Do you say dinner or supper for the evening meal? (substitute, grilled)

[gold*dust1]

Originally Posted by Emma77

I am one of those people that absolutely hates the "S" word..I am a born and raised Southern girl, yet I hate that word as well as the word "folks" but that's a whole 'nother thread...

anyhoo..which do you say?

OMG funny you should start a thread on this! I absolutely have a pet peeve against the word "supper"! The terminology just grates on my nerves for some reason

Dinner sounds so much more sophisticated and just right to me! The only place "supper" sounds normal to me is when describing a supper club or the lords supper.

My 2 cents...over and out

[gold*dust1]

Originally Posted by Emma77

so the "s" word isn't just a southern thing?

I really don't believe "supper" is exclusively southern, as it is used in the midwest too. I don't think I ever heard people use it when I lived in CA.

[DontH8Me]

When we moved for a short while to Windsor, Ont., we found that lunch=dinner, and dinner=supper. Just another 'weirdness' thing which they seemed to have a lot of over there. They also had ketchup flavored chips, and there was a convenience store called "Mac's" but everyone referred to it as "Mac's Milk". We only lived there for about (or should I say, a-BOOT) a year. I've never been back, and doubt that I ever will be.

Ay.

[Gue]

I find them interchangeable.

Use them both..

[Oildog]

Originally Posted by LaceyEx

Always, always "dinner."

When we moved from NY/NJ area to central MN I had people so confused when I'd invite them to "dinner" they'd show up at noon. Heck that's "lunch".

I grew up in MN and dinner was the evening meal. Must be a rural thing.

[hugepossum]

I'm originally from Iowa. For some reason, where I'm from, many people (especially old people) use "dinner" interchangably with the word "lunch". I think this is stupid, but what can you do? Anyway, I actually never use dinner anymore because it can be confusing depending who I am talking to. I say:

Breakfast
Lunch
Supper

There you go.

[tasmtairy]

In Mayberry, RFD, Dinner is Lunch and Supper is Dinner. I never say supper. It's really confusing. I do not hear anyone say "dinner" for evening.

[DubbleT]

"The Last Supper" just wouldn't seem right if it were called "The Last Dinner"

To me
Dinner = lunch, only bigger, and later, a bit more formal, as in having a Sunday dinner.
Supper= the evening meal.

[Secret Samadhi]

I don't use "supper"; it's always "dinner" for me. I have heard some people use "dinner" to mean lunch and "supper" to mean "dinner", though. I think I got that right, anyway. Now I'm confusing myself lol...

[Nomadicus]

Originally Posted by DubbleT

"The Last Supper" just wouldn't seem right if it were called "The Last Dinner"

To me
Dinner = lunch, only bigger, and later, a bit more formal, as in having a Sunday dinner.
Supper= the evening meal.

Amen. Good enough for the Master, good enough for me.