purplebee
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Post by purplebee on May 15, 2017 11:21:26 GMT
Yep, born and raised on Long Island - in my family, it was breakfast, lunch and supper.
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anniebygaslight
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Post by anniebygaslight on May 15, 2017 11:24:17 GMT
Eh? 😱 In common usage in the UK
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Post by Restless Spirit on May 15, 2017 11:30:20 GMT
Another Midwestener here. My late parents used dinner and supper interchangeably for the evening meal- except "Sunday Dinner" which we ate at any time after 12 noon, depending on what was happening that day.
I've only ever used "dinner" for the evening meal.
When I stop and think about it, I have never seen/heard the word "supper" outside of my family. And I don't think I've heard it since parents my passed away. Every restaurant menu I've seen always lists Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner options. Never the word supper.
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Post by mrsscrapdiva on May 15, 2017 11:36:08 GMT
I can here my grandmother calling "time for suppa" (Massachusetts accent)
Sunday was for Dinner and during the week was supper.
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Post by leannec on May 15, 2017 11:38:43 GMT
I'm in Western Canada and we use the terms interchangeably now ... my grandparents used to call the noon meal "dinner" and the evening meal "supper" ... Dh uses the term "supper" more often than I do ... I'm more partial to "dinner" but either way, they refer to the evening meal for us Our teenage dd's know what "supper" means
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Kerri W
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Post by Kerri W on May 15, 2017 12:00:50 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. DH and I both gre up in the Midwest though several hundred miles apart. The above describes DH. In my area supper and dinner are used mostly interchangeably with a nod to dinner being slightly more formal (perhaps a meal with guests) and supper a more anynight of the week with your family idea.
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Post by littlemama on May 15, 2017 12:11:31 GMT
We don't say supper around here, but you know, we talk to people and watch tv and stuff, so of course we know what it is! I don't know how anyone gets to be 25 and never hears that term in some context!
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luckyexwife
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Post by luckyexwife on May 15, 2017 12:15:18 GMT
From southwest Nebraska, breakfast, dinner and supper here. Lunch was what my mom brought out to the field when we were on the tractor and supper was going to be late. West Central Minnesota, and this was my experience. Usually during planting and harvest lunch was brought to the field around 3 or so.
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Nanner
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Post by Nanner on May 15, 2017 12:19:00 GMT
Supper. That's what we called our evening meal when I was growing up.
Somewhere along the way, it changed to dinner.
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Post by Merge on May 15, 2017 12:32:49 GMT
Mom from South Dakota and Dad from Long Island. We called the noon meal lunch and the evening meal supper. Dinner was a fancier meal, either at midday on a Sunday or eaten in a nice restaurant in the evening.
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ModChick
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Post by ModChick on May 15, 2017 12:47:44 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 :-) Same for us in Canada as well. Well in my part of Canada anyway, not sure about the east coast but it seems we all use supper/dinner as the evening meal interchangeably.
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Anita
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Post by Anita on May 15, 2017 12:53:33 GMT
I grew up in the middle of Missouri in the 70s and 80s. No one used the term "lunch" at all. It was breakfast, dinner, supper. My family still calls meals that, and it can be confusing now that I've moved to lunch and dinner. In fact, I was going to visit my father a few years ago and told him we'd meet them for dinner. He called around 2 p.m. quite angry that we'd missed dinner with them. I had completely forgotten about the dinner/supper thing.
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Post by giatocj on May 15, 2017 12:54:31 GMT
I do know that word, but here in New England we call it suppah
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Post by Miss Ang on May 15, 2017 12:54:39 GMT
Born and raised in Illinois and we have always used the word dinner and supper interchangeably.
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Post by librarylady on May 15, 2017 12:55:37 GMT
Have not read any post past the first page.
Dinner is supposed to be the largest meal of the day.
Historically, on the farm, that meal was at noon. So, farming folks said: breakfast, dinner and supper. Now that we have more city workers than farm workers the majority of people say: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
I grew up on a farm in the southwest and we said breakfast, dinner and supper.
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iluvpink
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Post by iluvpink on May 15, 2017 13:02:17 GMT
I am 45 and live in MI and always have.
