Dinner or Supper

[querelle]

What do you call your evening meal? Here in Canada, dinner is eaten around 6 or 7 o'clock. Supper is eaten after we get back from the movies, theatre, etc. usually very late around midnight.

And you?

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[KitchenWitch]

1. Dinner and Supper are completely interchangeable in my personal lexicon

I grew up calling the evening meal supper, but as I have gotten older I find myself calling it both dinner and supper.

[Sugar Smack]

3. That's it.

My answer, as well.

[bicentennial_baby]

5. 'zactly...

My parents call it supper...We call it dinner, usually...Weird.

[querelle]

6. But.............

When you eat at midnight...........what do you call it?

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:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

7. Pigging out!

:P

[querelle]

8. Oh That's Good........

I have been known to do that! Last night I woke up at about 3:00 AM an got up and made myself a PBJ sandwich. I really don't why, but I just wanted one. Isn't that odd?

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[KitchenWitch]

9. Not odd at all.

I tend to go with the cravings. Because if I don't initially, I end up eating everything else AND whatever I craved to begin with and that is not good.

[zabet]

12. The munchies.

:smoke:

[TommyO]

19. Growing up it was supper

Now it's dinner in my house.

[Guava Jelly]

2. Always dinner for me

It just rolls off of the tongue easier

[supernova]

4. Dinner = biggest (usually formal ) meal of the day

Dinner can be the midday meal or the evening meal, if it's the main big meal of the day.

That's why it's Sunday Dinner if it's a midday meal on Sunday with china and everything and Dinner if you go out to a restaurant in the evening.

Supper is a light evening meal. In certain parts of England supper is also called tea.

English is a funny language. :crazy:

[jeff30997]

10. Hello fellow Kanukistanian.

"Here in Canada, dinner is eaten around 6 or 7 o'clock"

Weird thing.We live in the same great country and there's little differences:

Frog meals: Breakfast in the morning,dinner is eaten around 12:00,Supper is eaten around 17:00-

18:00. What can I say ?

Except I heart you.

:hi:

[querelle]

16. Frog Meals?

Es-tu francais? Moi? Je suis, sauf ma mere vien de Bruxelles et le repas a soiree etait toujours souper, mais en anglais on le traduit comme "dinner".

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[zanne]

20. Same with this French-Canadian-American!

Dinner was at noon when I was growing up.

[GigiMommy]

11. It was dinner for me...

even though Canada's just a stone's throw away.

[u4ic]

13. I'm Canadian

and I've never heard dinner/supper referred to the way you mentioned.

It's quite possibly a regional thing.

For me, "dinner" is a bit more formal, whereas supper is much more casual.

[querelle]

15. It Is A Regional Thing

Here in Ottawa (aka centre of the universe) we eat dinner in the evening. My parents in Winnipeg eat dinner around noon and supper in the evening.

:shrug:

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[tjwmason]

14. Normally supper.

Supper is the evening meal taken between 7 and 9ish depending on how much gin I drink before starting to cook. Dinner is a more formal meal, typically involving guests, and a bit of time tarting myself up.

[Inchworm]

17. Supper

unless I'm online where I call it whatever.

Dinner around here is lunch for some strange reason :)

:hi:

[kedrys]

18. It's dinner while I'm still in the States

It'll be supper once I move to Montreal. I grew up with "diner" being the midday meal.