Dinner or Supper?

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  • wadedawg
    wadedawg Posts: 315
    Growing up in rural Nebraska it was always breakfast, dinner, and supper and soda was pop. Been in New Mexico for over 25 years now and it's breakfast, lunch, and dinner...and they call every kind of soda "coke" regardless of whether it's actually Coca Cola or not.

    LOL All forms of carbonated drinks here are "Cokes" as well. Always have been. Of course, Coke was invented around here, so...
  • mariposa224
    mariposa224 Posts: 1,241 Member
    Growing up in rural Nebraska it was always breakfast, dinner, and supper and soda was pop. Been in New Mexico for over 25 years now and it's breakfast, lunch, and dinner...and they call every kind of soda "coke" regardless of whether it's actually Coca Cola or not.

    LOL All forms of carbonated drinks here are "Cokes" as well. Always have been. Of course, Coke was invented around here, so...
    My boyfriend, who is half-Mexican and from Cali, makes fun of me when I call it "pop," and corrects it to "soda." Sigh... Whatever, not a big deal to me. lol But he says they do that in Mexico, as well, calling everything "Coke."
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    I grew up with breakfast, dinner, tea, because the big meal was at school. Then breakfast, lunch, dinner as I got older, with supper just before bed. And now I use breakfast, lunch and supper, probably because I hear that at the private school where I work. In the UK, it's often seen as saying a lot about you and your background, but having used most options available in the UK, I don't think it says very much for me :laugh:
  • estrobabe
    estrobabe Posts: 337 Member
    I haven't heard the word supper in a very long time. On MFP, I see it a bit here and there. I notice that those people aren't from the USA (I don't think). LOL. Anyway, I'm curious what you say, and where you're from.

    I am from (born and raised) Southern California, and we say dinner.

    Born and raised in SoCal too and we definitely say dinner :)
  • katellanova
    katellanova Posts: 204 Member
    Dinner. Phoenix, AZ
  • skinnyinnotime
    skinnyinnotime Posts: 4,078 Member
    I used to say both, my husband found 'supper' amusing for whatever reason. I'm from London.
  • josiereside
    josiereside Posts: 720 Member
    Central PA girl here... I believe I say both but probably mainly dinner...
  • Yaya1976
    Yaya1976 Posts: 357 Member
    I was raised in southern california, we called it DINNER
    I lived in southern florida, we called it DINNER
    and now we live in Southern, Nevada (sin city) and we still call it DINNER :drinker:

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  • IzzyBooNZ1
    IzzyBooNZ1 Posts: 1,289 Member
    I am in New Zealand and I say dinner

    At work, in between starting time and lunch we have a break called morning tea, supposed to be 15 mins (lol) just to have a snack.

    Then in the afternoon we have afternoon tea, for another 15 (lol) minute break.
  • Eric38877
    Eric38877 Posts: 41
    Dinner :drinker: Massachusetts
  • Lalasharni
    Lalasharni Posts: 353 Member
    Dinner. - England
    Supper is after 11.00pm!!
    We have strange meal language in our history -

    Breakfast - same all over the world
    Tiffin or "elevensies" depending on whether your father was in the army - tiffin if he was - elevensies if youre a manual worker
    Lunch - anytime from 12 to 2
    Afternoon tea - 3 -4 oclock - sandwiches, cake and biscuits or cookies if youre west of UK
    Dinner - 6 to 8
    Supper
    And we wonder why were overweight!!
  • sewerchick93
    sewerchick93 Posts: 1,438 Member
    Depends. If my evening meal is the biggest meal of the day than my meals for the day are breakfast, lunch, dinner. If my biggest meal of the day is around noon than my meals are breakfast, dinner, supper.
  • Shock_Wave
    Shock_Wave Posts: 1,573 Member
    Dinner. When you go to a nice or crappy restaurant at night its always dinner prices on the dinner menu. LOL they don't have supper prices on the supper menu. :laugh:
  • BamBam125
    BamBam125 Posts: 229 Member
    For me, generally Dinner is in the evening and I don't use the word "supper" unless it's Sunday. I'm in the south east. We also have "Brunch" on weekends, which I much prefer over "Breakfast". Brunch is anytime between 9 and 11:30, which is much nicer than breakfast because you don't have to rush to eat it before work.

    However, my family is from the middle of the USA and they use dinner/supper in ways that confuse me sometimes. So, I'm probably not very consistent about my use of dinner/supper. It seems that Dinner is to them, the noon-ish meal, especially on Sundays and Thanksgiving (in which case the meal is closer to 1 or 2 pm and it's the only meal of the day but there is a lot of "grazing" and snacking going on). And the evening meal then is Supper. Dinner tends to feel more formal than Supper regardless of the time of day. The noon meal seems to be Lunch only when it's left overs or something simple like sandwiches.
  • Linli_Anne
    Linli_Anne Posts: 1,360 Member
    We interchange them. Usually it's dinner, but if we are going out we never say out for dinner, that's always supper.
  • k8blujay2
    k8blujay2 Posts: 4,941 Member
    around here supper is the smaller meal.... dinner is the larger meal...
  • lorenzoinlr
    lorenzoinlr Posts: 338 Member
    I'm from So Cal and I don't think I've ever heard the term supper used here. It was rampant in Boston where I went to school.
  • _DaniD_
    _DaniD_ Posts: 2,186 Member
    Supper at home, Dinner at the restaurant.
  • pawnstarNate
    pawnstarNate Posts: 1,728 Member
    Supper at home, Dinner at the restaurant.

    ^ winner!
  • EatClean_WashUrNuts
    EatClean_WashUrNuts Posts: 1,590 Member
    Oh Bullocks!

    I'll take brunch
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    I learned a little bit in this thread.

    Cool. Thanks!
  • Ocarina
    Ocarina Posts: 1,550 Member
    Breakfast, lunch and dinner :D

    There's always linner too lol
  • buckmeatball
    buckmeatball Posts: 39 Member
    Supper. If its good enough for Charles Ingalls its good enough for me.
  • pmcovert415
    pmcovert415 Posts: 1,472
    Dinner here in OH
  • Jim1960
    Jim1960 Posts: 194
    It's dinner. I know a few people that still say supper. I teasethem about it all the time!! It's definately dinner.

    To my way of thinking the above is a perfectly good reason to call it supper. It's definitely supper.
  • rduhlir
    rduhlir Posts: 3,550 Member
    Most of the older side of the family uses Super for lunch and dinner, well...for dinner.
  • chubbygirl253
    chubbygirl253 Posts: 1,309 Member
    I say dinner, I'm from the pacific northwest. My mom says supper, she was raised in the south.
  • ChadB74
    ChadB74 Posts: 128 Member
    I use both. I might use supper more...not sure lol.

    I'm from MA.

    Also from MA but i mostly say dinnah and occasionally suppah.
  • dhakiyya
    dhakiyya Posts: 481 Member
    I'm from the north of England, and we call it Tea! :)

    I'm from the South of England and also call it tea sometimes.

    answering the OP: Where I'm from, dinner is the main meal whether you have in the middle of the day or the end of the day.

    if you have your main meal in the middle of the day then the meals are called: breakfast, dinner, tea/supper (tea is more common)
    if you have your main meal in the evening then the meals are called: breakfast, lunch, dinner

    with my kids, sometimes they have a healthy snack about half an hour before bedtime and we call this supper, even if they've had dinner already
  • wbgolden
    wbgolden Posts: 2,066 Member
    I've noticed that many of my super awesome Canadian friends call it supper. I call it dinner.

    Just don't call me late for either :P

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