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Post by Mystie on May 15, 2017 3:05:05 GMT
My husband was communicating with a young friend of his and suggested meeting for supper. The young man told him later he had to Google the word "supper" because he didnt know what it meant!
How can this be? LOL. The young man in question is 25 at the most and grew up in the Midwest. My husband is 47 and also grew up in the Midwest, though a different state. He asked me just now if supper was some kind of regional expression or if he was just dealing with another young/old thing, where the kids have no idea what we're talking about!
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Post by 950nancy on May 15, 2017 3:06:52 GMT
I grew up in the Midwest in the 70's and 80's and we only called the evening meal dinner. Always. The only time I heard supper was in reference to the last one. I still only hear it referred to as dinner in a western state.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on May 15, 2017 3:06:59 GMT
Yup. Used interchangeably with "dinner" in my neck of the woods. It's the third meal of the day, around 6pm.
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Post by milocat on May 15, 2017 3:07:38 GMT
Yes we have supper. When I was younger I used to get confused what dinner was. Was it the noon or evening meal? We never say dinner.
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Post by Jili on May 15, 2017 3:09:16 GMT
My parents have always said 'supper'. I use both interchangeably.
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Post by justkat on May 15, 2017 3:13:03 GMT
Where I come from (Belgium) we say breakfast, lunch and dinner. Prior to coming to America I had heard supper only in reference to the last supper.
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Post by myshelly on May 15, 2017 3:14:35 GMT
I know it from reading Little House on the Prairie. But I'm pretty sure they used it to mean lunch. They had breakfast, supper, and dinner.
I do think if it as an old people word.
Young people don't use it. And I don't think I've ever heard anyone say it IRL here.
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Post by annie on May 15, 2017 3:14:38 GMT
My parents ate three meals: Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper. They were from Minnesota.
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Post by zookeeper on May 15, 2017 3:14:50 GMT
Supper is interchangeable with dinner depending on the area you are living in. My ex-DH uses supper to refer to lunch and dinner as the last meal of the day. I never understood why though. My Grannie used to call us to supper...she lived in Arkansas.
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Post by refugeepea on May 15, 2017 3:16:52 GMT
Yes. I generally say dinner but for some reason I say breakfast supper instead of dinner.
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Post by leftturnonly on May 15, 2017 3:17:42 GMT
kids have no idea what we're talking about in general. Kids are dumb.  (25 is a kid to me, FWIW. ) |
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Post by leftturnonly on May 15, 2017 3:21:24 GMT
I grew up in the Midwest in the 70's and 80's and we only called the evening meal dinner. Always. The only time I heard supper was in reference to the last one. I still only hear it referred to as dinner in a western state. Dinner and supper are interchangeable to me, but I have family who think that there's a distinct difference. I could never remember which was which so whatever the cook prefers is OK in my book! |
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 15, 2017 3:21:25 GMT
I'm from MN too, lived here all my life but in the city, and we always said breakfast, lunch and dinner. Supper was only referred to in church, i.e. The Last Supper. My friend in SD calls the last meal of the day supper and I've never really known anyone else who regularly referred to it as that so I think it's more of a rural thing vs a regional thing.
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Post by tanya2 on May 15, 2017 3:28:06 GMT
I call it supper & my ds (21) constantly corrects me that it should be dinner LOL
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Post by alexa11 on May 15, 2017 3:28:26 GMT
Yes- supper is what my parents called the evening meal- they never said dinner. Well, lunch on Sunday was called "Sunday dinner". Gotta love the South!
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Post by Skellinton on May 15, 2017 3:30:53 GMT
We say dinner, and never use the word supper, but I still know what it is.
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Post by angieh1996 on May 15, 2017 3:31:17 GMT
I'm in the Midwest and supper and dinner are the same thing. Now my 92 year old grandma is also from the Midwest and dinner was lunch and supper was supper. She asked me to dinner and I was planning for 5:30. She was confused why we were eating dinner so late. It was a pretty funny conversation.
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Post by Delta Dawn on May 15, 2017 3:33:43 GMT
We use both words interchangeably. I will send DS a text when we are just about to eat and called it dinner or supper. Supper is harder to pronounce. I will favor the word dinner.
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Post by compeateropeator on May 15, 2017 3:39:10 GMT
Absolutely, that is what we call the evening meal. I am from New England, Vermont specifically ETA - I am old, in my early 50s.  |
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Post by Peal on May 15, 2017 3:40:43 GMT
Dinner and supper are as interchangeable to me as soda and pop. They are synonyms. I grew up in the Rocky Mountain West. My kids have heard both terms.
Lunch has always been the midday meal
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 3:41:22 GMT
I don't know why, but I always assumed supper was a southern term.
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Post by originalvanillabean on May 15, 2017 3:41:34 GMT
Parents eat breakfast, dinner and supper. Midwest.
I eat breakfast, lunch, dinner. Texas.
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Post by mimima on May 15, 2017 3:41:42 GMT
I know it from reading Little House on the Prairie. But I'm pretty sure they used it to mean lunch. They had breakfast, supper, and dinner. I do think if it as an old people word. Young people don't use it. And I don't think I've ever heard anyone say it IRL here. No, they had breakfast, dinner, and supper. Supper was the evening meal. As a West Coaster, we didn't use supper, but I also learned it from Little House. However, I do have friends who use the term. |
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Post by scraphollie27 on May 15, 2017 3:44:09 GMT
Dinner meant lunch when I was growing up because it was historically the largest meal of the day for my grandparents (I always thought it was a British thing but now I'm not sure). Supper was the smaller evening meal. Now, supper is how I mainly refer to the evening meal unless I'm cooking a bigger, more formal meal and then it's dinner.
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Post by styxgirl on May 15, 2017 3:45:32 GMT
My parents have always said 'supper'. I use both interchangeably. This is our family. We have breakfast We have lunch Then, dinner or supper :-) |
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Post by myshelly on May 15, 2017 3:45:57 GMT
I know it from reading Little House on the Prairie. But I'm pretty sure they used it to mean lunch. They had breakfast, supper, and dinner. I do think if it as an old people word. Young people don't use it. And I don't think I've ever heard anyone say it IRL here. No, they had breakfast, dinner, and supper. Supper was the evening meal. As a West Coaster, we didn't use supper, but I also learned it from Little House. However, I do have friends who use the term. See, I've heard it so little I don't even know which meal it refers to. |
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Post by sunnyd on May 15, 2017 3:49:15 GMT
Midwest born & bred: breakfast, lunch & supper. If we had a late lunch we kids called it lupper.
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on May 15, 2017 4:11:09 GMT
I use supper and dinner interchangeably. Breakfast, lunch, supper/dinner
For my grandmother (from TN) dinner meant lunch. Breakfast, dinner, supper.
I'm from Seattle but I have parents that grew up in the south so I've picked up phrases not traditional to my area.
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Post by AussieMeg on May 15, 2017 4:18:26 GMT
I have heard the word before but I have never used it. I always assumed it was a British term. I also thought that it referred to a snack late in the evening, not the main evening meal.
When I was growing up in the 70s our meals were called breakfast, lunch and tea. When I was in my 20s I started saying dinner instead of tea. I have never referred to lunch as dinner, but I know a lot of people from my grandparents' generation who do/did.
I doubt that my 12yo son would have any idea what 'supper' was.
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Post by SunnySmile on May 15, 2017 4:20:42 GMT
My Idaho farmer grandparents had their main meal at lunchtime and it was called dinner. Then in the evening they would have bread and milk or something light, and it was called supper.
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