Do you say dinner or supper for the evening meal? (cheeseburgers, cheese)

[Jkgourmet]

Desert!

[Almrausch]

Here in Canada we call it dinner in my family and when I grew up in Germany we called it "Abendbrot" (supper)

[freepelican]

In the deep south, "dinner" used to be lunch and "supper" was dinner.... however, that colloquialism is definitely fading fast.

[Mattie]

Growing up in NJ, it was supper. I think we started calling it dinner when we began eating out more often. It was always the "dinner menu", so we gradually began calling it that over time. My mother still uses supper.

[pythonis]

I call them "Eating, eating some more, eating again, and might as well eat something" (in no particular order).

[Teddy52]

Originally Posted by Vall

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

My Grandfather was born in 1888 and called them Breakfast, Dinner and Supper.

I was born in 1945 and still do.

[AnonChick]

If I'm cooking, it's dinner. If we're going out to a restaurant, it's dinner.
If it comes from a box, a can, or a take-out joint, it's supper.

[hellpaso]

I grew up in Tennessee, but have lived in Texas in adulthood. The terms are pretty much the same both places--breakfast, lunch, supper--and usually dinner for Sundays & holidays.

Although, we use supper/dinner interchangeably in my family. I do recall my Tennessee-bred, born & raised Daddy calling lunch "dinner" sometimes.

It doesn't really matter what you call it--as long as you call me to eat!

[in_newengland]

The old way was breakfast, dinner, supper. That's because people lived on farms and needed a big meal in the middle of the day to keep them going. Also they were home to eat it, they were not at the office.

We used to call it breakfast, lunch, and supper. Dinner was Sunday after church or a holiday.

Now I call it supper if I have it at home and dinner if it's at a restaurant. Out to dinner but home for supper (less formal.)

--this is Massachusetts btw.

[weltschmerz]

Supper. Or le souper.