Time to sup.
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!
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.
We always had supper at the end of the day.
Cincinnati Ohio in the mid-1960s--more common usage.
We were raised this one!!
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!
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it's all regional - tomato/pickle - apples/eggplant - everyone has a different vernacular and many options as to refer to ones' meal time.
When I was a kid in Boston, we always got called in at 6pm for supper.
cause thats what they called it
we would go out to 'dinner' when going to a café or restaurant to eat
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
Dinner was served mid day and supper in the evening.
Folks here call it supper
Evening meal was always "Suppertime".
X They always referred to the evening meal as supper.
That's what dad said
Because it gave a clue to the time of day
farmers daughter
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.
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.
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.
Because the question asks which meal my parents served. They served supper. I, however, serve dinner.
That's what I grew up with in MN and IA. Everyone used the term supper for the evening meal.
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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.
we ate dinner at noon and supper in the evening
Because that is what it is called in Kentucky. Dinner is at lunch time, Supper is the evening meal.
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.
That's all I ever heard it called.
