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Old 07-17-2009, 02:55 PM   #16
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Aragorn: Gentlemen, we do not stop till nightfall.
Pippin: What about breakfast?
Aragorn: You've already had it.
Pippin: We've had one, yes. What about second breakfast?
[Aragorn turns and walks off in disgust]
Merry: I don't think he knows about second breakfast, Pip.
Pippin: What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?
Merry: I wouldn't count on it.
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Old 07-17-2009, 03:37 PM   #17
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I've always heard dinner is the main meal of the day. Typically, during the week, supper is dinner. On Sunday, lunch is dinner.
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Old 07-17-2009, 03:40 PM   #18
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This makes sense. To me, sup connotes a lighter meal. I don't know why. And dine seems a little more substantial. So in places where people get together and have more than just ham sandwiches or Slimfast shakes for lunch, they're more likely to call the midday meal dinner.

I wish that a longer lunch break was more typical here in the US. I think siestas and a good meal in the middle of the day are a grand idea. When I lived in Brazil, it was nice having a big spread around noon and lighter fare in the evening.
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Old 07-17-2009, 04:04 PM   #19
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Supper is what you have before you get crucified.
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Old 07-17-2009, 07:57 PM   #20
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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.
That's how I was raised. Breakfast, dinner, tea and then supper. Didn't always have supper, but most nights we'd have something.

These days for me, supper basically means any cooked or prepared snack I may eat late at night. Regardless of what time I actually eat it, if I have a main evening meal I'll call it 'tea'. Dinner and lunch I use almost interchangably.

Which begs a question: why is it, in a typical northern school that the children might get a school dinner, but otherwise might take in a packed lunch?
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Old 07-17-2009, 08:35 PM   #21
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So very English.
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Old 07-17-2009, 10:31 PM   #22
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I find the word "supper" to be entirely weird. Mr. Clod uses it on occasion and it drives me nuts. And I was willing to accept "tea" might be as substantial as a light lunch (but still by definition included tea, you know) but "tea" as a large evening meal? No, I'm sorry. Just... no.
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Old 07-17-2009, 10:45 PM   #23
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Breakfast (first meal); morning tea (snack around 10.30); lunch (just after midday); afternoon tea (snack around 3.30pm); dinner (or sometimes tea) (around sunset); supper (optional, just before bed time).

I am still trying to work in brunch, and maybe brunchfast as well.
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Old 07-18-2009, 12:53 AM   #24
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I hate planning dinner,...
So don't, plan something for supper.

Dinner is at noon, at home or out of your dinner pail.
I was reading about a hotel in Philadelphia that opened in 1860. They charged $2.50 a day for a room and 4 meals, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper?
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Old 07-18-2009, 04:46 PM   #25
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Since I met my husband I say supper...mostly because, now to me, I hear myself making the nasally "diiiihhhhnner" and it annoys me. (yes, I annoy myself)
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Old 07-21-2009, 11:49 PM   #26
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I don't sup. I dine.

It's always been breakfast, lunch, dinner for me and most of the time I skip either breakfast or lunch because I'm too busy to stop work.

I like the SUP cat.
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Old 07-21-2009, 11:53 PM   #27
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We use dinner for either lunch or tea. Mostly at our place dinner means the evening meal. Supper is normally a late snack after the evening meal.
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Old 07-22-2009, 07:25 AM   #28
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There is no difference between dinner and supper for me. They are both the evening meal when talking about a typical 3-squares diet.
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Old 07-22-2009, 10:55 AM   #29
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Essentially interchangeable but I only use "supper" when speaking to pets:
It's sup-sup-suppertime!
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Old 07-26-2009, 09:19 AM   #30
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Breakfast (first meal); morning tea (snack around 10.30); lunch (just after midday); afternoon tea (snack around 3.30pm); dinner (or sometimes tea) (around sunset); supper (optional, just before bed time).

I am still trying to work in brunch, and maybe brunchfast as well.
I like this plan. It also seems it is a good way to ward off diabetes too. Lite frequent snacking is just my cup of tea.
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