What do you call your midday and evening meals?

[Tigger&Belle]

I was just evesdropping on a conversation between my daughter and her boyfriend. They were discussing the differences between supper and dinner.

We call the noon meal lunch and the evening meal dinner. I think growing up we called the evening meal supper. My mother was from the south, which might explain it.

What do you call the different meals? Where do you live and/or where are you originally from?

T&B

 

[gr8tpanther]

Noon is lunch
Evening - I call it dinner, BF calls it supper

But on any given day it is "grab and growl"

 

[helenabear]

Mostly I refer to noon meal as lunch and evening as dinner. I think that was my mom rubbing off on me. On my dad's side they use dinner for noon meal and supper for evening meal. To them lunch is a light meal more like a mid-day snack. So sometimes (not near as often though) I also refer to them as dinner & supper. I'm good both ways I've lived in Ohio all my life, as has my family on my dad's side... so I can't say that the word choice is due to anything really regional.

 

[Christine]

The meal at noon is called "lunch" and the one in the evening is "dinner."

A co-worker and I were having this discussion last week because his wife had invited me over for "supper." He doesn't say "supper." So we looked it up in the dictionary and it appears that the word "supper" was used when the heavier meal was taken mid-day and a lighter meal, supper, was taken later in the evening. Sort of like going to Sunday Brunch and then having a sandwich at night--that's what supper would be.

 

[Pam]

Dinner is at noon and supper is at night.

 

[Pugdog007]

Lunch & Dinner

I'm from Alabama, The Heart of Dixie

 

[HisEllyNelly]

Ok lunch is the noon meal, and dinner is the evening meal...UNLESS its Sunday. On Sunday we usually have a late breakfast or brunch if you will, and then we have Sunday dinner somewhere around 3pm. Now I get really confused when I talk to my sweetie in England...they have dinner mid-day and tea in the evenings but when he is at work he has lunch for a mid-day meal and dinner at night .
Oh BTW I live in New England and grew up calling dinner supper.

 

[Kitty 34]

lunch and dinner

 

[monarchsfan16]

Lunch and dinner

My grandparents call lunch "dinner" and dinner is supper. I used to get so upset when I was little because I couldn't understand why we were eating dinner for lunch. I thought I was going to miss my night time meal

 

[orvilleair]

Originally posted by helenabear
Mostly I refer to noon meal as lunch and evening as dinner. I think that was my mom rubbing off on me. On my dad's side they use dinner for noon meal and supper for evening meal. To them lunch is a light meal more like a mid-day snack. So sometimes (not near as often though) I also refer to them as dinner & supper. I'm good both ways I've lived in Ohio all my life, as has my family on my dad's side... so I can't say that the word choice is due to anything really regional.

Dinner, Supper
Same for my in-laws West of Columbus, Ohio and when I worked in Urbana, Ohio.

 

[Micca]

Lunch/Dinner

 

[delilah]

My family is from the Chicago area originally. In our family, we called the noon meal lunch, and the evening meal dinner, which we do in our household now. My aunt, who is my dad's sister, called the evening meal supper, also lived in the Chicago area all of her life. When we had a special meal about 2-3 pm on Christmas or Thanksgiving or Sundays, that was dinner, according to my aunt.

 

[tiggerlover]

Noon - lunch
Evening - dinner or supper, we use them the same

 

[crz4mm2]

lunch and dinner.
But used to be dinner and supper My mom still calls it dinner and supper.

 

[Beanie]

Lunch & Supper here!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Interesting that it doesn't seem to be a regional thing, unless it goes back more than a generation or two.

We also get silly with the names and call an early dinner "linner" or "dunch".

BTW, for dinner tonight, my daughter and her boyfriend made Pad Thai, which was very tasty. Took my kitchen a while to get back to normal...

T&B

 

[Catzeyes]

Lunch/Dinner

 

[browneyes]

Midday=lunch
Evening=dinner

Grew up in NW Georgia, currently live in NW Georgia. My mom, who is from Alabama, argues with me that I call them the wrong thing. She calls lunch dinner and calls dinner supper.

 

[FroggyinArk]

dinner and supper are the proper southern terms around here, dinner could be either, lunch is anytime between noon and 4 supper is from 4 to midnight, then its breakfast again

 

[LoraJ]

lunch & dinner unless it is the weekend, then it is brunch and dinner.