Dinner vs. Supper
 

Do you use the word "supper" at all?

And if so, for which meal? And which meal is dinner?

We use dinner and supper interchangeably. In our house, we generally say dinner. But my grandparents say dinner instead of lunch, usually.

And what do you all say?

(This question was inspired by my musings about what would be for dinner this evening. I hate planning dinner, so I'm just prolonging my pain by thinking of stupid things to talk about. Thanks for indulging me.)

Sorry. I suppose I should have put this in the Food & Drink section.

Or convert it to a poll.

We use Dinner.

'round these parts dinner is lunch and supper is, well, dinner. (the evening meal)

"Dinner" and "supper" are used interchangeably to mean the evening meal, unless it's a feast day like Thanksgiving, or Christmas. Then, dinner describes the largest meal of the day, which is usually in the afternoon at at some point.

Reminds me of this thread: couch, sofa, divan ???

Growing up in NC, dinner=noon meal, supper=evening meal.

From the time I was in the "big city" (still in NC for school) it was lunch & dinner.

lunch and dinner for me. Rarely use the word "supper."

Dinner. Only time I ever hear anything close to supper is when one of my cow orkers announces, "What we havin' fo' suppa-time."

I remember being confused as a child by the supper/dinner distinction in the Laura Ingalls Wilder books.

That was the common use around here as well.

lunch, dinner and then supper :D :yum:

...just don't call me late to elevenses.

I'm a fan of the verb "to sup."

In fact, I think the next time someone says "'Sup?" as a shortened version of "what's up" to me, I'm going to respond with "Dine?"

The way I grew up, it was breakfast-lunch-dinner, until Sheffield where it was breakfast-dinner-tea[-supper], where supper was a fourthmeal of small proportions.

meanwhile

The original sup cat

http://cellar.org/2009/supcat.jpg

pretenders to the throne

http://cellar.org/2009/supcat2.jpg

http://cellar.org/2009/supdog.jpg