Who uses supper instead of dinner and why are you retarded?

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Just curious if it is just the ole extra chromosome working hard, or if it is a geographical thing. Now keep in mind, those of you that only eat when you have to, such as, oh I don't know, at three in the morning ordering egg salad sandwiches and cake form room service don't really have a dog in this fight, but............if you have ever asked a girl to supper for a date?!?! I would like to hear how that went?


I use dinner obviously, hence the term dinner date.


Now if those that can "get by" without eating absolutely have to weigh in I will consider your responses and give you a half point for effort.


Hope that helps,
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PocketAces said:
My inlaws call lunch "dinner".

I have breakfast, lunch then dinner.
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I have heard of that before also.... That really freaks me out. I always thought that was an Inuit thing. :shrug:

Then someone said, "No, that's what the elderly call it".
but then the other day I was standing at the In n Out burger and some of the neighbourhood coloreds used that term for lunch also. That really threw me.

:SIB :SIB

Hope that helps,
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For my gram, god rest her soul, the noontime meal was dinner. 5 o'clock was supper.
 
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When I was growing up dinner was lunch and supper was the evening meal. Think it is generational and probably geographical as well. Seems to have changed as I dont hear it put that way as much anymore.
 
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ripken8 said:
For my gram, god rest her soul, the noontime meal was dinner. 5 o'clock was supper.
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In all honesty, obviously I was screwing around in my last post, I think it may be an East Coast thing. I don't know. Here and in Chicago are the only two places I have spent any time and I hear dinner being the evening meal for the most part. I have heard some use the term but they were of the older generation also.
 
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When people say dinner here, they might be referring to lunch or supper. Usually, they mean lunch. I say supper and lunch for clarity.

My understanding is people say dinner meaning the middle of the day/lunch meal because of farming. When you had a big farm, and you had to prepare meals for many farmhands, the big meal was in the middle of the day. Sometimes, this was the only meal of substance the farmhands would get. Lots of work would be done from sunrise to around noon. A break would be taken to eat and rest for a while before the hard farm work resumed. Thus, that was dinner as dinner refers to the biggest meal of the day.
 
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SixFive said:
When people say dinner here, they might be referring to lunch or supper. Usually, they mean lunch. I say supper and lunch for clarity.

My understanding is people say dinner meaning the middle of the day/lunch meal because of farming. When you had a big farm, and you had to prepare meals for many farmhands, the big meal was in the middle of the day. Sometimes, this was the only meal of substance the farmhands would get. Lots of work would be done from sunrise to around noon. A break would be taken to eat and rest for a while before the hard farm work resumed. Thus, that was dinner as dinner refers to the biggest meal of the day.
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Suppah is at home just the family.

Dinnah is if I was to ask someone out. or invite ovah. A more formal suppah if you will.

Dinnah, is also the Sunday lunch.

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Seems like supper is more "southern" and/or "country". Also seems like its a term for much older people so like someone said its generational.

I've always knows breakfast as early, lunch as mid-day. But I've heard both dinner and supper my whole life depending on who said it. For awhile I would just associate dinner being somewhat more formal and earlier while supper was more informal and later in the evening.....also Sunday and supper could go together....I guess.

But years and years ago I just took the word supper out of my vocabulary. Can't stand it. I always pause when I hear someone mention "supper" but I just let it go b/c I don't want to their redneck pride lol. No offense ;)
 
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TouchdownJesus said:
I always pause when I hear someone mention "supper" but I just let it go b/c I don't want to their redneck pride lol. No offense ;)
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No offense taken. Just like rednecks probably don't take offense to you leaving a word out of your sentence that would help make your point clear, but we can infer what you were trying to say. :0008
 
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fatdaddycool said:
In all honesty, obviously I was screwing around in my last post, I think it may be an East Coast thing. I don't know. Here and in Chicago are the only two places I have spent any time and I hear dinner being the evening meal for the most part. I have heard some use the term but they were of the older generation also.
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my gram was obviously of the older generation. She just didn't get a lot of the new generation and that's what I loved most about her. But the stories she could tell about the old days... :0074
 
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