Do you call it Dinner or Supper--or something else entirely?
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When I worked in a nursing home it was breakfast, dinner, and supper - dinner (the midday meal) was the main meal of the day. I do breakfast, lunch, and dinner though!0
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breakfast, lunch, supper. except on fancy holidays, then it's brunch, munch time, and dinner.0
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Breakfast lunch and supper0
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Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
When I was in England, though, dinner was "tea" and dessert was "pudding". Cute as hell.0 -
Growing up it was Breakfast, Lunch, and Supper. Dinner was reserved for holiday meals that we had around 3ish (Thanksgivings, Christmas, Easter, etc.)
In college, my group of friends all said Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. SInce then, I've used dinner instead of supper.0 -
The only time I heard supper in my family is when they were referring to the "Last Supper"0
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Southern North Carolina, USA born and raised...
For those evening meals, if I'm having a home cooked meal, no matter whose home it was cooked in, it's supper. If I'm going out to a restaurant, it's dinner. Which is funny, because even in deciding to go out, it's usually prefaced with "what do you want for supper?"
But, yeah, those holiday meals are usually referred to as dinner. Then again, they aren't eaten at lunch time, nor supper time...
Brunch is one of those meals I've never had in my life.0 -
Southern North Carolina, USA born and raised...
For those evening meals, if I'm having a home cooked meal, no matter whose home it was cooked in, it's supper. If I'm going out to a restaurant, it's dinner. Which is funny, because even in deciding to go out, it's usually prefaced with "what do you want for supper?"
But, yeah, those holiday meals are usually referred to as dinner. Then again, they aren't eaten at lunch time, nor supper time...
Brunch is one of those meals I've never had in my life.
I got lots of different things.
My dad is from Michigan, but his family is Belgium. My mom is from Connecticut Greenwich and her family is puerto rican and Peruvian... so of course when it gets down to my generation, they throw everything at us KIDS.0 -
Since starting this site, I've adopted the Hobbit meal names: breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, and supper, in that order and vaguely corresponding to different parts of the day. So for me, dinner is around 6, and supper would be anything after 8 or 9.0
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Supper and Soda are unacceptable in my vocabulary.0
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"Dinner" is the largest meal of the day. If it's a regular day where you have a sandwich at mid-day and a bigger sit-down meal in the evening, then it's breakfast - lunch - dinner. If it's a holiday (Christmas, Thanksgiving) and you're having a bigger meal mid-day and just having a sandwich or leftovers in the evening, then you have Christmas Dinner instead of lunch and then have a small supper later that night.
With my current work schedule, I have breaks for lunch and dinner marked off, but I'm usually hungry for something when I get done for the day, too, so I've got sections for Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner - Supper, as well as Snacks for those random little additions between meals. If I were starting over, I think I'd have put in a separate section for after-midnight food, 'cos I tend to go with the time on the clock for which day to put it under so if I'm up late things wind up stuck onto breakfast that I actually ate before sleeping....0 -
Dinner! I hate the word supper
AGREED
*Dinner snob*0 -
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
If you were going out to a romantic restaurant in the evening it would seem odd to me to say I'm going for tea or supper lol0 -
I have been known to call it dinner but most of the time it's supper. Well, pronounced, "suppah".0
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Morning meal - Breakfast (brekky for short)
Midday meal - Lunch
Main (evening) Meal - Tea
In Australia0 -
I live in the midwest us and it's Breakfast, Lunch, then Dinner or Supper-- both are used. I prefer to say dinner, but I call it supper sometimes as well. There really is no reason for why I would choose one over the other. I know people who call lunch dinner, and the last meal of the day supper as well.0
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growing up in the south you had breakfast, dinner and supper, I still say that even tho I live in Ohio, still southern forever0
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Breakfast (literally meaning to break the fasting period of the prior night) is the first meal taken after rising from a night's sleep, most often eaten in the early morning before undertaking the day's work.[1] Among English speakers, "breakfast" can be used to refer to this meal, or, less commonly, to refer to a meal composed of traditional breakfast foods (eggs, oatmeal, sausages, etc.) served at any time of day.
Brunch is eaten between breakfast and lunch, and is a substitute for both these meals. The word is a portmanteau of breakfast and lunch.
Lunch, commonly abbreviated to lunch, is a middle of the day meal,[1] and is generally smaller than dinner, which is the main meal of the day whenever dinner is eaten. The origin of the words lunch and luncheon relate to a small meal originally eaten at any time of the day or night, but during the 20th century gradually focused toward a small meal eaten at midday.
Dinner is usually the name of the main meal of the day. Depending upon culture, dinner may be the second, third or fourth meal of the day.[1][2] Originally, though, it referred to the first meal of the day, eaten around noon, and is still occasionally used for a noontime meal, if it is a large or main meal.
Tea can refer to any of several different meals or mealtimes, depending on a country's customs and its history of drinking tea. However, in those countries where the term's use is common, the influences are generally those of the former British Empire (now the Commonwealth of Nations). Tea as a meal can be small or large.
Supper is a name for the evening meal in some dialects of English. While often used interchangeably with "dinner" today, supper was traditionally a separate meal. "Dinner" traditionally had been used to refer to the main and most formal meal of the day, which, from the Middle Ages until the 18th century, was most often the midday meal. When the evening meal became the main meal, it was referred to as "dinner", and the lighter midday meal was called "luncheon."0 -
Thre are only 3 meals in a day and they are breakfast, dinner and supper. Any other words for these meals are just silly. Supper time is in the evening, dinner time is midday. People may even go to supper clubs for an evening meal. They dont go to dinner clubs. I know others use different words but they are just wrong.0
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It's breakfast/lunch/dinner, here.0
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