Do you say dinner or supper for the evening meal? (ketchup, Iowa)
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My husband is from Arkansas and says breakfast, dinner and supper.
I'm from Oklahoma and grew up saying breakfast, lunch and dinner.
There are occasions when they change, however. At work, in Oklahoma, when we'd go out for the noon meal, we were going out to lunch. But...if we brought food in - like a potluck - we were having a dinner. Not "dinner"..."a dinner". Rarely did anyone say luncheon.
These days when I'm ready to serve the evening meal, I say supper. If we eat out, though, we go out to dinner.
Even though I drink Pepsi or Dr Pepper, I usually say "coke". Now and then, for emphasis, I'll say sody pop.
I say lunch and dinner, because as a modern FTE in the United States my midday meal is light and my evening meal is more substantial. Technically, dinner is the main meal of the day whenever it comes. A light meal at midday is luncheon, a light evening meal is supper. (It is supper no matter how late, so night-owls are known to have dinner in the early evening and a supper later.)
Some cultures with different rhythms, and some people with more leisure, make their midday meal the largest - making it dinner - and then have a light supper in the evening. The dinner for midday and supper for evening in the U.S. South is a holdover from an era when dominant regional work patterns were different.
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...
Not sure if it is regional or not. I always say dinner. I had a few friends growing up that called it supper, but they lived in more rural areas. Maybe that has something to it.
I use both, dinner if the meal is fancy and later in the evening. Supper if it's simple and earlier say 4 in the afternoon. Lunch is lunch. What can I say I am a yankee transplanted in the south. LOL
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Dinner vs. Supper
