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GuySajerForgottenSoldier wrote:Dinner. I think supper is yankee. They think dinner is lunch.

I grew up in NJ and have always said "lunch". I call the evening meal dinner. I recall my parents saying supper. Thirty years in the south has probably had some influence. I still have new aquaintances ask where I'm from, they can't place the accent. When I visit up north, they tell me I have "south in the mouth". Go figure.

They are interchangeable in our house. Just don't call me late for any of them:laughup:

Gourmondo wrote: I never figured out how those people in Spain could wait until 11 PM for dinner. Makes no sense to me. But then, I am of North European and not Mediterranean origin.

Well, Mr. Gourmondo, it's probably the same thing that puzzles me that people can eat breakfast at 6am - 8am! That is an ungodly time to eat!

My sisters do not have much of this Spanish gene & want to have
lunch at 11am. That is painful for me to think about.
I think everyone should eat when you're naturally hungry!


. . . And I've always had lunch and dinner. Supper did not exist.

LOL, at the end of the day it all comes down to whattcha Mama said, dahlin'.....

I normally say dinner.

Very regional. Dinner down here for us.

For me it's generational.

Grandma (who would have been 104 if still alive and kicking) always had dinner in the middle of the day because that was the biggest meal of the day since major cooking was done in the morning. Supper, for her, was after dark and usually was very light and easy to prepare. I never remember having a huge dinner at night, if anything she would just push the midday dinner time back an hour or two.

Me? I always thought a big dinner at midday was old school and that included the very old fashioned word "supper" I always had lunch. Dinner was at night no matter what or where I ate.

My peers never got confused about meals since, for us, lunch was at noon and dinner was at night.

That said, after a lengthy visit to Italy and experiencing the glory that is a very late lunch (3:30 pm to 5:00) I seem to be regressing back to the "dinner-at-midday" tradition.

At home with parents (now gone), dinner always was mid-day, supper was the evening meal. Now in our family, we use lunch and dinner.

JudiB wrote:LOL, at the end of the day it all comes down to whattcha Mama said, dahlin'.....

I was also thinking as long as it isn't the last supper...............