Supper or Dinner: Which meal did your parents serve?

  • Supper
  • Dinner
Please select one to answer and see the result

Answers

Supper - 30Dinner - 26
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
That's all I ever heard it called.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I was born in Mass. but grew up in Arizona. We called the evening meal supper. We called the mid-day meal lunch. My friend across the street whose family was from Ohio referred to the afternoon meal as dinner; however the evening meal was supper. I always thought of it as "home for supper and out for dinner,ie.a restaurant.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Because that is what it is called in Kentucky. Dinner is at lunch time, Supper is the evening meal.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
we ate dinner at noon and supper in the evening
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I always thought of it as a class distinction. Middle-class people had dinner, and working-class people had supper. But that was just a personal impression on my part and may not be correct.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
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  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
That's what I grew up with in MN and IA. Everyone used the term supper for the evening meal.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Because the question asks which meal my parents served. They served supper. I, however, serve dinner.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
In Acadiana (South Louisiana, of French Canadian descent) the 3 meals were referred to as Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper. Families with origins elsewhere (folks from the United States, as we referred to in humor) generally used Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. I was taught the Parisian (Standard) French terms as Petit-Dejeuner, Dejeuner, and Diner; however, I noticed Souper must also be in the French vernacular as well.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
We always had supper at home. For our family, Dinner was on the rare occasion that we entertained or dined out. Dinner meant it was formal.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Suppper was our family meal in the evening. Dinner was either mid-day on a Sunday, or "going out for dinner" at a restaurant or a more formal meal with guests at home.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
farmers daughter
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Because it gave a clue to the time of day
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
That's what dad said
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
X They always referred to the evening meal as supper.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Evening meal was always "Suppertime".
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Folks here call it supper
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Dinner was served mid day and supper in the evening.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I was raised in a small town in Nebraska in the 60s and early seventies. The last main meal of the day was supper and at noon was lunch. There was no place to go to dinner. We rarely went out to eat, if we did it was the local cafe. I will say t
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
we would go out to 'dinner' when going to a café or restaurant to eat
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
cause thats what they called it
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
When I was a kid in Boston, we always got called in at 6pm for supper.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
it's all regional - tomato/pickle - apples/eggplant - everyone has a different vernacular and many options as to refer to ones' meal time.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Dinner is at Noon. Supper is always at 6 & no later than 8pm. Soirees begin after 8pm.

To "Sup" is to eat well and heartily. To "Dine" is do so but smaller portions and really LESS Informal...if to "Dine" IS Formal, then it's a soiree Supper!

~fin~
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
We were raised this one!!
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Cincinnati Ohio in the mid-1960s--more common usage.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
We always had supper at the end of the day.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Dinner is the mid-day meal. Growing up on my aunts farm, we came in from the fields mid-day and had dinner, which consisted of a big meal. Supper, in the evening, was left overs or something lighter.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Being Scottish my mother served supper when my dad came home from the factory days work. We had dinner on special occasions
with company, which was a big formal meal, with the good china set!
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Time to sup.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
We always referred to our main evening meal as dinner. It was the heaviest meal of the day and included, meat, veggies, and sometimes, a dessert.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Because I've always identified the usage of the word "dinner" to mean an evening meal.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
it was what was used as in dinner time (5PM)
go to dinner, dinner is served at 5pm sharp be there, lunch was noon, "lunch" was/is on the menus at mid day and "dinner" after about 3PM at most places outside of New York.
mid ohio valley with southern influences
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
We had 3 main meals a day including breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On Sunday, however, we would have breakfast, an earlier dinner and then a light supper. Nothing was a snack in our Italian American family. We looked forward to the next meal without spoiling our appetites!
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Dhat ami komuna
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Because the word "supper" was only ever mentioned by my grandparents. My mother and father only referred to dinner whether early or late.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
erm, simple. Cos they said "dinner."
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I don't know
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I've lived on the West Coast all my life. I can't remember our family ever referring to the evening meal as "supper." Restaurants don't serve "supper." The menu says: lunch and dinner. Even at college in Seattle, WA, the dining hall called the evening meal "dinner."
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
I was always called to dinner. Don't know what supper is. Only people I hear who use the term supper are old people, and I'm 62...LoL!
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
My mother came from a Southern family who had supper, as the main meal of the day. She, along with my father, who was from the East coast, and who were both quite pretentious, forbade the use of supper in our home. My feeling on the whole thing is who cares???
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
They did not just the term supper. It was breakfast, lunch then dinner.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
The importance of eating as a family and or friends should be regarded with gratitude and joy. Or, as a more formal and important event.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
We called it dinner.

People on farms tended to call it supper.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
My Father was raised in New England and this is what we were taught is the last meal of the day. I was born and raised in SoCal.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
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  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
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  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
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  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Just was
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
My **** girlfriend hates the use of the word supper and asked me to google the meaning. I'm from Michigan. Most people use both terms here. My family used the word dinner. I never thought about it until now
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
We don't use the word supper.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
WHy do I need a reason why I have dinner
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
mom raised near Dodgeville, Wis - dad college & highschool midwest....
while I was raised near Raleigh, NC
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
It was the last meal of the day and the heaviest. We all ate together whereas snacks for the children were served before and prior to going to bed.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Because I'm awesome.
  • Anonymous . 3+ yrs. ago
Growing up in the south, dinner was what we called the last meal of the day. In addition, a supper was what we had after a church outing, usually earlier in the day with the understanding that there might be another meal to come.

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