Supper or Dinner?
Tonight around the dinner table our usual unusual conversations were flowing. Everything from the proper color of urine to compliments on the dinner and ideas for the next time we make the dish. One of the kids brought up the question as to why we call "dinner" "dinner" and why other people call it "supper".
I grew up with my parents calling the evening meal "Supper". I just never liked it as much as the way dinner sounds, so I changed my habits and saying "dinner" is now so second nature to me.
My question to you is, what do you call the evening meal? Supper or Dinner?
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I grew up with dinner being the big meal of the day. It also was the 'fancier' meal... where we were more 'prim and proper'. Supper was what we had most of the time... but big multi-course meals (or the big meal after church on sundays) was always dinner. Nowadays, blending my upbringing and my husbands... we just call it dinner. Less confusing. Oh... and we could never talk about the color of urine at my current dinner table... but growing up? Sure anything was game (including the time my sister talked about the first body she had to bag... yea, nursing student).
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We call it supper. We have dinner at noon. That's how it was when I grew up. I still get confused when people invite us for dinner, I never know what time of day they mean
We call it McDonald's or Domino's.
We call it dinner although my parents use supper and dinner interchangeably. When I was younger and visited my Grandma, supper was lunch and dinner was the evening meal.
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I'm from the south & we call it supper. I don't know if location has anything to do with it though.
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We call it dinner. I never knew what to call a really late lunch combined with a really early dinner though. That one is tricky.
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I use it interchangeably to mean the evening meal. It's interesting to note though, that I always use each word in specific ways - I always say, "What do you want for dinner?" (never supper) and "Supper's ready!" (singsong voice like my mother used to do it).
i heard a joke before that when it's take out it is called dinner. when his mom cooks it, it is called "suffer". lol!