Supper or Dinner? (American, nearby, difference)

[backdrifter]

Originally Posted by MassVt

There's nothing "uppity" about a TV DINNER.....

"....fold back wrap to expose dessert....

"Supper" is slowly disappearing...

Ha! A great point!

[Perfect Stranger]

If "supper" was good enough for Christ, it's good enough for me.

[Chava61]

Originally Posted by desert sun

Which one do you say?

and when you hear supper what do you think of?

and when you hear dinner what do you think of?

to me.... supper sounds old fashioned and someone that lives a country lifestlye or just a small town person would say it

to me.... dinner sounds more sophicticated and more proper and more of a city term, I think of the Housewifes of Orange County hosting a "dinner" party for all their friends

although I do say both words

Supper sounds to me like a light evening meal whereas dinner sounds like a heavier/hot meal any time between late afternoon to early/late evening.

[mayonaise]

Supper is definitively the last meal of the day. If there's any chance that you'll be eating again before going to sleep, the meal is dinner.

[uncto...]

I've always thought of the two words as interchangeable/synonyms with dinner being the more widely used variation. I have a friend who I met in college who grew up in rural NC and refers to the third meal of the day as "supper" always....I always refer to that meal is dinner I grew up in Raleigh (but was born in the north). There is breakfast, lunch, dinner....everything else is pretty much "snacking" to me. I see "supper" as an old-timey way of saying dinner. Never thought of it is a "fourth meal".

[Chilly Gentilly]

When I think of "supper" I think about the epic myth of "Jesus", therefore supper doesn't actually exist.

Dinnertime

[Southern man]

Originally Posted by 20yrsinBranson

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner


My father, the old Missouri boy, used to say Breakfast. Dinner, Supper. LOL

20yrsinBranson
blabbing on. LOL

I grew up in Alabama and it was the same.

[KathrynAragon]

I say "Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner." HOWEVER - there is one difference (southern upbringing about to show up here): SUNDAY DINNER. When we say "Sunday dinner" we mean "Sunday lunch."

When speaking with older people, however, I always clarify what "dinner" means because many of them still call lunch "dinner."

[Bass&Catfish2008]

As an Okie I can say that here in the South-Central/Ol' Southwest either term could be used for the evening meal. Interchangeable.

[OKC123]

Too late for lunch. Too early for dinner. Lupper