Utah Bob #35998 Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Which comes first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 When I was a kid, Sunday dinner was after church, maybe at 1 pm or so. So for 'supper' we had a sandwich and soup or such; light fare, in the evening. Other than that, it was always 'dinner' here, not 'supper'. Most of my friends also had Sunday dinner in the afternoon. Then, one day, it seems like the custom just vanished.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted September 24, 2022 Author Share Posted September 24, 2022 I missed first breakfast and had just finished afternoon tea…okay wine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 The way it was when I grew up, supper was what you ate at your house with your family. Dinner was eaten at a restaurant or at someone else's house with non family members. Mama and Daddy and my brothers and I would sit down to supper. But I would take Susie out to dinner. We didn't go out to supper, we went out to dinner. Or Bob might invite me to his house for dinner. So supper would be en familee, well dinner would be with someone else or at someplace else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie MacNeil, SASS #48580 Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 My great grandad, and several old cowboys I’ve known, called lunch either “noon dinner” or just “dinner”. The evening meal was called supper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Growing up at my house dinner was lunch and the evening meal was supper. My Mom was from West Virginia and my Dad from SW Pennsylvania. I learned the “proper”descriptions in the Navy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Either but it was the evening meal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: I missed first breakfast and had just finished afternoon tea…okay wine. Ya’ fergot “Tuck In”- 11:00 pm and “After Midnight” between 1:30 and 4:00 am!! Tolkein never mentioned those, but having been surrounded by hobbits for most of my life, I can attest to their existence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwater 53393 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 We had Sunday Dinner, out or with guests. It was after noon. The evening meal is “supper” as are meals for fund raisers for church, school, or charities. Dinner is a more or less formal affair where etiquette and grace are required. Whether it’s just an evening out with friends or a dress up event for “awards/politics”. That’s the way both sides of my family, the yankees or the southerners, observed mealtime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Call me anything but don't call me late for supper. Always been dinner at noon, supper in evening. Until Yankees invaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 The only way to keep my weight some what in control is to eat once a day at 2:00 pm. I call it Linner. It covers lunch and dinner and I feel fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tennessee Snuffy Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Dinner is at noon. How many of you carried a "dinner bucket" (which could be a molasses bucket, a tin bucket with a thermos or a sack of sandwiches ) with you each day your went to work to eat at noon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 I read once that dinner was the largest meal of the day and supper was the last meal of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 I carried a LUNCH bucket. Never heard it called a dinner bucket. One thing I do know is that breakfast is not the most important meal of the day. That was invented by Dr. Kellogg when he ran a health spa before he went into the cereral business and carried the phrase over to the cereral market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Lunch is a mid day meal. Supper is an evening or night meal. Dinner can be at either time, but consists of more dishes, and more elaborate service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Small Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 For our family Lunch was about noon Supper was in the evening Dinner was the bigger of the two If'n there was a bigger one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 These days (and for decades), for us, it's breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Both breakfast and lunch are casual. Dinner is always sit-down, whether it's the bride and me, or the larger family. My kids and grandkids reside close, we have lots of dinners together. There's no confusion. Dinner is the sit-down evening meal, no matter who is in attendance. Inasmuch as we have a larger family dinner 2-3 times per week, it's easy to maintain the distinction. Supper as such we haven't had for a long, long time. As I said before, for us it was a light evening meal on Sunday, because on that day, and that day only, dinner was in the early afternoon. I think this was because most people went to church, stores were closed on Sunday, so the mid-day ritual was natural. Gone with the wind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawdog Dago Dom Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Once you work third shift, you find out you can eat any food at any hour of the day and it does not seem odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Slim SASS #24733 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 My grandfather on my mother's side, a potato farmer in Maine, said Dinner is when you take your noon break, and supper is what you eat when you are all done farming for the day, usually left-overs from Dinner. He said Lunch is for city folks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 My brother is always referring to second breakfast, now I know where he got it from! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bob Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Nobody does Sunday brunch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxahachie Kid #17017 L Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Around these parts... Dinner = meal at noon +/-. Supper = Evening meal. In the Bible, it was the last supper, not the last dinner. "Supper time, and the livin' is easy. The fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high. Oh, your daddy's rich, and your ma is good lookin'. So, hush little baby, don't you cry." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 on the farm , it was breakfast , lunch , dinner , then supper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 28 minutes ago, Waxahachie Kid #17017 L said: Supper time, and the livin' is easy. Don't know whether you were making a funny or not, but the song is summertime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 First meal of the day: "breakfast". Second meal of the day: "lunch" if informal, and at work or in a cafe. "dinner" a sit down with place settings of some sort on Sundays, Christmas, Thanksgiving, other holidays, birthdays and special occasions like weddings and after funerals, etc. Third meal of the day: "supper" if we sat down at the table. "a bite" or a "snack" if we missed supper or when ever we raided the fridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Interesting customs in different places. In my family (6 kids) other than the 'Sunday dinner' thing in the early afternoon, we always had a sit-down dinner when our dad got home at 6 pm. This is the 1950s & '60s. City life, in our case. In my own (5 kids), same thing. Dinner at the dinner table every night about 6 o'clock, with only rare exceptions. Saturday was different; less 'formal'. My wife and I still do the same. We're lucky in that many of our kids and many of our 12 grandkids are within a mile or two, and we nowadays have larger family evening dinners about 3 times per week, rotating households. Sometimes six or seven, sometimes 15, at the table, etc, depending, at any one time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Dan Troop 70448 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Growing up, it was always Breakfast, Lunch, and supper. Only on Sundays did we have a "Dinner" and it was after church. The exceptions were Thanksgiving and Christmas in which we also had dinners, but they were also after church. I never had a Dinner hour in school, it was always lunch, same were I was employed. We had a Lunch break or we went out to lunch with a client or co-worker or the boss treated us to lunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Supper was every night, Dinner was on Sunday about 1:00 Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving were also dinner, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxahachie Kid #17017 L Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 9 hours ago, Alpo said: Don't know whether you were making a funny or not, but the song is summertime. Uh...yes, I was making a "funny", since the lyrics included the word "supper time", which was loosely the subject of the original post here. Yes, the song is "Summertime", composed in 1934, by George Gershwin, for his opera "Porgy and Bess". However, the lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel "Porgy", upon which the opera was based. However, the song is said to be co-credited by Gershwin, by some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Reno Kid Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Howdy Pards Love reading these replies. Brings back happy memories of long-past childhood when sitting down to dinner or supper (take your choice) was a regular family thing. Was all the more special when it involved multi-generation family members and friends. Keep on the sunny side. Adios Fort Reno Kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 9 hours ago, Waxahachie Kid #17017 L said: In the Bible, it was the last supper, not the last dinner. But the Bible is a translation influenced by the culture of the writers, both the authors and the translators and the retranslators. What was it in the original Greek or Aramaic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 47 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: What was it in the original Greek or Aramaic Seder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowCatcher Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 17 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Which comes first? Interchangeable. They come after lunch. "Hey kid's, it's supper time!" "What's for dinner?" "Two choices: take it or leave it!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irish ike, SASS #43615 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Both my parents were raised on small farms. The tradition was breakfast, lunch, (which is the biggest meal of the day), and then supper. They adjusted the meal sizes for modern living but the evening meal was always, 'whats for supper'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 When I grew up, there was Breakfast, Lunch, and Supper. Dinner was the biggest meal of the day; usually at Lunch or Supper. “Mom, when are we having dinner?” ”At supper.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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