POLL: a perplexing question--ANSWER GIVEN

rafter-7 · Post by **rafter-7** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:04 am

Now we all know that the morning meal is breakfast

At your house what do you call the evening meal???

Dinner or Supper

go ahead and vote and I will have the correct answer in a few days. This is not a joke but the answer is a good one!!

rafter-7

Don McDowell · Post by **Don McDowell** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:06 am

Dinner is at noon, Supper is around 6 pm, and lunch is something the wemmens do when they get together at the lady's home auxilary meetings.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:09 am

Supper

gunslinger598 · Post by **gunslinger598** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:16 am

supper at night

dinner at noon

lunch is in a paper sack some where between breakfast and dinner

Rimfire McNutjob · Post by **Rimfire McNutjob** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:30 am

I know the evening meal as supper. However, my wife calls it dinner. She's from North of the Mason-Dixon line ... so to speak. When I was a kid, I got clarification on the matter from my Great Grandmother as we would visit her in Fernandina, FL on some Sundays for dinner. We would show up about noon and she would have food for 50 people ready for the 5 of us.

Modoc ED · Post by **Modoc ED** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:31 am

Breakfast at 6:00 AMish, Brunch at 10:00 AMish, Lunch at noonish, Dinner or Supper for 6:00 PMish, snack anytime of the day or night.

When are we gonna eat works well anytime too.

Post by **Old Savage** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:32 am

Lunch is at noon the evening meal is dnner or supper. And let's have no argument about that.

As people moved west the lost track of words and numbers and cling to their stance in many cases. In the east we counted all the points on the antlers. As they came west to simplify things they counted one side then the other (avoids those pesky double digits which don't fit on the hands). Then they used the wrong symbol x instead of + so that 4x4 would properly be 16 - should be 4+4 and of course they left off the eye guards, decreases the chances of double digits again.

Now of course we could use Webster - principal meal of the day, can be noon, late afternoon or early evening. Or, banquet of formal meal. - but then that would eliminate all the rolling and shooting over this. And, he was a Yankee.

rjohns94 · Post by **rjohns94** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:35 am

Breakfast in the am, lunch early afternoon, Brunch if it serves as breakfast and lunch, dinner and/or supper early evening. All snacks cease after 8 pm.

DBW · Post by **DBW** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:46 am

Chow time.

Modoc ED · Post by **Modoc ED** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:47 am

Now for all the Active Duty Military and Veterans we have to consider:

MIDRATS (Midnight Rations) 10:PM to Midnight (2200 - 2400) for those going on the Mid Watch and coming off the Eve Watch.

adirondakjack · Post by **adirondakjack** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:49 am

rafter-7 wrote:Now we all know that the morning meal is breakfast

At your house what do you call the evening meal???

Dinner or Supper

go ahead and vote and I will have the correct answer in a few days. This is not a joke but the answer is a good one!!

rafter-7

When we were kids dinner was a fancy spread on Sunday, usually about 2 or 3 pm. Supper was the evening meal during the week, served about 5:30 or 6, since momma had to make it after getting home from work.

The words ceased any real meaning when I later worked shifts. If ya work 6pm to 6am, and eat eggs and sausage before ya go to bed in the morning, and eat a full meal when ya get up, before going to work, and have a sandwich at midnight, yer just eating, no matter what ya call it.

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:55 am

Dinner is at noon and supper is in the evening, of course. Everyone knows that!

OI phones in... · Post by **OI phones in...** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:04 am

Pizza.

We tend to use the terms interchangably with no consistant preferance.

Don McDowell · Post by **Don McDowell** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:13 am

OI phones in... wrote:Pizza.

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You need to get the family moved here and into a home, There's only so many of those personal size pizza's at johnstons corner you can eat before they start affecting the thought proces.....

Doc Hudson · Post by **Doc Hudson** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:14 am

I've noticed that usage has changed since I was a kid, probaably the fault ot TV.

As a kid, the mid-day meal was dinner and the evening meal was supper. Most of the time the mid-day meal was the big meal of the day and supper was pretty light. Sometimes leftovers from dinner and sometimes just cornbread and butttermilk.

These days, I've notice that most of the folks I know, including myself, generally refer to the mid-day meal as lunch and the evening meal as dinner or supper. I've also noticed that lunch tends to be a lighter meal than the old mid-day dinners, and Dinner/Supper is the major meal of the day.

