc.
Archae
(46,328 posts)Funny, I live in Sheboygan, have lived in Sheboygan county my entire life.
Never heard anyone refer to it as "pop."
Always soda.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)(That always makes me think of my father)
That's funny. Maybe it's a downstate thing. The family is in the greater Beloit metro area ( )
That's all I've ever heard them say my entire life. Pronounced 'paap'
I've kid them about it for years.
Who knows, maybe it's just them. Thanks for the note.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)UncleYoder
(233 posts)If I'm cooking, it's dinner.
If she's cooking, It's supper.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)If I'm cooking it's dinner
If she's cooking, I finally got out with the boys for a change.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)MissMillie
(38,560 posts)on Sunday, the big meal of the day is Sunday Dinner
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Generally though, dinner is more common around my area, but it is understood either way.
It is fun to use "supper" though, especially when talking dirty.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,839 posts)...if it's the more formal meal of the day. Dinner would likely then be the evening meal weekdays but often a mid-day meal on Sundays for the church going crowd.