I grew up with breakfast, lunch and dinner/supper. Both terms were used for the evening meal. However as an adult I'm pretty sure I always say dinner as does dh. I'm not sure if dd would know the word supper. Probably though as I think my parents still use it. I'll have to ask her later!
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janeliz
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Post by janeliz on May 15, 2017 13:04:33 GMT
Our 3 meals a day are Breakfast, Lunch and Supper/Dinner used interchangeably.
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Post by KikiPea on May 15, 2017 13:09:35 GMT
It's used interchangeably here, as well, but DH and I call it dinner.
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mallie
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Post by mallie on May 15, 2017 13:11:50 GMT
We lived in the Midwest for a very long time. The only people who use d the word supper were older people from rural areas. I had a coworker, in fact, who grew up on a farm and had moved to the big city thirty years before. She handled all of the catering details for our many events and always used that word. One day, one of my younger colleagues asked me what that meant because she had only heard it in reference to the Last Supper and was confused it was being used, in her mind, out of context.
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scrappert
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Post by scrappert on May 15, 2017 13:16:52 GMT
I use both dinner and supper. Growing up we used supper more often. Dinner was usually used for earlier meals for holidays - eating around 2 or 3 in the afternoon.
I will say this is for supper tonight, or we are having this for dinner. Either works for me!
**Now that I look at the word "supper", where the heck did it come from!! What a strange word...(I haven't read all the posts, so if this was addressed, my apologies!)
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Post by compeateropeator on May 15, 2017 13:20:05 GMT
I have never said parlor for living room, that does seem old fashion. But I do say (and also hear more often) pocketbook in my area.
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Post by genny on May 15, 2017 13:22:39 GMT
My parents always said and still say supper for the evening meal. Dinner was lunch. DH's family said Dinner for the evening meal so I use them both without thinking about it. BTW, I call lunch lunch so there's no confusion which meal I'm referring to when I say either of them.
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Post by CarefreeSadie on May 15, 2017 13:36:03 GMT
We say breakfast, lunch/dinner, and supper. My grandchildren who live in Kansas say dinner for supper and get confused when I say anything about supper or dinner because they do not use the word supper and dinner is the evening meal for them.
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Post by KelleeM on May 15, 2017 14:08:20 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! I'm from New England and this was true in my family as well!
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Post by stampinfraulein on May 15, 2017 14:14:39 GMT
I know what supper is, but I don't ever use that term. It's always been dinner to me. I grew up in Utah and Colorado, and live in CO now. My young kids know what it means, but we don't use the word. Mid-day meal is lunch.
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georgiapea
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Post by georgiapea on May 15, 2017 14:18:06 GMT
At our house we say lunch and dinner. The heavier meal of the two became dinner at noon and supper at night to provide hearty food for farm men in the middle of the day who had been doing hard physical work since breakfast. I was at my Kansas uncle's house and offered to help his wife prepare the evening meal, calling it dinner. What I got from the somewhat snippy woman was "What, you want dinner again"? Because in her world, a lighter meal than the one at noon should have been called supper.
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Post by Tammiem2pnc1 on May 15, 2017 14:19:50 GMT
I grew up calling it supper. But honestly, I grew up in Amish country and we used a lot of their terms for things. As I went through school, I learned a lot of the things I heard as a child were not correct grammar and some not even real words, LOL. I'm not sure supper was one of those things, but somehow I migrated to saying dinner and that is how it is referred to in our house. My DH grew up saying dinner.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 14:25:13 GMT
Know the word, but we don't use it. It's breakfast, lunch and dinner. Brunch would fall between breakfast and lunch and a snack between lunch and dinner. If the snack is more of a full meal then it's either referred to as a late lunch or early dinner.
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queenofkings
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Post by queenofkings on May 15, 2017 14:29:37 GMT
Originally a West TN girl. Supper was the evening meal, but I use it interchangeably with dinner. For my dad it was breakfast, dinner, supper.
(I'm early 40's, but my 20 year old and eleven year old would know what it was because I still call it supper most of the time)
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Post by kamper on May 15, 2017 14:36:44 GMT
I use them interchangeably. My DH grew up in West Texas and they had breakfast, dinner and supper. He says when he was little (he's only 52) a siren would sound in town at noon. His dad would come home from work to eat his dinner meal.
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