The exception to the rule being Sunday dinner, which is served at mid-day, after church, and the Sunday evening meal is almost invariably a light supper.

I guess what it comes down to is that the major meal of the day is Dinner, whether served mid-day or evening, and the lighter meal is lunch if at mid-day or supper if in the evening.

Now ain't that just as perfectly clear as ditchwater?

3leggedturtle · Post by **3leggedturtle** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:20 am

Dinner is what you have on the weekend while watching football or after church, or anytime you have a family gathering with a "hotdish" for the main meal. Supper is when you are eating steak, hamburger along with side dishes like fries, taters beans , peas or a salad. I learned to just not talk while eating it was easier than trying to figure out all the proper etiquette of why or what meal we were devouring

rangerider7 · Post by **rangerider7** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:32 am

COME AND GET IT!

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:39 am

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner...in that order

Gun Smith · Post by **Gun Smith** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:46 am

In California at my parent's house, breakfast, lunch , dinner. In Minnesota on my uncles farms, breakfast, dinner (plus a 1 hour rest), supper after sundown.

Bis · Post by **Bis** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:57 am

For me it has always been breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now that I live in Texas, supper seems to equal the last meal of the day, not counting midnight raids on the refig.

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:01 pm

Growing up at home it was always breakfast, dinner and supper. Since marrying it has become breakfast, lunch and dinner. I used the term supper with my wife for a while but got tired of being corrected.

Now I just say "when are you gonna have food ready?"

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:45 pm

its "Whats for dinner" in my house.....
with an occasional supper tossed in.....

SmokeEater2 · Post by **SmokeEater2** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:47 pm

Supper.

pharmseller · Post by **pharmseller** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 12:53 pm

Dinner time
Oh yes it's dinner time
Yes sir it's din-din-dinner time
the very best time of day.

Dinner time
Whoah-oh it's dinner time
Hot dang it's din-din-dinner time
the very best time of day!

P

Idiot · Post by **Idiot** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 1:48 pm

Growing up and early years:
Get up and feed the livestock then eat breakfast (big meal).
Lunch at noon (big meal).
Finish afternoon work and break for supper (big meal with desert).
Finish work, including bucking bails before the dark.
What the heck is dinner?

Nowadays:
Get up and eat breakfast (cereal). Eat lunch at noon (sandwich). Eat massive dinner sometime in the evening, take a walk, watch TV, work until 12 midnight or so, eat a snack and go to bed. Repeat same routine tomorrow.
Often the word "supper" will still slip out - "let's do..." never will.

RKrodle · Post by **RKrodle** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:10 pm

TedH wrote:Growing up at home it was always breakfast, dinner and supper. Since marrying it has become breakfast, lunch and dinner. I used the term supper with my wife for a while but got tired of being corrected. Now I just say "when are you gonna have food ready?"

Same here.

Bogie35 · Post by **Bogie35** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:22 pm

Don McDowell wrote: Dinner is at noon, Supper is around 6 pm, and lunch is something the wemmens do when they get together at the lady's home auxilary meetings.

+1

bogie

Bogie35 · Post by **Bogie35** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:30 pm

"Dinner" is taking a date to supper.

bogie

rafter-7 · Post by **rafter-7** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:10 pm

Bogie35 wrote:"Dinner" is taking a date to supper.

bogie

got my wife to laugh at that one!

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rafter-7 · Post by **rafter-7** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:11 pm

TedH wrote:Growing up at home it was always breakfast, dinner and supper. Since marrying it has become breakfast, lunch and dinner. I used the term supper with my wife for a while but got tired of being corrected. Now I just say "when are you gonna have food ready?"

Ted H you are really gona like my answer in a few days.

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Post by **Hobie** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:22 pm

Dinner is the MAIN meal of the day. It might be at lunch and it might be at supper, if you work shift work it might even be at breakfast but you probably had lunch about 3 AM...

Post by **Chuck 100 yd** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:25 pm

Dinner and supper are used as the same around here and the mid day meal is lunch.

madman4570 · Post by **madman4570** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:44 pm

Dinner

bogus bill · Post by **bogus bill** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:52 pm

Come home it`s suppertime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w2lzQ7t ... re=related

Chas. · Post by **Chas.** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:38 pm

Dinner is what southerners eat when yankees are having lunch, usually around 12:00. Supper is what southerners eat when yankees are having dinner, usually around 6:00.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:01 pm

rjohns94 wrote:Breakfast in the am, lunch early afternoon, Brunch if it serves as breakfast and lunch, dinner and/or supper early evening. All snacks cease after 8 pm.

