Do you call it Dinner or Supper--or something else entirely?

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  • DrJanet98
    DrJanet98 Posts: 138 Member
    "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....
  • Fat_Bottomed_Girl
    Fat_Bottomed_Girl Posts: 355 Member
    Dinner! I hate the word supper


    AGREED

    *Dinner snob*
  • MrsWilsoncroft
    MrsWilsoncroft Posts: 968 Member
    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 lol
  • emtjmac
    emtjmac Posts: 1,320 Member
    I have been known to call it dinner but most of the time it's supper. Well, pronounced, "suppah".
  • kel665
    kel665 Posts: 401 Member
    Morning meal - Breakfast (brekky for short)
    Midday meal - Lunch
    Main (evening) Meal - Tea

    In Australia :)
  • desiv2
    desiv2 Posts: 651 Member
    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.
  • deborah0123
    deborah0123 Posts: 61
    growing up in the south you had breakfast, dinner and supper, I still say that even tho I live in Ohio, still southern forever
  • MrsWilsoncroft
    MrsWilsoncroft Posts: 968 Member
    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."
  • thebowhunter
    thebowhunter Posts: 173
    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.
  • trophywife24
    trophywife24 Posts: 1,472 Member
    It's breakfast/lunch/dinner, here.
  • MinMin97
    MinMin97 Posts: 2,674 Member
    Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
    But I like the idea of calling lunch "Tea." I like that idea a lot!
  • MinMin97
    MinMin97 Posts: 2,674 Member
    Dinner! I hate the word supper
    Yes!
    In addition, I was asked how many "roasting ears" did I want for "supper."
    I was speechless, as I did not even understand...I was being asked, how many ears of corn can I eat for lunch!
  • elebel82
    elebel82 Posts: 69 Member
    I'm Australian with a British family.

    to me it's
    breakfast
    lunch
    dinner is interchangable with tea... (I generally use dinner)

    Except if you're having sunday roast, then dinner is interchangeable with lunch.

    And on Christmas day, it's breakfast, dinner, then supper (a light meal around 10pm).

    Other that on Christmas, supper is reserved for school camp where you get "supper" just before bed, meaning a biscuit (cookie) or something small with your milo.
  • xxnellie146xx
    xxnellie146xx Posts: 996 Member
    Breakfast....Lunch....Dinner/supper (I use both)
  • Dawnymaries
    Dawnymaries Posts: 109
    Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
  • JesterMFP
    JesterMFP Posts: 3,596 Member
    Breakfast, lunch, and evening meal is tea. Or, if I'm going out, dinner. Actually, sometimes I say I'm "going out for tea". To me, "supper" would be a small meal/snack before bed, although I don't really say that. Christmas Dinner is "dinner", no matter what time it is.
  • SkyVetis
    SkyVetis Posts: 28
    Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

    When I was in England, though, dinner was "tea" and dessert was "pudding". Cute as hell.

    Were you in the north? to add to the names, we do have afternoon tea - cream cakes and (drinking)tea.
  • GetFitCarly
    GetFitCarly Posts: 151
    Dinner is at night.. supper is like before bed
  • juicy_cat
    juicy_cat Posts: 145 Member
    I am from Northwest working class England - main evening meal is Tea where I come from....
  • carlydevi
    carlydevi Posts: 68 Member
    Around 7 AM - Breakfast
    Around 1 PM - Lunch
    Around 6 PM - Dinner

    Everything in between - Snacks :D
  • MySunshine76
    MySunshine76 Posts: 389
    supper at home, dinner at a restaurant.

    Same here in South Carolina
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    breakfast, lunch and dinner/tea.

    but then i am originally from the south of england.

    the husband is frm the north, so he would say breakfast, dinner, tea... so i often have to clarify when he says 'what shall we have for dinner?'!!

    when we got married we had the 'wedding breakfast' at 5pm... why is it called a breakfast!? its a 3 course meal!
  • two_octopodes
    two_octopodes Posts: 130 Member
    Here in Pennsylvania, I and everyone I know say breakfast, lunch, and dinner. My grandparents from Iowa always said breakfast, dinner, and supper, which was so confusing!
  • mabelbabel1
    mabelbabel1 Posts: 391 Member
    For me it's:

    Breaskfast
    Lunch
    Dinner

    Although there could also be Tea, especially at the weekends, a less formal light meal of sandwiches, nibbles, cake etc between 4 and 6pm.
    If we had Tea then you probably wouldn't have dinner unless you were going out to eat quite late, more likely it would be a light supper.
  • d3mon4ngel
    d3mon4ngel Posts: 242 Member
    For me it is:

    Breakfast
    Dinner (though I do occasionally use lunch)
    Tea

    Supper is a snack before bed

    :smile:

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