What Do You Call Your Mid-Day Meal? Your Evening Meal?

[Hikergirl]

Lunch and dinner. Like the pp my grandmother says supper.

 

[disneychrista]

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

Supper / Dinner are inter-changeable.

If someone asked me to Dinner I would assume the evening meal. Not the mid-day meal.

 

[prprincess]

Lunch and Dinner for me in Jersey!

 

[Mizzoufan]

Lived nearly my whole life in Missouri or Kansas and it lunch for the afternoon mean and dinner for the evening meal. I have never heard it called supper it really wouldn't bother me if someone did.

 

[soccerdad72]

Lunch and dinner as well. I would assume if someone said supper to me, they were referring to dinner - those words would be interchangeable to me, but I have heard people say that dinner was the mid-day meal and supper was the evening meal.

 

[DaisyJ]

Lunch and supper.

 

[MIGrandma]

Growing up in Michigan it was always breakfast, lunch/dinner, and supper. The word "dinner" was referred to like "Sunday dinner", the noon meal.

About the only time we use the word "dinner" meaning the evening meal is when we're on a cruise as that's what they call it.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Kansas City area....99% of everyone I am around calls it lunch and dinner. My best friend however, also raised here, calls it lunch and supper as her family called it supper.

So I'll ask "Wanna meet up for dinner?" and she'll ask "Wanna meet up for supper?"

We both mean the same thing really--the meal time after lunch.

 

[nene0182]

I say lunch and dinner, my son says lunch and supper, my husband says dinner and supper. None of us ever know what the heck is going on.

 

[tinkerbellandeeyor]

Lunch and dinner

 

[Meriweather]

lunch and dinner here
No one says supper

 

[sunshinehighway]

I am born and raised 10 min south of Boston and have never ever heard buggies used at the grocery store. We say shopping cart or carriages.
I say lunch for midday and I say dinner for the late day meal. My parents and older relatives say supper though.

Central MA here and yeah I've never heard anyone call a shopping cart a buggie.
Lunch and dinner but I do hear people say lunch and supper. I remember my grandmother always said supper instead of dinner.

 

[Skippy918]

Lunch and dinner here. MIL says supper.
On-line is a NYC phrase. I waited on line at the ticket booth for example. My folks use this lingo.
Thing you push a baby in - stroller, but if it's the old style ones from the 70s-80s with the large wheels,where the baby lies down it's a carriage.

 

[design_mom]

Lunch is the noon meal. Supper is the evening meal. Dinner is the main meal, regardless of when it's eaten. So, most weekdays, dinner and supper are interchangeable... but Sunday Dinner might be lunch. (I'm from the Midwest.)

ETA: my mother grew up in a farming community and said that lunch was often the main meal for them, and they called it dinner. Supper was a lighter meal in the evening.

 

[winterman]

Midday meal is lunch. For the evening meal, I use either supper or dinner. I always use 'dinner' when talking about holidays, like 'Christmas dinner'. No matter what time of day it is served.

 

[NFLDERS]

Lunch at noon hr.

Supper anytime after 5 pm.

Lupper if we've been to the Casino, and one or both of us was Lucky, and won +$$ to visit the Buffet mid day!

Interchangeable, when on Vacation!

 

[dotfurio]

I say lunch and dinner, but my mom grew up saying lunch/dinner and supper.

 

[MrsDuck]

Lunch at noon, dinner at six, no one uses the term supper here.

This is how I was raised and how it seems to be in the majority of my community (South Florida).

 

[ashley0139]

Lunch and dinner. I've never really even heard anyone use the word "supper" in real life to refer to dinner.

Here in NY State it's lunch in the mid-day and dinner in the evening. But don't get me started on the "soda" vs. "pop" debate.

I can't stand the word "pop." Even reading it online is like nails on a chalkboard in my brain.

 

[shoney]

We say lunch and dinner. We also stand on line. We live ON Long Island not in Long Island