+1, though I am not as disciplined as Mike on the snacks (though, for the most part, I don't eat anything after dinner)

rafter-7 · Post by **rafter-7** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:30 pm

The ANSWER will be posted in the morning

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rafter-7 · Post by **rafter-7** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:32 pm

Chas. wrote:Dinner is what southerners eat when yankees are having lunch, usually around 12:00. Supper is what southerners eat when yankees are having dinner, usually around 6:00.

AAAHHHH. ya only have 6 post so I am going to behave.

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welcome to leverguns

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:55 pm

I am 71 years old and I have never heard the DINNER BELL ring at supper time. Gov.Jimmy Davis sang the old gospel song "It's Supper Time".

rafter-7 · Post by **rafter-7** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:01 pm

JerryB wrote:I am 71 years old and I have never heard the DINNER BELL ring at supper time. Gov.Jimmy Davis sang the old gospel song "It's Supper Time".

atta, ..... boy you are talking my language!

rafter-7

Meeteetse · Post by **Meeteetse** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:17 pm

Growing up in Wyoming with grandparents from the Midwest, we seemed to have two standards; Monday thru Saturday it was breakfast, lunch and dinner. On Sunday it was breakfast, dinner and supper because that is what the matriarch of the family said it was. It is still dinner at noon and supper in the evening on most of the ranches and farms where I have family and friends. City folks, even in rural Wyoming, have adopted the lunch and dinner idea.

I think schools caused the "lunch" thing because of school lunch time and school lunch programs. Even in the 50's, schools called it lunch. Never cared for the term myself. Now that I live in west Texas, I think I hear breakfast, lunch and dinner most often.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:35 pm

Supper after dark when all the work is done... Sunday Dinner in the afternoon... Dinner on Holidays also. Earlier than Supper. Supper was seldom before 8 pm.

rafter-7 · Post by **rafter-7** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:55 pm

There are a lot of replys that are wishy washy on the dinner / supper thing what I am looking for is the last meal of the day what do you call it??

yes there is an erosion around family meals there is no doubt. and yes the school lunch program did not help the situation

In my original post I was looking for a simple reply ............. is the evening meal dinner or supper

just remember I am old school @ the tender age of 40

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OI phones in... · Post by **OI phones in...** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:08 pm

rafter-7 wrote:There are a lot of replys that are wishy washy on the dinner / supper thing what I am looking for is the last meal of the day what do you call it??

yes there is an erosion around family meals there is no doubt. and yes the school lunch program did not help the situation

In my original post I was looking for a simple reply ............. is the evening meal dinner or supper

just remember I am old school @ the tender age of 40

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Like I said. I usually call it "Pizza"

Honestly, the two words are used interchangably with equal regularity.

However, Fancy &/or Sunday/Holiday = Dinner regardless of the hour. If you have to dress for it, it's always dinner, not supper.

765x53 · Post by **765x53** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:13 pm

Dinner is the main meal of the day, no matter when you have it.
When I'm working I usually have lunch at noon and dinner at suppertime. Sometimes on Sundays I have dinner at noon and leftovers for supper.

rafter-7 · Post by **rafter-7** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:19 pm

If I half to "dress" for a meal .... well lets just say I am not invited./I ain't comming

no offense here but I am looking for the general day to day / what so you call the last meal of the day that is usually around 6:00 PM

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BigSky56 · Post by **BigSky56** » Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:04 pm

Breakfast coffee with my copenhagen, lunch then dinner. danny

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:46 am

Breakfast is the largest meal of the day.

Lunch is a mid-day snack.

Supper is an evening meal with your family.

Dinner is an event with guests.

Post by **Hobie** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:00 am

rafter-7 wrote:There are a lot of replys that are wishy washy on the dinner / supper thing what I am looking for is the last meal of the day what do you call it??

Supper if plain/small, dinner if fancy/large. Many days have no dinner.

rock-steady · Post by **rock-steady** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:11 am

Breakfast
Dinner
Supper

Lunch is served to young'uns on a tray at school.

Call me any name you please, just don't call me late fer supper!